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

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Its 100% not true. TWill remained neutral with all the coaching stuff, which caused some issues because other coaches wanted him to pick sides. We're were in it with Mondon and others until the rumors of Gus being fired got started. Both of these post are complete BS.

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I've heard the same thing from multiple people - repeated over the span of multiple months. He got his clock cleaned in recruiting. Mondon was never coming here - he fell for the "yeah coach I'm coming" schtick, meanwhile he was telling the same thing thing to UGA and probably others as well. The timing of what you just claimed doesn't even make sense: Mondon COMMITTED to UGA on November 18th. At that point we were 4-2 and coming off an absolute beatdown of LSU and a win vs. Ole Miss the week prior. Three days after he committed we beat Tennessee and were 5-2. I don't remember any heavy rumors about Gus being fired at that point in the season, that stuff didn't even really start PUBLICLY until after the Alabama game. Yeah there were people calling for him to be fired after the USCe loss, but at that point the story was STILL that there was no way he was going to be fired due to the buyout. "We'll right the ship" and all that bullshite.

Even the part about it being this big demotion to OLB coach isn't true. Kevin Steele is a LB coach by trade and was involved there, even if it wasn't in his title. Al Pogue was also already roving and helping with the EDGE's. And if you really think about it; we were in 4-2-5 for most of the season anyway so "LB coach" was already limited in how much responsibility he held.

The reality is that Harsin had no intention of retaining him and he just went out and talked extensively about the importance of Caddy, Etheridge, Rocker and their "commitment to AU" as former players and what that brings to a program. Now he came here and already had a former AU player at LB coach, young and exciting/well-liked by the fans, had some success in recruiting, etc, etc. Why wasn't he retained? None of it is true, right? Meanwhile the story from day one was that Steele, Rocker, and T-Will were out. Harsin comes in and surprise surprise the three guys I was constantly hearing bad things about are not part of the staff.