wrong move....if there is any desire for a better than 11 win season, you don't bring in a first year dline coach
I don’t think Barnes is the first choice based on what I’ve been told but I think this is a bit of a silly way to look at things. If he can coach, he can coach. Every rising star coach was one a first-year position coach.
I'll get bashed for this but seriously? Nothing in Franklin's track record indicates he has a plan. If he had a plan he would have left Donovan, Rahne, Gattis and Hand in Nashville. If he had a plan, he would have fired all of these bums after his first year. If he had a plan, he would have fired them after his second without Sandy forcing him to at least fire Donovan. If he had a plan, he wouldn't have forced Shoop out for spurious reasons. If he had a plan, he wouldn't have elevated Pry. If he had a plan, he wouldn't have hired Kirk Ciaroacco without the will to see the transition through. If you are seeing a trend here, you are paying attention. The man doesn't have a plan. He obviously doesn't.
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Rahne's offenses were near the top in the country in points per game while he was here...and are people really complaining about Gattis's time here?
Rahne was a better coordinator than Quarterback coach (worse in major college football history) or tight end coach as he inherited an established system built for the talent on hand from JoeMo and was smart enough to run it as installed without any changes. He runs it to this day at ODU. This doesn't change the fact that he was the worst QB coach in Big Ten history by a country mile. He made Jay look like the GOAT. That is how bad he was.
I think he's the second-highest-paid DL coach in the country, behind LJ. I doubt we can afford that.
We better figure out how and soon. After Franklin forced LJ Sr. out, we have been playing catch up ever since.
I think it is a very good way to look at it. Barnes is an up and comet but just moved to a new position.
Franklin didn’t force LJ out.
At this point it feels like pro sports for coaches and players.....I feel like I don't care what we can "afford"....the #s are so big w/ N.I.L. / Assistant Head Coach In Waiting etc etc.
No. No more Rahne style hires. Go get a proven d line coach.
So you cherry picked the handful of hires that didn’t pan out and completely ignored the larger list of ones that did? And by the way you couldn’t even do that right because Gattis and Pry were very solid coaches, so much so they both left here on promotions.
I think this would be great as well. Some others are saying no way and I don’t get it.
Not only were those hires early in his career but he was an unknown head coach at a school still trying to recover from severe sanctions and scandal. Not an easy place to recruit top flight coaches.
Let me guess: you wanted Bobby Engram because you enjoyed watching him play here 30 years ago?
That guy is a 100% Franklin hater so there is little value to his "opinions"
1000 dollars says you can find the exact same article for Rahne after Moorhead left.
College football is musical chairs for most of the year. Diaz and Franklin ought to be able to hire someone very good. They probably knew for a while that Thomas was interviewing.
