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Cincinnati offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian and defensive coordinator John Jancek will join Butch Jones at Tennessee. Bajakian will serve as OC. Jancek might be DC;


The Scoop
 
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Dude I know reading comprehension is not a requisite to joining a message board. Football scoop does not say Jancek is coming as the DC. Title of thread a bit misleading
 
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I don't mind this. Jancek has done a great job at Cincy and IMO MUCH better coach than Sunseri was. Jancek's defensive stats in Cincy were rather decent
 
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VolsFan5 said:
Dude I know reading comprehension is not a requisite to joining a message board. Football scoop does not say Jancek is coming as the DC. Title of thread a bit misleading
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Coordiantors?? I can see how this could confuse...
 
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Persian Vol said:
I don't mind this. Jancek has done a great job at Cincy and IMO MUCH better coach than Sunseri was. Jancek's defensive stats in Cincy were rather decent
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Jancek may not be DC, Richt actually fired Jancek at UGA when he was co-coordinator.

Bajakian I am confident will come on as OC.
 
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If Janek is the LB coach, we could grab a very great defensive coordinator. This would show Butch is no dummy.
 
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I hope they get the best DC out there.. He did win a lot of games the last two years with these guys.. He may feel comfortable with them.. It's his show..
 
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Burger said:
If Janek is the LB coach, we could grab a very great defensive coordinator. This would show Butch is no dummy.
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This is what I'm hoping.

Although Jancek defense at Cincy was not bad, just not liking the firing at UGA. UGa fans do not hold him in high regard
 
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what is a offensive quality control coach? even if it was for the Bears,under Lovie Smith
 
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Sorry but I don't like it. I don't want the main coaches of the Cincy staff to be ours. If he was serious about building the best staff in the country, he lied.
 
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Sounds like a pretty smart guy. Honestly don't know much about him as an OC except by looking through their stats... haven't seen many Cincy games since we played them.

Good profile on him here:
GoBEARCATS.com - University of Cincinnati Official Athletic Site


OC Mike Bajakian: 'The Master Professor'

By Paul Dehner Jr. on September 12, 2012 8:11 AM | No TrackBacks

Offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian is beginning his sixth year in the position under Butch Jones and their relationship has been at the core of an offensive reconstruction unveiled to rave reviews against Pitt.

CINCINNATI -- At his core, Bearcats offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian will always be a math teacher. Spending two years teaching high school never quite washes away even followed by 16 years of NFL and college coaching experience.

On the field, in the meeting room, the math teacher break out anywhere.

"Even in the quarterback room at times he'll step back and teach us an equation," QB Munchie Legaux said.

Like any good student, Legaux remembers the principle: F=mv2.

That's force equals mass times velocity squared. When calculating how to run over an opponent, these basic math and physics principles prove speed can overcome size. No opponent is too big to be pancaked.

"I always joke about vector analysis, results and forces," Bajakian said.

No, from the skinny frame and glasses to the math standup, Bajakian doesn't fight the image. In a room stuffed with bench press records and testosterone, he can't hide his personality.

"He's kind of like the master professor," Butch Jones said.

Jones knows better than anybody and that's why Bajakian sat as his offensive coordinator every season he's been a head coach - three at Central Michigan and now three at Cincinnati. The intense, football fire of Jones mesh with the professor's calculated approach to offensive football.

"We are a good balancing act on each other," said Jones, who offers periodic suggestions during the game but for the most part lets Bajakian call his plays. "I will come in with some ideas. He'll say, OK, if we are going to put something in we are going to have to take something out. Because we both believe in running an execution-based system and not a designer offense."

The result has been an offense that finished in the top quarter of college football four of his five seasons as an OC with Jones. Only once in the last five years have they been outside the top 40 nationally in points scored.

In no year has his presence and relationship with Jones been more important than this one. They lost Isaiah Pead, DJ Woods, starters on the offensive line and, most importantly, took on an inexperienced quarterback project for the first time in their tenure.

An offensive philosophy based on pinpointing playmakers was forced to search for new ones.

Yet, without Dan LeFevour or Zach Collaros leading the way, a fresh offensive group debuted Thursday functioning with explosiveness and versatility. UC averaged 7.86 yards per play, good for sixth in the country and a number that would have led college football a year ago. Six different players popped gains of 20 yards or more.

Behind Legaux, Ralph David Abernathy, George Winn and Kenbrell Thompkins was an offensive mind constructing the latest incarnation of this philosophy.

"He's a guru at what he does," said Legaux, who became the first UC quarterback in modern history to throw for 200 yards and rush for 100. "He knows offense, he knows football in and out. If I have a question he can answer whether it is fronts, coverages, quarterback play, he's willing to help me out with any situation."

Bajakian saw the offense he constructed with Jones evolve from what it started as six years ago - primarily due to six years spent featuring different personnel. At the base, he says, playing with great effort and great tempo will be what he hangs his hat on.

Those principles drew Bajakian and Jones to each other when they first met at high school camps in Michigan when Jones was an offensive coordinator at Central Michigan and Bajakian was an assistant under Lloyd Carr with the Wolverines.

Bajakian would go on to spend two years winning an NFC Championship with the Chicago Bears as an offensive quality control coach under Lovie Smith, but eventually matriculated back to Jones. Their relationship has been at the base of what's made his career -- and the UC offense - ascend.

"I knew he was a fiery coach, detail-oriented, football junkie, we had kind of hit it off from the start," Bajakian said.

He views himself in that same fashion - maybe minus the same type of vocal, outward fire. Without the continuity of Jones and Bajakian, along with longtime assistants like Don Mahoney (offensive line) and T.J. Weist (receivers), this new offense wouldn't enjoy the rapid turnaround showcased Thursday against Pitt.

"Even though our players haven't played a lot," Jones said, "they have been in the program so they understand the terminology, they understand the standard and expectations and the manner in which we are going to conduct our business day to day."

And they understand, in the offensive meeting room, never be surprised when "the master professor" tosses an equation on the board.
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GoBEARCATS.com - University of Cincinnati Official Athletic Site
 
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VolMaster14 said:
Sorry but I don't like it. I don't want the main coaches of the Cincy staff to be ours. If he was serious about building the best staff in the country, he lied.
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Bajakian I am fine with...

Not sure how I feel about Jancek, Stipling or the WR coach
 
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Guys, something we can overlook is chemistry. He's worked with these same coaches for years.

We'll have enough learning curve with the players. I have no problem with him hiring some of his most trusted staff.
 
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