On the move again.
College football offensive savant Matt Canada, late of Pitt, NC State, Northern Illinois and latest of LSU, has negotiated a buyout of his contract after one measly year and is headed elsewhere. Again. He left Pitt completely of his own volition after one year. A finalist for the award given to the nation's top assistant coach at Pitt, Canada became the college game's fourth highest paid coordinator at LSU and even had a buyout in his contract, extraordinary for an assistant.
The Master of Movement, the Jet Sweep Jester, Canada transformed a pedestrian Pitt offense in 2015 into a top ten offense in 2016. Although no tackle football scholar, the undersigned has watched a fair amount of college foo'ball in his time and he done never seen a defense more befuddled than PSU's against Pitt in 2016. "Enablers" had no idea where the ball was going and pert near got blowed outta the Ketchup Bottle in the first half of that game. Watching replays this idiot blogger had to replay 2-3 times to figger it out hisself. Matt Canada was the reason Pitt won that game.
I noticed the scores in LSU's games last year and they were nowhere near the pinball numbers Canada's offense put up at Pitt. Turns out in one game head coach Ed Orgeron ordered Canada to stop all the pre-snap movement. It was confusing the players (read: it was confusing Dead Head Ed). They butted heads Canada and Dead Head did; hardly spoke, actually. Can't have that. A coordinator can't be hardly speaking with the head man. Leads to emigration.
Matt Canada came to Pitt after puzzlingly being fired by head coach Dave Doeren after 3 1/2 years at North Carolina State. And before that he had been with Doeren at Northern Illinois. Canada was at the apex of his marketability after that transformational 2016 season. I didn't understand why he didn't parlay that into a head coaching position. He did get a sweet deal at LSU and LSU is a better football school than Pitt (if you have scholars who aren't confused by your schemes) but he wasn't The Man. Canada should be The Man somewhere but his emigration from job to job is a problem, viz: After parting ways with LSU Canada has accepted the same position at Maryland, a big step down from LSU, a step down even from Pitt but at least in a major conference and still as a coordinator.
Major college football needs an offensive innovator of Matt Canada's caliber and Matt Canada needs major college football as a platform for his innovations. (I tell ya I never did see anything like what he did at Pitt.)
College football offensive savant Matt Canada, late of Pitt, NC State, Northern Illinois and latest of LSU, has negotiated a buyout of his contract after one measly year and is headed elsewhere. Again. He left Pitt completely of his own volition after one year. A finalist for the award given to the nation's top assistant coach at Pitt, Canada became the college game's fourth highest paid coordinator at LSU and even had a buyout in his contract, extraordinary for an assistant.
The Master of Movement, the Jet Sweep Jester, Canada transformed a pedestrian Pitt offense in 2015 into a top ten offense in 2016. Although no tackle football scholar, the undersigned has watched a fair amount of college foo'ball in his time and he done never seen a defense more befuddled than PSU's against Pitt in 2016. "Enablers" had no idea where the ball was going and pert near got blowed outta the Ketchup Bottle in the first half of that game. Watching replays this idiot blogger had to replay 2-3 times to figger it out hisself. Matt Canada was the reason Pitt won that game.
I noticed the scores in LSU's games last year and they were nowhere near the pinball numbers Canada's offense put up at Pitt. Turns out in one game head coach Ed Orgeron ordered Canada to stop all the pre-snap movement. It was confusing the players (read: it was confusing Dead Head Ed). They butted heads Canada and Dead Head did; hardly spoke, actually. Can't have that. A coordinator can't be hardly speaking with the head man. Leads to emigration.
Matt Canada came to Pitt after puzzlingly being fired by head coach Dave Doeren after 3 1/2 years at North Carolina State. And before that he had been with Doeren at Northern Illinois. Canada was at the apex of his marketability after that transformational 2016 season. I didn't understand why he didn't parlay that into a head coaching position. He did get a sweet deal at LSU and LSU is a better football school than Pitt (if you have scholars who aren't confused by your schemes) but he wasn't The Man. Canada should be The Man somewhere but his emigration from job to job is a problem, viz: After parting ways with LSU Canada has accepted the same position at Maryland, a big step down from LSU, a step down even from Pitt but at least in a major conference and still as a coordinator.
Major college football needs an offensive innovator of Matt Canada's caliber and Matt Canada needs major college football as a platform for his innovations. (I tell ya I never did see anything like what he did at Pitt.)
