Lance Guidry points to money and a crying wife as few reasons behind leaving Oregon State after just 20 days for Memphis

Every off season there are a few coaches at the FBS level that take new coaching position, fully expecting to be there come fall, but another opportunity enters the picture and they end up taking two different coaching jobs in a single off season.

That scenario has happened to Memphis defensive coordinator Lance Guidry now twice in the past several years.

After working as Charles Huff's defensive coordinator at Memphis during the 2021 and 2022 seasons, where he helped the Thundering Herd knock off Notre Dame 26-21 during an early September matchup while ending the year ranked among the top 10 in college football in an impressive 12 different defensive categories, the Louisiana native took the defensive coordinator job at Tulane on January 20th, 2023.

However, he would spent just 18 days with the Green Wave. On January 20th, 2023 Guidry left his home state for the opportunity to be the defensive coordinator at Miami under Mario Cristobal. Guidry spent two seasons in that role and last fall as a defensive analyst on staff at LSU.

A similar situation unfolded this off season. Guidry jumped at the opportunity to become a defensive coordinator again by joining JaMarcus Shephard's staff at Oregon State.

That lasted just 20 days. After Huff lost his first defensive coordinator Jason Semore just a few weeks after landing the Memphis job (Semore left for the defensive coordinator job at Georgia Tech), he picked up the phone and called Guidry.

That leads us to this response during Guidry's presser yesterday when he was asked what the last three months have been like, leaving LSU for Oregon State, and then leaving Corvallis for Memphis.

Getting his wife to leave their roots in Louisiana for Oregon State was no easy task, and Guidry half-jokingly shares that she cried every day and upon their arrival in Corvallis it rained every day.

So when one of the Beaver graduate assistants shared what had happened at Memphis with Semore leaving, Guidry admits part of him wanted Huff to call while another part didn't want to have that tough conversation with JaMarcus, who had been a graduate assistant at Western Kentucky when Guidry was with the Hilltoppers as defensive coordinator.

"Oh my God. I'm going to do it again," Guidry said. "Because it happened at Tulane. I had just taken the Tulane job and then Miami called. When Money calls, you gotta go. You're talking about doubling and tripling your salary to a country boy that never made over $50,000 in high school or at McNeese State."

So when Huff called, he asked initially if he had signed his contract yet, and when Guidry shared he had and what the buyout was, Huff didn't flinch.

Guidry goes on to share that the fact that Huff's wife and his wife know each other very well, and if he were to tell Huff no, his wife would have heard about it through her and would likely divorce him.

Hear the full story from Guidry, as only he can tell it, in the clip.