SDSU loses another coordinator


What a weird move. He makes a lateral move to go from one of the best FCS teams in the country to a very mediocre (and that's being kind) FCS team. And he's a Nebraska native who played for the Huskers, so it's not like he's moving to be closer to home or to family. And - his new boss is young at 44, so it's not a head coach-in-waiting situation either. Very strange all around.
 
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I agree, strange. Regardless of the specific circumstances (which in this case don't make much sense) I am assuming coaching defections among good FCS programs are fairly common.
 

The move doesn't make sense unless he just got tired of dealing with South Dakota winters.
 



Too bad. The Aztecs are one of my favorite “other”” teams . . . ��
 


With coordinators leaving for jobs that don't seem to be big steps up, the next obvious question: Is the head coach a tough person to work for?
 



With coordinators leaving for jobs that don't seem to be big steps up, the next obvious question: Is the head coach a tough person to work for?

OC left for FBS job.

DC left because he wants to be a head coach -- could either mean that he thinks SDSU's current head coach will be there for a long time more, or perhaps he thinks he needs to get more experience at other schools if he wants a chance to be SDSU's head coach after the current retires. Or neither of those.
 

Other thing is that SDSU football is kinda "stuck". Not saying they're in a bad position by any means. But they've pretty much upgraded all the facilities they possible could .... new stadium, new practice facilities, new indoor field.

They were never a historical winner in DII, but they made the investment back in the early 2000's to jump up to DI-AA with NDSU. But for the most part, they just can't seem to get past NDSU. They do everything they can, they have good players (guys getting drafted even). They recruit well in the upper midwest, as well as Nebraska and Iowa. They just can't get over the hump.

Brookings is a small town, cold and flat, in the middle of nowhere ... pretty much a junior version of Ames. That turns some people off, of course.

UNI was tough for a while, but now NDSU is almost the automatic conference and then national champion every year. And South Dakota is even starting to catch up. UNI is still tough. UND coming in will be tough. IL State is tough.


Is what it is. Just an extremely tough conference at that level, and the champion (NDSU) usually goes on with little competition from the rest of the nation in the playoffs.
 
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