Fixing the Oregon defense is one of the highest priorities at Oregon this offseason. So important, even the school's president, Michael Schill, offered one bit of advice to new head coach Willie Taggart during his introduction press conference and it was to find a 'good defensive coordinator' at Oregon.

"I just want a really good defense," Taggart said at his press conference when asked what he's going to look for on defense. "I don't care how it looks, I want it to be really good and I want to stop people from scoring touchdowns. Whatever it takes from stopping people, that's what we are going to do."

According to 247Sports' Josh Newberg, Taggart is in discussion with former Texas head coach Charlie Strong about becoming Oregon's defensive coordinator.

The problem with Strong is that he's currently in Tampa today interviewing with Taggart's old school South Florida about the opening at head coach.

Sources of 247Sports.com tell us that Strong is currently debating the head coach vs defensive coordinator path after Texas. He still wants to coach, but a source said he's not sure if he wants everything that comes with being a head coach after what he went through at Texas right now.

We can confirm through a different source that should Strong not take the USF head coaching job, two other schools outside of Oregon have offered him a job as defensive coordinator.

Strong has been a head coach at Louisville and Texas, as well as an interim head coach at Florida in 2004. He's compiled a 53-37 record and has made six bowl games as a head coach. Strong has also been the defensive coordinator at South Carolina from 1999-2002 and then Florida from 2008-09.