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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: The Prowler on January 04, 2013, 03:51:19 PM
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Head Coach Malzahn (hired on Dec. 4th)
DC Coach Ellis Johnson (Dec. 5th)
OC/QB Coach Rhett Lashlee (Dec. 6th)
Safety Coach Charlie Harbison and S&C Coach Ryan Russell (Dec. 9th)
OL Coach J.B. Grimes (Dec. 19th)
DL Coach/Recruiting Coordinator Rodney Garner (Dec. 20th)
CB Coach Melvin Smith (Dec. 25th)
RB Coach/Special Teams Coach Rich Bisaccia (Jan. 3rd))
WR Coach Dameyune Craig (Jan. 3rd))
TE/HB Coach Tim Horton (Jan. 4th)
This is how I feel about the new staff.....
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I'm ecstatic to the point of not needing sex for another two years.
Then there's this: http://247sports.com/Player/Brandon-King-26173
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/491633/highlights/20365385
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This is how I feel about the new staff.....
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I chortled aloud.
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I'm ecstatic to the point of not needing sex for another two years.
So you pretty much feel the same as always
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That'll sure give his hand a rest
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So you pretty much feel the same as always
Pretty much.
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This is how I feel about the new staff.....
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How is this any different then how you felt about the old staff.
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Have a lot of double up coaches...sure hope they can coach the positions they were hired for.
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Have a lot of double up coaches...sure hope they can coach the positions they were hired for.
What a downer.
This season was such a shit-storm, man, let us enjoy the hope and possibilities of the new staff before you piss in our cheerios, mmmmkay?
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How is this any different then how you felt about the old staff.
A little absolution goes a long way, O Holy one.
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What a downer.
This season was such a shit-storm, man, let us enjoy the hope and possibilities of the new staff before you piss in our cheerios, mmmmkay?
Cheerios are overrated in nutritional value. Waa Waaaaaaaa......
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A year shy of TWO CENTURIES of experience on this coaching staff. Not counting Malzahn.
Over a CENTURY of SEC experience.
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http://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.ssf/2013/01/auburn_stockpiles_recruiting_c.html
Auburn stockpiles recruiting coordinators, more than 100 years of SEC experience on new staff
Charles Goldberg | cgoldberg@al.com By Charles Goldberg | cgoldberg@al.com
on January 04, 2013 at 3:46 PM, updated January 04, 2013 at 4:05 PM
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AUBURN, Alabama – There are three coaches who were recruiting coordinators in 2012 . The overall college coaching experience is 199 years.
SEC experience: 103 seasons.
Gus Malzahn relied on experience when assembling his new Auburn coaching staff, a staff he completed Friday when he hired former Arkansas assistant Tim Horton as his tight ends coach. The average age of the new staff 48.3, with four assistants in their 50s and one in his 60s. The age swing goes from 29-year-old offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee to 61-year-old defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson.
Horton coached running backs at Arkansas. But he was also the recruiting coordinator, just like new hire Dameyune Craig was at Florida State and December hire Rodney Garner was at Georgia. Garner has the title of recruiting coordinator at Auburn on a coaching staff where titles are plentiful.
Garner is also the associate head coach and defensive line coach, Rich Bisaccia is the assistant head coach and running backs coach, Lashlee is the offensive coordinator, Craig is the co-offensive coordinator and receivers coach, Johnson is the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, and Charlie Harbison is co-defensive coordinator and a secondary coach.
The other assignments: J.B. Grimes is the offensive line coach and Melvin Smith is a secondary coach.
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What a downer.
This season was such a shit-storm, man, let us enjoy the hope and possibilities of the new staff before you piss in our cheerios, mmmmkay?
I'm jaded...I got pumped with Chiziks Staff, and even his re-hires. I got nothin left.
I am saving my enthusiasm for when we actually do fuckin something.
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A little absolution goes a long way, O Holy one.
He is hitting another kind of absolution
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A year shy of TWO CENTURIES of experience on this coaching staff.
I've never liked these statistics.
My 5th period class has 240 years of experience with learning the English language, but they still can't write a coherent paragraph.
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I'm jaded...I got pumped with Chiziks Staff, and even his re-hires. I got nothin left.
I am saving my enthusiasm for when we actually do fuckin something.
It's like I said in another thread. There was something wrong.....something reeeally wroooonnnng with Chizik and his staff. I have no clue what it really was but it had nothing to do with how good/bad the coaches were. Everything that's happened since Malzahn's hire has been boner-esque, with the exception of some of the recruits defecting. No way am I going to claim or even think it's going to be an immediate turn around. Shit got bad. But...and this is probably an indication of how bad things have gotten when I use this comparison....look what Ole Miss did. Went from 10 losses, to hiring a new staff, recruited well and brought in some JUCO talent. Immediately competitive. Don't know what OM will do in the future but they were night and day better. I can see that next year and I can live with it while we build.
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How is this any different then how you felt about the old staff.
I'll put it this way, I feel better about this staff than Coach Chizik's initial staff and I was estatic about that initial staff...Coach Malzahn just landed a full staff of Great Coaches and Recruiters (with four Excellent Recruiters in CB Coach Melvin Smith, Safety Coach Charlie â€Cheeseâ€, DL Coach Rodney Garner & WR Coach Dameyune Craig).
IMO, it looked like Coach Malzahn put together a list of Top Coaches at each position that were not only great coaches but great recruiters in each State in the Southeast and it just so happened that nearly all have a connection at some point in either their coaching career or playing career (that's huge, they don't have to â€get to know each otherâ€, they already know each other, so there's your familiarity and cohesiveness among the coaching staff built in).
You also have a Head Coach that knows where the weaknesses are on the team and he'll address those weaknesses with JUCO players or top end HS players.
About Coach Chizik's staff there were only four coaches that I was extremely happy with (Malzahn, Trooper, Rocker & Thigpen) the other coaches I didn't really know how good they'd be in both recruiting and coaching.
Coach Malzahn's staff I'm Extremely, Extremely excited about eight coaches (Lashlee, Bisaccia, Horton, Craig, Garner, Smith, Harbison & Johnson). Why? Because they are all proven great coaches and even better recruiters & and Lashlee has only been a D1 coach for one season, but he's one of the up and coming young guns among coaches.
That's how it's different.
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I'm jaded...I got pumped with Chiziks Staff, and even his re-hires. I got nothin left.
Saddest thing I've read all day.
Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best thing.
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Saddest thing I've read all day.
Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best thing.
Yep.
And here's where I see the hope:
The one major plus of Gene Chizik and his staff was recruiting. We were bringing in stud after stud but failing to do shit with any of them and failing to recruit the right players at the right positions.
Dameyune Craig to me is like Luper. He killed us on the recruiting trail and was revered for his coaching. We know Craig. He's an Auburn man. He may have played for Bowden in a shitty program, but he has a lot of experience at multiple schools. While not necessarily an upgrade, I say he's on par with Luper.
Rodney Garner is the replacement for Trooper Taylor. He is one of the best recruiters in the country and is probably dirty doing it. However, he doesn't wear his hat backward. He does swing towels. He doesn't chest bump, and there's never been anything sour to say about his behavior as a coach. He's a big upgrade from Trooper Taylor while maintaining that same high level of recruiting.
The other guys have a lot of experience and most of them are highly touted around the country.
We have EVERY reason to hope that Malzahn - who has been very successful at EVERY coaching stop except for the 2011 season which has been documented as a Chizik-controlled fuck up - can run a good program that enables these coaches and the studs they recruit to be successful.
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Wow. Three recruiting coordinators!
There should be some big bangs happening soon.
BAZINGA!
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He is one of the best recruiters in the country and is probably dirty doing it.
:facepalm:
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We roll 5 deep in bagmen:
Clemson's bagman (Coach Cheese)
Georgia's bagman (Coach Garner)
Arkansas' bagman (Coach Horton)
Florida State's bagman (Coach Craig)
Mississippi State's bagman (Coach Smith)
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All these titles. The only thing missing is Dwight Schrute, Assistant to the Regional Manager.
Bet that is one fucked up looking org chart.
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:facepalm:
I know. I shouldn't have used "probably."
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A little absolution goes a long way, O Holy one.
As does a little Absolut
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copy/paste_it: OAN
SZVETITZ: No weaknesses on Auburn football coach Gus Malzahn's staff
Gus Malzahn is batting 1.000.
With Friday’s hiring of Tim Horton from Arkansas, Malzahn’s staff is now complete, and it’s quite possible Auburn’s new head coach could have the best roster of assistants in not only the SEC but the country.
It’s that good. Really.
At least three could be running his own program – one actually did, three different times.
Three were recruiting coordinators at their last stops.
Six have been coaching football longer than any current Auburn player has been alive.
All nine have at least four years experience – in some capacity – coaching at BCS-level programs.
And all but offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee have coached college or professional football for at least nine years.
Lashlee, although he’s just 29, might as well be a veteran since he’s been running Malzahn’s offense for close to 15 years, starting when he was Malzahn’s quarterback at Shiloh Christian High School in Arkansas.
One of the knocks on Malzahn when he was hired by Auburn was that he lacked head coaching experience. He spent just one year as a college head coach. That was at Arkansas State of the Sun Belt this past season.
Heck, Malzahn’s only been in the college game for seven years.
But what he lacks in head coaching experience, he’s making up for by hiring quality assistants who have spent plenty of time in the game, especially in the SEC.
Here’s the experience of six of Malzahn’s first seven hires.
Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Ellis Johnson: 30-plus years coaching football, 16 in the SEC.
Safeties coach Charlie Harbison: 28 years coaching, 12 in the SEC – 18 in both SEC and ACC combined.
Offensive line coach J.B. Grimes: 33 years coaching in college, five in the SEC and 24 at major, now-BCS conference schools.
Defensive line coach Rodney Garner: 22 years coaching, all in the SEC.
Cornerbacks coach Melvin Smith: 31 years coaching, 18 in the SEC.
Special teams and running backs coach Rich Bisaccia: 30 years coaching, seven in the SEC.
Oh, by the way, Bisaccia has 11 years of NFL coaching experience, and four as an assistant head coach.
Not too shabby.
Malzahn’s staff is legit. Period.
And in the last two days he took it to another level by adding Bisaccia, Dameyune Craig and Horton, who, along with coaching running backs, was Arkansas recruiting coordinator for the past five years.
First off, Malzahn hired the best defensive coordinator he could in Johnson, who can flat out coach defense – an area Auburn desperately needs to get better in.
Then, securing Harbison, Garner and Smith to shore up that side of the ball was pretty impressive.
Out of all the defensive hires, Garner, who spent 15 years at Georgia coaching and recruiting against Auburn for the same prospects, was a slam dunk. That was a great get for Malzahn and the Tigers.
So was Craig, who spent the last three seasons as quarterbacks coach and recruiting coordinator at Florida State.
Both Garner and Craig are recruiting forces who know and understand Auburn. They can also coach on the field and work a living room. Those two together on the recruiting trail is a huge, huge plus for the Tigers.
Now, throw in Horton’s SEC experience …
And then there’s Bisaccia, who brings something to the staff no one else can: A Super Bowl ring.
Think that doesn’t go a long way with recruits?
Bisaccia spent the last 11 season in the NFL. He won a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay in 2002.
He not only brings more than a decade worth of professional experience coaching running backs and specializing in, well, special teams, but he also brings instant credibility.
The goal of every high school player who signs with a university is to one day play in the NFL. Bisaccia’s been there, done that.
He knows what it takes to go from playing on Friday nights to Saturdays to Sundays.
He will also help the current Auburn players take that next step if they’re good enough.
As we saw with former Auburn defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder, however, just because you have an NFL coach on your staff doesn’t mean the players will be ready for Sundays.
There’s a process that comes with it.
This staff will have some time to build that foundation. This isn’t a one-year fix.
And, of course, this is just on paper.
Again, just because a coach has the credentials, it doesn’t mean he can deliver. Just like players with stars by their names, rankings and resumes only go so far.
We saw with Gene Chizik’s initial staff that being a great recruiter is one thing. You’ve also got to be able coach on the field and develop talent.
Chizik’s staff could get them on campus, but the development once they got to the Plains left a lot to be desired.
There’s one big difference with Malzahn’s staff. The group he’s put together is experienced, talented and, most of all, proven – on the trail and in the huddle.
And just like players, you can’t coach experience.
MIKE SZVETITZ is sports editor of the Opelika-Auburn News
http://www.oanow.com/sports/college/auburn/football/article_579967f8-56c4-11e2-981d-0019bb30f31a.html
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Cheerios are overrated in nutritional value. Waa Waaaaaaaa......
But urine adds that little kick that some people seem to enjoy.
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Saddest thing I've read all day.
Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best thing.
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.
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Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.
That was the longest night of his life.
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Oh, I don't reckon they'll put up any roadblocks for an old felon like me.
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Do you trust your wife?
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These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.
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I don't suppose it would help for me to explain to them that I'm not gay?
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I don't suppose it would help for me to explain to them that I'm not gay?
Hey, we all need friends in here. I could be a friend to you
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Hey, we all need friends in here. I could be a friend to you
That's it, honey, fight. It's better that way.
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For Johnson, it's about the players
http://auburn.247sports.com/Article/For-Auburns-Ellis-Johnson-its-about-the-players-110485
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Don't have any loose change on me to pay for the article right now.
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Don't have any loose change on me to pay for the article right now.
Free usually doesn't cost anything. :)
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Free usually doesn't cost anything. :)
Can I get a Pepsi-Free?
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Can I get a Pepsi-Free?
If you want a Pepsi you will have to pay for it!
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Free usually doesn't cost anything. :)
That's what she said. :facepalm: :rofl:
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If you want a Pepsi you will have to pay for it!
You're a slacker.
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Prolly posted elsewhere. Just haven't seen it. Saw this morning where Wayne Bolt took over as DC at Troy. Jay Boulware will have his same special teams duties at Wisconsin. Kudos to both.
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Prolly posted elsewhere. Just haven't seen it. Saw this morning where Wayne Bolt took over as DC at Troy.
Yeah...but he is half the man he used to be when he was at Troy...
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You're a slacker.
You need to make like a tree and get outta here.
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Yeah...but he is half the man he used to be when he was at Troy...
How so? I mean I imagine he still knows how to.....wait....I see what you did there.
I did read where he was DC for 67 games at Troy and his defenses gave up an average of 290 yards per game. Pretty damn impressive. I do think he'll be facing a ton more wide open offenses than when he was there before.
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http://www.oanow.com/sports/college/auburn/football/article_60083ba4-5c3b-11e2-97d0-0019bb30f31a.html
AUBURN FOOTBALL: Malzahn names Al Pogue director of high school relations
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Posted: Friday, January 11, 2013 4:08 pm
A week after completing his on-the-field coaching staff, Gus Malzahn named Al Pogue as his director of high school relations Friday afternoon.
Pogue spent the last two years at Auburn on Gene Chizik’s staff — first as Malzahn’s offensive quality control assistant in 2011 and then as special teams quality control assistant this past year.
Before coming to the Plains, Pogue spent 13 years coaching high school football in the state of Alabama, most recently as the head coach of Carver-Montgomery (2008-10).
“I’m very blessed and excited for this opportunity and look forward to continuing to build relationships with the high school coaches in our state and beyond,†Pogue said in a released statement. “As a former high school coach, I take great pride in this position and understand the importance of my role. I’m very appreciative to Coach Malzahn and look forward to helping him get this program back to a championship level.â€
Pogue will also oversee Auburn football’s summer camps and clinics.
“Al was a successful high school coach in this state, which makes him a great fit for the position,†Malzahn said. “He is well respected among high school coaches and will do a great job strengthening relationships with coaches as well as raising the level of our camps and clinics.â€
While at Carver, Pogue helped lead the Wolverines to the program’s first-ever undefeated regular season in 2008. He was the head coach at St. Jude High School from 2006-07, after serving as the defensive coordinator for Sidney Lanier High School (2003-05).
Pogue’s first head coaching position was at Calhoun High School in Lowndes County in 2002. He began his coaching career defensive backs at Lee High School (1998-01).
As a college football player at Alabama State from 1993-96, Pogue was a three-year starter at free safety, earning All-America and All-SWAC honors.
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Sooo....he's the only one that has been retained/rehired so far?
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Bagman?
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Bagman?
Another one?
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Bagman?
We're still shitty.
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We roll 6 deep in bagmen.
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We roll 6 deep in bagmen.
Better than Teabag?
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Better than Teabag?
Bag man gets you Cam. Tea bag gets you 2-20 in Angola.
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Bag man gets you Cam. Tea bag gets you 2-20 in Angola.
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