2 mil for a position coach is crazy. Although with the young inexperienced hires he’s made already, he probably will have a lot of money to spend on some big fish.
Let’s say the coordinators each get 1.5MM, and Mickey gets 1MM. That would leave 4 million for the other 7 coaches or about 570K each. I could see the RB, DB, and DL coaches being closer to 350-450K depending on actual titles, etc. So I guess there could be a little more for Mickey.
But what’s the plan? Pay the OC 1.5 million but Mickey 2? I’d like to keep him but if he’s going to fuck the budget for the rest of the staff, he can kick rocks while Rhule puts together a staff he wants vs one that is forced in him.
That’s also what I was thinking if you pay Mickey 1.5-2 million that inflates the coordinators pay too. I’ll give Mickey his due for holding the team together and getting some Ws but we probably owe more of it to Busch in terms of actual on the field performance. Not sure how much it’s even worth at this point. If he thinks he can get 1.5MM+ somewhere else, cool. Have fun.
Anybody know a real cool and easy long weekend warm weather vacation spot that's good for two small kids? Florida or wherever, don't really care. Just need direct flight from Mpls n stuff
San Diego is expensive as fuck but was great with kids, connected through Denver and layovers suck with littles. gulf coast Florida/Clearwater/Sarasota/Siesta Key area are much cheaper, usually direct flights, kids loved it. Fuck Orlando/Disney imo not worth. We do Clearwater/Sarasota every year or every other year for 4-5 days and it’s always a good time in cold ass winter school breaks
I’m going to be livid if the OC is currently a bank teller or the WR corch is a driving range ball retriever.
I'm sorta excited for Foley. "He spent the 2018 season as the assistant head coach offense / special teams coordinator / tight ends coach. Temple special teams have been among the best in the country under Foley and 2018 was no different. The Owls blocked five kicks and scored six special teams touchdowns." "In 2015, he made an immediate impact on special teams in his first year as the coordinator. Temple blocked an NCAA leading seven kicks, Jahad Thomas tied a team record with a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, and Austin Jones set the school record for field goals made (23) and points by a kicker (113)." Biggest indicator of future success is past success?
Bigger positions haven't been fully named yet, aside from OC. Although there's some thought that Nixon will maybe come from Carolina (long-time Rhule assistant, typically his playcaller, Co-OC role with Satterfield), but that may change if Wilks is retained for the Panthers. He'd be a good hire. DC will be interesting. His history of bringing essentially no-name/lesser known coaches into the fold and having them leave with higher titles is quite impressive. Elijah Robinson, the DL coach/Asst HC for TAMU that coaches/recruits really well, is one example. Joey McGuire, the HC at TTech, is another. There are others you can search around for. I'm as skeptical as most of us are about the trajectory of things given recent history, but Rhule has quite a bit of evidence to give him the benefit of the doubt until we see otherwise.
Would be more worried if Rhule hadn’t done this before. He took a HS coach at Baylor and he McGuire just best OU in his first year.
BayouMafia what's your take on Jake Peetz when he was at LSU? He suck pretty bad or was it more just total team Orgeronian ineptitude?
https://n.rivals.com/content/athletes/lincoln-kienholz-290785?view=pv Rhule's QB target. Visited Ohio State last weekend, Pierre, SD kid that is committed to Washington.
I haven’t seen the part about Dawson being retained. Don’t think he’s met with Dawson and Raiola yet.
I was hoping to find a potential OL coach he’d bring with, but the guy he had at Temple and Baylor passed away at 74 years old (per Wikipedia) and the first OL coach he had at Carolina got fired before this season. Maybe Donnie told him he could guaranty his nephew flips from OSU. Only thing I could think of lol
No it's totally fine, we were up there two weeks ago. Literally the nicest beach in the country and it's huge so you're spread out. You can look for insanely cheap flights on allegiant into Punta Gorda which is about 30/45 min south, but I think they fly into Sarasota too.
More than anything it was probably Orgeron rotting everything from the top down, but I think he was in over his head a bit as well, as they tried to blindly repeat the Joe Brady flash with another young guy from the NFL. It didn’t help that he lost Myles Brennan before the season and had to sort out an otherwise terrible an inexperienced QB room. but if you want better analysis IvanTheTerrible is your guy
I'm over being underwhelmed/whelmed/overwhelmed by coaching hires because I realize I know dick about it. Wait and see at this point.
Yeah I mean Nebraska fans talked shit about Callahan’s OL when he’s maybe the GOAT OL coach by all accounts. We got excited about Bob Diaco and he was a total clown. Frost was supposed to be running the B10 by now and he’s hanging out (passed out?) at a TopGolf in Phoenix right now.
Has there been any more rumblings regarding D Coordinator since the Glenn Schumann rumors the other day? That one would still shock me but I guess it would make sense to wait to announce it after Saturday if it is him.
I don't think Peetz was a bad OC at LSU. He was just really green and Ed O putting him in a position to save his job in 2021 was just terrible leadership. I think in some aspects, Peetz did the best he could do with the roster he had, and in others, he would completely forget about aspects of the game (Completely giving up on the run as a gameplan, to the point where Auburn didn't even respect you enough in the red zone to scheme for possible run plays in 2021 immediately come to mind). If he had been hired as Co-OC under Steve Ensminger in 2021, he’d have been a solid coach. Just throwing him into the gauntlet too soon was stupid and shortsighted on Ed O's part (The same goes for former DC Daronte Jones). FWIW, Brian Kelly carefully vetted Jake Peetz and nearly kept him on staff in a lesser role this season. I hope this helps y'all.