re: Rumored/Hired Assistant Coaches (Rocker Out, Eason In)

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Yeah I totally forgot about TM. I like Harsin, he's a winner but this staff isn't competing with Alabama or Georgia right now. I think he got turned down by quite a few DL coaches, WR coaches, and DB coaches.

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You're not allowed to say that. We got rid of Gus, only sunshine allowed right now.

Question for the Cwill hate crowd. Where was Travis Williams when Auburn hired him?

Did he? This staff seems like a great mix of coaches and recruiters. I like the mix of new blood with SEC experience. Hars has had consistent success at managing a program. I will give him a few seasons before critiquing him heavily. I gave Gus 5 years before I started complaining about his performance.

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Yeah I totally forgot about TM. I like Harsin, he's a winner but this staff isn't competing with Alabama or Georgia right now. I think he got turned down by quite a few DL coaches, WR coaches, and DB coaches.

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that's totally possible.

Harsin may have been stuck dealing with a salary cap for some of his positions. TMartin based on his experience would have come from a very high price I think. Some of the others too.

Who knows....We will see how they now work together on recruiting, and eventually results...

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Dude really wants some attention on his takes with some of these posts

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So in your opinion this is the best hire we could have made? Again, never said he wasn't a good coach. I said this is not the hire you make if you're trying to jump into the elite territory. Fact is Kodi Burns had a better resume before Gus hired him and most think that hire shouldn't have been made.. Why is this any different?

I remember when Ross got hurt and he had to play QB

Outside of recruiting, I don't understand the hype for Dameyune Craig. It's not like we were superb at the wide receiver position with him.

Why not both? I wasn't high on Craig or Tee. I also don't understand the Friend hate. Dude is a dynamic recruiter. UT is a disaster. I give him credit for understanding the situation and leaving. His line was trying to protect JG at QB.

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Thats fair. My argument is that we fired Gus because 8 wins wasn't enough and we wanted to make a push to be elite. This is not the hire you make for a push like that. We should be hiring someone with more experience and with a better resume.. Could he work out? Yes, but is this the best hire that could have been made? I don't think so.

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Wrong. Every staff should be a combination of veterans and young guys with fire. All of these top programs have young coaches on their staff with "limited experience" - very often they end up being the most dynamic recruiters because they can best relate to 18 year old kids.

The funny thing here is that almost all of these "elite recruiters" that we should be hiring literally BECAME elite recruiters as young upstarts with little to no "track record". Do you guys know where Demeyune Craig was pulled from by Jimbo Fischer? South Alabama. Before that he had been at Tuskegee. T-Will was literally pulled from HS when he came on as a defensive analyst and then promoted to LB coach at Auburn. Neither of those two guys had any resume whatsoever to suggest that they should be at FSU or Auburn. Travaris Robinson was more or less the same thing, having come to Florida after just one season at Texas Tech (before that he was at schools like Western Kentucky and Southern Miss). He only got the Florida job because he was a GA under Muschamp at Auburn, and he recognized his ability then.

Go look at Glenn Schumann (Co-DC, ILB) at Georgia and his recruiting record (its sickening). He came with Kirby from Alabama where he wasn't even an on-field coach EVER. He was a GA and then "director of player development" for two seasons prior to being handed a coaching job at a top-tier SEC school. Their WR coach also came from Vandy, with nothing significant prior to that.

There is no reason to believe that Cornelius Williams wasn't hired because he fits the same mold of a YOUNG coach with elite upside who will take off once he's repping a top program. This isn't a 45-50 year old coach from Troy who's career has capped in which case it would be a very concerning hire; he actually only graduated in 2010 which means that he's what? 32/33? The fact that he has been offered this job means that he has been identified as a high upside hire. They could have easily hired someone like Darrell Wyatt, and didn't. That means that they like this kid a LOT.