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A couple of others left for other Power 5 schools. Leipold took coaches and seven UB players out to Kansas.

He got the job late, which made it tougher to recruit coaches and players. Jim Boeheim always said the space between the head coach and assistant’s chair is the widest in the game. You never know how a head coach will perform until he gets the job. But all along, there was a head coach inside him, just waiting for a chance.īulls leaning on 6th-year returners for leadership He knows as much about coaching defensive backs as anyone in the country. Linguist coached defensive backs at every stop, adding the title or co-defensive coordinator or assistant head coach in later years. He took an NFL job with the Cowboys in 2020, then left for Michigan before the UB job opened. Then it was a year at Mississippi State, one at Minnesota, and two at Texas A&M. He moved on to Iowa State - his first Power 5 job - for two years. “Khalil Mack squeezed the heck out of me.” “I remember the excitement in the locker room because we’d done something that hadn’t been traditionally done here, which was to go to postseason play or become eligible for it. “I remember the excitement when we beat Kent State to become bowl-eligible,” he said. He spent 2012-13 at UB, his first FBS program, coaching the defensive backs for Jeff Quinn. He spent the next three years at James Madison, a lengthy stint by his standards. When he left me, I knew he was going to climb fast.” Mo and Stacey Linguist post with their children, Maura, 4, and Lance, 2, during Linguist’s introductory press conference at UB. I really liked his energy, the way he spoke and the way he put things together. I wanted a teacher back in the secondary.” I taught high school for five years and coached high school football. “I wanted to hire an intelligent guy that could bring something to the table, a good teacher,” Cauthen said. Cauthen spent five hours interviewing him for the job. He was defensive coordinator at Valdosta State, where Mo got his first full-time coaching job in 2008 as a defensive backs coach. I just stayed in the mix of every day, falling in love with the process of what I was doing with my career.”Īsked about his obsession with detail, Linguist offered this aphorism: “I really believe the way you do anything is the way you do everything.” “I don’t know if there was an ‘aha!’ moment, or when I said I was going to do it. I remember the love I had for just watching young people grow and develop. If there was a fax that needed to get sent, I was going to send it. “If there was a meal that needed to get picked up, I picked it up. “I was in the office, doing everything I could do,” he said.

Watch: ‘Running With the Bulls’ previews UB football season I was sitting there eating a bowl of cereal - I looked at the college game and I said, ‘I want to do this.’”

“I was 8 years old, watching Texas A&M against Notre Dame. “I remember the first time I wanted to play college football,” he said. As a native of Dallas – born on April Fool’s Day – he naturally gravitated to football, and fell in love with the sport. You could say that Linguist has been preparing for this job for his entire life.

That’s Mo.” Maurice Linguist of Baylor tackles Oklahoma running back Adrian Peterson on Novemat Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas. His parents were both in the military in Guyana. “Oh, he definitely is detail-oriented,” she said. Stacie, who works remotely as a litigator for Saegre Drinker Biddle and Reath, the largest law firm in Minnesota, was not surprised to hear that her husband was well-prepared. Linguist replaced Lance Leipold, who brought the Buffalo program to unprecedented heights in his six years as head manand led the Bulls to three straight bowl appearances before leaving for Kansas and the lucrative lure of Power 5 football. He has been on the job for just 117 days - or 10 days longer than he spent as a defensive co-coordinator for Jim Harbaugh at Michigan before UB came calling. On Thursday, he will make his debut as a collegiate head coach when the Bulls host Wagner at 7 p.m. Linguist is only 37 years old, one of the youngest head coaches in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Dallas Cowboys defensive line coach Jim Tomsula directs the defense, with defensive backs coach Maurice Linguist, right, during an NFL football game in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. That’s the man the University at Buffalo hired as its 26th head football coach last May 8, a romantic and an inveterate list-maker, a passionate family man and a detail-oriented football junkie who has soaked up knowledge at every step of his career.