We first heard a few days ago that the Jets and Cardinals were interested in interviewing former Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury for their head coaching vacancies. Kingsbury was hired to be the offensive coordinator at USC shortly after the college season ended, and we heard earlier today that USC was denying the NFL teams permission to talk to him.
Now we have more details, and a possible scenario for Kingsbury to circumvent his current employer. It’s specifically USC athletic director Lynn Swann who is blocking any potential interviews, and Kingsbury may resign in response, according to Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com. Multiple sources told Florio that Kingsbury’s contract with USC has a “very low buyout”, so he might “simply resign his position as Trojans offensive coordinator and move on.”
If he does decide to quit and pursue NFL opportunities, Florio thinks he’ll “undoubtedly find work at least as an offensive coordinator”, and if that’s true it makes plenty of sense why he’d want to leave. Both the Jets and Cardinals are likely looking for offensive coaches to pair with Sam Darnold and Josh Rosen, and Kingsbury would be a young outside the box hire.
While Kingsbury’s reign at Texas Tech was never particularly successful in terms of wins and losses, he always had one of the most innovative and dynamic offenses in the country, and is a highly respected offensive mind. It’s been reported for a while now that NFL teams were looking to pick his brain, and he was linked to the Cowboys’ offensive coordinator job before Dallas’ staff saved their jobs with a strong finish.
Might be the craziest pursuit of a fired college HC I’ve ever seen.
I would think it would have to do with Mahones. Teams will try to make any connection to success they can. Kind of how some guys on the Rams offensive staff are being interviewed just because of how close they are to McVay
All they have to do is look when he didn’t have Mahomes. If you want him as a QB coach fine. Their can’t be a team in the NFL that seriously considers him a HC candidate
What he did with Mahomes is nice but if you wanna be really impressed look what he did with CASE KEENUM of all people back at Houston, two 44 TD seasons and a 48 TD season. Is he a nfl head coach right now? No, but he could be the next great offensive mind.
Why you let the guy just take a dang interview
Because he just signed with them a month ago. If he had second thoughts, and wanted to pursue the NFL, he should’ve held off on signing anywhere. His name has been tied to NFL teams for more than a month now
Yeah I would have some words with his agent. I can’t imagine it was a shock that he would have some other opportunities.
I think this hiring young coach bandwagon is about a year or two away from crashing.
See Sean McVay and Matt Nagy
See Lane Kiffin, Raheem Morris, David Shula, and best of all Josh McDaniel.
That was also how many years ago. NFL FOs have more info then ever on guys.
That was the birth of the life cycle. Now all these teams are going to flock to them just like Baker Mayfield types in the QB arena.
Older isn’t always better, but the Broncos haven’t had the best success with younger HCs.
I wish them all luck and scrutiny.
Take a young coach with no NFL experience over some Has been like Munchak or cant win McCarthy.
I think the pursuit of college coaches by the NFL will always be a cyclical thing. The interest cooled off after the Chip Kelly experiment fizzled but now there are other names drawing attention.
As soon as he learns the value of keeping his QBs healthy his offense will be deadly.
To be fair, he washed out of Tech because the defense and recruiting was not good. However nobody in the history of Texas Tech football has been successful at recruiting or defense prior to KK. I think he knows how to run a team, he just needs a veteran D coordinator.
With his record at TT, Anyone who would hire him as a HC is nuts, but might be quite intriguing as an OC!