(07-24-2021 11:37 AM)bearcatmark Wrote: (07-24-2021 11:33 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote: [
From what I have read/heard about Minter as HC...he went through Assistants fast because he was a micromanager and wouldn't let assistants have a say in decision making.
I've heard this too and I don't doubt it's a big part of it but his assistants also left for bigger and better jobs. I think Rick's best coaching attribute was identifying talented assistants.
I don't know if that's the case.
Here's a list of the first jobs the coordinators held after leaving UC:
Defensive Coordinators
Mike Cassity - 94 - DB coach at Wisconsin
Tim Rose - 95 - DC at Minnesota
Rex Ryan - 96,97 - DC at Oklahoma
Kim Dameron - 98 - DB coach with Toronto Argonauts
Rick Smith - 99,00 - DB/Recruiting coordinator at Kentucky
A. J. Christoff - 01, 02 - DC at Stanford
Offensive Coordinators:
Dana Bible - 94 - OC at Stanford
Greg Seamon - 95,96,97,98 - OC at Miami (OH)
Jimbo Fisher - 99 - OC at LSU
Joe Daniels - 00 - QB coach at Ohio State
Dave Baldwin - 01 - OC at Baylor
(the coordinators in 03 were fired along with Minter)
Of those 11, 5 are clear promotions (Ryan, Christoff, Bible, Jimbo, and Baldwin)
4 are debatable. Tim Rose is debatable because it was Minnesota head coach Jim Wacker's lame duck 5th year. Rose did get a DC job at BC the next year, but he left that job after 2 years and never coached in a power conference again.
Cassity, Smith, and Daniels are debatable. Is a position coach at Wisconsin or Ohio State a promotion? Is the recruiting coordinator/DB coach at UK a promotion? Cassity ended up being DC at Baylor and Oklahoma State for 4 years, but the other 2 never got a better job after leaving UC.
2 are clear demotions (Seamon and Dameron, OC at Miami and position coach in the CFL).
Also the 3 coordinators in 2003 never had a job better than coordinator at UC. Rusty Burns became OC at SMU and is now an analyst at TCU. Mark Criner became DC at MTSU and is now the LB coach at Southern Miss. Mike Kolakowski became DC at Youngstown State and is now co-DC at D-2 University of Findlay.
Minter had some home-run hires (Jimbo, Rex Ryan, 27-year-old Mike Tomlin as DB coach). But he also had some a lot of lousy hires whose careers went downhill after leaving UC.