Yeah. We didn't have an internal NIL infrastructure until July of this year when Terry Prentice was able to bring in his own NIL staff, and damn he hired some good ones. That guy is going to be an AD down the road.
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I think we hear something on Kromenhoek today or tomorrow. I think we hear something on Delano Townsend in the next 48 hours as well. I really like Jesse Ramil from JMU. I think he and Townsend would be two really good OL pickups.
We really need to get going on the DL side. I continue to hear that Turner will not be back next year. Multiple people from a lot of different areas continue to say that. Him leaving would open up doors for us to shift some stuff around. I mean if it was me, I would offer the world to Orgeron. Let him coach DL and run recruiting. Hell pay him 2 mil. It also helps he hates Ole Miss.
I was optimistic until I saw Lebby had no plan and kept this terrible staff. The man isn't a HC and has no vision/plan. He knows he's getting 3 years though and that's fine, I'm just not expecting success now. You'd think working for people he's worked with, he'd be better. Can anyone look at our recruiting and see a plan? Defense isn't improving except at LB and maybe S so far. What we doing with Turner? He's toast next month but we're going to let him just cruise past recruiting to retirement? Makes no sense at all.
It's like I said before, top guys aren't coming to play in this. You've got to show progress and a plan and we have done neither. Lebby is a really good OC that's lost as a HC so far. If we don't win 5/6 games, nobody is playing here next time either.
I don't get the Ramil offer. He has played one year of D-1 ball. He transferred to James Madison from St. Francis. I mean maybe he was a late bloomer, but I guess I just wanted to see him perform more against P4 competition.
I guess at a minimum he would be solid depth.
I'll never understand why DT has been kept on. If you don't want to fire him, move him off the field and bring in his replacement to recruit. I mean, are we really going to hire his replacement in February once the portal is closed? That makes zero sense.
1. He has a plan that is apparent to anyone willing to see it.
2. His staff is not terrible. The situation they came into was terrible.
3. If he was lost as a head coach, the team would have quit on him this season. They didn't. They quit on Zach Arnett last season because he was absolutely lost as a head coach and had no plan.
Too many of you are not willing to let the process play out. This was never going to be an immediate turnaround. It was always going to take time due to the destruction Arnett caused to the program.
That's what I don't understand. Because everyone and their brother with a source is in agreement that Turner is gone. Sources disagree all the time, but everyone has been constant that Turner is leaving so I don't know why he is still in the building. That's the one puzzling decision. Unless we're pulling a DL coach from a team in the playoffs. That would be the only way I see Turner still being there.
If we are moving on from DT, it is insane not to do it now. He can technically remain employed until January 31 if that is what needs to happen, but you can go ahead and announce a new DL coach for recruiting purposes.
Looking at Lebby's history, if he were to be hiring a DL coach, what names make sense?
Justus Boone, Florida EDGE, tentatively scheduled to visit on the 20th. I say tentatively because he has 6 visits in 6 days. Houston, Ga Tech, Oklahoma St, and Pitt all before us. Then our old pal Dan the day after us.