BuckeyeScoop: OSU's Brian Hartline interviewing for Cincinnati HC job
As recruitniks know, Brian Hartline, the OSU WR coach, is a major driver of OSU's offensive success—both in recruiting and coaching the best WR room in the country. According to BuckeyeScoop, Hartline is interviewing for the newly vacant head coaching position at Cincinnati. Unfortunately the article is paywalled, but here's the link to the site's tweet.
OSU WR coach Brian Hartline interviewing to be Head Coach at Cincinnati…
— BuckeyeScoop (@BuckeyeScoop) November 30, 2022
The Latest HERE:https://t.co/Lao53b2XeM
November 30th, 2022 at 10:21 PM ^
Best news I’ve heard today!
December 1st, 2022 at 7:41 AM ^
Fingers crossed!
December 1st, 2022 at 8:48 AM ^
Bring back Zach Smith! It seems like he's totally over his issues and is now an upstanding member of society.
November 30th, 2022 at 10:24 PM ^
Bucknut meltdown part 3!!!
December 1st, 2022 at 7:41 AM ^
When it rains, it pours!
November 30th, 2022 at 10:26 PM ^
Update: Here's a non-paywalled article from 11W. An excerpt:
Ohio State wide receivers coach Brian Hartline will reportedly interview for the head coaching job at Cincinnati, according to Football Scoop’s John Brice. According to the report, “there has been a gain in momentum” for Hartline as a candidate and his interview with Cincinnati is “expected to take place in the near future, perhaps as soon as Thursday.”
Hartline isn’t the only candidate with Ohio State ties being considered for the job, as former Ohio State defensive coordinator and cornerbacks coach Kerry Coombs is currently the Bearcats’ interim coach and is being considered for the full-time job. Cincinnati offensive coordinator Gino Guidugli is also a candidate to be promoted to head coach, while other potential candidates include Michigan defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, James Madison head coach Curt Cignetti and Tennessee offensive coordinator Alex Golesh.
November 30th, 2022 at 10:28 PM ^
This is one of the few times it is OK to root for a Buckeye.
December 1st, 2022 at 10:30 AM ^
Hartline for Skyline.
November 30th, 2022 at 10:51 PM ^
This is one of the few times it is OK to root for a Buckeye.
Edit: double post so ROOT HARDER or neg. Or both?
November 30th, 2022 at 10:54 PM ^
It'll be Hartline. Cincinnati has a history of hiring up and coming Ohio State assistants. See: Dantonio and Fickell. The other alternative is the CMU head coach (lest we forget Brian Kelly and Butch Jones) but I'm guessing they are not in the market for Jim McElwain.
December 1st, 2022 at 7:59 AM ^
I get Jim McElwain confused with Jerry Tarkanian for some reason.
December 1st, 2022 at 8:19 AM ^
Jerry Sharkanian
December 1st, 2022 at 8:42 AM ^
What you did there, I see
November 30th, 2022 at 11:09 PM ^
Minter is a "potential" candidate. Ryan Day, Jim Harbaugh, and Urban Meyer could also be considered "potential" candidates.
December 1st, 2022 at 2:41 AM ^
Minter’s dad coached at Cincinnati for a long time, so I can only imagine he’s going to get serious consideration.
December 1st, 2022 at 7:09 AM ^
Rick Minter's tenure wasn't very successful though (53-63-1) and he finally was fired, so the prospect of hiring his son might not be that exciting to the Cincy faithful.
December 1st, 2022 at 7:46 AM ^
Working for the place that fired his father might not be very attractive to the son, either.
December 1st, 2022 at 10:52 AM ^
Knowing absolutely nothing about Minter's goals, I would expect that if anything he would be more interested in an NFL coordinator position than as a college HC.
December 1st, 2022 at 8:18 AM ^
I MAY be a potential candidate as well...
of course I may not be.....
Then again, Jeff Saturday's coaching experience was 3 years as head coach of a high school team and now he's an NFL head coach. So maybe my 4 years of coaching little league and 6 years of coaching youth hockey could put me in the running
November 30th, 2022 at 10:29 PM ^
Kerry Coombs, lolz. Him and Hugh “texting hookers” Freeze Just proves that no matter how shitty you are on or off the field, there are always ways to fail into new six figure jobs
November 30th, 2022 at 10:55 PM ^
Six figure jobs? How 1999. It's seven figure jobs now.
December 1st, 2022 at 7:58 AM ^
And "texting hookers" is way down the list of terrible things Freeze has done.
See, eg...
https://twitter.com/chelsandrews/status/1545983057232027648
and
November 30th, 2022 at 10:30 PM ^
100% would like this.
Yes, our glee in this news speaks well of Hartline’s work.
In less enjoyable news, Stanford may be focusing on Greg Roman as it’s next HC. Why is this bad? Because he’s the Ravens OC. Last year the Ravens lost a coordinator and replaced him with a former staff member that was getting coordinating experience at Michigan. This year they could lose a coordinator and it turns out that they have a former staff member getting coordinating experience at Michigan. Even runs many of the same plays.
I’m sure Jim Harbaugh would handle this fine, but I’d love to keep Weiss and Moore together for another year or two.
November 30th, 2022 at 10:33 PM ^
Why in the name of jeebus would you worry about this? Harbaugh is great at finding good replacements
November 30th, 2022 at 10:39 PM ^
I have an interest because I like consistency and overall like what the offensive braintrust is producing. We bring most of our offense back next year, and it’d be great to keep things going. Helps with recruiting, too.
As to your last point, I will quote the post you are responding to:
I’m sure Jim Harbaugh would handle this fine, but I’d love to keep Weiss and Moore together for another year or two.
November 30th, 2022 at 11:07 PM ^
I’m thinking Moore is going to get a good look at an HC college gig. I’ll be pretty surprised if he doesn’t move on after the season.
December 1st, 2022 at 1:05 AM ^
Shut your filthy mouth Wilford!
December 1st, 2022 at 1:05 AM ^
In fairness he did hire Don Brown.
December 1st, 2022 at 5:04 AM ^
the revisionist history around don brown continues.
he coached some really terrific defenses here and almost literally everywhere else he has ever coached. ohio state shredded him twice (not, i’d point out, in 2016, however), and we stunk in the covid year, which was the biggest outlier season in the history of football. he was NOT a bad hire.
December 1st, 2022 at 8:41 AM ^
which was the biggest outlier season in the history of football.
At least since 1918 when Spanish Flu and WWI were decimating the global population. U of Wash (1-1) managed to get in 2 games while the Mare Island Marines (10-0-1) played 11. Michigan (5-0) won the mythical national title over such vaunted teams as Colorado Mines (4-0), Presbyterian (2-0) and Washington (MO) (6-0). The SWC got no love despite Texas (9-0) and Oklahoma (6-0) finishing unbeaten.
December 1st, 2022 at 9:50 AM ^
Indeed. Don Brown forced Urban Meyer to change the way he offensed in 2018. Revisionist history, indeed... If Speight hadn't been injured in 2016 and if a functional QB existed in 2017, both those games would have been Michigan wins. Blame the Harbaughffense for those two losses, not Don Brown.
December 1st, 2022 at 10:42 AM ^
The 2016 OSU game was Hoke's/Durkin's recruits and Brown's scheme. Yes the caveats are relevant with regard to Speight and the bogus first down.
2018 was Brown's players and scheme and resulted in giving up 62 to OSU and then 41 to Florida. It was widely discussed that Don liked to recruit smaller, faster players that don't always hold up against the larger B1G players.
2019 Brown's defense not only gave up 56 to OSU but also 35 to Alabama, 35 to Wisconsin and 28 to PSU.
I'm not saying Brown was a bad hire but he wasn't a great hire either. Macdonald and Minter have been significantly better DC's.
December 1st, 2022 at 10:21 AM ^
Not a great hire either. I like Don Brown, he seems like he gives a shit but his defenses mostly feasted on talent deficient teams. When it came to top 10 or top 15 teams, Brown's defensive schemes were often exposed. Giving up 62 and then 56 to OSU in back to back years is not good defense.
2020 was an outlier and coaches should get a pass.
December 2nd, 2022 at 12:12 AM ^
His defense required great to elite talent at the CB position. You can’t run man, especially against OSU if you don’t have the athletes and talent to pull it off. During his tenure the secondary regressed, we had the whole ‘Is he a DT’ thing that seemed to be fixed when he left, and the two ass kickings by OSU at the end. He wasn’t a bad hire, he did get us some dudes from the Northeast, but he deserved to be let go and we are in much better shape the last two years and hopefully going forward.
December 1st, 2022 at 5:31 AM ^
And Pep Hamilton
December 1st, 2022 at 7:17 AM ^
Don Brown was a perfectly good hire in 2016. But then OSU counterpunched by hiring Day, who'd coached with Brown and knew his tendencies inside and out. Brown then was no longer the guy to shut down OSU. But that doesn't mean his initial hiring was a bad decision.
December 1st, 2022 at 10:44 AM ^
I'm not saying it was a bad decision but would you rate it as one of Harbaugh's top 5 hires so far?
December 1st, 2022 at 7:53 PM ^
Brown was better than Durkin. I don’t know if Brown was a top 5 hire but there’s a bunch of hires Harbaugh has made that were way worse than Brown.
Drevno, Hamilton, that safeties coach who worked from Zoom, Ty Wheatley didn’t work out very well (at least at the end). The MSU guy who bolted to Alabama in like a month. The guy who left for Buffalo before coaching even a practice didn’t produce anything although he seemed like a good candidate.
Was Brown better than Ed Warriner? Probably?
Arguably Harbaugh’s hire is Jay Harbaugh.
December 1st, 2022 at 7:34 AM ^
Harbaugh has a good track record of hires; his "weakness" would be loyalty and being slow to fire (e.g., Don Brown's second chance after the first OSU blowout).
Harbaugh's assistants being hired away forces him to hire innovative, younger assistants. While there can be runs like Larry Johnson or Venables (as coordinator, ha), prob more often that assistants over time have difficulty adpating to change.
December 1st, 2022 at 8:25 AM ^
Larry 'Grandmama' Johnson? I wonder what he's up to these days???
December 1st, 2022 at 10:07 AM ^
Pretty sure he's still with OSU. You want him to be a candidate too? He's old, like early 70's I think. Doubt he gets a look from anyone.
December 1st, 2022 at 10:25 AM ^
How about Fred Jackson?
December 1st, 2022 at 10:48 AM ^
"How about Fred Jackson? "
I'm not sure if there is /s to your post, but....
Fred is a treasure as an analyst. He's a great guy everyone enjoys having around. He definitely talked some guys through Mike Hart's scary moments. We all have fun with "Anthony Thomas but fast" or whatever, but keeping Mr. Jackson on staff as long as possible is a positive.
December 1st, 2022 at 10:46 AM ^
no, i'm talking about the basketball Larry Grandmama Johnson.... of UNLV, Charlotte Hornets, New York Knicks fame....
December 1st, 2022 at 7:34 AM ^
double bubble
December 1st, 2022 at 1:08 PM ^
However he recruited a bunch of guys who helped kick OSU's ass the past 2 seasons with his vast New England connections. Mikey Sainristil, Cornelius Johnson, Zinter, Scoon, Mullings. Hell TJ Guy made a special teams tackle. Might be gone, but was a gift that kept giving.
December 1st, 2022 at 12:18 PM ^
Dude has over 20 million MGoPoints. Be quiet.
November 30th, 2022 at 10:33 PM ^
Not sure how much Roman likes college. He's also the OC of one of the most electric QBs in the league and a perennial power and the Ravens are currently 1st in their division.
November 30th, 2022 at 10:37 PM ^
According to my fantasy team, Lamar has not been electric for a long time.
December 1st, 2022 at 8:01 AM ^
And Stanford, in particular, seems like a job that's become incredibly more difficult in the era of NIL and the transfer portal. Stanford accepted 40 transfers last year, not to the football team, but to the entire institution.