Jacob Peeler hired as WR coach

I know there a lot of Freeze doubters out there, most being egged on by any array of enemies of the Rebels, but those who are looking at all this objectively can't say the man isn't trying to get this program back on sort of a roll. It may seem occasionally like he's green at some things, but I don't think you can find fault in his efforts.

Well said.

He has four he coach in the NFL right now

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rainmakers and workers

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Hunters and Gatherers

Talent goes a long way. These guys strength is recruiting. Getting great players makes the coaching part that much easier. Great coaching could have gotten more out of Tunsil, Treadwell, and Nkemdiche individually. That being said that talent took us from a 6 win irrelevant bowl game to a 4th and 25 from playing in the SECCG.

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3 of those players were 5 star HS players and No. 1 at their position coming out of HS and 1 was a 4 star JUCO transfer. They had the talent coming in and probably did not need as much coaching, if any. We can't expect to completely fill our depth chart with 4 and 5 star players, which is what I believe CHF is trying to do. And where have we now ended up since that talent left OM?

Beyond that, Treadwell has commented on his lack of coaching as WR at OM, R. Nkemdiche and Tunsil have had problems transitioning to the NFL and I'm not sure Cooper has even played an NFL down. The primary reason Cooper was able to be drafted (5th round, mind you) was because he was forced to develop/be developed when Tunsil was suspended.

And let's not forget Tunsil's stellar draft night antics that caused the NCAA to hire contractors to start pouring slabs so they can move out of the RV lot and into new, more permanent structures on campus.

The point being is that just because extremely talented players are being drafted doesn't mean that our players are being properly coached and developed at the college level. A better indicator would be some less touted HS players being developed and drafted out of OM, and that is certainly not happening.

(Another good indicator would be 2nd string players being able to fill in quicker and better when 1st stringers are injured or otherwise unable to play... with which we also have greatly struggled after 5 years of CHF recruiting and coaching.)

TL/DR:
Decent Talent+Good Coaching=Sustained success

Less Talent-Any Coaching=OM Rebels 2016

This is what primarily bothers me:

As to Longo:

"There are only 26 plays in the Bearkat playbook."

and as to McGriff:

“He kind really doesn’t just give us one style of play, he kind of gives us a lot of techniques and we use that how they fit us best” (i.e. relies on the talent)

I'll post the hyperlink to these 2 stories later. But again-it seems like they both rely on talent rather than coaching.

Don't get me wrong-changes needed to be made and I support CHF as head coach and giving the new coaches a chance, but I still remain skeptical as to their coaching ability at this point.

I'm not of the opinion Tunsil struggled with transitioning to the NFL. He's basically been a starter from Day 1 hasn't he? RN just doesn't yet have it upstairs and Treadwell made one mention about "route trees" one day and it appears it was just called something else during his time at OM.

Tunsil was a starter all year and allowed 5 hurries and 1 sack.

Well...one thing is certain. Coaching up 3 stars isn't going to beat Bama.

Glad to see someone else was able to beat Bama.

Nobody in the SEC except CHF has beaten them in the last 3 years.

LSU, aTm, Florida, Auburn, Georgia, Tennessee.

Wait a minute. All those teams have more stars per recruit than Ole Miss.

CHF must know a thing or 2 about winning.

Until Freeze came to Ole Miss, the last time Ole Miss beat a quality Bama team was when Johnny Vaught was coaching.

3rd season at Clemson, Dabo went 6-7. It took him a run of 5 seasons to work his way to the top. He didn't do it with a bunch of polished diamonds in the rough. He recruited talent.