Lembo leaving Ball St.

[Warthog]

to take an assistant job on Durkin's staff at Maryland. I believe this is the second time a head coach of a MAC school resigned for an assitants position at a P5 school.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footba ... kin-122215" target="_blank

[Schadenfreude]

That's interesting. Things weren't necessarily going well for Lembo. Maybe he decided it was good timing. There might be smiles all around on this move.

[Globetrotter]

to take an assistant job on Durkin's staff at Maryland. I believe this is the second time a head coach of a MAC school resigned for an assitants position at a P5 school.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footba ... kin-122215" target="_blank

This is how meaningless our league is.

[Schadenfreude]

This is how meaningless our league is.

That's a overly cynical view. I would guess Lembo wasn't enjoying his job and decided to get out before someone had to tell him to clean out his desk.

[Flipper]

Ball State is an armpit job...the administration has been so cheap that they pressured previous coaches to not recruit out of state players so the scholarship costs wouldn't be as high. Lembo isn't even leaving to be a coordinator...he's going to be a position coach. The MAC isn't a great league....we're pretty much the Sun Belt with worse weather..but Ball State is a particularly lousy place to be

[OptionQB]

I think Durkin is asking for trouble with the crew he has put together. 3 former head coaches (none of which were particularly successful in last stop) and titles galore.

At what point do you have too many chefs in the kitchen?

He has an offensive coordinator, who came from OC position at Arkansas St.

Then Scott Shafer, former Syracuse headman, who is defensive coordinator

Then the titles . . .

Associate Head Coach/DL Mike London, former Virginia head coach
Special Teams Coordinator/Assistant Head Coach Pete Lembo

I'm not sure what distinguishes an ASSOCIATE head coach from an ASSISTANT head coach, but either way it sets up for a lot of confusion, it would seem.

[Flipper]

The titles may allow him to pay them more...I wouldn't worry about having a number of failed head coaches working as assistants...it's college football...not Hamlet. I don't see any of those guys having the sack to mount some kind of a coup and Durkin seems like a hardnosed guy like his buddy Jim Harbaugh. They'll do it his way I imagine...or I don't imagine they'll be around.

[zete]

Four years at BSU and not much happening......He will make good money the next four years and have a lessor chance of getting sh**canned.
Good for him.

Of the three the MAC brought aboard CMU BSU and EMU years back, only Central seems to have done fairly well football wise.

[MarkL]

Bummer. Unlike Enos, Lembo is a good head coach, he just hit a couple bad seasons ravaged by injuries and graduation. The MAC will miss him.

[jpfalcon09]

to take an assistant job on Durkin's staff at Maryland. I believe this is the second time a head coach of a MAC school resigned for an assitants position at a P5 school.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footba ... kin-122215" target="_blank

This is how meaningless our league is.

That a head coach who has endured hard times the last three seasons has moved on somewhere else? Lembo undoubtedly was having regret for not taking a P5 job earlier when he had the chance and thus felt this was his best opportunity to move onto something new. However, discounting the MAC as meaningless is pretty funny considering the number of high profile coaches the league has generated over time. The conference is extremely important to college football and has a positive reputation around the nation for developing good players and excellent coaches.

[Globetrotter]

to take an assistant job on Durkin's staff at Maryland. I believe this is the second time a head coach of a MAC school resigned for an assitants position at a P5 school.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footba ... kin-122215" target="_blank

This is how meaningless our league is.

That a head coach who has endured hard times the last three seasons has moved on somewhere else? Lembo undoubtedly was having regret for not taking a P5 job earlier when he had the chance and thus felt this was his best opportunity to move onto something new. However, discounting the MAC as meaningless is pretty funny considering the number of high profile coaches the league has generated over time. The conference is extremely important to college football and has a positive reputation around the nation for developing good players and excellent coaches.

If this conference went away tomorrow it would positively effect about 40 schools and negatively effect 12.

[MarkL]

Quick thought. Ball State should hire somebody who runs a Georgia Southern style offense. With decent talent which Ball State already has and the right QB (aka convert a WR), you can dominate MAC teams by throwing something entirely different at them. And weather shouldn't negatively impact the offense.

Just a thought ....

[Dayons_Den]

Mike Houston, at The Citadel, runs a similar style and was rumored to be in running at Georgia Southern. The Citadel was able to knock off South Carolina this season and made the playoffs. Not sure if Ball would be interested in another Southern Conference coach after having one walk.

[zete]

to take an assistant job on Durkin's staff at Maryland. I believe this is the second time a head coach of a MAC school resigned for an assitants position at a P5 school.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footba ... kin-122215" target="_blank

This is how meaningless our league is.

The Blade reported today Greg Studrawa signed a two year deal at OSU at a base salary of 400K and will receive a to-be-determined raise next February. The deal also includes the standard incentives based bonuses and perks, including 600 dollars monthly stipend for his car and six football season tickets and two basketball season tickets.

Wondering how this compares with BG's head coach's contract? I'm guessing about the same.

[Falconfreak90]

Jinks' salary is around $410K with incentives, IIRC.