Pros & Cons of Miami Hurricanes new DC Lance Guidry
Channel: Winning Cures Everything
Date: 2023-02-10

Miami has hired Lance Guidry from Tulane as their DC... of course, Guidry has only been with the Green Wave for a few weeks, as he was Marshall's defensive coordinator for the past 2 seasons.  Miami owes Tulane a $500k buyout in the next 60 days.  I actually talked about what a great hire Guidry was for Tulane when that move was made, and, as far as Tulane was concerned, it was because of Guidry's familiarity with the recruiting landscape around Tulane.  Guidry was the head coach at McNeese State, but since 1994, he's spent 21 seasons in Louisiana.

His only ties to Florida include one season - 2020 - as safeties coach for Jim Leavitt's defense at FAU.  So what's the connection from Guidry to Cristobal?  FAU was coached by Willie Taggart in 2020.  Guidry was also defensive coordinator for Taggart's Western Kentucky teams in 2011 & 2012.  Taggart, of course, hired Cristobal as his co-OC & OL coach when he took the Oregon job... and the rest is history, of course.  

Once Guidry was announced, Charlie Strong announced that he's not returning to Miami as co-defensive coordinator.  He told ESPN "Coach Cristobal and the program made a decision to go in a different direction.  It's time for me to go in a different direction."  Chris Low tweeted that Strong was not interviewed for the job... which, why would he be, if he was already co-DC?  I would imagine Strong would have been demoted a bit, and Guidry given full control of the defense... but this is just kinda weird.  Although, Charlie Strong made enough money from Texas that I don't imagine he's gotta worry too much about being in any job that he doesn't want to be.
   
So, back to Guidry.  Let's take a look at what his defense's numbers were this past season... 1st - 3rd down Defense; 2nd - Def Stop rate; 4th - Efficiency Defense; 5th - Turnovers gained; 6th - Pass Eff Defense; 6th - Rushing Defense; 7th - Scoring Def; 7th - Yards per play; 9th - Sacks; 9th - Interceptions; 10th - 1st down Defense; 10th - Total Defense.  Just absurd numbers here.  And that's with an offense that was... well, I don't know that there's a nice way to say putrid.  Marshall's offense stunk, flat out.

So if everything is so great about Guidry... what are the cons?  Well, first, there's basically no familiarity with Florida, so he'll have to make some in-roads for local recruiting.  But if Cristobal wants to try and get into Louisiana, he's money.  The other part of this is that, while he's been coaching since 1994, he's only been an FBS coach for 7 of those 29 seasons... and those were spent at Miami (OH), Western Kentucky, Florida Atlantic, and Marshall.  Zero Power 5 experience.  But hey - he does have a win over Notre Dame on his resume, so that's up there.

In all seriousness, I really respect Coach Guidry's acumen, and I have a feeling this is going to be looked back on as a fantastic hire.  Guidry is a secondary coach, and he's got some serious talent to work with - former five-star James Williams, All-American Kameron Kinchens, etc. This is better, in my opinion, than just trotting out Charlie Strong, but it's not a fresh faced kid either.  Guidry has been doing this for a while, albeit not at this level, but this could work wonders for that Hurricanes program.

From Thursday 2/9/23 full show: https://youtube.com/live/blTUM3mHwn4

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