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re: Assistants who you can't figure out why they keep getting jobs
Posted on 4/22/26 at 1:50 pm to bigDgator
Posted on 4/22/26 at 1:50 pm to bigDgator
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Todd Grantham is the winner of this thread
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When Floirda fans agree with Georgia fans, or vice-versa, it is probably the truth.
Exactly. I can't say the number of times we had defensive players looking at the sidelines with their palms in the air not knowing what to do when Grantham was coaching. His scheme was either too difficult to grasp, or he could not teach it properly. I read it was just a very difficult to grasp scheme for college players.
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Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:08 pm to Lucado
Roof knew how to use Nick Fairley.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:11 pm to AUApostle
quote:It didn't take Issac Newton to figure that out. A peewee coach could have done that.
Roof knew how to use Nick Fairley.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:22 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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Bobo is an average OC at best. He is lucky to be on a team that recruits really well. An average OC with great talent can win a lot of games. He is without question a step down from Todd Monken.
Monken didn't have great talent to work with, and a generationally great defense to bail him out at times? Is that your position?
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:25 pm to ArabianKnight
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Pete Golding
hahaha ain't this the truth. Working under Saban has carried him even throughout orchestrating shite defenses.
Now he's going to save Ole Piss!
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:26 am to deeprig9
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Monken didn't have great talent to work with, and a generationally great defense to bail him out at times? Is that your position?
No. my position is that Monken took yall over the edge to championship land and Bobo does not have the ability to do that. Sure UGA has great talent and had it back then too but Monken harnessed that talent with a pipsqueak at QB and good but not great WRs and made them championship level.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 8:43 am to UFFan
College coaching is like the Mafia. Once you're a made man you're in.
Every now and then someone bombs at one job and but turns it around at the next. So, people think they might be getting a diamond in the rough coach, but the odds are they are getting someone who got canned for good reason.
A lot of times it boils down to inability to change. "I had two great seasons with this scheme!" Yes, but now everyone knows how to beat that scheme and does so regularly. Coaches who are willing to change are a rare breed.
Every now and then someone bombs at one job and but turns it around at the next. So, people think they might be getting a diamond in the rough coach, but the odds are they are getting someone who got canned for good reason.
A lot of times it boils down to inability to change. "I had two great seasons with this scheme!" Yes, but now everyone knows how to beat that scheme and does so regularly. Coaches who are willing to change are a rare breed.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 9:31 am to UFFan
Coaching and politics are two places where people fail upward
Posted on 4/23/26 at 10:16 am to kywildcatfanone
I can't believe UK hired Eric Wofford back. Worse O-lines in the Saban era. I still have nightmares from bad snaps and blocking wiffs.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 10:51 am
Posted on 4/23/26 at 10:21 am to DawgsLife
Monken was very good at utilizing the talent he had, but on the flip side the talent he had was Brock Bowers.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:40 pm to Jster15
Addazio- awfull everywhere he’s been
Posted on 4/23/26 at 2:36 pm to Jster15
The absolute worst assistants A&M had were Jake Spavital and Noel Mazzone. Kevin Sumlin was hired because he was supposed to be an offensive genius…come to find out, he wasn’t. He relinquished play calling to Spavital then Mazzone, who were idiots. Cost Sumlin his job. Bad assistants are as bad to a program that contribute to a HC idiocy.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:41 pm to FreedomBarefoot
That was 2 years ago and he's gone now. 
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:53 pm to kywildcatfanone
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That was 2 years ago and he's gone now
Lucky for UK.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 4:22 pm to Jster15
quote:Met him and his family once during a layover. He was wearing UCLA stuff but one of his kids was wearing Ole Miss gear; anyways the strange combo had me strike up a conversation while we were waiting for our flights. Great guy, great family. But his record is pretty clear that OC and play calling duties are beyond his realm.
Noel Mazzone
Posted on 4/23/26 at 4:23 pm to Jster15
quote:At his peak, he was one of the best DCs in the sport.
Muschamp
Posted on 4/23/26 at 10:01 pm to deeprig9
Todd Grantam is very, very good at third down defense!
Posted on 4/24/26 at 7:01 am to Murph4HOF
Mazzone mixes a good cocktail.
The correct answer to the OP is Les Koenning, Jr
Rodo
The correct answer to the OP is Les Koenning, Jr
Rodo
Posted on 4/24/26 at 7:15 am to UFFan
I’m gonna blow up this thread with my response.
You’ll think it’s biased. He’s knows a lot about football but under delivered everywhere he has been.
Will……
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Muschamp.
Good luck horns. I don’t think you will get out of him what you think you will.
You’ll think it’s biased. He’s knows a lot about football but under delivered everywhere he has been.
Will……
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Muschamp.
Good luck horns. I don’t think you will get out of him what you think you will.
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