Miami still looking for new offensive coordinator? Candle & Nussmeier targets?
Channel: Winning Cures Everything
Date: 2023-02-07

Jason Candle & Doug Nussmeier emerge as Miami OC candidates?  Scott Frost? Arroyo?

Miami is still in the market for a new offensive coordinator after relieving Josh Gattis of his duties a week and a half ago.  Of course, defensive coordinator Kevin Steele has taken the Alabama DC job, but we're not gonna discuss that one today.  Mario Cristobal still needs to find an offensive coordinator to work with QB Tyler Van Dyke.

Before Cristobal's debut season at his alma mater, he made a run at Jason Candle, the Toledo coach, who we just talked about as being a possibility for the Notre Dame OC position.  Candle's team won the MAC this season, but finished 9-5.  He was just given an extension, so it's not like he's in any real trouble at the school, but for the talent that he's amassed with the Rockets, his teams continue to underwhelm, and underperform expectations.  Most people thought he would have made the jump to P5 head coach by now, but things have not exactly gone as planned. His first 2 seasons at Toledo, his teams went a combined 20-7 with a MAC title.  Since 2018, his teams have gone 33-25.  Downright average.  Everybody still respects his offensive accumen, but it's proven to be much more difficult to jump to a P5 head coaching position from a MAC school than it was in the past.  We've now seen 2 examples of MAC coaches leaving head coaching positions to go be coordinators at the P5 level - Dan Enos from Central Michigan to Arkansas, and this season Sean Lewis left Kent State to join Colorado.  At this point, after being at Toledo for 7 full seasons and only being 43 years old, does he want to make that leap?  The thing that worries me for Miami is the fact that the only time he's been outside of the state of Ohio was his freshman season when he played for D-III school Geneva before transferring to Mount Union.

The other name that has popped up as of late is Doug Nussmeier, who has been an offensive assistant coach with the Dallas Cowboys for the past 5 seasons. Nuss has been an OC in college at Fresno State under Pat Hill, Washington under Steve Sarkisian, Alabama with Nick Saban, Michigan with Brady Hoke, then was Jim McElwain's OC at Florida in 2015 through 2017 before hopping on with the Cowboys in 2018.  Oh, and there's that little detail about his son, Garrett Nussmeier, being the backup QB at LSU.  Would  Garrett transfer to Miami to play for his dad?  Interesting to think about.  Anyway, Nuss & Mario coached together at Alabama in 2013, so there's a little bit of familiarity there, and Nuss would run what Mario wants to run on offense.

Then there's the Scott Frost rumors.  Frost is owed a lot of money by Nebraska - $16.4M in buyouts, to be exact, and I have to imagine he'd just like to lay low for a little while after things ended so poorly at his alma mater.

I'm still convinced it's going to be Marcus Arroyo - although, if that was going to get done, there's no reason it shouldn't have already started.  Arroyo is currently unemployed after being let go by UNLV so they could hire Arkansas DC and former Missouri head coach Barry Odom.  It'll be interesting to see what Cristobal cooks up here, and if anyone is willing to take the job, knowing how Cristobal prefers to stay on the conservative side of things on offense.

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