Typical AD move. Beamer has done a nice job. 7-8 seasons and 3-5/4-4 in conference is solid for South Carolina but to more than double his salary is crazy imo. CFB is one of the few places where people don't like a bargain when they have one. If you want to bump it up a bit okay but from 2.75 to 6.5M, it's just not smart unless he keeps on improving and justifying that salary.
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I don't know if it's desperate or not but not smart IMO. I'm not a big fan of some of his antics but he's done a solid job with some nice wins but not to the point of that kind of pay bump IMO. At the first sniff of anything positive, it's reflexive for an AD to want to bump a contract. I don't think it's good business without some proven consistency, Most of the time it never prevents a coach from leaving anyway if they want to so what the hell is the point of the pay bump and contract. It's not worth the paper it's written on from the school's perspective.
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Maybe their AD is being advised by @rutgersal ! But whether Greg "deserves" a raise or not, this type of thing fuels silliness by other colleges, so an extension is not out of the question for Greg. Shoot me now for saying that, please. I deserve to die for that. It's a firable and killable offense.
Looks like WKU is tapping the Leach tree for the 3rd straight year at OC. This time a direct branch rather than a descendant. That makes 2 this year with Spurrier Jr. headed to Tulsa and Hollingshead headed to WKU. Names to keep an eye on and see how they do.
Sadly, most that are not happy with KC hire would rather take a chance on this type of hire.
I prefer this style but I'd have liked someone with a little more OC experience but it wouldn't have had to be a ton. I look at the history of guys of his tree/influence and they have a good hit rate for doing decently to well. It's not the same as Mehringer and even Gleeson IMO. How many would have wanted Longo after Sam Houston but he was a name I would have been fine with after being OC there for a bit. Zack Kittley at Houston Baptist and WKU same kind of idea, I would have been fine with that type of hire. Ben Arbuckle similar. He was a little experience light for me but if no one else was taking the OC spot, I would've been okay with it. WSU was, they hired him. Jeff Lebby, Heupel, Kendal Briles were similar at one time in their careers but did well. A little extra experience would be nice but I'm looking more at where the influence comes from and Leach/Briles guys often do at least a decent job on offense as coordinators. Anyhow these are names to keep an eye on in the future.
Nothing is guaranteed to work and nothing is guaranteed to fail and that includes KC. For me it's playing probabilities and what has worked more often and what hasn't, specifically for teams lower down the status totem pole or have been miserable on offense.
edit: If it was someone without the experience playcalling, I'd have tried a Bill Bedenbaugh the OU OL coach. I've mentioned him in the past. He's been a Leach/Riley and now Briles through Lebby guy for quite some time and I think he'd have a decent chance of being a good OC. He and Riley came up with that whole GT run blocking scheme they use. An OL coach might bring more physicality to the offense too.
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Think about this with regards to experience too. Leach, Dykes, Riley (might be listed at TT for 1 year but never played) never played college football IIRC. Leach is the one who started it all but what I'm looking for is where the influence came from for guys in the next generation and beyond of coaches. Dykes/Riley along with others have been very successful as offensive coaches right from the start of their careers. To me that's heavily related to the influence and how they learned coming up.
Well it's not ideal but sometimes you take the chance but it's who are you taking a chance on and where have they come from that can increase the probability of working.
I think if they are more proven it is a little harder. Even if KC isn't my favorite choice because of style, the fact that we're willing and able to pay him a reported 1.5M and 275K buyout is a good positive sign in itself. Those numbers are very competitive.
I thought $1.5MM for an OC is a very competitive salary and that we would not have any difficulty finding a highly qualified guy at the figure. Whether we paid for quality with this hire remains to be seen. The Gleeson experience probably worked against us from two angles. 1) Someone with no experience with GS might be concerned with how quickly and the mid season manner in which Gleeson was dismissed. 2) GS not having any prior direct working relationship with Gleeson, and seeing how it went, probably felt more comfortable with a known entity.
That wouldn’t be unusual. Often, not always, OCs bring along an OL coach they know when they take a new jobs
For completeness, Greg Studrawa deserves a look. He and Greg overlapped at Ohio State. They can tweet about how the grass is greener.
So another guy we are potentially paying not to coach next year? Amazing how much money is wasted this way across the industry.
No. We are paying him until February then not renewing his contract.
I thought he was a better RB coach then a line coach and we have brought in a lot of OL hopefully not alot of turnover ....maybe he will reach to his Alma Mater, Boston College.
Moved to offensive line coach for spring practice in 2022.
• Running back Isiah Pacheco earned honorable mention All-Big Ten in 2021 and left seventh in program history with 2,442 rushing yards and 11th with 3,039 all-purpose yards. He was selected in the 2022 NFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs.
• Rutgers posted a program-best 26.7 points per game in a Big Ten season in 2020. The Scarlet Knights scored at least 20 points in eight games after reaching the mark five times the previous four seasons and 12 times in the first 52 Big Ten games. The 26.7 points per game ranked eighth in the Big Ten, improving from No. 14 the preceding season, as the previous best ranking in Big Ten-only games was 11th.
• Rutgers finished as the fourth-most improved team in the nation by scoring offense (+13.4 points per game). The Scarlet Knights scored 81 more points than in 2019 (playing three fewer games), the sixth-best improvement in the nation in total points scored (the five higher teams all played 12 games). In addition, RU was the most improved in the Big Ten in total touchdowns scored (+12) and offensive touchdowns (+9).
| ST. JOSEPH REGIONAL |
• In his six seasons as head coach, Hoffmann guided the Green Knights to a 50-19 record, including four state championship game appearances. He captured two state titles during his tenure.
• The Green Knights claimed their first title under Hoffmann, closing out the 2016 season with a 9-2 record and victory over DePaul Catholic in the Non-Public Group 3 championship.
• In 2018, St. Joseph finished the season with a 10-2 record, earning a shutout against Bergen Catholic to win the Non-Public Group 4 state title.
• Hoffmann has coached numerous Division I scholarship athletes during his time leading the Green Knights program, including current Scarlet Knight tight end Matt Alaimo.
| PLAYING EXPERIENCE |
• He went on to a standout career at Boston College where he was a four-year letterwinner and First Team All-Big East guard in 2003. Hoffmann served as team captain as a senior and earned CoSIDA Academic All-District I honors in 2003 and Big East All-Academic Football team accolades.
• Hoffmann was with the New Orleans Saints for three seasons from 2004-06.
| PERSONAL |
Alma Mater: Boston College, 2004
Wife: Drew
Children: Sons, Augie and Domenic
| COACHING EXPERIENCE |
2020-21: Rutgers (running backs)
2014-19: St. Joseph Regional [Montvale] (head coach)
2010-13: St. Joseph Regional [Montvale] (assistant coach/freshmen head coach)
Straight from the horse's mouth on the beach?
Harbaugh done. Sherrone Moore to be named HC.
Searching Twitter for the viewpoint of a liberal Michigan fan, because I like my breaking news to be fair and balanced.
Harbaugh done. Sherrone Moore to be named HC.
Searching Twitter for the viewpoint of a liberal Michigan fan, because I like my breaking news to be fair and balanced.
He might end up back here. There are position coach openings now.
Was thinking same thing he was once the TE whisper they say