It's awful quiet.
Does our administration understand what these highly professional, closed lip searches do to our rumormongering fanbase?! *****
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It's awful quiet.
Does our administration understand what these highly professional, closed lip searches do to our rumormongering fanbase?! *****
We will wait on Pry and Wilcox for a minute to see what they decide to do. We have good money to give a really good DC.
Austin Armstrong is in that next tier
How much consideration does a good DC give to the fact that Lebby will be coaching for his job next year?
I really want us to play defense again,
Armstrong would be a potentially great hire. When he was the DC at USM, he was considered to be one of the rising stars in coaching. He took the Florida job, maybe a bit too early in his career. I think Napier probably hurt Armstrong's stock as a coach some. He's now building himself back up with Willie Fritz at Houston. Armstrong has been a GA at Georgia and was DC at Florida, so he has the SEC experience that I feel like we need to win some of these recruiting battles in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas. I might prefer him over the other two.
Probably why we are looking at unemployed potential DCs. If a DC has a job, he probably ain?t coming to State. Maybe a G6 guy would risk it for the money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leroy Jenkins
So we are all on the same page we're talking about Brent Pry (fired VT head coach) and Justin Wilcox (fired Cal HC) correct? Both solid coaches with DC experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Really Clark?
I would love Armstrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
Armstrong would be a great fit here.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
CorrectQuote:
Originally Posted by gtowndawg
I like Armstrong. And now he has connections to Houston which should help in recruiting as well.
And Armstrong is up for the Broyles' Award too.
Armstrong was hired by Saban briefly before going to Florida. Well thought of.
Florida didn't go well, but nothing went well in that program under Napier.
Armstrong has family here already in central MS, so he is familiar with the area.
And he has a top #40 defense at Houston while ours is a whopping #95.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
Pry, Wilcox or Armstrong would be homerun hires.
You can almost guarantee it will be a vet coach. Armstrong's age works against him but he does have some DC years under his belt altho only a few
It does make sense to hire an experienced guy. But we have to get better up front fast or it wont matter who we hire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
A few big things Austin has working in his favor:Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
1. He has coached in this conference
2. He's called plays at 3 different stops
3. His defenses have been good and improved at every spot.
4. He has experience recruiting the Sun Belt area.
I do think we wait on Wilcox and Pry for a bit, but it won't be a long bit. If we can't lock one of those down, I think we'll pivot to Austin pretty quickly.
Ron Roberts to Arkansas. I doubt he was ever really a candidate for us, and if he was, he was down the list.
That's a huge coup for Silverfield. Ole Miss thought they had him in the bag as late as Wednesday afternoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
I would expect some sort of announcement to break at some point in the next 48-72 hours regarding Hutzler not being retained. The tea leaves are kind of reading that he will be outright let go and not reassigned to STC.
Anything new on who they have lined up? I would imagine that they have their guy already when they announce or leak that Coleman has been terminated.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
I keep hearing the same names of Pry and Wilcox along with Austin Armstrong. If I had to handicap it at this time, it's probablyQuote:
Originally Posted by KB21
1. Wilcox
2. Pry
3. Armstrong
However, that's just kind of how I'm reading it. I could be completely off base. I do know the hire will not be Colin Hitschler, who some people are wanting for some weird reason.
Hah! I kind of wanted to see what the meltdown would be if they went from Coleman Hutzler to Colin Hitschler.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
We have our own people on local radio lambasting our admin for not going after Muschamp.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
People listen to this and think "What are we doing? We should be going after Muschamp!"
Our morons on the radio do us ZERO favors.
Exactly, zero favors.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrapGame
Bo Bounds? Bo has no understanding of the fact that Will Muschamp is 100% happy not being a fulltime coach.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrapGame
Nope. His name rhymes with crawdad.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
You could've just stopped at Bo has no understanding. He consistently has some of the worst takes I have ever heard. Which is weird, because Bo the person is actually a good dude who is knowledgeable. Bo Bounds the character though has gotten really stale and old. He's started steering way more into the character in the last 5-7 years and I don't ever listen anymore. I used to at least listen to the interviews but now he's gotten bad in those where he'll try to interject his hot takes into every conversation.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
Also, just so everyone is clear.......WILL MUSCHAMP IS NOT COMING HERE. He is not going anywhere. He is happy showing up to the UGA complex whenever he pleases, collecting 6 figure yearly checks, and living the good life in the town he went to college in. We called him and gauged interest and that's as far as it ever went.
Ah. I stopped listening to that one a while back.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrapGame
He's usually not too bad. But that is the inherent problem with fanboy media. They have no clue how things work because they are fanboys. And this is not a shot at Brian because I think he's definitely mellowed over the years, but he still reverts back to the fanboy from time to time. They think Mississippi State is God's gift to this universe and everyone should be crawling on broken glass to work in Starkville. They think the second we offer our job to someone they just jump at it. They also usually have no clue how football coaches operate. They think that they always are looking for the next big paycheck. They never seem to be able to comprehend that a guy like Muschamp, who has made 6.3 in a buyout from Florida and 13 mil from USCe, is just happy living in his college town making 6 figures a year and working about 20 hours a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrapGame
And that's not just our fanboy media btw. That's most schools. These guys aren't making a whole lot of money so they believe that any time more money is offered you have to take it. There's guys like Liucci with TexAgs and Matt Jones with KSR that have been able to branch out and make some REAL money. Neal McCready has done it on a smaller scale but it's the same thing. You're not going to be able to convince a guy making 55K a year that the guy who makes 350K a year doesn't want the 2 mil a year job because he's happy. That doesn't comprehend to them. Because if someone offered them 60K they'd take it.
I for the life of me can’t understand how these guys think it does us any good. Are we so disaffected that this is the only way that he thinks he gets ears and eyes on his product? I really feel that he’s so wrapped up with that bunch of politically connected Madison booster types he can’t see the forest for the trees.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
His dad bought him a radio spot about 2 decades ago. He was actually pretty good at first and really wasn't biased one way or the other. Now he tries to sway his opinions to whatever team is doing well and is constantly running down Mississippi State because Selmon doesn't really care for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coursesuper
My favorite Bo Bounds take was that Blake Hinson was going to be a lottery pick after he scored 26 against us in Starkville. For reference, he went undrafted and is in the G League
My favorite take is that Barry Odom was a STUD head coach and how we should have hired him.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Has there been anything more on Pernell McPhee, or are we waiting to see if the new defensive coordinator has someone else in mind?
Probably waiting to see who the new DC wants to bring in and where. I've heard a couple of former players be mentioned. I've also heard about Taveze Calhoun for the CB coach. I know Taveze really wants that job but I doubt he'd get it. He's still a little too green to be a P4 position coach.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
I think it's going to be more of a not do what Arnett did and hire assistants and position coaches before the DC. I think after we have a DC agreed to in principle there will be some open conversations. Jamar Chaney at Houston and Pernell McPhee at Michigan would be two of my first calls, especially with rumors that Turner is thinking about stepping back into either an off-field or retiring altogether.Quote:
Originally Posted by KB21
Brent Pry is picking up a lot of steam. I feel pretty comfortable confirming now that we're decently far down the road with him. It would be a bit of a letdown if we can't get that one across the finish line.
Don't forget his love affair with Freeze and Corral. Hell, I thought Corral might have been his illegitimate son.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
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Originally Posted by KB21
That’s my favorite as well. Odom just went 2-10 at PurdueQuote:
Originally Posted by KB21
There was a flight from Starkville to Blacksburg yesterday. It is probably nothing but interesting regardlessQuote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Is Pry still in Blacksburg at this time?Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDawg81