OrangeBloods.com, a Texas Longhorn site on the Rivals network, reported earlier this evening that Searels accepted Mack Brown’s offer to become their new OL coach. Searels made $290,000 last season at Georgia and is expected to make more than that in Austin.
Searels is a graduate of Auburn University and has previously coached at Appalachian State, Cincinnati and LSU. He will replace former Texas coach Mac McWhorter, who retired in December.
So who can the Dawgs get to replace the departing Searels? Here are a few names that have been mentioned:
- Hugh Nall – Georgia graduate (1983); Auburn OL coach from 1999-2008; currently the COO of a trucking company.
- Greg Adkins -Marshall graduate (1990); Tennessee OL coach from 2006-08; Georgia DL coach in 1997; Georgia OL coach from 1997-2000; currently the OL coach at Syracuse
- Chris Scelfo -NE Louisiana graduate (1984); Georgia assistant head coach and OL coach from 1996-98; currently the tight ends coach for the Atlanta Falcons.
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Zach Hurd, a senior guard on the UConn football team, has made up his mind about offensive line coach Mike Foley.
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"He's the best O-line coach in the nation," Hurd said Tuesday. "If you ask all of our players that have been through here, they'll tell you he knows his stuff. I mean, think about it. [Senior guard] Matt [Olivier] and I weren't big recruits. None of the people he has are big recruits. But how do we still have a 2,000-yard rusher [Donald Brown in 2008], two 1,000-yard rushers [Jordan Todman and Andre Dixon in 2009]. That's not because he's a bad coach. That's because he's the best coach in the nation. He's taken players that these big schools didn't want ... we came here for a reason; we came here for him