AggiesAreWe Posted July 1, 2011 Report Posted July 1, 2011 Craig McGallion will be promoted to Defensive Coordinator for the upcoming season.
Green Menace Posted July 1, 2011 Report Posted July 1, 2011 Has he had [u]any[/u] college football coaching experience?
AJ25 Posted July 1, 2011 Report Posted July 1, 2011 [quote name="Green Menace" post="1021742" timestamp="1309525722"]Has he had [u]any[/u] college football coaching experience?[/quote]He's been on staff at LU for 2 or 3 years... When they brought the program back, he was one of the first coaches brought on.
AggiesAreWe Posted July 1, 2011 Author Report Posted July 1, 2011 New statement made today has McGallion and new coach Johnson being co DC's.
Guest tigersvoice Posted July 1, 2011 Report Posted July 1, 2011 [quote name="AggiesAreWe" post="1021858" timestamp="1309545753"]New statement made today has McGallion and new coach Johnson being co DC's.[/quote]Well, crap! If you can't name a Defensive Coordinator then you don't have a Defensive Coordinator. The "Co-" stuff is just appeasement. I'm getting aggitated over Woodard's inability to make choices/decisions.
hipster Posted July 1, 2011 Report Posted July 1, 2011 Well lets see how this plays out. Hope for the best and we may get it.
the sports guy Posted July 1, 2011 Report Posted July 1, 2011 [quote name="tigersvoice" post="1021864" timestamp="1309546997"][quote author=AggiesAreWe link=topic=85363.msg1021858#msg1021858 date=1309545753]New statement made today has McGallion and new coach Johnson being co DC's.[/quote]Well, crap! [b]If you can't name a Defensive Coordinator then you don't have a Defensive Coordinator[/b]. The "Co-" stuff is just appeasement. I'm getting aggitated over Woodard's inability to make choices/decisions.[/quote]Right on the $.
Green Menace Posted July 3, 2011 Report Posted July 3, 2011 HS coaches moving up to an FCS or FBS assistants position is a bad deal. Trust me, I know. UNT's experiment not only failed with Todd Dodge, but specifically the Defensive Coordinator came up from Southlake Carroll, and was a complete disaster.Just saying, be careful Lamar.
AJ25 Posted July 3, 2011 Report Posted July 3, 2011 [quote name="Green Menace" post="1022094" timestamp="1309663649"]HS coaches moving up to an FCS or FBS assistants position is a bad deal. Trust me, I know. UNT's experiment not only failed with Todd Dodge, but specifically the Defensive Coordinator came up from Southlake Carroll, and was a complete disaster.Just saying, be careful Lamar.[/quote]He's been there for 3 going on 4 years now I do believe, so he has some experience. The guy from UTEP will be in control of most everything, I imagine.
Guest beechnut Posted July 3, 2011 Report Posted July 3, 2011 Im not real sure what my take is on this but hope for the best.
ForeverADog Posted July 3, 2011 Report Posted July 3, 2011 Texas has had co-defensive coordinators for several years. Worked fine for them. Typically one is giving play calling duties like a normal DC and the other is just giving the title to help keep from leaving the school and also a pay raise.
hipster Posted July 4, 2011 Report Posted July 4, 2011 Well we are not TX and those guys had prior coordinator experience. So lets see how this plays out.
sleepy Posted July 5, 2011 Report Posted July 5, 2011 Are you guys stupid? PLease realize this is a title and Woodard will be calling the shots. GEEEZ!
becktobigs Posted July 5, 2011 Report Posted July 5, 2011 [quote name="sleepy" post="1022357" timestamp="1309881099"]Are you guys stupid? PLease realize this is a title and Woodard will be calling the shots. GEEEZ![/quote]And the way you get a guy to leave UTEP for a start-up program is find a way to give him more money -- make him a cooridnator
sleepy Posted July 6, 2011 Report Posted July 6, 2011 For anyone on here to be truly questioning the hiring by woodard or his dc is ridiculous. They have both forgotten more about the game than any of us know. Just see what happens people.
Green Menace Posted July 6, 2011 Report Posted July 6, 2011 And this guy probably forgot more about the game than I'll ever know. He was a complete disaster at North Texas.Going from coaching HS athletes is totally different than coaching at the higher levels of college football. Just saying....[url=http://www.meangreensports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1800&ATCLID=746305]HS Defensive Coordinator[/url]
ForeverADog Posted July 6, 2011 Report Posted July 6, 2011 He didn't jump from a high school DC to a college DC. He jumped up to a college position coach for multiple seasons and now has another promotion to Co-DC. Dodge jumped straight to head coaching in FBS. His offenses were just fine. That's why he now has a job at Pitt.
Guest tigersvoice Posted July 6, 2011 Report Posted July 6, 2011 [quote name="ForeverADog" post="1022156" timestamp="1309722360"]Texas has had co-defensive coordinators for several years. Worked fine for them. Typically one is giving play calling duties like a normal DC and the other is just giving the title to help keep from leaving the school and also a pay raise. [/quote]Seems like the Texas (assuming you are talking about the Longhorns) defense kind of fell on its face last year. I don't know how much of that was actually the "Co-coordinators" fault but they certainly got blamed for it.
sleepy Posted July 6, 2011 Report Posted July 6, 2011 Art Briles only spent a couple of season at Tech before he worked miracles at Houston. Guess in those two years he became that much smarter. I can tell you from conversations with him he didn't.
sleepy Posted July 6, 2011 Report Posted July 6, 2011 both of briles oc's came straight from high school and they have averaged a top 10 offense in the country every year. Your high school myth is getting thrown out the window here.
Green Menace Posted July 6, 2011 Report Posted July 6, 2011 [quote name="sleepy" post="1022601" timestamp="1309981458"]Art Briles only spent a couple of season at Tech before he worked miracles at Houston. Guess in those two years he became that much smarter. I can tell you from conversations with him he didn't. [/quote]Was he the defensive coordinator at Tech? Don't think he was. I'm just saying that these HS Coaches come from programs where they deal with kids from one particular program. College sports (football) is different. Your dealing with inner city kids, kids from affluent families, working class familites, and everything in between. A college coach has to almost be a parent away from home for these college youngsters. To me, it takes a few years for a new coach to learn to deal with the social issues as much as the X's and O's. Mendoza was a defensive coordinator, not a position coach.And for the record, Todd Dodge was as fine a person as you could want to head up your program and represent your university. A very fine person that could do well after a few years as an assistant at Pitt, or HC at a D1A or DII program.And you could be right, McGallion and his co-defensive partner could do a masterful job at Lamar. I just think there were better options out there. Like, a defensive coordinator with some college skins on the wall.
ForeverADog Posted July 6, 2011 Report Posted July 6, 2011 I think Woodard made a good decision by hiring from within. The players don't have to learn a new system. He can continue with the momentum he in part has developed with the defense the past 2 years. He know all his players and their abilities. Plus Woodard already trusts him and knows his style. As far as the Texas comparison, the Longhorns had Co-DC for the past 8 years or so. In that time they won 9 games every year except last year and went to 2 National championship games and won 1. I would love if Lamar could ever get close to that at FCS.
AJ25 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Posted July 7, 2011 [quote name="ForeverADog" post="1022627" timestamp="1309985485"]I think Woodard made a good decision by hiring from within. The players don't have to learn a new system. He can continue with the momentum he in part has developed with the defense the past 2 years. He know all his players and their abilities. Plus Woodard already trusts him and knows his style. As far as the Texas comparison, the Longhorns had Co-DC for the past 8 years or so. In that time they won 9 games every year except last year and went to 2 National championship games and won 1. I would love if Lamar could ever get close to that at FCS. [/quote]Muschamp was alone as the DC the last 3 or 4 years.
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