Sark after dark COACHING STAFF thread

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1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Here is the list of remaining names that have been floated for the last remaining position. If any names are missing just let me know!

 

Here are offensive hires:

Pretty positive it will be Nansen from UCLA...Polynesian ties and what not

[RichUT 1832]

Texas Talk- Pete Kwiatkowski: a home run defensive coordinator hire?

Jesus Christ that was awful. Who is that guy and do people actually watch that shit? The guy was literally driving around while recording that drivel. He hadn’t even come close to getting to the point by the 90 second mark. Just terrible.

[Teryor 4476]

FCB on the last coaching spot

Spoiler

— Pete Kwiatkowski let everyone know his deal to become defensive coordinator at Texas was done when he changed his Twitter profile (@CoachK_FBCoach) to announce his new title with a background of DKR Tuesday night.

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian is down to one last, on-field coaching position (on defense) to round out his staff.

With Kwiatkowski's expertise being on the defensive line, and Bo Davis already on board as a D-line coach for Texas, it will be interesting to see if Sarkisian would bring in Washington linebackers coach Bob Gregory, a former defensive coordinator and special teams coordinator, to coach linebackers.

Like Kwiatkowski, Gregory, who played linebacker at Washington State, is a Pacific Northwest lifer. Kwiatkowski and Gregory have worked together since 2010 and are very close. Gregory, who should get consideration from Washington coach Jimmy Lake to succeed Kwiatkowski as the Huskies' defensive coordinator, is one of the most respected linebackers coaches in college football.

Gregory served as a defensive coordinator twice under Dan Hawkins (at Willamette from 1992-97 and at Boise State in 2001) and served as defensive coordinator under Jeff Tedford at Cal (2002-09) before joining Chris Petersen's staff as linebackers coach at Boise State in 2010.

Gregory served as interim head coach at Boise State for the Hawaii Bowl in 2013 when Petersen agreed to take the Washington head-coaching job and then joined Petersen's staff at Washington as linebackers coach.

If Gregory were to join Sarkisian's staff, think of the special teams expertise that would be coaching at Texas, considering tight ends coach Jeff Banks, Blake Gideon and Gregory have ALL served very successfully as special teams coordinators.

— Texas players are going through their first workouts this week as part of winter conditioning under new strength coach Torre Becton.

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 According to a couple sources, players were somewhat surprised by the upbeat, enthusiastic tone coming from Becton during the workouts.

"The first workout was fun," one source said. "We're certainly not used to that. Maybe this is a first impression thing. We'll see."

Wow can't believe the LB coach he worked with would be under consideration, great job Chip!

[trythisathome 971]

I'm very excited about this staff overall, but keeping Coleman still bugs me. I guess I'm just gonna have to trust Sark's evaluation on this one since he spoke so highly of him, but has he done anything at all on the development or recruiting side to inspire confidence? Seems like a lazy hire. 

[Octavian 1025]

4 minutes ago, Teryor said:

FCB on the last coaching spot

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— Pete Kwiatkowski let everyone know his deal to become defensive coordinator at Texas was done when he changed his Twitter profile (@CoachK_FBCoach) to announce his new title with a background of DKR Tuesday night.

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian is down to one last, on-field coaching position (on defense) to round out his staff.

With Kwiatkowski's expertise being on the defensive line, and Bo Davis already on board as a D-line coach for Texas, it will be interesting to see if Sarkisian would bring in Washington linebackers coach Bob Gregory, a former defensive coordinator and special teams coordinator, to coach linebackers.

Like Kwiatkowski, Gregory, who played linebacker at Washington State, is a Pacific Northwest lifer. Kwiatkowski and Gregory have worked together since 2010 and are very close. Gregory, who should get consideration from Washington coach Jimmy Lake to succeed Kwiatkowski as the Huskies' defensive coordinator, is one of the most respected linebackers coaches in college football.

Gregory served as a defensive coordinator twice under Dan Hawkins (at Willamette from 1992-97 and at Boise State in 2001) and served as defensive coordinator under Jeff Tedford at Cal (2002-09) before joining Chris Petersen's staff as linebackers coach at Boise State in 2010.

Gregory served as interim head coach at Boise State for the Hawaii Bowl in 2013 when Petersen agreed to take the Washington head-coaching job and then joined Petersen's staff at Washington as linebackers coach.

If Gregory were to join Sarkisian's staff, think of the special teams expertise that would be coaching at Texas, considering tight ends coach Jeff Banks, Blake Gideon and Gregory have ALL served very successfully as special teams coordinators.

— Texas players are going through their first workouts this week as part of winter conditioning under new strength coach Torre Becton.

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 According to a couple sources, players were somewhat surprised by the upbeat, enthusiastic tone coming from Becton during the workouts.

"The first workout was fun," one source said. "We're certainly not used to that. Maybe this is a first impression thing. We'll see."

 

According to a couple sources, players were somewhat surprised by the upbeat, enthusiastic tone coming from Becton during the workouts.

"The first workout was fun," one source said. "We're certainly not used to that. Maybe this is a first impression thing. We'll see."

 

^^^ If Yancy was even half-decent at his job, I'm not sure feedback would have sounded like this.

[texifornia 57024]

6 minutes ago, trythisathome said:

I'm very excited about this staff overall, but keeping Coleman still bugs me. I guess I'm just gonna have to trust Sark's evaluation on this one since he spoke so highly of him, but has he done anything at all on the development or recruiting side to inspire confidence? Seems like a lazy hire. 

He was good at his job at K-State but massively disappointed here. I guess the hope is that Herman really was meddling a lot in his work.

[texifornia 57024]

1 minute ago, Octavian said:

According to a couple sources, players were somewhat surprised by the upbeat, enthusiastic tone coming from Becton during the workouts.

"The first workout was fun," one source said. "We're certainly not used to that. Maybe this is a first impression thing. We'll see."

 

^^^ If Yancy was even half-decent at his job, I'm not sure feedback would have sounded like this.

Some strength coaches make the drill sergeant vibe work. They just need to get results or the team will revolt.

[Thiefery 5015]

10 minutes ago, trythisathome said:

I'm very excited about this staff overall, but keeping Coleman still bugs me. I guess I'm just gonna have to trust Sark's evaluation on this one since he spoke so highly of him, but has he done anything at all on the development or recruiting side to inspire confidence? Seems like a lazy hire. 

 

3 minutes ago, texifornia said:

He was good at his job at K-State but massively disappointed here. I guess the hope is that Herman really was meddling a lot in his work.

Sark may have wanted to give Coleman another shot because he sees something in him. If he doesn't cut it, isn't his deal expiring after the '21 season anyways?  

[Hiphopopotamos 20876]

3 minutes ago, trythisathome said:

I'm very excited about this staff overall, but keeping Coleman still bugs me. I guess I'm just gonna have to trust Sark's evaluation on this one since he spoke so highly of him, but has he done anything at all on the development or recruiting side to inspire confidence? Seems like a lazy hire. 

Coleman was impressive enough at Youngstown St that Bill Snyder decided to hire him as WR coach at Kansas St.  Then he was impressive enough at that role that Snyder kept him for 5 seasons and then promoted him to Offensive Coordinator.  Then after Bill retired Coleman came to Texas as an analyst and was impressive enough that Herman promoted him to the WR coach.  Then Herman is fired and a new HC is brought in.  That Head Coach is given a blank check for assistant coaches and he decides to keep Coleman as the WR coach.  I mean, he must be doing something right to earn the trust of those three different coaches.

[bejezuz 329]

Just now, Hiphopopotamos said:

Coleman was impressive enough at Youngstown St that Bill Snyder decided to hire him as WR coach at Kansas St.  Then he was impressive enough at that role that Snyder kept him for 5 seasons and then promoted him to Offensive Coordinator.  Then after Bill retired Coleman came to Texas as an analyst and was impressive enough that Herman promoted him to the WR coach.  Then Herman is fired and a new HC is brought in.  That Head Coach is given a blank check for assistant coaches and he decides to keep Coleman as the WR coach.  I mean, he must be doing something right to earn the trust of those three different coaches.

The WRs last year raved about how much better Coleman was than Mehringer.  No reason to nitpick.  Nothing negative has ever been said about Coleman that wasn't also attributed to Tom Herman.  I'll trust Sark on this one.  

[TexasRenegade 2458]

47 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

 

Texas Talk- Pete Kwiatkowski: a home run defensive coordinator hire?

Can people not just write something up instead of it always having to be a stinking video.  I miss Grantland....

 

#GetOffMyLawn

 

[Dijon Robinson 1511]

1 minute ago, bejezuz said:

The WRs last year raved about how much better Coleman was than Mehringer.  No reason to nitpick.  Nothing negative has ever been said about Coleman that wasn't also attributed to Tom Herman.  I'll trust Sark on this one.  

Being better than Mehringer is a pretty low bar

[Poe It Up 126]

15 minutes ago, trythisathome said:

I'm very excited about this staff overall, but keeping Coleman still bugs me. I guess I'm just gonna have to trust Sark's evaluation on this one since he spoke so highly of him, but has he done anything at all on the development or recruiting side to inspire confidence? Seems like a lazy hire. 

Yeah, I can only assume it had something to do with Whittington’s tweet and Sark taking the temp of the WR room. Because it certainly wasn’t based on his coaching this season. 

[Eggo 3977]

8 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Some strength coaches make the drill sergeant vibe work. They just need to get results or the team will revolt.

Part of me wishes we had gotten Cochran. I always thought he was a Saban lifer, but Smart decided to throw a Special Teams coordinator title at him and he bounced for Georgia with a paycut down to $550k. 

[Thiefery 5015]

1 minute ago, Eggo said:

Part of me wishes we had gotten Cochran. I always thought he was a Saban lifer, but Smart decided to throw a Special Teams coordinator title at him and he bounced for Georgia with a paycut down to $550k. 

Bama online folks and 247 people were saying Nick was pushing him out, wanted to go a different route when it came to S&C

[closetohumping 17453]

22 minutes ago, trythisathome said:

I'm very excited about this staff overall, but keeping Coleman still bugs me. I guess I'm just gonna have to trust Sark's evaluation on this one since he spoke so highly of him, but has he done anything at all on the development or recruiting side to inspire confidence? Seems like a lazy hire. 

Lazy hire to me would be bringing in one of his buddies.  Lazy would be just firing Coleman because it’s convenient.   Sark seems to have been pretty thorough here

[satyanash 14554]

9 hours ago, texasstrong12 said:

He's a plus recruiter and has connections in California. Only Satya could hype a coach and the moment he might be an option at Texas he all of sudden sucks. 

 

"USC's LB coach John Nansen  is supposedly a beast on the recruiting trail. He was PAC-12 Recruiter of the Year last cycle."

Well yeah, notice how none of the criticisms I leveled at him were recruiting-related? He's a strong recruiter, no one's disputing that. In terms of coaching, we can do better.

[NoName 16359]

10 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

Bama online folks and 247 people were saying Nick was pushing him out, wanted to go a different route when it came to S&C

they were lying through their fucking teeth about it then.

he may have wanted to go a different way but as much as Saban and anyone who was in the program praised him there is a negative chance they were working to push him out.

[OB3 3629]

https://twitter.com/clarencehilljr/status/1351922259355705352?s=21

Lupoi got offered this right?

[oldhorn2 431]

I tell you....there is a new day dawning...

 

[Octavian 1025]

3 minutes ago, OB3 said:

https://twitter.com/clarencehilljr/status/1351922259355705352?s=21

Lupoi got offered this right?

He did... believe that was one of his options. The others being Oregon and us (and maybe some other NFL jobs that have not been talked about). I’m not sure if he could make his way onto the staff though. He’s coached OLBs/DEs most of his career. Perhaps Coach K could do ILBs instead?

[RollLeft 5045]

So that is what addictive withdrawal feels like....hm

Edited January 20, 2021 by RollLeft

[Hookem2147 21343]

I’m just waiting for someone to suggest bringing Lupoi on as an analyst 

[DanTheHorn 4936]

1 hour ago, Fud said:

Suchomel

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--- I was able to catch up with a Washington source this evening about new Texas d-coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski. To say the reviews were strong would be an understatement. Some have asked about Kwiatkowski's ability as a recruiter and I was told he's better than most realize. He takes a more no-nonsense approach and isn't the pushy type of recruiter, but is very good at building relationships, gaining trust and showing players how his schemes can benefit them.

"Part of his whole thing, at Boise and at Washington, he's always been at kind of the smaller school. He's big on relationships, getting in early on guys and developing relationships," the source said. "That’s how he’s been able to land the guys he has. He's not necessarily a big energy guy but he'll call them once a week, build the relationship. That's not to say he's a low-energy guy, he's just not a salesman the way some guys are. He’ll still go for top guys. He's not just going for diamonds in the rough. He’ll go for top guys like Sav'ell (Smalls). He was still able to be right up there with top guys at a school like Washington, where it was harder than it will be at Texas. He'll be better at Texas."

Also, he's apparently recruited the state before.

"One of his main areas going back to Boise State was recruiting the state of Texas. So he's definitely fairly acquainted with the state of Texas in terms of recruiting. He's already been down there many times."”

touché

[GTX Horn 1709]

To be fair to Coleman, I think I’ve seen someone here suggesting that Herman meddled a lot with WRs since he played WR in college and was a former WR Coach. It’s hard to get a true gauge on Coleman’s coaching ability here from when Herman was meddling with the offense.

[Bill Lumbergh 7171]

I’m just waiting for someone to suggest bringing Lupoi on as an analyst 

Assistant head coach of analytics will be the title...to justify the pay.

[Bevo 13579]

3 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

I’m just waiting for someone to suggest bringing Lupoi on as an analyst 

Maybe, we don't need to hire him on to coach. His official title could be Senior Bagman or maybe to make it less obvious, we could call him Goodwill Ambassador.

[Teryor 4476]

10 minutes ago, Octavian said:

He did... believe that was one of his options. The others being Oregon and us (and maybe some other NFL jobs that have not been talked about). I’m not sure if he could make his way onto the staff though. He’s coached OLBs/DEs most of his career. Perhaps Coach K could do ILBs instead?

I'd imagine he's at least prodding Washington about their DC job, he has history there

[Zhorn96 1773]

Just now, Teryor said:

I'd imagine he's at least prodding Washington about their DC job, he has history there

He also got busted at UW for giving recruits cash in a coffee cup (while working for Sark)... I dont think UW is an option for Tosh

 

Heard a radio interview from one of the TFB guys yesterday, he said the word was that Kwiatkowski can coach anywhere on the front 7.  Take that for what you will

[DanTheHorn 4936]

1 hour ago, RichUT said:

Why do we think they have any insight as to his effectiveness as a coach/teacher? I include myself when I say that message board posters usually don’t know shit about that, as they lack visibility to the input processes and only see the outputs.

We love to make assumptions due to the principal of Garbage In Garbage Out it is just more fun that way.

[closetohumping 17453]

10 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

I’m just waiting for someone to suggest bringing Lupoi on as an analyst 

Co-DC, have him involved but not in charge of play calling.

[ATXbronco 4084]

5 minutes ago, GTX Horn said:

To be fair to Coleman, I think I’ve seen someone here suggesting that Herman meddled a lot with WRs since he played WR in college and was a former WR Coach. It’s hard to get a true gauge on Coleman’s coaching ability here from when Herman was meddling with the offense.

I'm far from qualified but I felt wide receiver was a position that looked terrible last year.  

 

[thunderlounge 7871]

1 hour ago, RichUT said:

Jesus Christ that was awful. Who is that guy and do people actually watch that shit? The guy was literally driving around while recording that drivel. He hadn’t even come close to getting to the point by the 90 second mark. Just terrible.

 

And to top it all off, the cocksucker can't even turn his phone horizontal! Fucking amateur shit.

[FunkSoulBrother 931]

I’m fine with keeping Coleman considering we weren’t going to get Wiggins or Simmons. But I do wonder how much effort was put into getting Colbert or Tee Martin.

[TexasFan21 1275]

2 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Co-DC, have him involved but not in charge of play calling.

Doubtful Coach K would be on board with this.

[LTtxfan 49283]

Bringing this defensive staff together as a unit will be an important task for "PK".   Pretty sure that Gideon and Joseph's personalities are the hard-working and get-along types so easier to coach.  PK will have to earn Bo's respect and vice versa...

Hope SARK allows PK a lot of input on the final defensive assistant hire...

[RichUT 1832]

I'm very excited about this staff overall, but keeping Coleman still bugs me. I guess I'm just gonna have to trust Sark's evaluation on this one since he spoke so highly of him, but has he done anything at all on the development or recruiting side to inspire confidence? Seems like a lazy hire. 

So is your hypothesis that Sark was very thorough, thoughtful, and intentional with his staff hires for every other coaching position, but mailed it in on this one hire? Like he got to the WR spot and said to himself “Man, this coach hiring stuff is hard work. Maybe I’ll take a breather and just keep this guy that’s already in place to lighten the load on the ole Sarkster.”

I just want to make sure I’m following your logic here.

[DanTheHorn 4936]

Is it wrong to fantasize that they hire a crap DC at LSU and Raymond gives Sark and call and he says he finally wants the job. Sark thinks well I already have Gideon but what I will do is hire an analyst to teach Gideon how to be an ILB coach. Effectively micromanaging Gideon's growth and reaping the benefits of getting Raymond. Just an out of left field thought on how to keep the Raymond dream alive.

[LTtxfan 49283]

6 minutes ago, ATXbronco said:

I'm far from qualified but I felt wide receiver was a position that looked terrible last year.  

 

Using our WRs on routes where they are moving while they catch the ball will drastically improve YAC for the 2021 TEXAS WRs unit. 

SARK's offense is much more WR friendly than "dumbass mensa's" offense.

[Michael Knight 12989]

1 hour ago, trythisathome said:

I'm very excited about this staff overall, but keeping Coleman still bugs me. I guess I'm just gonna have to trust Sark's evaluation on this one since he spoke so highly of him, but has he done anything at all on the development or recruiting side to inspire confidence? Seems like a lazy hire. 

yeah what an idiot

[Michael Knight 12989]

7 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

Is it wrong to fantasize that they hire a crap DC at LSU and Raymond gives Sark and call and he says he finally wants the job. Sark thinks well I already have Gideon but what I will do is hire an analyst to teach Gideon how to be an ILB coach. Effectively micromanaging Gideon's growth and reaping the benefits of getting Raymond. Just an out of left field thought on how to keep the Raymond dream alive.

and also helga lovekaty will give you a hand job

[Poe It Up 126]

[Pato del Muerto 52529]

I don’t know shit about the particulars of the Washington defense, but as far as Gregory goes as a lb coach- the list of first and second round draft picks that’s been posted here from the UW defense was pretty light on lb if I remember right. 

[TexasRenegade 2458]

3 hours ago, TexasTroll said:

Seems like the administration is pulling back on the reins of the rioters.

Safe Inauguration Day , y’all!!!

What is your malfunction....Seriously you made a similar post in the that has been deleted. How are you still even around. Take your garbage to CR and leave us the heck alone.

Edited January 20, 2021 by TexasRenegade

[weedforyou 125]

15 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

take your fucking political insight and stick it up your cloak room ass you fucking cocksucking fuck. 
 

This is the football board, not your pulpit. 

 

4 minutes ago, TexasRenegade said:

What is your malfunction....Seriously you made a similar post in the that has been deleted. How are you still even around. Take your garbage to CR and leave us the heck alone.

 

It's great to see the rabid keyboard warriors never go home. "MY WHOLE FUCKING WEEK IS MUTHERFUCKING RUINED BECAUSE SOMEONE WROTE THE WORD PRESIDENT ON A FOOTBALL FORUM. NOW I CAN'T ENJOY MY BAG FULL OF DICKS! FUCK!!!!"

[texifornia 57024]

Just now, weedforyou said:

 

 

It's great to see the rabid keyboard warriors never go home. "MY WHOLE FUCKING WEEK IS MUTHERFUCKING RUINED BECAUSE SOMEONE WROTE THE WORD PRESIDENT ON A FOOTBALL FORUM. NOW I CAN'T ENJOY MY BAG FULL OF DICKS! FUCK!!!!"

Well I can certainly see how you have -30 rep after three whole posts. Go the fuck away.

[Daichee Bell 2925]

3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

My sweet spot is between 40 and 100 yards. Anything shorter than that and I won’t have time to mentally overcome multiple immediately pulled muscles. Anything longer than that and an ambulance on site with EMTs likely won’t be enough to save me. 

Let’s go with a 100m. It takes a good 60 for my hip to unfreeze. 

[Cairn Horn88 8275]

Colorado, nebraska, mizzou, aggy, and arkie ran from texas for greener pastures and a chance to actually win. 

Its working out well for them.

These teams all need to be in the same conference.  Hmmm.  What would we call such a conference?

[Cairn Horn88 8275]

Source: Alabama is hiring Doug Marrone as offensive line coach. 

Is already now in town in Tuscaloosa. 

Comes to Alabama after four seasons as the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

[BurntOrange&White 39934]

Starting off great!

 

 

Judging by recent Twitter/IG post....thanks a lot pole assassin and Banks!