He is currently making $275k, great recruiter with tremendous contacts in FL. Pay him $800k per. to handle LBs. Has a very good pedigree/reputation for putting LBs into the NFL. Jackpot, boyah, moneyball, YAHTZEE!!!
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He is currently making $275k, great recruiter with tremendous contacts in FL. Pay him $800k per. to handle LBs. Has a very good pedigree/reputation for putting LBs into the NFL. Jackpot, boyah, moneyball, YAHTZEE!!!
why pay him 800k when you could get him for 500k
I agree but he got a raise before the season. He's making $400k a year.
Randy Shannon would be the perfect hire for us, unless Mullen doesn't agree.
To me the perfect hire for us is who Mullen wants. In Dan I trusted long as he is here.
I really hope it's Shannon now. He'd be a good fit as far as I can tell. He had some really good defenses at Miami.
Shannon would be a home run hire to me
Strong resume.
http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/sp...b0a4c99fcb291b
He's been my #1 choice practically since it came open....
He's significantly more proven than any of the other candidates. And the one recent year under Gary Patterson recently is just icing on the cake to me. Would love for him to bring in a variation of that defense, which is so much more flexible than almost anything we see. For those unfamiliar, Patterson's D is a base 4-2-5, with 3 separate "calls" which he has started making at the line of scrimmage on play cards just like the hurry up offenses do. He actually calls the DL separate from the back 7. Then, he splits the back 7 into 2 parts down the middle. This allows for extra confusion because one side can be in man, while the other is in zone, etc...
What's everyone's take on Shannon being named associate head coach after one year of coaching linebackers? I think that's Bielema's way of saying we already have a DC but we really want you to stick around.
I think if we really want Shannon we'll get him but I don't think Arkansas will make easy for us. I'd say we'd probably have to go at least 750k.
I think it's about actually climbing the ladder again for him. Bielema lost his initial DC Chris Ash in a lateral move to Ohio St last year. Shannon was passed over. Hence the "promotion" in attempts to appease him. http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/i...mith-as-new-dc
I don't think 750-800K should be a problem for us. We were going to be probably be around 700K for Collins this coming year (assuming he got raised above the planned 625K) and really Shannon has a much stronger resume than Collins does. That's still only half of what Auburn just paid to get a failed HC and former DC to run their defense.
but would he make a lateral move?
I think that would fit our personnel pretty well. I wish we had McKinney coming back because it sounds like that's a little bit more complex than what we did under Geoff. Here's what I think we might see if we ran a 4-2-5:
DE- Ryan Brown
DT- Chris Jones
DT- Nelson Adams
DE- AJ Jefferson
LB- Beniquez Brown
MLB- Richie Brown
DOG- JT Gray
S- Jamal Peters
S- Brandon Bryant
CB- Redmond
CB- Calhoun
And honestly, Beniquez is as smart or smarter than Richie from a football standpoint. We might be better off with Beniquez in the MLB and Gerri Green as the OLB. Either way, I like that personnel group better than what we would likely have had under Collins next year. It just seems to be a little more athletic to me.