The McAlary Effect
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The McAlary Effect
Former Louisiana, Hawaii, NFL QB McAlary hired as Kent State OC
McAlary expected to bring fast-paced Air Raid/Spread concepts to Golden Flashes
By Martin Green | @mgreenmacsports | Feb 11, 2024, 8:53am EST
JORDAN MCALARY RUNS FOR A TD AGAINST HOUSTON IN 2017
There were a lot of moving pieces involved in getting Jordan McAlary hired as the new offensive coordinator for Kent State. McAlary, who played for Louisiana and Hawaii before a very brief stint in the NFL with the Cardinals, rejoined former Louisiana head coach Porter Davis as an offensive assistant for Hawaii last season. Davis, who recently announced his retirement from coaching, is excited about McAlary's potential as a coach.
"It wasn't very far into the season where he was running game planning meetings and explaining stuff to even some of our more seasoned coaches." Davis said when asked about McAlary's abilities. "He taught me quite a bit about the system. Whoever gets him is going to be glad they did."
Six Degrees
McAlary owes Davis a thank you as it was Davis who hyped up McAlary in his monthly meetings with several other coaches.
"(Kent State head coach) Kenni (Burns) was asking around. He was talking with P.J. (Fleck, Minnesota head coach) 'cause those guys were together at Minnesota for a while." Davis explained.
"P.J. is one of the coaches in our monthly meetings, we had been talking since way back in 2013 when I was at Eastern and he was at Western, and we talk about coaching stuff and one of the things we like to focus on is the younger guys coaching under us and what we see in them. To me that's as important as developing the players. I had mentioned Jordan to P.J. a number of times and when I knew I was hanging it up P.J. started asking about maybe getting ahold of Jordan for a passing game analyst position or something along those lines. Kenni reached out and was looking for an OC. P.J. had Kenni call and ask us about Jordan then the four of us all got together and that's that I guess. Really excited to watch what he can do.
Nowhere but up
Kent State, ravaged by the transfer portal, was the worst team in college football in 2023 no matter how you look at it. They were the only team with only one win. They were winless against FBS teams. They averaged 14.7 points per game, worst in the nation. Defensively they gave up 34.7 points per game, 12th worst.
"We definitely need that shot in the arm." Head Coach Kenni Burns said. "We're hoping Jordan's knowledge and enthusiasm can be that shot in the arm not just on the offensive side of things but for the whole coaching staff really."
Kent State has had just three winning seasons since 1976, during that same time period they have gone winless four times and had double digit losses in twelve of those seasons.
"Just ready to go, ready to get dug in and make this offense more exciting!" McAlary said when asked for his thoughts.
The McAlary Effect
Good choice. I was heavily considering Kent St because of their uniforms 
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I was leaning hard toward them but was going to wait for the game to decide then we just said yolo and here we are. Plus the connection through Davis and Fleck was a nice piece.
The McAlary Effect
Kent St about to get flipped on it's head for them highlights, best of luck to the stint there
The McAlary Effect
MAC is lowkey the cradle of offensive coaches
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this was a good choice. Unis should be fire. fun conf. I like it