Jim Leonhard from Wisconsin might be available

Geevis_and_Butthead

Lot of people assumed Leonhard would be the next head coach after he got the interim tag at midseason, but it looks like Bucky Badger is focused on Luke Fickell.

Leonhard would be a helluva pickup as a DC. Pay him around $2M — or maybe go get the guy from Iowa who's making 600k.

We've got a rising star in DeBoer, but the defense has got to be fixed.

Anybody confident we've got the right coaches AND recruiters on that side of the ball?

AtomicDawg

He will have his pick of any opening for a dc job. He’s not coming here.

FireTheJanitor

Very interested to see how KDB views that side of the ball and the performance to date. The missed tackles alone are enough for me to want changes.

backthepack

Please god

MikeDamone

I PM'd Jen and DeBoer. No response yet.

LaZoris

The selling point is that we get to fire "both" of the Co-Defensive coordinators. Actually, just fire sale every defensive coach - so all these guys:


William Inge Assistant Head Coach/Co-Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers Coach
Chuck Morrell Co-Defensive Coordinator/Safeties Coach
Eric Schmidt Special Teams Coordinator/EDGEs Coach
Inoke Breckterfield Defensive Line Coach
Julius Brown Cornerbacks Coach
Nick Brautigam Quality Control - Defense
C.J. McGorisk Quality Control - Defense
Jaylen Johnson Graduate Assistant - Defense
Eric Amoako Graduate Assistant - Defense

UW_Doog_Bot

AtomicDawg said:

He will have his pick of any opening for a dc job. He’s not coming here.

This might not be a top destination but with Deboner on offense and going 10-2 a defensive coach is definitely going to view this as a rosy destination.

1to392831weretaken

We can settle on this guy after making Saban say no.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

1to392831weretaken said:

We can settle on this guy after making Saban say no.

I'm only asking Saban if Belicheck turns us down.

GrundleStiltzkin

SEC champion corch Dan Lanning might be available

chuck

I like what Beavis does on defense. Is it a bad idea to try and steal their staff?

They and Cal played the best D UW saw all season. Make Peter Simon say no?

Geevis_and_Butthead

chuck said:

Make Peter Simon say no?

Yay.

Maybe we can finagle another season of Jackson Sirmon as a bonus

theknowledge

FireHisAssNOW said:

Lot of people assumed Leonhard would be the next head coach after he got the interim tag at midseason, but it looks like Bucky Badger is focused on Luke Fickell.

Leonhard would be a helluva pickup as a DC. Pay him around $2M — or maybe go get the guy from Iowa who's making 600k.

We've got a rising star in DeBoer, but the defense has got to be fixed.

Anybody confident we've got the right coaches AND recruiters on that side of the ball?

I’m pretty sure the DC at Iowa makes over a million.

Canadawg

The silver lining of the defensive performance last night was that DeBoer has no excuse to not make changes if he wants to run a real program. Up until yesterday the defense showed minor improvements and could have been sold as going in the right direction. Cougs showed that was a mirage and SHOULD force change

chuck

FireHisAssNOW said:

chuck said:

Make Peter Simon say no?

Yay.

Maybe we can finagle another season of Jackson Sirmon as a bonus

It was a joke. No ties to the Sark era. I don't promote recycling failed coaches whether their shittiness was wscusable or not.

TurdBomber

Totally agree the D needs help. Beyond dispute.

But if the O doesn't turn the ball over twice, the score is 60+ to 25, and the game is over by mid to late third quarter.

Imagine this year without Penix.

Offense needs a lot of help, too.

RoadTrip

UW_Doog_Bot said:

AtomicDawg said:

He will have his pick of any opening for a dc job. He’s not coming here.

This might not be a top destination but with Deboner on offense and going 10-2 a defensive coach is definitely going to view this as a rosy destination.

Do you mean top destination based on quality of conference and or exposure? If someone offered to pay me millions of dollars and a government pension for the rest of my life, the PNW would be in rhe top 3 regions for me.

chuck

TurdBomber said:

Totally agree the D needs help. Beyond dispute.

But if the O doesn't turn the ball over twice, the score is 60+ to 25, and the game is over by mid to late third quarter.

Imagine this year without Penix.

Offense needs a lot of help, too.

UWs front owned the WSU line the entire game. If they knew how to tackle WSU would've struggled to get two scores. Instead of wearing down from getting to the QB, missing and chasing him every play, they got stronger as the game went on. By the end it was the cuog OL, QB, and RBs that were gimping around looking tired and beat up

It's worth noting when considering possible staff shakeup that the defense improved and made plays late that gave UW a chance to win several of those last 6 games.

haie

chuck said:

TurdBomber said:

Totally agree the D needs help. Beyond dispute.

But if the O doesn't turn the ball over twice, the score is 60+ to 25, and the game is over by mid to late third quarter.

Imagine this year without Penix.

Offense needs a lot of help, too.

UWs front owned the WSU line the entire game. If they knew how to tackle WSU would've struggled to get two scores. Instead of wearing down from getting to the QB, missing and chasing him every play, they got stronger as the game went on. By the end it was the cuog OL, QB, and RBs that were gimping around looking tired and beat up

It's worth noting when considering possible staff shakeup that the defense improved and made plays late that gave UW a chance to win several of those last 6 games.

I tried to tell all the metrics geeks that said this game was a toss up.

Even if you take away Colorado UW is probably outscoring their last 3-4 opponents somewhere around 30-10, with the 7 coming from Cal when UW was up 2 scores at the end.

That's S&C, creativity, and adjustments. UW dominated all these staffs when it got down to it.

Metrics don't differentiate 4th quarter from 1st quarter, where in a close game teams are just feeling each other out and aren't making the biggest adjustments.

TurdBomber

chuck said:

TurdBomber said:

Totally agree the D needs help. Beyond dispute.

But if the O doesn't turn the ball over twice, the score is 60+ to 25, and the game is over by mid to late third quarter.

Imagine this year without Penix.

Offense needs a lot of help, too.

UWs front owned the WSU line the entire game. If they knew how to tackle WSU would've struggled to get two scores. Instead of wearing down from getting to the QB, missing and chasing him every play, they got stronger as the game went on. By the end it was the cuog OL, QB, and RBs that were gimping around looking tired and beat up

It's worth noting when considering possible staff shakeup that the defense improved and made plays late that gave UW a chance to win several of those last 6 games.

Agreed and Noted. This staff adjusts at the half and has gotten good results. They could use some better players, though.

Perhaps, as Dick Baird used to say, "sometimes it's not the Xs and Os, but the Jimmys and Joes."

You can shame and shoot me now for quoting Dick Baird.

HFNY

TurdBomber said:

chuck said:

TurdBomber said:

Totally agree the D needs help. Beyond dispute.

But if the O doesn't turn the ball over twice, the score is 60+ to 25, and the game is over by mid to late third quarter.

Imagine this year without Penix.

Offense needs a lot of help, too.

UWs front owned the WSU line the entire game. If they knew how to tackle WSU would've struggled to get two scores. Instead of wearing down from getting to the QB, missing and chasing him every play, they got stronger as the game went on. By the end it was the cuog OL, QB, and RBs that were gimping around looking tired and beat up

It's worth noting when considering possible staff shakeup that the defense improved and made plays late that gave UW a chance to win several of those last 6 games.

Agreed and Noted. This staff adjusts at the half and has gotten good results. They could use some better players, though.

Perhaps, as Dick Baird used to say, "sometimes it's not the Xs and Os, but the Jimmys and Joes."

You can shame and shoot me now for quoting Dick Baird.

Yeah, I'm not sure DeBoer will make any changes with the way the D has played in 2nd halves, particularly at full strength. When the new staff took over, the CBs were bad and / or inexperienced and the LBs weren't that much better so both needed new blood.

There wasn't really any NFL talent left on the D side of the ball...Trice sticks out the most and Hampton somewhat too, but outside of them, Martin and ZTF are later round picks and Tuli L. needs to show more play-making ability / consistency next year.

DeBoer just may want to see how the D staff does together in Year 2 with a decent amount of two deeps returning and some good portals / JCs. I thought Jaivion Green and Jayvon Parker looked promising as true frosh and Tristan Dunn could be a stud at SS / Husky.

So yeah, the D staff could look better with the returning guys being a year better and a new infusion of one or two Edge transfers, 1 or 2 LB transfers, and 1 or 2 CB transfers.