Dan Quinn's D at Florida

[UT Bondman]

I really wish this would happen but I think he’s gonna be too high in demand in the NFL

Me too - but think of it as a lottery ticket at this point, not a 50/50 probability.

 

[Iceman]

Quinn reportedly reached out to the University of Arizona about their open HC position in mid-Dec. So, he very well may be interested in coming back to college:

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[McHorn]

I mean, if we can trust Chip..

"I’m told Quinn wants to get back into coaching in the college game - not the NFL - and he’s interested in becoming Texas’ next defensive coordinator. Quinn’s high-energy personality is seen as a natural fit on the recruiting trail and what recruit wouldn’t want to play for the defensive coordinator of the Legion Of Boom right?"

What a dream that would staff that would be.

Coach 1-2 years and get a top tier CFB gig.

 

[OShizlGzngahr]

He’s a former NFL DC, who excelled at that level against the best competition in football. By comparison, Greg Robinson did wonders here. He gets a lot of good pub for the great job he did in NFL for Broncos and their SB teams but he also was DC of the Chiefs when I lived in KC. And really good Chiefs teams (Priest Holmes) that were high AFC seeds including some top seeds. He was awful there including having worst D in NFL and was forced to resign.

He then comes to Texas in 2004 with no experience vs spread and D improves. Now you may question how many spread teams did we face in 2004 (OU was certainly one) but he came back in 2013 and immediately cleaned up Diaz’s mess and it was certainly against the spread. If Greg Robinson can do it, Dan Quinn can. These guys aren’t NFL DCs because they suck and can’t gameplan. He’d be a fantastic hire.

No no no, the spread is an offensive concept unheard of by any team not in the big 12, especially not the NFL

 

[Iceman]

I mean, if we can trust Chip..

"I’m told Quinn wants to get back into coaching in the college game - not the NFL - and he’s interested in becoming Texas’ next defensive coordinator. Quinn’s high-energy personality is seen as a natural fit on the recruiting trail and what recruit wouldn’t want to play for the defensive coordinator of the Legion Of Boom right?"

What a dream that would staff that would be.

Coach 1-2 years and get a top tier CFB gig.

Chip has been nails the last 3 weeks. So, it's hard to doubt now.

 

[overTH1]

With news breaking that Sark might be looking at hiring Dan Quinn as DC, I figured I'd throw out some stats from Urban's last two defenses at Florida (2008 & 2009) and Quinn's 2 defense at Florida under Muschamp (2011 & 2012). It's hard to look at this and not be impressed, especially with him putting up these numbers with Muschamp as the HC and a much inferior offense on the other side of the ball compared to when Urban was the HC. Quinn's defenses performed as well or better than Urban's!

Defensive S&P+
3rd -- 2009
11th -- 2010
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10th -- 2011
1st -- 2012
* Defensive S&P+ Ratings are a college football ratings system derived from the play-by-play and drive data of all 800+ of a season's FBS college football games (and 140,000+ plays). The components for Defensive S&P+ reflect opponent-adjusted components of four of what Bill Connelly has deemed the Five Factors of college football: efficiency, explosiveness, field position, and finishing drives. The 5th component is sack rate.

DFEI
6th -- 2009
23rd -- 2010
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19th -- 2011
2nd -- 2012
* DFEI is a college football rating system based on opponent-adjusted possession efficiency, representing the per possession scoring advantage a team would be expected to have on a neutral field against an average opponent.


Defensive Busted Drive Rate
1st -- 2009
64th -- 2010
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37th -- 2011
19th -- 2012


Yards Allowed per Game
2nd -- 2009
10th -- 2010
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11th -- 2011
6th -- 2012


Yards Allowed per Play
5th -- 2009
13th -- 2010
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6th -- 2011
4th -- 2012


Points Allowed per Game
6th -- 2009
31st -- 2010
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11th -- 2011
5th -- 2012


Points Allowed per Play
6th -- 2009
37th -- 2010
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18th -- 2011
7th -- 2012


TDs Surrendered per Game
65th -- 2009
30th -- 2010
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20th -- 2011
6th -- 2012


3rd Down Conversion % Allowed
3rd -- 2009
37th -- 2010
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2nd -- 2011
10th -- 2012


Punts Forced per Play (frequency of forcing punts)
11th -- 2009
19th -- 2010
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12th -- 2011
19th -- 2012


Punts Forced vs TDs/FGs Allowed
53rd -- 2009
28th -- 2010
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13th -- 2011
13th -- 2012

I think he would be a great choice, plus the nfl experience would be a great recruiting tool.

 

[942 others]

I misread the thread title and clicked thinking it was about D-Qwon's Dance Grooves...

 

[Russhorn]

Just to clarify, no one said (or reported) that Sark used Carroll to help with Quinn. Sark worked for Quinn and Sark was forced out by the GM in Atlanta, not Quinn.

Interesting. I hadn’t even put the Atl pieces together. I figured it was a Carrol connection.

 

[Cali-Horn]

he good?

 

[WhatAboutEggs]

No way this happens. Reverse jinx.

 

[Take Em1]

Man if he is in play you fly immediately to Atl. and get a signature. Wow

 

[coltmccoy12]

People need to realize that defenses back then didn’t have to deal with the spread.

Especially sec defenses

 

[c'est la vie]

You do a search of Quinn and it shows that he will have a ton of suitors for DC in the NFL, but they keep saying he wants to be a HC again. I saw one story that said he reached out to the University of Arizona about their HC position. I'll be shocked if Stark can land him.

Hook'em

 

[rich0471]

People need to realize that defenses back then didn’t have to deal with the spread.

Yup he was playing in the pre-spread SEC cavemen offenses.