Please fire DJ Elliot. Please.
I think Eliot needed to go worse than Dawson did to be honest. I wasn't huge on Dawson but he could have improved after a second year. But Eliot has been here three years and very small amount of improvement. Eliots schemes are JV league at best.
Huge booster friend of mine at FSU told me the coaches down there hated losing Eliot, FWIW....
Something that has stayed with me over the last couple of off season coaching changes that bothers me is when Stoops hired Naivar, one of the reasons he gave was because of his defensive coordinating experience to "help D.J. out." Then he said the exact same thing when he replace Naivar with Buh. Now, I like Stoops a lot and I appreciate loyalty but I thought it was an odd thing to hear both times.
I don't mind if Eliot is retained. But I do think he should be demoted to a position coach like he was at FSU, or at the very least be made Co-DC alongside someone like Pelini that will actually be the guy in charge of the defense. Eliot is entering his 4th season as DC and he still looks like a completely green rookie out there. That is unacceptable.
I think MS is in way over his head...Time will tell, but still has that deer in the headlight look on the sideline...DJ wouldn't be the first coach at DC to be in over his head. Plus if Stoops would admit it, this job was way more problem then even he even thought.
Not at all. Their families are too close and they came as a tandem from FSU with the same philosophies and basically coach the D together. If fired Elliot he would be firing himself.Thoughts?
Not at all. Their families are too close and they came as a tandem from FSU with the same philosophies and basically coach the D together. If fired Elliot he would be firing himself.