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According to http://www.coachingsearch.com these are the current open assistant football positions in college football.

They say that UCLA, TCU, Hawaii, Central Michigan, and BG all have vacant defensive coordinator positions to fill.

Full List...

Air Force: Quarterbacks, tight ends

Arkansas: Running backs

Bowling Green: Defensive coordinator, one other defensive position

Buffalo: Defensive line

Central Michigan: Offensive line, defensive coordinator

East Carolina: Offensive line

Florida Atlantic: Running backs

Florida International: Two offensive positions, linebackers

Georgia State: Defensive backs

Hawaii: Offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator

Illinois: Defensive line, special teams coordinator

Kent State: Cornerbacks

Louisiana-Lafayette: Defensive line

Louisiana-Monroe: Tight ends

LSU: Wide receivers

Memphis: Cornerbacks

Miami (FL): Defensive line

Miami (Ohio): Running backs

New Mexico: Tight ends

North Carolina: Cornerbacks

Notre Dame: Running backs

Oklahoma: Defensive line

Oklahoma State: Offensive line, one other offensive position

Old Dominion: Wide receivers

Purdue: Wide receivers

TCU: Defensive coordinator, cornerbacks

Texas: Tight ends / special teams, defensive line

Texas-San Antonio: Offensive line

UCLA: Defensive coordinator

UMass: Running backs

Utah: One position

Vanderbilt: Cornerbacks

Washington State: Wide receivers

This seems to be taking way too long. The 2 Briles Boys left on December 22 and we've been short staffed ever since. The other two schools that need a defensive coordinator (UCLA and TCU) just had those positions come open last week. Many coaches say they have a list of people 20 deep ready for whenever a position comes open. The first though that comes to mind is that some candidates might be wary due to the time of possession disparity thanks to the offense, but that's 80%-90% of college football these days and certainly not unique to BG.

A couple other questions:

1) It says we have one additional defensive position open, but don't we also need a running backs coach after Lynch got moved to offensive line?

2) We still have nobody with the title "Offensive Coordinator." We know Babers called the plays last year but now there's not even a coordinator in title. What does this mean for meetings, game planning and game day when the head coach needs to be at least somewhat focused on the defense, special teams and game management?

3) Coach Lewis is listed as both the quarterbacks and tight ends coach. Given the level of detail that the QB position needs to be coached at, is it prudent to give the person doing that another entire position to worry about?

Hopefully a press conference is called to hash these things out and provide some answers.

If we don't go internal for the DC here's someone to keep an eye on:

http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/ ... 41218.html" target="_blank

Not a bad idea...and like the BGSU ties...but could we pay him more as our DC than he now gets at Mich.? Or has he been let go by Harbaugh?

Class of 61 wrote:Not a bad idea...and like the BGSU ties...but could we pay him more as our DC than he now gets at Mich.? Or has he been let go by Harbaugh?

He wasn't retained by Harbaugh so he's available. Another ex-Michigan defensive position coach just got hired by Wyoming as their DB coach and has already started recruiting in Michigan for them (offering Rayshawn Wilborn, who's deciding between them and BG right now). The other thing you'd have to look at is whether he'd leave to follow Hoke if and when he gets another head coaching job in 2016.

Harbaugh hired DJ Durkin to fill the DC slot....

We have our d coordinator

http://bgsufalcons.com/news/2015/2/13/B ... 54303.aspx" target="_blank

Thank you Jesus that Coach Babers didn't hire Mark Smith. I know this will offend many in the Defiance area as Smith is from there, but that man had NO business at Michigan and I think BGSU would have been over his head too. He was shuffled every offseason due to underwhelming play from wherever he was positioned the year before and as someone who pays for a Michigan Scout premium subscription, I can tell you in three years he was responsible for bringing NO ONE of consequence into the program from a recruiting perspective. I have a buddy who is a funeral director in the Putnam Co. area and Smith told him a week or two before he was "officially" announced that "my buddy just got hired" at Michigan. Sorry, but we deserve better than riding Brady Hoke's coattails, b/c Mr. Smith didn't get that job on his own merits.

The one that I can't figure out for the life of me is Coach Chanterious Brock who was with Coach Babers at Eastern Illinois. He was just named Head Coach at Ann Arbor Skyline but has big time connections into the Sound Mind Sound Body (former PAL camp in Detroit) . . . He's a DB coach by trade and maybe that's the problem is that there isn't room for him, but with all the movement on the staff you would think a guy that is that wired into Detroit would prove to valuable to be left off the staff or at least not be carried over from Eastern Illinois

Recruiting the city of Detroit is a minefield....the academics are shoddy, the system has a long history of shenanigans with transcripts and frankly...the talent is overrated...particularly out of Cass Tech. I'd put my time and money into cultivating Cleveland before Detroit.

Another coordinator with no FBS experience? Hope he works out....

Seems like a good hire, his defense did a great job on Melvin Gordon last year while ours kinda didn't.

The Blade wrote:Last year Ward helped Western Illinois hold Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon to 51 yards on 17 carries. Gordon ran for 253 yards and five touchdowns on just 13 rushes against the Falcons a few weeks later.

Tough to argue with this.

The mark of a great coach is whether they can overachieve with what they have and he looks to have done just that. Shutting down North Dakota State (whose OC is former NIU assistant Tim Polasek) is just as impressive as what he did against Northwestern and Wisconsin. I wonder if EMU made a run at him for their staff last year given his extensive connections to Coach Creighton. It's highly likely they did, and if so that means he turned them down and was waiting for an opportunity like this.

You also have to love the usage of an exclamation point in his quote. Every statement by a defensive coordinator should be punctuated by an exclamation point. Hopefully he's made available for interviews and we can find out more about his philosophy.

By stats, this guy looks like the second coming of Mike Elko. Does anybody know what kind of defense he likes to run? As long as he doesn't have us in prevent half the time like we were this past season, I'm very happy.

Flipper wrote:Recruiting the city of Detroit is a minefield....the academics are shoddy, the system has a long history of shenanigans with transcripts and frankly...the talent is overrated...particularly out of Cass Tech. I'd put my time and money into cultivating Cleveland before Detroit.

There seems to be a definite effort to move away from Detroit and focus more on Ohio, Illinois and Florida. At the upcoming Detroit Glazier Coaching Clinic Toledo has 3 speakers and BG doesn't have any:

http://www.glazierclinics.com/coaching_ ... c-schedule" target="_blank

Michigan the state has given us DJ Lynch, Charlie Walker, Gabe Martin and some other solid players so it shouldn't be written off entirely. Hunter used to be the primary Michigan recruiter and now I believe it is Coach McCloud. (I also would have liked to get C. Brock on staff in some capacity as well).

Trust me, I'm well aware of the risks that come with Detroit. Like I said I pay for a Michigan Scout subscription and Cass Tech gets WAY too much attention for my liking from UM. It's cute to punk HS teams, but then when it happens to their guys they fold like a three legged card table.

I loved the Cleveland, Columbus and Cin-Day focus this last class seemed to have. Obviously, there was an importance on Florida as well as I think we signed 8 kids from Florida, which is high for any northern program.

There's plenty of choices to find a great recruiter and position coach if RB is what they are seemingly trying to fill.

So much for reading too much into sending speakers to the clinics. Apparently we have nobody scheduled for the 2015 Glazier Cleveland Coaching Clinic and (as of late January) had no one confirmed for the annual Ohio High School Football Coaches Association Clinic (since passed).

http://www.glazierclinics.com/coaching_ ... c-schedule" target="_blank

http://www.msrohio.com/mccallisters-blo ... -speakers/" target="_blank