Last month, Ole Miss hired two big names to fill its vacant coordinator positions: former Colorado head coach Mike MacIntyre on defense and former Arizona, Michigan and West Virginia head man Rich Rodriguez on offense.
Matt Luke, who has just one non-interim season of head coaching experience, hired two men with a combined 24 seasons of D1 head coaching experience to serve as his coordinators. That’s impressive for a program coming off a near-last place finish in its division and more than a half a decade of NCAA investigations and sanctions.
But there are always reasons why former head coaches take coordinator roles.