He has upgraded his staff pretty significantly (If only for the loss of Martinez) imo with not only some guys that are a proven success coaching their respective position on the field and teaching their guys how to hone their craft, but they also look to be better recruiters than the guys that have been asked to move on.

S&C -- Rock Gullickson -- Huge improvement. (My favorite hire of the off season) Almost 20 years as a NFL S&C Vet. He was voted S&C of the year by his peers among other accolades while coaching in the league. He was a S&C coach for Louisville, Texas, and Rutgers prior to heading to the NFL.

DBs -- Charlton Warren -- Huge improvement all around. Martinez was terrible outside of maybe his 1st or 2nd season where we had a decent secondary #'s wise. He'd been regressing ever since. Warren has had strong results at UNC, Nebraska, and AF prior to coming to UT.

DL -- Brady Hoke -- Slight improvement -- I think he has the potential to be as good or better than Stripling in terms of teaching the craft (Strip did a very good job for us imo) and will be a huge asset in recruiting. He's a house hold name and a players coach who recruits have always enjoyed. I think Hoke and Beard have a strong shot to end up being 2 of our best recruiters when this class is finished.

Give Brady Hoke his due for Michigans huge NFL draft class

WR -- Kevin Beard -- TBD -- Love this hire from a recruiting stand point as he's only been on the job for a week and already giving us a huge boost down in FL with recruiting. I say TBD because this will be one of his first gigs as a position coach at a major program outside of 2015 with Miami, where he wasn't retained by Richt when Golden was fired in 2016). Beard is from South Florida and played wide out for Miami during college. I wasn't a huge Azzani fan in terms of technique or recruiting so I might give this a slight upgrade if for nothing other than what he brings as a recruiter. Azzani did seem to help Malone continually progress to his credit.

OL -- Walt Wells -- Improvement -- Huge recruiting asset with deep ties in terms of recruiting the state of TN. I think Mahoney was a major weak point on this coaching staff. Eager to see what Wells can do with a very talented position group.

QB -- Mike Canales -- Improvement for the fact that we had a GA coaching QB's last year..Jesus.. This was my least favorite hire out of the ones made, but I'm going to give him a shot. He's been in contact with a lot of QB's since he started recently so I'm curious to see if he can do anything with those guys now that he's reached out to them.

ETA: Jones now has 4 members on his staff that have either been a HC or interim HC during their career. Most notably Brady Hoke with 13 years HC experience.

Also happy to see that he brought in the 2 assistant coaches from the NFL to work as offensive analysts like what we are starting to see around the league at places like Bama.

What are your alls thoughts/expectations on Jones being able to get some new blood in town?

This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 11:23 pm