The Notre Dame football team’s staff shakeup might not be over after all.
Just days after it appeared Marcus Freeman had stopped the bleeding when it came to losing coaches; a new report started circulating that the Irish might have to find a new defensive backs coach. Mike Mickens, considered among the best in the business, is reportedly a top candidate to move to Austin and take the same position with the Texas Longhorns.
The Texas On3 site, Orange Bloods, is the top site reporting it, but rumors started swirling fast and furiously that the Notre Dame football team will lose Mickens to the Longhorns. The report makes quite a ton of sense, considering that Mickens was passed over for the Irish defensive coordinator job for Chris Ash. There was talk that when Ash was brought in, he would be co-DC with Mickens, but it appears that’s not the way things shook out.
Notre Dame football could lose defensive coach to Texas Longhorns
Orange Bloods’ Anwar Richardson said that Mickens is a “top three” candidate for the Texas Longhorns and it certainly seems as though the defensive backs coach would leave South Bend if he was offered the job.
This is the problem with the Fighting Irish being where they are at the moment. While head coach Freeman has said that he respects Mickens quite a bit and believes he’ll be a DC somewhere, some day, he wasn’t in a position where he could make a coach learning on the job the defensive coordinator at Notre Dame.
Now, Mickens is tired of getting passed up for the job.
He’s been in demand for the last few years and was interviewed for the Cincinnati Bearcats defensive coordinator job last year, but he didn’t get that job.
It appears for now that Notre Dame football has to hope that Mike Mickens has a change of heart and stays, or that while he’s a Top Three candidate, he won’t get offered the job with the Longhorns when all is said and done.