This is a big splash hire?!?! https://www.espn.com/college-footba...joey-mcguire-next-head-football-coach-sources
T Tech to hire,..........yawn, snore
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They fired Matt Wells mid-season for THIS?
This is a straight up recruiting hire. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.
Supposedly Baylor team members wanted this guy to take over when they hired Aranda. Big recruiting ties to TX and what not.
I can't open the link. Please tell me it's Tuberville.
Maybe not nationally, but in Texas it is a pretty big deal. His impact on recruiting in TX will be noticed. Great hire for them IMO. He will turn things around out there. He is the reason Rhule and Aranda were able to keep landing great kids.
They obviously see this as the next Art Briles hire. They whiffed on UTSA's coach who took an extension there. Dykes evidently wasn't interested or vise versa.
that game Saturday should have showed just how far "recruiting Texas" gets you if that's all you do.
I think it says a lot about the perception of the Tech job unfortunately. It's a tough rebuild, a tough place to sell to recruits, and soon to be a non-P5 job. If guys at SMU and UTSA are staying put as opposed to "taking the next step" it is pretty obvious how poor the perception is.
Texas Tech also considered Oklahoma defensive coordinator Alex Grinch, USC offensive coordinator and former Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell and others for the vacancy.
I'm not trolling. That is unfortunately what the national perception is going to become, if it isn't already.
The first question of his interview was, "Can you tell us one reason why you'd enjoy living in Lubbock?"
This hire reminds me a lot of Paul Rhoads. Sure, there are splashier hires, but what they need right now is someone who gets their culture and has a ton of ties to the area.
Seems like a guy they could have hired in December. Not sure how much competition they would have had.
I think this is a knee-jerk hire by an anxious Tech administration, which of course was preceded by a knee-jerk mid-season firing of their coach. Even with all that, Tech is still a step up from SMU and UTSA and it's not close.
The three Texas schools have gone out of their minds since the OU/Texas SEC news dropped. That's football in Texas for you, but wow do some of their public comments and decisions make you wonder about their ability to make rational decisions. That's one thing that concerns me about the future of the league. Those Texas schools are on tilt and I'm not sure they will make great decisions for themselves or the conference in the long term.
Here is his bio:
Joey McGuire is in his fifth season on the Baylor coaching staff. After spending two seasons as tight ends coach from 2017-18, he was promoted to associate head coach and defensive ends coach for 2019. He maintained his title as associate head coach, and moved to outside linebackers coach under Dave Aranda in 2020.
During the 2020 season, he mentored a youthful group of outside linebackers that gained valuable experience over the course of the season. Following the season, William Bradley-King was selected in the 2021 NFL Draft by the Washington Football Team.
In 2019, McGuire helped Baylor’s defensive line set a new program record with 46 sacks, including mentoring James Lynch to Baylor single season (13.5) and career (22) sack records. Lynch was drafted in the fourth round of the 2020 NFL Draft by Minnesota. Additionally, defensive lineman Bravvion Roy was drafted in the sixth round by Carolina.
McGuire, a 2020 inductee into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor, came to Baylor after a legendary run as head coach at Cedar Hill (Texas) High School. He led CHHS to three state championships in 14 seasons, including back-to-back titles in 2013 and 2014. He took Cedar Hill, a program that hadn’t won a playoff game prior to his tenure, to 12 straight playoff appearances.
McGuire’s teams amassed a 141-42 record, won state titles in 2006, 2013 and 2014, and made four title appearances (runner-up in 2012), won nine bi-district championships and seven district championships.
McGuire was named the 2013 Texas coach of the year by MaxPreps, Dallas Morning News SportsDayHS and Chevy Silverado after leading Cedar Hill to the Class 5A state title. He earned Class 5A coach of the year honors in 2013 by the TSWA, Dave Campbell’s Texas Football, NFF Dallas Club and the Padilla Poll, and he repeated in the 2014 Padilla Poll. In 2006, he was honored by the Dallas Cowboys as the Coach of the Year.
A two-time district coach of the year honoree (2005 and 2006), he has coached in all but two Under Armour All-American games and was a head coach of the 2013 Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl. He served as head coach for the north in the 2014 THSCA All-Star Football game.
McGuire was promoted to head coach at Cedar Hill prior to the 2003 season and took over a program that had gone eight years without a winning season. From 1997 to 2002 he served as an assistant at CHHS.
Prior to CHHS, McGuire began his coaching career at his alma mater, Crowley (Texas) High School, where he spent two seasons (1995 and 1996) as an assistant. He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1995 from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1995.
McGuire and his wife, Debbie, have two children, daughter Raegan and son Garret. Garret, played quarterback at Baylor from 2017-20, and is currently a member of the Carolina Panthers coaching staff.
Joey McGuire is in his fifth season on the Baylor coaching staff. After spending two seasons as tight ends coach from 2017-18, he was promoted to associate head coach and defensive ends coach for 2019. He maintained his title as associate head coach, and moved to outside linebackers coach under Dave Aranda in 2020.
During the 2020 season, he mentored a youthful group of outside linebackers that gained valuable experience over the course of the season. Following the season, William Bradley-King was selected in the 2021 NFL Draft by the Washington Football Team.
In 2019, McGuire helped Baylor’s defensive line set a new program record with 46 sacks, including mentoring James Lynch to Baylor single season (13.5) and career (22) sack records. Lynch was drafted in the fourth round of the 2020 NFL Draft by Minnesota. Additionally, defensive lineman Bravvion Roy was drafted in the sixth round by Carolina.
McGuire, a 2020 inductee into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor, came to Baylor after a legendary run as head coach at Cedar Hill (Texas) High School. He led CHHS to three state championships in 14 seasons, including back-to-back titles in 2013 and 2014. He took Cedar Hill, a program that hadn’t won a playoff game prior to his tenure, to 12 straight playoff appearances.
McGuire’s teams amassed a 141-42 record, won state titles in 2006, 2013 and 2014, and made four title appearances (runner-up in 2012), won nine bi-district championships and seven district championships.
McGuire was named the 2013 Texas coach of the year by MaxPreps, Dallas Morning News SportsDayHS and Chevy Silverado after leading Cedar Hill to the Class 5A state title. He earned Class 5A coach of the year honors in 2013 by the TSWA, Dave Campbell’s Texas Football, NFF Dallas Club and the Padilla Poll, and he repeated in the 2014 Padilla Poll. In 2006, he was honored by the Dallas Cowboys as the Coach of the Year.
A two-time district coach of the year honoree (2005 and 2006), he has coached in all but two Under Armour All-American games and was a head coach of the 2013 Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl. He served as head coach for the north in the 2014 THSCA All-Star Football game.
McGuire was promoted to head coach at Cedar Hill prior to the 2003 season and took over a program that had gone eight years without a winning season. From 1997 to 2002 he served as an assistant at CHHS.
Prior to CHHS, McGuire began his coaching career at his alma mater, Crowley (Texas) High School, where he spent two seasons (1995 and 1996) as an assistant. He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1995 from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1995.
McGuire and his wife, Debbie, have two children, daughter Raegan and son Garret. Garret, played quarterback at Baylor from 2017-20, and is currently a member of the Carolina Panthers coaching staff.
Remember when Briles was fired at BU, and many posters here said they would flounder for years to come, but then they were playing in the Big 12 championship game in Rhule's third season? Remember when many posters here said that after Rhule left, BU would flounder for years to come, but in Aranda's 2nd year, BU is doing well?
As posted earlier, McGuire was/is a big part of that "not floundering for years" aspect, in that he kept the good recruits coming during the coaching transitions, which is not an easy task. He was likely going to get other offers at the end of this season. Given his background, I think he probably understands Tech culture, and he's not going to alienate the Lubbock/TT community like Wells did.
There is no doubt some risk, as he doesn't have college head coach experience, so we'll see. But you gotta have some players to win, and Wells was not doing great in that area. I think McGuire will get good recruits, so well see if he can assemble a staff that can coach them.