Trovon Reed is an ELITE recruiter. He was AUBURN's Director of Recruiting. SEC! SEC! SEC! He is not some scrub on the bench like the no-name-clown you just mentioned.
Gus is playing chess; Mario is playing checkers.
Gus just called "Checkmate" on the best recruiting AND coaching staff in the state of Florida.
Trovon Reed is a Louisiana native and has ties all over that state as well as Alabama. With this hire and with UCF making so many trips to Texas, Gus just expanded UCF's recruiting footprint into one of the more fertile recruiting hotbeds in the South, as Louisiana is one of the nation's Top 10 NFL-talent producing states.
Trovon Reed helped Auburn pull Austin Ausberry out of Baton Rouge. The son of the LSU deputy athletics director signed with Auburn over LSU. That was incredible! (He has since entered the transfer portal and signed with LSU, but that's beside the point.)
An LSU target is headed elsewhere.
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Gus is pushing the 'u' for the title of State of Florida Offseason Champion.
Seriously though, I cannot recall a season in Gus's coaching career when he has made so many sweeping moves.
He is literally becoming the nick sabahr of the Big 12.
UCF Coaching Staff
Head Coach: Gus Malzahn
OC/WR Coach: Tim Harris Jr
Co-OC/QB Coach: Darin Hinshaw
TE Coach/ST Coordinator: Brian Blackmon (I hope)
Co-OC/OL Coach: Herb Hand
RB Coach: Kam Martin
DC: Ted Roof
DL Coach: Kenny Martin
DE/Bucks Coach: Kenny Ingram???
LB Coach: Ernie Sims???
CB Coach: Trovon Reed
Recruiting Coordinator/Co-DC/S Coach: Addison Williams
Gus has a few options.
Ernie Sims deserves to be fired, but what makes to the most sense is for Gus to move Kenny Ingram to an off-the-field position and keep Sims for recruiting purposes, allowing him to learn under Ted Roof. Martin can coach the entire DL himself because the scheme is to get upfield and cause disruption in the backfield.
One of the beauties of this staff composition is the experienced safeties already know what to do so Addison can't mess them up.