Baylor head coach Dave Aranda is in the process of hiring former University of North Carolina head coach Larry Fedora as his offensive coordinator, SicEm365 has learned from multiple sources. Pete Thamel was the first to make the report public.
Baylor has not confirmed the report at this time.
The news comes a day after Baylor officially announced Jorge Munoz of LSU as the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach.
Fedora was the head coach of the Tar Heels for seven seasons from 2012-2018 and compiled an overall record of 45-43 including an even 28-28 in league play. From 2012-2016 Fedora led UNC to a 40-25 record, but won only five games in his final two seasons there in 2017 and 2018.
Fedora spent the 2019 season as an analyst for the University of Texas while receiving his buyout from UNC.
Prior to North Carolina, Fedora spent four seasons as the head coach at Southern Miss where he amassed a 34-19 overall record and a 20-12 record in Conference USA from 2008-2011. From 2005-2007 Fedora was the offensive coordinator for Oklahoma State under Mike Gundy and from 2002-2004 he spent time on staff at Florida, including as the offensive coordinator in 2004.
Fedora won the C-USA Championship in 2011 with Southern Miss and reached the ACC Championship game in 2015 with UNC.
Known for his powerful offenses, Fedora’s teams averaged north of 30 points in nine of his 11 seasons as a head coach. As an offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State, the Cowboys improved from 20.2 points in his first season to 35.2 and 34.6 points in years two and three.
Fedora spent six seasons as an assistant coach at Baylor from 1991-1996, including time coaching the receivers, tight ends and running backs. Fedora spent two years under head coach Grant Teaff from 1991-1992.
boognish_bear said:hodedofome said:
I like getting former HC's as coordinators, they seem to do well in that role.
We shall see if Fedora continues that trend here.
I think it can also be helpful to Aranda as a first time HC to have someone on staff who has done it.
Fedora did have some success at UNC and probably also learned some things not to do that he can pass on to Aranda.
My understanding is Fedora really wants to be a HC again so I would expect him to be highly motivated to be successful in this role.
Bear8084 said:
Does anyone think for his #Newprofilepic Twitter post Fedora is just gonna pull out one of his old BU pics of him coaching with Teaff? Haha.
We had a very fine offensive line.historian said:
I noticed the news report did not mention the one game they played against Baylor in 2015: the RAB in which we torched them for 645 rushing yards--a bowl record--and won the game 49-38. Oh yes, we also did it running the "wild bear" offense with 5 different players taking snaps.
Here's a nice abbreviated version:
Grizz Air said:
Nice hire, but at this point I'm a little more excited about defense.
You think the multi multi million dollar buyout on CMR's contract helped!gobears20 said:
He will boost our recruiting and he has head coaching experience at a Power Five. We will be fine. Wait until he gets to recruit with our facilities.
With this staff you can tell Baylor is opening the pocket book. Rhoades said he wants to play for national championships.
Understood and I agree. I'm just hoping for once we can keep the entire staff together for several years. Nothing hurts progress like constant turnover in your staff unless you're Nick Saban. Consistency wins and shuffleboard loses.PartyBear said:
Great hire, he was who the Texas folks wanted Herman to name OC as this past season ended. Herman may have done it had Fedora made himself a candidate rather than pursue a Hc job.
Fedora will likely get another HC shot after a season or 2 as OC here. He probably will not be here for long realistically due that understandably. But this is a great hire here.
Bigkahunaww said:
Trust the process.
It's all coming together.
Grab a couple JC transfers and we will have a decent season.
Then next year when we add six or eight 5 star recruits, we are going hunting for some Sooner skins.
boognish_bear said:
What if someone had told us right after the RAB that in 4 years Fedora would be the BU OC and Briles would be coaching at Mt. Pleasant...
Bear8084 said:boognish_bear said:
What if someone had told us right after the RAB that in 4 years Fedora would be the BU OC and Briles would be coaching at Mt. Pleasant...
"What if I told you..."
BaylorBearY2K said:
Not trying to be a Debbie Downer here, but let's all remember that Fedora wants (and has been) a HC role. There's no guarantee that he's here for very long at all, if even more than 1 season if the offense explodes next year.
Very real.
That's a good point BBY2K. But let's see how this season goes first..... There are still offensive question marks that need to be answered over the next couple of seasons, IMO, to have a (sustainable) offensive set (like OL!).BaylorBearY2K said:
Not trying to be a Debbie Downer here, but let's all remember that Fedora wants (and has been) a HC role. There's no guarantee that he's here for very long at all, if even more than 1 season if the offense explodes next year.
Very real.
Interesting thought. We could probably use a new bagman.Grizz Air said:
Haven't seen a recent update. Where do we stand with Trooper Taylor? Has that ship sailed, or is he a secret until after NSD?
BaylorBearY2K said:
Not trying to be a Debbie Downer here, but let's all remember that Fedora wants (and has been) a HC role. There's no guarantee that he's here for very long at all, if even more than 1 season if the offense explodes next year.
Very real.
BaylorBearY2K said:
Not trying to be a Debbie Downer here, but let's all remember that Fedora wants (and has been) a HC role. There's no guarantee that he's here for very long at all, if even more than 1 season if the offense explodes next year.
Very real.
