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.