Alan Saunders

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415 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 6 Feb

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The Bill and Doug Show: Ohio State Football Talk · What will Arthur Smith bring to Ohio State? Discussing the Buckeyes' new OC with Alan Saunders · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

Absolutely.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I was pretty surprised.

I mean, I knew it wasn't...

likely to come back to pittsburgh uh but i you know he last year had the opportunity to take the head coach job at north carolina and turned it down in the middle of the season and i thought that to me was a sign that he wasn't that interested in going back to college and this offseason he was a candidate for two nfl head coaching jobs now i don't think he was

in position to get either of them.

But the fact that he was a candidate for an NFL head coaching job and then to go take a college coordinator position to me was fairly surprising.

I don't know if he was concerned he wasn't going to get an NFL coordinator job.

But yeah, I was pretty surprised by that.

my understanding was the league kind of looked at the talent level in pittsburgh and said hey this guy's kind of doing a lot with not very much um you know i don't think he was thought of as this guy that was necessarily on the cutting edge of what's happening around the nfl in terms of moving the game forward with offensive schematics or something like that but i think he's a pretty well regarded coach and

I was really, I mean, I thought there was an outside chance the Titans were going to hire him as their head coach, given his long ties to that organization.

So, I mean, yeah, it was pretty surprising to me.

I would assume that if Mike Tomlin had come back that Arthur Smith was coming back as well.

The Steelers just very, very rarely change coaches mid-contract.

It's not really what they do.

He still had one year on his deal in Pittsburgh.

I was operating on the assumption that if Mike Tomlin came back that Arthur Smith was coming back as well.

I don't think that he did anything that

would have caused the Steelers to make a change.

I don't think the fan base was necessarily thrilled with everything they saw on the field.

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