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Gary Gibbs-best college coordinator in the country in the 70s and 80s. Unbelievable but he's only 55 now. Excellent recruiter. Now has over 5 years experience in the NFL with strong defenses at Dallas and did an outstanding job at New Orleans to make them a contender. Has Coaching experience at big time college programs like LSU too. Would command respect from Dallas media. Got the unenviable assignment of maintaining the OU program under crushing recruiting restrictions from the Switzer era. 44-23-2. Despite what some say did a good job of maintaining that program under difficult circumstances. In any event he has College Head Coaching experience at a major powerhouse. No learning on the job as we have seen with Bennett, Rossley and Cavan. I personally think SMU won't get a chance because he will be an NFL Head Coach but if you are going for a Coach with a proven track record he has a damn good resume. I'd say don't bother w/o 1.3-1.5 Million starting salary offer.

Stallion, I totally agree with you.

Good Pick- I still want an Offensive Coach

that's why he pick a Coach with great ties because he''ll get you the Coordinator.

Is this the 'new' face of SMU football?

Gary Gibbs

That is interesting.

from www.wikipedia.org

Gary Gibbs (born August 13, 1952 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American football player turned coach most notable for coaching the University of Oklahoma Sooners for six years following the resignation of Barry Switzer.

Gibbs began in football as a linebacker at the University of Oklahoma under Switzer from 1972-1974. He began coaching in 1975 as a graduate assistant under Switzer and was promoted to linebackers coach in 1978. He was named the Sooners defensive coordinator in 1981 and held that position until he was named head coach in 1989, succeeding Switzer.

Gibbs's primary task was to clean up the program's image. Switzer had been forced to resign since he was running an "outlaw" program. Gibbs stayed for six years, leading the Sooners to a record of 44-23-2 in that time. He was forced to resign after the 1994 season in part because was perceived as a coach who couldn't win big games. He went 2-15-1 against Oklahoma's biggest rivals--Texas, Nebraska and Colorado--and never won more than five games in the Big 8 Conference.

He was the defensive coordinator at the University of Georgia in 2000 and then at Louisiana State University in 2001. From 2002-2005, he was the linebackers coach for the Dallas Cowboys. Currently, he is the defensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints.

Gibbs has a wife, Jeanne, and two children, Whitley and Jordan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gibbs

kind of a Mack Brow lite----see what happened at N.C. before he left

We will have about 1.3 mil to work with. That will get a bunch of interest.

gostangs wrote:We will have about 1.3 mil to work with. That will get a bunch of interest.

Now...how did you arrive at that figure? Or did you just pull it out of the thin air?

Just remember where you heard it.

Stallion wrote:Gary Gibbs-best college coordinator in the country in the 70s and 80s. Unbelievable but he's only 55 now. Excellent recruiter. Now has over 5 years experience in the NFL with strong defenses at Dallas and did an outstanding job at New Orleans to make them a contender. Has Coaching experience at big time college programs like LSU too. Would command respect from Dallas media. Got the unenviable assignment of maintaining the OU program under crushing recruiting restrictions from the Switzer era. 44-23-2. Despite what some say did a good job of maintaining that program under difficult circumstances. In any event he has College Head Coaching experience at a major powerhouse. No learning on the job as we have seen with Bennett, Rossley and Cavan. I personally think SMU won't get a chance because he will be an NFL Head Coach but if you are going for a Coach with a proven track record he has a damn good resume. I'd say don't bother w/o 1.3-1.5 Million starting salary offer.

are you not throwing your name in the mix? maybe put to use your Rivals subscription in a more productive way? at least help advise them a little bit

gostangs wrote:We will have about 1.3 mil to work with. That will get a bunch of interest.

This is not a big stretch of the budget for us.

Tulsa, TCU and another non-BCS school-I'm having trouble recalling right now set the non-BCS market last year for teams that want to win. Rice and Tulane set the market for programs that want to suck. It is right around 1.2-1.3 million-that's why I stated that we shouldn't even bother to contact these top prospects if we aren't ready to pay in that range. Otherwise we could get Brad Franchione the head Coach of the No. 1 Juco team in the country last year for Rice starting salary money.