Hughes RBs/AHC
JWash Director or Player Development
Barbay OC/QBs
Bump WR?s
Friend OL
Schmidt TEs/OTs & RGC
Brock DC/LBs
McBath CBs
Dewhurst Safeties
Turner DL
Mele ST
Greg Knox senior analyst
That's a damn good staff.
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Hughes RBs/AHC
JWash Director or Player Development
Barbay OC/QBs
Bump WR?s
Friend OL
Schmidt TEs/OTs & RGC
Brock DC/LBs
McBath CBs
Dewhurst Safeties
Turner DL
Mele ST
Greg Knox senior analyst
That's a damn good staff.
Welcome back Greg Knox. Two undefeated Mississippi State head coaches on staff. Skrong.
Downgraded essentially every offensive coaching position.
I believe Arnett has put together a very good staff. Very good mix of experience and young energetic types. Glad Coach Knox is back too!
What is RGC? Right guard coach?
Can we ban this moron? Or at least give him a week off?
Well some guy on Twitter said it so it must be true.
Leach > Barbay as a play caller
Miller > Friend/Schmidt
Hollingshead, Spurrier > Bumphis
Washington to Hughes is a wash.
We don't have a single position coach on the offensive staff who has a future as anything other than a position coach.
QB Coach Leach ->Barbay DOWNGRADE
RB Coach JWash -> Hughes/Knox PUSH
OL Coach Miller -> Friend/Schmidt PUSH only because it's two people doing the job of one
WR Coach Spurrier/Hollingshead-> Bumphis DOWNGRADE
TE Coach Empty-> Schmidt UPGRADE
DL Coach Phelps-> David Turner PUSH
I don't really see anywhere we upgrade, other than TE coach since we didn't have one, but it was hard to upgrade at some positions such as receiver and QB coach. You can't replace Leach as a QB Coach or two receiver coaches with one and upgrade. Maybe I'll be wrong, but I doubt it. This staff better be the greatest talent developers on Earth because our recruiting is downgraded with the new staff. The two biggest losses were Mason Miller and Drew Hollingshead from a coaching and recruiting perspective. The biggest addition is probably Will Friend since he has at least has somewhat of a recruiting footprint. You could argue David Turner since he recruits in state really well, but he doesn't recruit out of state at all so that kind of invalidates him from being a big addition. Very surprised but glad that Jason Washington agreed to stay on. He's our portal wizard due to his connections.
I'll close with this, it was going to be impossible to keep Hollingshead or Spurrier without giving them the OC title. The one gripe I have is Mason Miller. But Arnett has made it very obvious he wants to go away from the Air Raid and it's his ass that will be fired if it fails so Mason was not going to be kept under this regime. We'll see if this works, I have my doubts that it will. I think you have to be able to attract big time players for this system to flourish and we don't have enough recruiters on staff to be able to do that. A roster full of Mississippi kids is not winning big.
From 2 WR coaches to 2 OL coaches tells you things are changing.
That said, we can maintain the 7-5/8-4 Mullen/Leach standard.
Just need to go get Gonzalez and Hev to join Knox and have C34?s country club back together!
Holy crap we upgraded as a staff. I'm very impressed by what Arnett was able to put together considering the circumstances he was put in.
Hev tried
Some of y'all are miserable 17ers
Funny enough I would love to bring Hev back as an offensive analyst. He evaluated the players he could coach and build up and he did it more times than not. He wasn't the recruiter that Mason Miller or even Marcus Johnson was, but he was on equal footing with Miller as a coach and developer.
A much better staff would have been:
OC - Chris Hatcher
WRs/Passing Game Coordinator - Drew Hollingshead
OL/Run Game Coordinator - Mason Miller
iWR - Adam Shaker
RBs - Trey Tinsley
You know I almost think you have some good points and then you ruin it with s*** like Trey Tinsley as the RB coach or Adam Shaker at WR coach. Why would not just keep JWash?? Also Drew was not staying without the OC title. That's been reported by multiple people, not just message board posters.
If we were going to keep the Air Raid principles, because the pure Air Raid died with Mike, a better staff would be:
OC/QB Coach-Drew Hollingshead
RB Coach-JWash
OWR/PGC-Dennis Simmons
OL/RGC-Mason Miller
IWR-Daikiel Shorts or Chad Bumphis
Again, it was obvious Arnett did not want the Air Raid, but if he did that would've been my staff.
So Friend is classified as OL coach and coaches only centers and guards? I don't especially like breaking up OL coaching like that, but I'm not the coach. Hopefully it works out.
So what do you like about Will Friend over Mason? Mason is a better recruiter and developer in my eyes. I'll give you Greg/Tony combo just because it's two over one, although I can go ahead and tell you Greg is going to be running that room. They gave Tony that title so he could recruit off campus.
It's not just Friend now though is it. Honestly I don't think we miss a thing from the recruiting side at all and with both Friend and Schmidt as OL coaches it's a wash at worse. Friend is a better position coach in my opinion but I know you disagree. He has OL groups grade out extremely well over multiple stops for over a decade. I believe in total it's an upgrade, coaching and recruiting. I knew you wouldn't though and that's why I said we would end up agreeing to disagree. And you know I really like Mason too.
Ok how did we upgrade at WR coach? Spurrier and Drew were ace recruiters and I thought our receivers played really well last year. Kind of hard to break a big one when you have a QB who can't throw 35 yards down the field. It's especially hard to break big ones, when you're having to catch slants with 9 people in the box. I don't blame our coaches for drops, that's on the receivers.
Bumphis has no recruiting ties in the area and he's not known as a good recruiter, and playing in MS doesn't give you recruiting ties in the area. It means you're known at one school. Kids these don't remember Mississippi State WRs from 12 years ago. Also, his receivers at Utah never impressed me. They got ZERO separation in the games I watched them and their blocking was average against teams with a pulse.