The Herman Edwards hire will be one of the worst college football hires at a P5 school in a long long time. They need to fire him in December but I think his contract is massive. That AD set that program back 5 years.
It’s compounded by the awful decision to give Todd Graham an extension and then fire him the following year. So they already owe the previous coach $12M who went 46-31 in his time there and they replaced him with a below average pro coach who hasn’t coached in college for three decades. Truly unbelievable how incompetent the ASU AD is.
Nor UConn. But their board will be the first to tell you how amazing a pick they would have been and what an embarrassment we are.
Fun fact, I was biking the wrong way down 8th Ave on a Citibike like 2 years ago and ran into San San Te by MSG. He had been living in the Philippines.
Jafar Williams out, took a job at UMD. Scout is saying that the new WR coach will likely be a really exciting hire, so there’s that
i dont mind the miles austin idea..summit nj native, interviewed for cowboys wr coach and didnt get it. Or just hire the other campanile. its not like we'll land a kid from his school in the next two years anyway
Interesting... Rivals just released a WR coach hotboard and the 3 HS coaches on it were Nunzio (BC), Teel (DBP) and Hinson (TC). Hmmm
Who did he even land this year? He was a lead on Pacheco but I have a feeling that was more of an Ash/baker victory.
Sucks that we are losing UCLA on our futures cause I would have loved to take the trip to the rose bowl. That being said I do like that we are replacing them with Cuse though. Love playing old rivals
The more that I read between the lines of what mods on both sites are posting, the more it sounds like the offensive coaching hire is gonna be Nunzio. Which would be pretty huge
makes things easier at BC who has some nice players this year, makes it easier at depaul where his bro is the OC, makes it easier with any highly touted kids he tried to recruit to bc and already has a pre-existing relationship with..i cant wait
So if nunzio ends up the one hired..theoretically if he recruits like crazy this year, other schools of note can't really hire him away from us before the first signing day cause they'll probably keep their staffs intact through their bowl games.
alright im bored so i figured id do research on a few of the best WR that Erb coached while at iowa. Lester Erb: Iowa WR coach from 2000-2007. Also keep in mind that he was ST coach during his time at iowa too because there are a lot of ST mentions here. From a list of the top ten WR of the ferentz era: 9. C.J. Jones (2001-2002) Iowa fans might remember Jones as the Hawkeye who ran a kickoff back 100 yards for a touchdown against USC in the 2003 Orange Bowl before all of our TVs went mysteriously black and we were unable to watch the rest of the game. Jones began his college career at junior college before making an impact for the Hawkeyes, catching 34 passes as a junior and 38 as a senior. Nearly one in every four of his receptions in 2002 went for a touchdown. 8. Clinton Solomon (2002; 2004-2005) Here’s the thing about Solomon: he sometimes vanished on the field, but when we contributed, he put up massive single-game numbers. Solomon totaled six games with at least 100 yards receiving and averaged an excellent 15.8 yards per reception for his career, including 17.4 as a senior. He and Ed Hinkel gave quarterback Drew Tate a lot to work with. 6. Maurice Brown (2001-2003) Tight ends steal a lot of receivers’ thunder in Iowa’s offense, but if someone guessed that Dallas Clark led the 2002 Orange Bowl team in receptions, they’d be wrong. That honor was earned by Brown (48 catches), who averaged a staggering 20.1 yards per reception. That is a terrifying number. Calvin Johnson never averaged that in college. Neither did Amari Cooper, Dez Bryant, Jerry Rice, Randy Moss or Steve Largent. Brown also scored 11 touchdowns that year. The next year he missed five games because of injury yet still had about 500 yards receiving and four touchdowns. 5. Kahlil Hill (1997-2001) (Erb coached him his final two seasons) We forget how good Hill was because his career bridged the Hayden Fry-Ferentz transition, and for all its starts and stops. He redshirted in 1997, played in 1998, didn’t play a snap in 1999 during Ferentz’s first year, then exploded for 117 catches, more than 1,400 yards and 13 touchdowns over his final two seasons. It felt like Hill played for the Hawkeyes for a decade, but it was only three seasons. In 2001 Hill earned the Mosi Tatupu Award, given to the nation’s top college football special teams player. 4. Kevin Kasper (1996-2000) (Erb coached him his final year..i'll provide the year to year stats for comparison) Kasper came to Iowa City during Fry’s final seasons as coach, but he excelled during the first two years of the Ferentz era. Kasper was freaky fast and a workout warrior who produced as much on the field as he did in the weight room. Under Ferentz, Kasper caught 142 passes for nearly 1,700 yards and 10 touchdowns. He survived five NFL seasons as a receiver and kick returner. (Stats: All his production was in his final two years. Just looking at his receiving stats, he went from 60 receptions for 664 yards and 3 TD as a junior to 82 receptions for 1010 yards and 7 TD as a senior under Erb) 3. Ed Hinkel (2002-2005) One easily could make the argument to move Kasper up to No. 3, but Hinkel gets the nod because of his consistency and abilities in the clutch. A spectacular possession receiver, he was a go-to target for quarterback Drew Tate after catching passes earlier in his career from Brad Banks and Nathan Chandler. His four-touchdown game against Minnesota as a senior is unforgettable, but his one-handed catch at Michigan (fast forward to the 18-second mark) made him an Iowa legend. 2. Derrell Johnson-Koulianos (2007-2010) (Erb only coached him his freshman year but ill post the stats) DJK played in 49 games over four years with the Hawkeyes, finishing his career as the school’s all-time leader in receptions (173) and receiving yards (2,616). Coaches voted him second-team All-Big Ten in 2009 and first-team in 2010 – the first Hawkeye to earn first-team honors since Tim Dwight. He led Iowa in receiving three straight seasons and finished his career with 17 touchdown receptions. However, one misdemeanor drug possession and his allegations against the program of tampering with his NFL aspirations forever tainted his Iowa career. His relationship with the school is, to say the least, strained. Other former Hawkeyes encountered at least as many legal entanglements as DJK, but none have been distanced by the program as severely as he has been. (Stats: Caught 38 balls for 482 yards and 2 TD as a freshman under Erb, averaging 12.7 yards per catch) The point is...Erb coached a lot of the the top WR of the Ferentz era at one point in time. This top ten list of WR under ferentz spans from 1999-2015.
https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/...ming_big_north_recruits_react_to_rutgers.html So sad that we didnt take Scott when he might not qualify and 2019 is a stacked year for local RB targets and we now have all the buzz with the nunzio hire...not.