re: Official Coaching Staff Discussion Thread

Fear of failure is all I can think of

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I don’t understand why you would want to be a co-anything with the opportunity to be the man on your own

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FWIW, I THINK the UGA DC situation is extremely explainable.


Schumann is 33 years old. Perhaps Smart believes he needs to have someone to partner with him and support him in a number of ways until they can take the "training wheels" off. He partnered Schumann with an assistant coach who has been through it all (i.e. Muschamp). Now Muschamp is leaving to be an off field analyst so that he can spend more time with his family. Kirby had an opportunity to grab Travaris Robinson who is a GREAT recruiter and ran defense with Muschamp at USCe. Now Kirby has a great recruiter on staff AND someone who knows Muschamp's mental model on defense and can replace him on the on-field coaching staff.

It seems like a win-win for CKS.

Or... Kirby is micromanaging the whole situation. Schumann has been with Smart/Saban for so long, he should be able to do this with his eyes closed.

Do you think Downs ever gets weirded out by the chub Kirby has for him? He’ll literally try anything to get him, including taking TRob.

Well at the time Ffrench decommitted he said he hadn't heard from anyone on the current staff.

I understand there's a lot going on, but that is....concerning. There has to be a high sense of urgency pertaining to recruiting. It is right up there at the top of the list. This is what they signed up for. Recruiting down here is a 366 day a year job

I also agree in general that right hire is better than a quick hire to try to soothe unease in the locker room. Some transfers are different than others.

6ft-nothing slot receivers like Bond are tough to lose but not as hard to replace. Big body WRs playing TE that can't block well enough to be on the field every down are tough to lose but not impossible to replace.

I just know that our best DB is being tampered with by Ohio State and he's supposedly following their players on social media to ask guys question. Our best DB is not really replaceable because he's an almost sure-thing All-Pro in 5-6 years.

Hiring a DC isn't the only way to keep him out of the portal but the trajectory of the defense next year changes dramatically with him and without him. Special care needs to be paid here by the staff. And as an outsider, I get concerned when I don't see many hires on defense yet and our best player on the roster is a safety.

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Well at the time Ffrench decommitted he said he hadn't heard from anyone on the current staff.

I understand there's a lot going on, but that is....concerning. There has to be a high sense of urgency pertaining to recruiting. It is right up there at the top of the list. This is what they signed up for. Recruiting down here is a 366 day a year job

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The dynamics of recruiting are different. When you're a new staff, you've got to recruit your whole roster and close off the current recruiting class. This causes new staffs to lose some important time building relationships for their first full recruiting class. NCAA really kinda fricked schools over here and I didn't really fully appreciate it until going through it once. It is particularly galling since it isn't like Alabama is firing their 3rd coach in 10 years. Their almost two decades head coach just retired to an admin/advisor role within the department.

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signs point to T Rob staying at Georgia.

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what signs?

I wonder when Alabama will start to put out official word on any of the assistants? They haven’t actually confirmed a single assistant coach hiring yet.