2024 FOOTBALL Staff Thread

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

Cody Kennedy has been at Arky 3 seasons. The OL immediately got better under him his 1st year, and they were good last year. Then they lost 3 starters and have been AWFUL this year- 12th in yards per rush, 14th in sacks allowed. They are starting a couple 2nd year players at the tackle spots.

So what do you make of that? Is he a really good OL coach that just had a fluky down year due to young guys? Or is he a good coach of other peoples players that can't recruit?

It's probably the former. Good OLs at Tulane and early Arkansas, so the 1 bad year is probably a fluke. In college football everything is so "what have you done for me lately" that a school will be ready to fire a good coach after 1 down year- that's the time to poach said coach. If you try to poach a coach that just had a good year, the boosters at that school will rally to pay him.

I like this hire if true. And of Cooper is anything other than OL coach (ie TEs or off field) then I like that hire too

[KB21]

Cody Kennedy has been at Arky 3 seasons. The OL immediately got better under him his 1st year, and they were good last year. Then they lost 3 starters and have been AWFUL this year- 12th in yards per rush, 14th in sacks allowed. They are starting a couple 2nd year players at the tackle spots.

So what do you make of that? Is he a really good OL coach that just had a fluky down year due to young guys? Or is he a good coach of other peoples players that can't recruit?

It's probably the former. Good OLs at Tulane and early Arkansas, so the 1 bad year is probably a fluke. In college football everything is so "what have you done for me lately" that a school will be ready to fire a good coach after 1 down year- that's the time to poach said coach. If you try to poach a coach that just had a good year, the boosters at that school will rally to pay him.

I like this hire if true. And of Cooper is anything other than OL coach (ie TEs or off field) then I like that hire too

Last year's results have more to do with a poor scheme and piss poor play calling. Similar to us, though the OL coaches we had were actually bad.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Their line was bad this year because they were trying to run Enos’ offense. Under the Briles Veer and Shoot, basically our offense, their line was really good.

[CoachT14]

KJ Jefferson also holds the ball entirely too long. They gave up a ton of sacks the last 3 years while also nearly allowing the most time in the pocket in the SEC all 3 years

Their OL was top half of the SEC the last 2 years. Lost 3 starters and gained an Enos and you saw the results.

[HancockCountyDog]

Not thrilled with the hire, but I think any OL coach we hire will have his work cut out for him and this guy has turned OL that don't have a ton of talent into good OL so I'm going to hope he can do that here.

We definitely need someone that can develop an OL.

[TrapGame]

Not thrilled with the hire, but I think any OL coach we hire will have his work cut out for him and this guy has turned OL that don't have a ton of talent into good OL so I'm going to hope he can do that here.

We definitely need someone that can develop an OL.

Kennedy was a Broyles Award finalist. He's legit.

[DownwardDawg]

It was going from Briles to Enos. The three years Briles was there they had a pretty damn good OL.

Gotcha.

[ZedFedder]

When you look at the whole body of work and big picture, this is a good hire. He has familiarity with Briles offense, so transitioning to Lebby's should not be a huge jump.

[HancockCountyDog]

Kennedy was a Broyles Award finalist. He's legit.

Obviously I hope you are right. We need a great OL coach that can really develop cohesion fast and get the most out of what we have on the roster.

I expect at least 4-5 portal OL and anyone that has coached OL knows, getting 5 guys to work as one usually takes time. Same reason the 2008 OL looked like shit in oxford and the 2009 OL with basically the same players wrecked the bears shit.

[Cooterpoot]

Lebby's building a really solid offensive staff. I expect we know the defensive side really soon, probably after this weekend

[the_real_MSU_is_us]

And the Arky fans on Reddit are celebrating and calling us dumb. Again I'll say it- us fans are extremely emotional and only care about "what have you done for me lately". Arky fans can't see the guys resume because of 1 bad year. Conversely, if he was coming off a good year Arky would pay whatever we are offering to keep him... have to be a stock broker and "buy low" to get these guys with SEC experience. Love the hire.

[confucius say]

Time to update the new staff thread scooba

[HoopsDawg]

Time to update the new staff thread scooba

Wait, did we hire Arkansas's Oline coach? They were horrible this year. Beyond bad.

[ScoobaDawg]

Wait, did we hire Arkansas's Oline coach? They were horrible this year. Beyond bad.

This has been rehashed so much already. They were horrible because of the OC brought in. Kennedy is from the Veer and Shoot tree and was brought in with Kendal Briles.
Only 2 years ago he was up for the broyles award. We will be fine.

[DesotoDog1967]

Who is Anthony Tucker?

[Cooterpoot]

Who is Anthony Tucker?

Was at Indiana but at UCF with Lebby. String hire.

[preachermatt83]

Hearing a lot of Tom Allen smoke

[Really Clark?]

Was at Indiana but at UCF with Lebby. String hire.

Yeah, good RB coach hire

[ScoobaDawg]

Offensive staff is done ... well on-field portion

[ScoobaDawg]