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Respect for Oklahoma should be the first cause for major skepticism about Diron Reynolds. He coached at Oklahoma for one year and then immediately took a much, much worse job at Stanford. Seems pretty obvious he failed spectacularly (one year!) at Oklahoma.

Reynolds had a number of years in the NFL before coming to Stanford as a defensive assistant for one (partial?) year in 2014.  He then took the Oklahoma DL coaching job for 2015.  His family stayed behind in California.  When Hart retired, Shaw offered the job to Reynolds for the 2016 season, and Reynolds probably couldn't say no to the prospect of living in the same house with his family while working in a program with which he was familiar.

I don't know if that context means anything with respect to his performance at Oklahoma...I have certainly lost track of time as he has been here a lot longer than I'd remembered, and injuries/bad recruiting misses can only serve as excuses for so long.

Maybe, like OL, the DL is a position that suffers disproportionately from the loss of Turley and effective athletic trainers.  (Of course it is, we need Shaw to hire Turley 2.0 asap.)

The optics of Reynolds being a "friend of Shaw" from having worked one year as a defensive assistant are not good.  Reynolds' resume prior to Stanford speaks for itself though, he ought to be really good.  Perhaps he's just a guy, capable of achieving when good players are healthy, and not capable of achieving through adversity (no easy task at Stanford, granted).

(Yeah that's a reference to "friend of Ted," lol)

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Respect for Oklahoma should be the first cause for major skepticism about Diron Reynolds. He coached at Oklahoma for one year and then immediately took a much, much worse job at Stanford. Seems pretty obvious he failed spectacularly (one year!) at Oklahoma.

Reynolds had a number of years in the NFL before coming to Stanford as a defensive assistant for one (partial?) year in 2014.  He then took the Oklahoma DL coaching job for 2015.  His family stayed behind in California.  When Hart retired, Shaw offered the job to Reynolds for the 2016 season, and Reynolds probably couldn't say no to the prospect of living in the same house with his family while working in a program with which he was familiar.

I don't know if that context means anything with respect to his performance at Oklahoma...I have certainly lost track of time as he has been here a lot longer than I'd remembered, and injuries/bad recruiting misses can only serve as excuses for so long.

Maybe, like OL, the DL is a position that suffers disproportionately from the loss of Turley and effective athletic trainers.  (Of course it is, we need Shaw to hire Turley 2.0 asap.)

The optics of Reynolds being a "friend of Shaw" from having worked one year as a defensive assistant are not good.  Reynolds' resume prior to Stanford speaks for itself though, he ought to be really good.  Perhaps he's just a guy, capable of achieving when good players are healthy, and not capable of achieving through adversity (no easy task at Stanford, granted).

(Yeah that's a reference to "friend of Ted," lol)