2020 Coaching Staff

[MoJames 8244]

3 minutes ago, Radical Larry said:

Look at who y’all are quoting. JFC.

[Burt Macklin 19020]

6 minutes ago, Bevo VIII said:

Frank Wilson is the obvious hire at RB if Drayton takes the cowboys job right?

 

4 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

LSU fans seem to think that he's going back to LSU.  I don't know if that means they're letting Robinson go, or if they plan on hiring him as an analyst.   If Wilson was going there as an analyst - why wouldn't they just make that hire?

He’s expected to go to LSU as the RB coach. Not sure what that means for Robinson, but Wilson is better than Robinson, so just a straight swap would be a good move for them. 

[BurntOrange&White 39930]

He’s expected to go to LSU as the RB coach. Not sure what that means for Robinson, but Wilson is better than Robinson, so just a straight swap would be a good move for them. 

So when do we blame Herman for that?

[satyanash 14478]

18 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

Lupoi was pretty meh as a DC at Bama. You want him as a DL coach? 

Tee Martin was awful as an offensive coordinator. You want him as a WR coach? 

Martin and Lupoi were/are tremendous recruiters, which is kind of important for a position coach.

Smith had better be a really good developer of LB talent because he's demonstrably worse at recruiting.

[closetojumping 62568]

1 hour ago, texifornia said:

Based on the little I know about these guys, I would be pretty stoked about all those hires. Even Smith seems to have only left Minny because of a personal spat with Fleck. He does need to give up the ghost on trying to have hair, though.

Yeah I'll go ahead and retract this based on the downthread info. Hair criticism stands.

For anyone going full sarvanaash over the Robb Smith hire, I'll add this caveat to my prior post: I heard this from someone who knows his shit at a national level, but has been absolutely slammed lately with his CFB related work. He may well be picking up noise vs signal right now because there's no time to filter, per him. Hope that makes the Smith haters feel better.

Once I'd looked up Smith last week when his name first appeared, I'd already resigned myself to the fact that if he is the LB coach, I'm going to have to find my optimism from other hires on the staff and hope he surprises us, so hearing stuff today didn't jolt me. 

[Neonmoon 38129]

43 minutes ago, satyanash said:

'Good thing Mehringer won't be our fucking Offensive Coordinator." Bad coaches don't magically become good ones when they're demoted. So why settle for trying to rehabilitate him as a position coach? Are there no better options out there at LB coach?

[texasstrong12 4668]

7 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Martin and Lupoi were/are tremendous recruiters, which is kind of important for a position coach.

Smith had better be a really good developer of LB talent because he's demonstrably worse at recruiting.

Nobody is calling Smith a home run type hire like Martin and Lupoi. It's the idea bad coordinators can't be good position coaches. 

I agree that Smith is underwhelming but the fact he didn't succeed as a coordinator doesn't tell me shit. Make the argument that Smith is a bad recruiter, bad special teams coach, bad at developing LBers and you might have a point. 

[texifornia 56869]

12 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Martin and Lupoi were/are tremendous recruiters, which is kind of important for a position coach.

Smith had better be a really good developer of LB talent because he's demonstrably worse at recruiting.

Sure, but you were melting down at the idea of hiring a guy who'd failed at DC, which was kinda dumb.

Edited January 9, 2020 by texifornia

[Fud 9552]

38 minutes ago, Bevo VIII said:

Frank Wilson is the obvious hire at RB if Drayton takes the cowboys job right?

He's a rainmaking recruiter at a school that allows him to be a bagman. Does that translate at schools where that's tougher to pull off?

At the very least, he'd help out with Louisiana prospects who LSU doesn't push for, but I'm skeptical of bagman coaches at Texas 

[texasstrong12 4668]

In reference to the DL coach, I don't think there's any doubt Partridge can develop the DL. He produced multiple draft picks at Wisconsin (JJ Watt for example) and Pitt will have a couple draft picks in the next year or two. 

My biggest fear with Partridge was recruiting but the more research I do it looks like he's a plus recruiter. More specifically to Florida. The Pitt boards think Partridge is the best recruiter on staff. 

 

Edited January 9, 2020 by texasstrong12

[HtownHorn 14671]

2 minutes ago, Fud said:

He's a rainmaking recruiter at a school that allows him to be a bagman. Does that translate at schools where that's tougher to pull off?

At the very least, he'd help out with Louisiana prospects who LSU doesn't push for, but I'm skeptical of bagman coaches at Texas 

Yeah. Bo Davis was awful here behind two good stints at Alabama. Of course, the 2nd stint he got popped by the NCAA and shuttled off to the NFL.

[MoJames 8244]

11 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Sure, but you were melting down at the idea of hiring a guy who'd failed at DC, which was kinda dumb.

 

[Napoleon 8666]

Dallas’ 105.3FM The Fan @3:36pm

”Fish” just mentioned that Stan Drayton might be a name to watch for the Dallas Cowboys RB coaching job. 

Speculation, not an inside scoop. 

[Burt Macklin 19020]

5 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

In reference to the DL coach, I don't think there's any doubt Partridge can develop the DL. He produced multiple draft picks at Wisconsin (JJ Watt for example) and Pitt will have a couple draft picks in the next year or two. 

My biggest fear with Partridge was recruiting but the more research I do it looks like he's a plus recruiter. More specifically to Florida. The Pitt boards think Partridge is the best recruiter on staff. 

 

Yeah, I think Partridge is both a good DL coach and recruiter. Plus, we know he works well with Ash. I wouldn’t have a problem with him or Okam. 
 

The Smith news is underwhelming and he’s never coached with Ash or Herman from what I can tell, so I’m not sure why he’s the only candidate that is even being reported to be considered. 
 

And we still haven’t heard a single name for TE coach, so it’ll be interesting to see what names pop up there. 
 

 

[texasstrong12 4668]

Just now, Burt Macklin said:

Yeah, I think Partridge is both a good DL coach and recruiter. Plus, we know he works well with Ash. I wouldn’t have a problem with him or Okam. 
 

The Smith news is underwhelming and he’s never coached with Ash or Herman from what I can tell, so I’m not sure why he’s the only candidate that is even being reported to be considered. 
 

And we still haven’t heard a single name for TE coach, so it’ll be interesting to see what names pop up there. 
 

 

I like all the names at WR and DL. Smith is definitely underwhelming but I don't think it's necessarily a disaster. More than anything it's tough to get a read on Smith as a position coach but that's why it's kind of underwhelming. Other candidates out there with more skins on the wall in terms of recruiting/LB development. 

[Hiphopopotamos 20869]

13 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

In reference to the DL coach, I don't think there's any doubt Partridge can develop the DL. He produced multiple draft picks at Wisconsin (JJ Watt for example) and Pitt will have a couple draft picks in the next year or two. 

My biggest fear with Partridge was recruiting but the more research I do it looks like he's a plus recruiter. More specifically to Florida. The Pitt boards think Partridge is the best recruiter on staff. 

 

I found an article last week that talked about him getting the FAU Head Coach job because he was such a good recruiter in Florida. 

[MoJames 8244]

Was looking over the coaching staff at WSU and this guy popped up. Didn't even know he existed.

https://wsucougars.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/steve-spurrier-jr-/2763

[SydneyCarton 48065]

16 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

Dallas’ 105.3FM The Fan @3:36pm

”Fish” just mentioned that Stan Drayton might be a name to watch for the Dallas Cowboys RB coaching job. 

Speculation, not an inside scoop. 

You don't say? Tell me, how do you feel about hatch chili season and Derek Wareheim? 

[Tex Pete 20339]

1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

You don't say? Tell me, how do you feel about hatch chili season and Derek Wareheim? 

Could be an explosive combination. 

(And its Warehime, damn you! Triggers me every time.)

[SydneyCarton 48065]

1 minute ago, Tex Pete said:

Could be an explosive combination. 

(And its Warehime, damn you! Triggers me every time.)

E Before I because of the Explosive Diarrhea 

[ShowMeALoss 143]

Good to great position coaches get promoted to become coordinators. Some of them flame out as coordinators and then go back to becoming position coaches again. It's like in the tech industry where good engineers don't always make good managers. I think you want someone with a history of developing talent and a strong resume as a recruiter. Whether or not they flunked as coordinators is an irrelevant data point.

[Napoleon 8666]

13 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

You don't say? Tell me, how do you feel about hatch chili season and Derek Wareheim? 

Well, if you want to talk about New Mexico, and Albuquerque in particular, this little chola used these photos on her Tinder account that I happened to peruse when passing through town. (Obviously it is a 5 star town.)

She likes the Cadillac brand!

[TheGhost 116]

1 hour ago, Fud said:

He's a rainmaking recruiter at a school that allows him to be a bagman. Does that translate at schools where that's tougher to pull off?

At the very least, he'd help out with Louisiana prospects who LSU doesn't push for, but I'm skeptical of bagman coaches at Texas 

 

Kansas RB coach Tony Hull has more pull in New Orleans than Frank Wilson. 

 

[closetohumping 17435]

1 hour ago, Napoleon said:

Well, if you want to talk about New Mexico, and Albuquerque in particular, this little chola used these photos on her Tinder account that I happened to peruse when passing through town. (Obviously it is a 5 star town.)

She likes the Cadillac brand!

That means she’s classy

[UDontKnow 10441]

1 hour ago, Napoleon said:

Well, if you want to talk about New Mexico, and Albuquerque in particular, this little chola used these photos on her Tinder account that I happened to peruse when passing through town. (Obviously it is a 5 star town.)

She likes the Cadillac brand!

When you try to date in Albuquerque, the first question you have to ask is how many baby daddies do you have? The next question is are they all incarcerated at Metropolitan Detention Center?

Edited January 9, 2020 by UDontKnow

[UDontKnow 10441]

5 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

The Run and Shoot Oilers era Gary Brown?

He came after another colored RB, IIRC....Lorenzo White!

[Rhinotx 499]

1 hour ago, Napoleon said:

Well, if you want to talk about New Mexico, and Albuquerque in particular, this little chola used these photos on her Tinder account that I happened to peruse when passing through town. (Obviously it is a 5 star town.)

She likes the Cadillac brand!

Clapping cheeks in Albuquerque?

[Katfid54 8620]

1 hour ago, Napoleon said:

Well, if you want to talk about New Mexico, and Albuquerque in particular, this little chola used these photos on her Tinder account that I happened to peruse when passing through town. (Obviously it is a 5 star town.)

She likes the Cadillac brand!

Did you ask her, " What's Grandma doing at the flippin' sand dunes!?"

[Rimbo 25915]

5 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

if this happens, i feel like there's a better use of @SydneyCarton's decaying corpse. we put it him in chip's trunk and wait until chip's passed out drunk and drag him out to the body and wrap his hands around sydney's neck. then drag him back inside and onto his couch.

don't forget the mineral water bottles

[ShowmeyourTDs 1141]

2 hours ago, Napoleon said:

Well, if you want to talk about New Mexico, and Albuquerque in particular, this little chola used these photos on her Tinder account that I happened to peruse when passing through town. (Obviously it is a 5 star town.)

She likes the Cadillac brand!

She must have plenty of trunk space.

[campcrunk 2438]

3 hours ago, Casual Encounter said:

Does it really matter who we hire as defensive assistants? I mean, it’s quite obvious Ash is the missing link. Things should evolve nicely from there.

Underappreciated post. Hopefully, Ash's defense is actually a little more primitive than Orlando's with fewer blitzes from all the way out in Lascaux.

[Orange&White 5522]

3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

For anyone going full sarvanaash over the Robb Smith hire

You’ve been the biggest sarvanaash impersonator on this site for the last month.

[UDontKnow 10441]

11 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

You’ve been the biggest sarvanaash impersonator on this site for the last month.

I guess what you're saying is @closetojumping squats to pee. But I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt because he might have a problem with his prostate and needs to squat in order to commence micturition.

[Dbeasy 15042]

Seriously what the hell is with all of the Rutgers coaches and lack of diversity.

[closetojumping 62568]

1 hour ago, Orange&White said:

You’ve been the biggest sarvanaash impersonator on this site for the last month.

That’s bullshit. You’re always a cunt, but I’m not perpetually negative. Posts on this thread support both of my assertions. 

[Dbeasy 15042]

I just read we are hiring a CB coach from Rutgers? Seriously?

[Radical Larry 28566]

South Jersey holla

[Elmer_Fudd 22204]

4 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

I just read we are hiring a CB coach from Rutgers? Seriously?

 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

[Bodacious Bevo 3584]

Anwar is also hinting Valai as of about an hour ago 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

Well with all the coaching changes im sure glad we snapped him up before a NFL team came calling... 

[RiceOwl 74]

Don’t exactly understand the instinctual opposition to a coach just because he’s from Rutgers when the DL coach many are clamoring for went 4-20 in his last two years at Rice before “falling upward.”

[Bevo 13570]

He is from Colleyville.

[Ricky Butler 2683]

3 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

Well with all the coaching changes im sure glad we snapped him up before a NFL team came calling... 

Haha. Tom and company just shat all over my optimism. 

[WBT 20561]

3 hours ago, UDontKnow said:

He came after another colored RB, IIRC....Lorenzo White!

Lorenzo White, Alonzo Highsmith, Spencer Tillman Allen Pinkett, and Mike Rozier were all run and shoot era and then Gary Brown was shortly thereafter.

Also, very racist.

Edited January 10, 2020 by WBT

[UDontKnow 10441]

2 minutes ago, WBT said:

Lorenzo White, Alonzo Highsmith, Spencer Tillman, and Mike Rozier were all run and shoot era and then Gary Brown was shortly thereafter.

Also, very racist.

You forgot Allen Pink-ett. Another colored RB!

[TheMailBox357 213]

22 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

I just read we are hiring a CB coach from Rutgers? Seriously?

 

17 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

 

Here's his Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-valai-92b77463/

[bEastTexas 497]

10 minutes ago, RiceOwl said:

Don’t exactly understand the instinctual opposition to a coach just because he’s from Rutgers when the DL coach many are clamoring for went 4-20 in his last two years at Rice before “falling upward.”

I don’t give a fuck he’s from Rutgers, I give a fuck that last year at Rutgers is literally his only year of on field coaching experience. 

Edited January 10, 2020 by bEastTexas

[dcar00 14159]

 

6 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

If it is Partridge, this will be what Giles sees when he looks around the room during defensive game plan meetings:

 

 

wait, which one is the puerto rican/mexican?

Edited January 10, 2020 by dcar00

[SuckitKevin 920]

From the little I’ve read on Valai, Georgia used him as a quality control guy and sent him on the road recruiting, had a stint with KC Chiefs as quality control assistant, he might be better than we’re giving him credit for.