Miami (Ohio) has snagged themselves a new coach. Mike Haywood, the Notre Dame offensive coordinator, has agreed to step in for the Redhawks and lead this storied program.Miami has a long line of great football coaches that spent time coaching in Oxford, Ohio. This fraternity, also known as the "Cradle of Coaches," includes Al Parseghian, Bo Schembechler, Woody Hayes and Jim Tressel.
He takes over a team that went 2-10 last season but has a tradition of winning. Their most recent season's have been lackluster but at one point this program put together 12 straight winning seasons. Ohio is a great state to recruit and Haywood is familiar with the trails as he has spent the last four seasons at Notre Dame. He has also worked under Mack Brown at Texas and Nick Saban in LSU, which just bolster's his resume.
The real question is can Haywood succeed in Oxford? Charlie Weiss recently took over the playcalling duties from Haywood. Although Weiss has had no more success than Haywood did, it still makes you raise an eyebrow.
Mike Haywood has a great opportunity infront of him. Being successful at that school has lead to great things for a number of coaches. If he can transform this program quickly he very well could be high on the list of candidates to replace Charlie Weiss in the coming years.
2 comments:
It seems during the discussion of the decision for charlie to give Haywood play calling duties, it always implied that Mike was unsuccessfull at his duties. Mike called the plays during the first six games. We were 4-2. Should have been 5-1. (North Carolina) Game 7 Pitt. Clausen look like he regressed.
At that point everything went south. It was the Pitt game that Charlie took over. Since that point we were 3-4. What is this all about? The fact that Charlie needed to rescue things and begin calling plays? Mike was 4-2, Charlie was 3-4. With a loss to the orangeman and a gimmie from Hawaii. Lets keep it real.
Charlie W-e-i-s.
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