Tommy Rees is our new offensive coordinator

Take those last 2 names off that list right now.

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Brian Johnson

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Just mentioned in the other thread that this would be a nice fit with Milroe at QB.

Someone already edited Dooley's wikipedia page to say alabama offensive coordinator. I really hope these coordinator searches don't drag out.

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I don't understand why people would not be ok with Greg Roman but be ok with Kliff Kingsbury. Romans offenses for the last 4 years have been better than the Cardinals overall. I get not wanting either but wanting Kliff but not wanting Roman seems crazy to me.

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The thing about Greg Roman is his offense was not very WR friendly in the NFL. If that held in the SEC then we better damn well hope we sign the next Brock Bowers at TE.

Y’all do not want Greg Roman, I’m telling you. I’ve watched every play he’s called in his time with the Ravens. He’s no more imaginative than BOB. He may be even less imaginative. He certainly doesn’t do anything special with the receivers, granted the Ravens didn’t have a great receiver room, but still.

Brian Johnson is the only guy on this list I wouldn't have major reservations about. I think he's a really good coach with a solid track record. Kingsbury is discount brand Kiffin, which would still be a massive improvement over BooB, but one good season and he's gone. Lebby might be OK, but OU's offense did the whole random disappearing act that we pulled the last couple of years. Jeff Scott was an epic disaster as a HC so he would probably stick around for a while, but would we end up wanting him to? Clemson's offense is really simplistic and nothing they did under him and Elliot was particularly impressive from an Xs and Os standpoint. Still, we have the talent to pull off that kind of system.

I think the rest of these guys would be outright terrible hires though. Mullen is a cancer. Brady is an overrated bum who has only made it as far as he has because of stepping into an offense that was full of NFL All-Pro talent. If we hire Roman or Doolander...well thank God for Nate Oats I guess.

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Shrug. Again I will take a Ravens fans word for it cause I haven't paid much attention to them. He did a lot of good stuff with the Niners and being creative with Alex Smith and Kapernick but that was nearly a decade ago so it sounds like he has lost it.

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Roman isn’t someone I would classify as terrible, but he just doesn’t do anything that I feel would make our offense very dynamic. I think he’s fallen off in the last few years. Maybe part of that is because of all of the injuries the Ravens have had the last few years since Lamar’s MVP season in 2019, but I don’t want Alabama to take the risk that Roman’s shortcomings were because of personnel and not his offense/playcalling.

Fair enough. I don't want Roman I just think it is crazy people think he is a worse option that Kingsbury. Kingsbury comes from a different offensive tree and has been mediocre or bad pretty much everywhere sans his stats. He has never been as good as Mike Leach (RIP) and I doubt anyone would have been excited if he was ever considered for OC.

Stay away from OCs with a long history of NFL time. The more flexible and innovative minds are at the college ranks.

Brian Johnson might be the most likely hire among those listed candidates. He seems like a really good fit to me.