For Longo to leave Iowa and go to a D-II program it definitely was a step down. Aside from that if you watch the videos of Doyle on HawkeyeSports he is the exact opposite of Longo. If I was a head coach I most certainly would not want a strength coach like Longo who does no "almost no exhorting":
"Watch the short, bespectacled 51-year-old with the salt-and-pepper crew cut work, and one thing stands out: the sound of silence....And no barking by Longo...The Professor raises his voice only to be heard, never to motivate or berate...Other than blowing his whistle and calling out time intervals, Longo doesn't do much talking and does almost no exhorting"