The Texans also hired Alex Gibbs, 66, to take over the assistant head coach slot that Sherman also held.
"It was unique today because when we lined up in team situations, the first thing I heard the defense hollering is '83, he's over to the left,' or '83, he's in the slot,' " Coach Herman Edwards said.
"When a person moves from a position coach to a coordinator slot, they often have no idea of the number of little things they must take into account," Lewis said.
David Moyes was unable to do that either, at least not in a good way, so United have done what they perhaps should have done a year ago and gone for the type of coach who can easily slot into a big club in a new country.
Going into the night, each coach only had one slot remaining.
The 43 people who headed out on a motor coach earlier this week to play slot machines at a Salton Sea casino likely had no idea they were betting their lives on what some consider an inadequate patchwork of federal and state protections.
Instead, try getting a slot on a coaching staff.
The loss bumped Hopkins from their No. 3 position in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Coaches poll to the sixth slot, while Maryland moved up a spot to seventh.
A natural runner who moves the pile and has experience lining up in the slot under Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez, Carey will make an offensive coordinator very happy.
