re: BO gets his extension, 2 years

Exactly. Finley is going places soon. He's a bright young coach and a good recruiter. He was instrumental in a lot of the design and concepts of our current scheme.

The question becomes, do you want him progressing here. My answer is yes. I think he'll do a great job and I think he's ready.

Tennessee just hired two coordinators who were position coaches prior. Alabama is likely going to promote their LB coach to DC.

Chris Rumph was DLine coach for multiple years at the following schools: Alabama, Clemson and Florida. He also coached at Texas.

Tyson Helton was QB coach at USC for two years, offensive coordinator at Western Kentucky for two years under Brohm and previously an assistant at Cincinnati, UAB, Memphis and Hawaii.

Joe Jon Finley worked in 2015 as offensive quality control specialist for Baylor after coaching high school in 2014. Then we hired him. Could he be a great hire? Sure.

Is he any way comparable to Helton or Rumph experience-wise? No.

Possibly Barry Odom, the same guy that hired an OC that was "on the scrap heap" and an Oline coach from Arkansas State that no one ever heard of. Those guys are currently taking over at the best non P5 job in the nation.

If you don't see how he adds value to an offensive staff, so be it.

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doesn’t miss the most recent one who left.

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This is your assumption and not a fact.

If you think Odom didn't give a shite about his Oline coach leaving on the morning 4 oline recruits were hitting campus, fine.

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Barry doesn’t trust his own ability to evaluate coaches. He’s fired two a

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So he’s fired 2 out of the 11 that he’s hired. That’s a pretty good success rate. He also just had so much success under his watch that they left for promotions elsewhere.
Brown also got a pay raise when he left for Auburn.

It’s just not GP keeping his staff together every year so some fans struggle with that.

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to an unproven GA

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Finley isn't a GA. He is a paid, recruiting assistant and is largely responsible for the rushing concepts that make one of the top offenses in the country work.

He hasn't been hired. He may not get the job. The point is that you can look at film of Heupel's last two years at OU and his one year at Utah State and see that there are few schematic similarities between those teams and what MU is doing.

What does Rumph have to do with anything?

Sherrer is going to be the DC at UT. He was previously the LB coach at Georgia.

bass used to be a good poster before BO was hired.

I mentioned this previously, but a lot of these guys dig themselves so deep into the ground on this that there really isn't any turning back.

To the point where we are melting over something that hasn't even happened yet.

BO has looked at, and will look at several candidates. If he decides Finley is the right decision then that is who we should hire. If he decides that an outside candidate is better, then that is who we should hire.

He is infinitely more invested in this program than anyone. His vision is the program. He'll decide the best course and he's also infinitely more qualified to make these decisions than anyone.

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He hasn't been hired. He may not get the job. The point is that you can look at film of Heupel's last two years at OU and his one year at Nevada State and see that there are few schematic similarities between those teams and what MU is doing.

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If it was Finley that got Huepel to finally quit throwing the long one-yard sideline out to the WRs every other play, I like Finley's influence on the offense.