![]() ![]() An aspiring movie director, he had been accepted to the prestigious Chapman University film school in California. Fuzak wasn’t sure he would return for a sixth season (the pandemic gave everyone an extra year). Jake Fuzak, a starting offensive tackle from Williamsville, was effusive in his praise of the new coach. The energy and enthusiasm are palpable at UB practices, where coaches exhort the players and the guys line up to exchange handshakes at the end of workouts. ![]() But evidently, he has won a lot of people over. I’ve never worked for a defensive head coach, so it’s always a pleasure. We have a lot of the same values and morals. ![]() UB to hold football games, other fall sports at full capacity I didn’t know it was going to happen so fast, but I knew he was going to move on. “When I hired him, I knew he had a bright future. “How did he get me to come? Well, I believe in him,” Cauthen said Wednesday at the stadium, a day before the opener. He hesitated at first when Mo called to offer the defensive coordinator’s job. The thought of trudging through two feet of snow did not appeal to him. Cauthen had never worked north of Tennessee in 30 years of college coaching. He says “every team has a one-year life span” in the volatile world of college football nowadays.Īs his wife would attest, the man can be persuasive. That’s a lot of talent going out the door at one time.īut Linguist put together a promising staff in a short time and added 27 new players from the start of June, which included 16 or 17 who had already signed with UB and another 10 or 11 who arrived through the NCAA transfer portal or from junior colleges. 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. 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 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. ![]()
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