Go to page 6 in this thread and read. That way you can plead your case with several others.
That?s why when you?re told to keep this between the walls of the Bryan Building, you don?t tell anybody. If he keeps his mouth shut, he might still be employed.
Did Arnett switch to CAA in 2023?
Well it makes more sense now. Lebby is using his CAA connections.
When you think about what Lebby is doing and remove emotions of it, I believe he is pushing hard to improve it all. It did not matter that Arnett helped destroy the team as HC (and we can debate the ends and outs of that). What mattered was Arnett as a DC and could it make the outcome better. It did not matter that Hutzler was his "friend" as suggested by many here. What mattered was the product on the field. It did not matter that Bump is loved by MSU. What mattered was how do we improve the offense... what is the weak link.
It's great to have a HC with that mentality.
How did they come from Lebby? Only one player played at Oklahoma with Lebby. The rest of the guys were recruited by their position coach, Bumphis. Just so you guys are aware head coaches are apart of the recruiting process not the head. Lebby would be responsible for Thompson because he knew him. The remainder "Top guys" come from the position coach recruiting them.
I posted during the regular season that I counted about 24 WR types on our roster and we never even had a third receiver step up. Looks like a lot of bad evaluations or lack of development from someone. Heck, on the pass call (Boneheaded in my opinion), against FL, we had a true FR WR running a slant (and our 6th year 6' 2",(?), QB didn't see a 6"4" 320 NT drop into coverage. It was reported here that he ran the wrong pattern, I don't really know, but a critical call to a FR with about one catch at that time in the year.
Anthony Evans was originally an OU commit under Lebby. Georgia outbid them late and he took the bag. The relationship was already built prior.
Craver is Bump's. Not gonna argue what happened on the way out or give 50/50 here. But Bump got us 1 year of Craver.
Coleman was Lebby. For argument sake - I'll give you half because I know you're going to argue it. So 1.5 seasons of good WR play in 3 years. Even rounding up to 2 years - that's anemic. 2 WR seasons with a good season in 3 years that he recruited. You need at minimum 2 seasons a year - ideally 3 to be competitive. He just wasn't producing, I'm sorry.
Hutzler to Auburn as DE coach.
Matt Holecek... Steve is saying something is happening there. Looks like he is gone.
Again, something we've hinted heavily at. I had heard that Kendall would be the hire. That didn't come to fruition, although I guess I should've just taken the info I got on the surface and not tried to infer.
What I was told was, "Art has told Kendall his best way to get a HC job is get back into the SEC." I just assumed that meant us. I should've probably asked specifically about us. A few other TCU guys in DFW that I know thought the same as me so I really thought that's where this was heading. Oh well, missed on that one.
I really don't know who the hire will be. Phillip Montgomery makes a lot of sense due to previously coaching with Lebby at Baylor and being a part of that tree but I wouldn't be comfortable saying that's who we're targeting
Fwiw I independently did the same thing and reached the same conclusion. Looking at other folks reaction though I do think might have talked ourselves up a bit much on the Briles thing.
For me - I just want an OC that Lebby can delegate some HC/OC responsibilities to.
That was where I was drawing my conclusions. I had reported all of that stuff about 5 hours after the Egg Bowl and had been talking to my TCU buddies in Dallas and the conclusion all of us came to was that from what they were hearing and reading between the lines, Kendall was going to be at State. One of them text me last night and said:
"Kendall just hitched his wagon to Shane 17 Beamer?!?!? At least Lebby is his brother in law and that one makes a little bit of sense."