DDY & Coker
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Which JD Williams are you talking about? The one that coached at UW with Ty and has been at UNLV/Georgia State for the past 7 years?Woof said:Just curious, why the love for Heyward? I thought he was above average, but recruiting and development was hit and miss in his last go around.
Williams is a superstar recruiter, but I realize his talent development is a bit of a question mark.
I’d rather have Alexander over heyward, I think Alexander is a star. But JD Williams doesn’t do anything for me, so I’d rather have Heyward than him. -
Oh god no, I see why you weren't high on that choice.
I mean the one at Nebraska who was a GA for us for a year (maybe under Ty). He was at San Jose State and then Arizona and was a monster recruiter. -
Oops, his name is Donte not JD. I should have just said String.
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I was about to murder you. I’d take Alexander over Donte, Donte has a lot of coach meat in him, imho. But thank god you weren’t talking about JD Williams hahaha.Woof said:Oops, his name is Donte not JD. I should have just said String.
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Always the biggest downside. White guys in general. Except @dnc he's my pookie.Woof said:Double shitpoast (thanks @dnc for breaking it up)
Ideal situation for me is as follows:
Hamdan (co-OC/QBs) for Babuskha
- Lubick calls the plays and Hamdan recruits
JD Williams (secondary) for Lake
- Contingent on Lake actually leaving
Choate (DLs) for Malloe
- Not gonna happen, but I also don't think there is an elite DL coach on the west coast, so maybe someone in TX or Tosh (not likely)
Gregory to full time ST coach
Sirmon to LBs
Biggest downside would be too many white guys on staff. -
I agree with you, but I think he has a bit more ability to develop talent than Meat ever did.
I'd be interested to hear who you and DDY would want for the other replacements. Caveat, I only finished the first half hour of the Pod, so maybe you already did. -
4-5 is a lot of change. That’s typically not good for any program. We used to make fun of continuity, but it’s important when you are actually good.CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:
I don’t have the time to list all the misses Gregory has had in recruiting.Tequilla said:
That’s total BS ... when you also assume that Lake likely leaves that’s turning over over half of the staff of a team that will likely win 10 or 11 games that had a massive rash of key injuries and was stymied by the lack of QB growth (which Babushka will pay for on top of his lack of offensive identity) and piss poor FG kicking.CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:
I think firing two more coaches outside of the two everyone wants fired does not equal turning things upside down.Tequilla said:
Do better = yesCokeGreaterThanPepsi said:
Its not good enough for me, I believe we can do better.Tequilla said:
You act like recruiting has been bad ... we are getting arguably as good of recruiting classes that we have ever had. Can it be better ... always. But it’s far from broken.CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:For me personally I’d fire: Smith, Malloe, Gregory, and Paopao (don’t really care one way or the other on Paopao though), and the 5th coach would be the coach we need to hire anyways for the 10th spot.
I just don’t see Gregory doing anywhere near enough on the recruiting front to elevate us, that’s all.
And concerning Sirmon, I have no desire for him to be our DC ever. But I’d love to have him on staff recruiting and coaching LB’s or DL depending on what position we need to fill.
I just want coaches that are good at both coaching and recruiting. We just don’t have guys connecting on the recruiting front, that’s my biggest issue currently.
No arguments on Babushka and Malloe for reasons well documented.
I have no compelling reason for/against Paopao ... he’s roughly done what he should do and falls in Bonerpopper territory to me (Boner better tho) ...
Gregory is a good coach both for LBs and Special Teams ... don’t make the mistake of devaluing good coaching. Could we use a 10th coach like Sirmon that has a LB background that is a recruiting upgrade? Sure.
I can look at Lubick and see solid recruiting ... can I see solid coaching yet? The WRs may be the most disappointing positional group on the team.
You also have to be looking at what messages you are sending to your staff as well in any changes ... if you aspire to have stability you also have to promote it ... it’s a 2 way street
Firing 4+ coaches is crazy to me ... it’s not broken to that degree ... calling for that kind of turnover is easy when you don’t have to deal with the reprocussions
Turn things upside down = no
I believe in Pete, I think he could somehow manage to handle this.
Significant change usually results in short-term chaos and underperformance.
A more measured approach is required here as outside of Smith and Malloe (massive recruiting fails) nobody else has done anything to warrant losing their job over.
It’s easy to say people should be fired ... but randomly just throwing out that people should without deserved reasons is beyond irresponsible.
You said earlier “could we do better in recruiting? Yes.”
THEN WHY IS IT SO OUTRAGEOUS TO WANT TO MAKE CHANGES TO DO BETTER? It makes no fucking sense man.
We are good. This has been a down season.
I’m fully on board with getting more talent and another recruiter or two on staff. 4-5 is fucking crazy though. -
We all at least agree that UW needs to get better?
I blame all this on Brownsox. -
The misses this year is small ... understanding the misses is important ... course correction mattersRoadDawg55 said:We all at least agree that UW needs to get better?
I blame all this on Brownsox. -
I would - in an instant - do the following:
QB/OC - Bush
RB - can stay for now
WR - Lubick doing good
TE - Paopao needs to go. Why? Because recruiting TEs isn’t a thing and coaching TEs should be a GAs job unless you have the best TE coach in the world. Once Devin Asiasi went to Michigan, we knew all we needed to. He can’t recruit any better than anyone else.
OL - Huff safe for now.
DL - Malloe gone if Togiai goes elsewhere. In sales, if you have a relationship and a great product - you have no excuses to not deliver.
OLB - immediately hire Gerald Alexander to coach and recruit OLBs. He’ll learn from the best and expand his repertoire. He’s great and will get Smalls and then provide immediate relief if Lake goes.
LB - Gregory gone instantly. Four years, one surprisingly good recruit. We are whiffing on all our top guys this year. He’s had long enough and he can’t do it. Hire Peter Sirmon.
The end.
QB/OC - Hamdan
RB - Bonerpop (Choate would be my backup here).
WR - Lubick
TE - No one
OL - Huff
DL - Malloe until...
OLB - Alexander
LB - Sirmon (Kane Ioane is a guy I’d add)
DB - Lake
Maybe Junior Adams would be a good add as well.
