![]() “I was 8 years old, watching Texas A&M against Notre Dame. 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 in the office, doing everything I could do,” he said. “If there was a meal that needed to get picked up, I picked it up. If there was a fax that needed to get sent, I was going to send it. I remember the love I had for just watching young people grow and develop. ![]() 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. He was defensive coordinator at Valdosta State, where Mo got his first full-time coaching job in 2008 as a defensive backs coach. Cauthen spent five hours interviewing him for the job. “I wanted to hire an intelligent guy that could bring something to the table, a good teacher,” Cauthen said. I wanted a teacher back in the secondary.” I taught high school for five years and coached high school football. I really liked his energy, the way he spoke and the way he put things together. 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. He spent the next three years at James Madison, a lengthy stint by his standards. He spent 2012-13 at UB, his first FBS program, coaching the defensive backs for Jeff Quinn. “I remember the excitement when we beat Kent State to become bowl-eligible,” he said. “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. He moved on to Iowa State - his first Power 5 job - for two years. Then it was a year at Mississippi State, one at Minnesota, and two at Texas A&M. He took an NFL job with the Cowboys in 2020, then left for Michigan before the UB job opened. Linguist coached defensive backs at every stop, adding the title or co-defensive coordinator or assistant head coach in later years. ![]() 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. You never know how a head coach will perform until he gets the job. Jim Boeheim always said the space between the head coach and assistant’s chair is the widest in the game. He got the job late, which made it tougher to recruit coaches and players. Leipold took coaches and seven UB players out to Kansas. A couple of others left for other Power 5 schools.
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