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Originally Posted by Mosbonian
I saw from an article that Randy Shannon was hired as the Defensive Coordinator almost immediately.
Wonder if Heuppel picked him or was told that he had to accept him. I get that he recruits FL pretty well but wouldn't you want your own guys?
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Probably a little of A, a little of B.
I suspect UCF had a line on Shannon, liked the idea of it and floated it to Heupel in the interview. If they liked him enough, perhaps he could've torpedoed it an brought in his own DC if he wanted to.
Or perhaps he was completely on board with it and it just didn't matter.
I'm guessing there wasn't really a gun to the head moment here. Most programs are smart enough to avoid that sort of thing these days. The inevitable back-biting and power struggles inevitably keep them stuck in the mud and can doom regime's before they even get going. Odom and Kul damn near did and they fired the guy (**** you again, Kuligowski).