Miami football coaching carousel with recent departures and hire
By Andrew Kraus
With
showing signs of efficiency in 2021, and the offensive line adding weapons in both the transfer portal and high school ranks, Mario Cristobal needs to make an offensive coordinator hire that will both showcase the offense’s strengths, and be able to recruit the offensive side of the ball at a national scale.
The second offensive coaching turnover that occurred before all else was Ponce. The setup of the QBs coach not being in charge or having much say on what the quarterback’s job would be was…perplexing to say the least.
Having 2 coordinator jobs open at once in February is a bit annoying but I am sure Mario Cristobal was prepared for this possibility. Heard enough noise about Gattis and even Steele possibly leaving as far back as early Dec. Just got to get these hires and/or promotions right.
— Locked On Canes (@LockedOnCanes) February 6, 2023
The results showed that the dynamic between quarterbacks and the rest of the offense was not very fluid during the course of the season. It’s not a reach to imagine Cristobal would change the order in which each position group goes to which coach for the 2023 season.
Switching things over to the defensive side of the ball, we can gloss over the Steele situation and who took his place this previous week. Steele has been all over the SEC throughout his career and like the saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, Steele has accepted the defensive coordinator job at Alabama.
Within 36 hours of Steele’s departure, Cristobal hired Lance Guidry as the next defensive coordinator. As the DC at Marshall, Guidry led a defense that was first in third-down defense, second in stop rate, and third in pass efficiency defense, defensive efficiency, and yards per play nationwide.