Dan Enos: Being a head coach is 'not all it’s cracked up to be'
It came as a surprise when Arkansas announced nearly a month ago that it had hired Dan Enos as offensive coordinator. Enos already had a job – he was the head coach at Central Michigan – but resigned to take a lesser role on Bret Bielema’s staff.
It turns out that being a head coach wasn’t as great as Enos thought it would be.
“At one point in my career, I wanted to be a head coach and that was the whole thing I dreamed about and talked about,” Enos said on SportsTalk with Bo Mattingly, per CoachingSearch.com. “I’ve been a head coach. The one thing I’ll say about a head coach: It’s not all it’s cracked up to be. I had a coach tell me once that, one time, a very successful NFL coach told him that. ‘Remember, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.’ That hit home with me.”
Enos went 26-36 in five seasons at Central Michigan, but the program improved under his watch and finished at .500 or above in each of the past three seasons. Enos will receive a bump in pay at Arkansas, but FBS head coaching jobs are coveted. Stil, Enos says he hasn’t thought twice about his decision and doesn’t know if he’ll pursue another head coaching job in the future.
“To be honest with you, my family and I left for this opportunity. I really haven’t thought too much beyond,” Enos said. “I just would like to be here and be at Arkansas and be the coordinator for many years. Beyond that, I don’t have any other further aspirations, other than to help this program get better and do my part to help our team win a championship.”
Enos replaces Jim Chaney with the Razorbacks (after Chaney left to join Pat Narduzzi’s staff at Pittsburgh) and inherits a run-heavy offense that averaged 31.9 points per game in 2014 – up from 20.7 in 2013.
To replace Enos, Central Michigan hired Detroit Lions special teams coach Jon Bonamego, a CMU alum.
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