I also like Bill Busch. One of the nicest guys you could ever meet.
It isn’t his ties that made him a good recruiter. It was his personality and likability. He’s not a 60 year old rookie. Check out his resume.
Bill has always had a rep for being a good recruiter. Alex Smith at Utah and Joe Burrow at LSU.
Maybe you should. He has 4 FULL seasons as a DC. Even fewer of them as a solo DC. None of which were in the last decade. One of which(Co-DC) was at a power 4 school(Bottom feeder Rutgers)......Any other candidate we look at, with that small of a sample, would need to be all at a P4 schools with top 25 finishes....Or it would be a joke of a candidate.
He had an audition here and his defense performed well. Again, he’s the last NU DC to best Iowa.
Dang so we couldn't compete with him being a senior football analyst at Illinois and then a defensive backs coach those are better than being DC here? Dang how the mighty have fallen.
He wasn’t interested in NU. I don’t think some of us understand the level of disdain for our administrations by college coaches. The Pelini, Eichorst, Moos, Frost, Alberts soap operas poisoned the well. We way over paid to get Rhule in part because of our history over the past 2 decades.
His defense beat the 2 worst teams from the east division. Got demolished by Mich, Purdue, Illinois. Lost to a terrible Wisc team and a Minn team that traveled like 40 players.
Agreed. BUT I think we can do better. The next guy needs to be a great motivator , inspirational and a great teacher. Has to translate to the players what he wants. And has to understand today’s game and the changing landscape
Yeah you got me except I don’t think he was the DC for that many games was he? Diaco trying to switch to a 3-4 destroyed our defense.
Im old enough to remember when the publishers said we couldnt consistently recruit 4-3 speed rushers to the Midwest, like Gregory, so we were a way better fit for the 3-4 with ends like Jason Ankrah, Pierre Allen, Greg McMullen, Ben Stille, Freedom.
Gotta have bigger DTs to run a 3-4. I’m just not convinced it works against better run teams.
Also completely untrue. Glenn Dorsey was like 275lbs. Tony Whites DL at Syracuse 4 of the top 5 DL were under 285lbs.... In the simplest way I can describe it, it essentially depends if you are running a 2 gap technique up front, or a gap-out technique. Not saying those are official terminology, but for description. If your front is controlling 2 gaps, its much more dependant on being stout and holding the point of attack, so A: those gaps are open(no free blockers) for your linebackers to fill and make plays B: your DL can react and make a play to either gap.
I’m really not saying you’re wrong. You seem to know more than I do about gap schemes. Syracuse in their conference at the time versus what we’re going to face in the B1G is different though. I’ve already pointed out Aaron Donald as a smaller DT who could dominate at 275-280 pounds. That said, our problems weren’t just gap assignment scheme. We’re getting blown off the ball. IF we’re big enough, then we need to get stronger and use a better scheme. A big stout NT would help IMO if we’re staying with a 3 man front.
Great insight from Bill Busch. But I'm convinced that Bill and everyone else just guesses at what Damon is asking. That guy is a master at talking a lot and saying nothing.
Try listening to him on a game broadcast. After a good play happens, he'll just come out with "Steady Eddie. One play at a time now." and ramble on from there, instead of telling us what happened and why a play succeeded or failed. Damon never explains anything. Either he doesn't see the game well or he just doesn't want to provide color analysis.
So, even though the guy is retired and isn't "all in" with the idea of even going back into coaching, it would be a sin to not hire him as our next D.C.? That's ridiculous.
