Any DC Rumors?

[TrapGame]

It's awful quiet.

Does our administration understand what these highly professional, closed lip searches do to our rumormongering fanbase?! *****

[Really Clark?]

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

[Leroy Jenkins]

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,

[KB21]

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.

[CaptainObvious]

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,

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.

[gtowndawg]

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

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.

[Jarius]

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.

I would love Armstrong.

[Coursesuper]

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.

Armstrong would be a great fit here.

[Really Clark?]

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.

Correct

[Todd4State]

I like Armstrong. And now he has connections to Houston which should help in recruiting as well.

[TrapGame]

And Armstrong is up for the Broyles' Award too.

[confucius say]

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.

[TrapGame]

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.

Pry, Wilcox or Armstrong would be homerun hires.

[Coach34]

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

[Coursesuper]

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.

[StarkVegasSteve]

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

A few big things Austin has working in his favor:

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.

[KB21]

Ron Roberts to Arkansas. I doubt he was ever really a candidate for us, and if he was, he was down the list.

[StarkVegasSteve]

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.

[StarkVegasSteve]

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.

[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.