LSU Offensive Coordinator Hot Board, LINK!

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Well, second year in a row Pitt has the best OC in Pennsylvania, only Broyles Candidate, and Chaney off to UGA last year. Nobody needed Fired! Narduzzi knows his Football!
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MATT CANADA
Current position: offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Pittsburgh
44 years old, graduate of Indiana
Experience at FBS schools:
Running backs coach at Northern Illinois (1998-2000),
quarterbacks coach at Northern Illinois (2001-02),
offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Northern Illinois (2003),
quarterbacks coach at Indiana (2004-06),
offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Indiana (2007-10),
offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Northern Illinois (2011),
offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at North Carolina State (2013-15),
offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Pittsburgh (2016).

Skinny: Canada was one of five finalists for the 2016 Frank Broyles Award which goes to the best assistant coach in the country. The Pittsburgh offense averaged more than 200 yards both rushing and passing this season – 230 rushing yards and 218 passing yards. The Panthers offense scored five touchdowns per game. Canada’s last two offenses at North Carolina State averaged at least 200 yards per game rushing and passing. In 2014-15, the Wolfpack offense scored four touchdowns per game. Canada has the deepest body of work of the top three candidates on the list.

MARK HELFRICH
Current position: none (recently fired as the head coach at Oregon)
43 years old, graduate of Southern Oregon
Experience at FBS schools: quarterbacks coach at Boise State (1998-2000), quarterbacks coach at Arizona State (2001-05), offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Colorado (2006-08), offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Oregon (2009-12), head coach at Oregon (2013-16).

Skinny: Helfrich took over one of the elite programs in the country from Chip Kelly, who left for the Philadelphia Eagles. In four years under Helfrich, the Ducks had a 37-16 record with one Pac-12 title. However, Oregon’s results dipped throughout Helfrich’s tenure. The Ducks finished this season with a 4-8 record. The Oregon offense with Helfrich as offensive coordinator averaged more than 200 yards rushing and passing per game in the last three years. The Ducks offense scored six touchdowns per game in each of those seasons. It must be pointed out that Kelly called the plays during this time. Helfrich’s numbers as an offensive coordinator at Colorado were rather average. The Buffaloes never averaged 200 yards rushing and passing per game in Helfrich’s three seasons. The Colorado offense never scored more than three touchdowns per game.

STEVE SARKISIAN
Current position: Offensive analyst at Alabama
42 years old, graduate of BYU
Experience at FBS schools: quarterbacks coach at Southern California: (2001-03, 2005-06), quarterbacks coach/offensive coordinator at Southern California (2007-08), head coach at Washington (2009-13), head coach at Southern California (2014-15), offensive analyst at Alabama (2016).

Skinny: Sarkisian has been an offensive coordinator for just two years – at USC. Neither offense averaged 200 yards rushing and passing per game. The two offenses were slightly tilted to the passing game. The Trojans offense averaged four touchdowns per game in 2007 and five touchdowns per game in 2008. As the head coach at Washington, Sarkisian had a 34-29 record. He received the head coaching position ahead after Ed Orgeron was the USC interim head coach for the 2014 season. Sarkisian was fired early in the 2015 season due to off-the-field personal problems. The Trojans had a 12-6 record with Sarkisian as head coach. Alabama coach Nick Saban hired Sarkisian as an offensive analyst for this season. The Crimson Tide is also looking for an offensive coordinator with the departure of Lane Kiffin for the head coaching spot at Florida Atlantic.

Compiled by Bryan Lazare

 

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Hmnnnnn....LSU Orgeron wants to run the Spread but no Moorhead, so rejected again, oh sorry, meaning no one shorts lists, and if he is, no takers?

Pitt OC Matt Canada to meet with LSU, source confirms
Canada runs a pro style offense which goes against what Orgeron said when he was hired as LSU's full time coach. Orgeron said he wanted to run a "spread" offense after LSU struggled for years offensively under Les Miles' run-oriented pro style attack.

"We're going to look at recruiting the best offensive coordinator in football and bring him to LSU," Orgeron said. "I do believe that nowadays you have to run the spread offense. You have to have dual-threat quarterbacks that can run the ball and throw it. But you have to have somebody who knows how to run it."

Canada was one of five finalists, and the only offensive coordinator, for the Broyles Award, which goes to nation's top assistant coach. Pittsburgh averaged school record 42.3 points per game this season.
LINK:
http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2016/12/pitt_oc_matt_canada_to_meet_wi.html#incart_2box_sports

 

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Pitt football notebook: Narduzzi hopes coordinator Canada sticks around for a while
Pitt’s 432 points this season are the most in program history
Matt Canada’s first season as Pitt’s offensive coordinator has been a productive and imaginative blur of jet sweeps, shovel passes and offensive linemen on the receiving end of touchdowns.

That success, however, can attract outside attention, particularly in a profession as transient as coaching. Panthers coach Pat Narduzzi, though, believes his program can and will take the necessary steps to retain Canada. “I know the business we’re in,” Narduzzi said Monday at his weekly press conference. “People look and see where you are and what you’re doing. If they like you, they can come get you. We have a great staff. People are going to go get them. But we’re going to do what we can do to make sure Matt stays here for a while.”

After being let go at North Carolina State, Pitt hired Canada in January after previous coordinator Jim Chaney left for the same position at Georgia. His first season with the Panthers has exceeded virtually all expectations, as an offense that had to replace its top playmaker from last year, wide receiver Tyler Boyd, is 15th in the Football Bowl Subdivision in scoring offense (39.3 points per game), up more than 10 points from what it averaged last season. Pitt’s 432 points this season are the most in program history.

When Narduzzi made the hire, he did so with the expectation Canada would be with the program for an extended period time, as is the case with most any coaching addition. “As a young head coach, you certainly hope so,” Narduzzi said. “I had the same expectation when we hired Chaney. Sometimes you get snowed or whatever. But I’ve known Matt for a long time. We’ve got a great relationship. I think he’s having fun.” Players, too, have been in on the fun Narduzzi referenced.“It’s fun every week to see what he has in store for us,” offensive lineman Adam Bisnowaty said. “Sometimes he draws up plays that are unreal, but they seem to work. It has just been fun. Every week is different. We do the same thing, but in different ways. That’s been really helpful for us as players.” Whether it’s a head-coaching position or a job as an assistant at another program, the question surrounding an in-demand coach like Canada is whether his current employer is willing to offer some kind of raise or contract extension. Narduzzi believes Pitt, with a relatively new chancellor and athletic director, is well-equipped to do so. But the financial aspect of a coaching move, in Narduzzi’s mind, shouldn’t be an all-important factor. “If you’re miserable working your job, then I don’t think all the money or contract incentives can keep you,” he said. “But when you’re happy, then that’s part of it. It’s not all about the money. If it were all about the money, I would have been gone from Michigan State [where he was a defensive coordinator before coming to Pitt] a long time ago. If it’s about the money, maybe you’ve got the wrong guy.”
LINK:
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/...ticks-around-for-a-while/stories/201611210184

 

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The combination of statistical success and national recognition might make it tough for the Panthers to keep Canada around. Top-flight offensive coordinators are highly sought after as head coaches and Canada, with nine years of Power-5 experience, is probably close to making that jump. At that point, the reasons coaches stay or go usually comes down to two things: comfort and fit. If the jobs that are available are perfect fit, sometimes coaches leave right away. But if they aren’t, and the coach is comfortable in his current situation, they may wait it out. That’s what Narduzzi did at Michigan State, when he rebuffed several overtures for head coaching jobs before finally giving in to Pitt.................On that front, Canada seems pretty comfortable in his surroundings with the Panthers. He and Narduzzi are old friends from their days at Northern Illinois. The relationship they forged is what first brought Canada to Pittsburgh and he’s appreciated the freedom he has working for an old friend. After all, not every head coach would be OK with passes to — and from — offensive linemen finding their way into the playbook. “I’m very fortunate to work for Duzz,” Canada said. “Duzz said find a way to score points. That’s certainly a positive for us to be able to do that. … I really enjoy our players. They work very hard. From day one, they’ve been very excited and they’ve done a great job of embracing what we want to do. It’s fun to coach guys that want to learn and want to do better. That part’s really fun.”................Canada hinted that he hasn’t always had the amount of freedom and that there have been stops in his 22-year career where didn’t — or shouldn’t — have trusted those he was working for as much as he did. Canada was fired from North Carolina State one year after signing a three-year contract just before coming to Pitt, something he called a “challenging time” in his life...............
...........“I’ve made a lot of decisions that weren’t based on money, they were based on what was best for my children. I’ve been misled at times and not done something for a lot of different reasons. That’s when it’s frustrating. … You have to hope someone is honest with you so that they don’t use your family against you.”...........Canada certainly has ambitions of being a head coach, and in his own way, he doesn’t shy away from them. “If I’m not ever a head coach, I’m not going to think I’m a failure, but that’s an aspiration,” he said. “I’m a young guy. We all have that goal. I love what I do. I love scheming and figuring out what we’re going to do to attack somebody.”
LINK:
http://pittsburghsportsnow.com/2016/11/28/great-1st-year-matt-canada-pitt/amp/

 

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MATT CANADA ON TWITTER ON CONNER, PITT, BROYLES AND MUCH MORE....
Link:
https://twitter.com/coachmcanada?lang=en

 

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Appropriate Pending Link & Looks Like Matt Canada! Others Can Worry But Character Matters, And I Am Satisfied With Pitt Better Than Ever!