Excellent job on Saturday by both!!
I recall not too long ago "experts" on here criticizing the hiring of Trickett and Guidry....as well as other staff members. Looks like they were dead wrong.
Great job Coach Huff for putting together an excellent staff!!
oh it was may more than just odd choice. as I recall you followed along with said expert. I'm pretty sure it was why would you hire Trickett when he was out of work and Kiffen didn't even want him. Not going to go look up actual posts. I know Guidry was mocked.
as far as special teams goes, that choice was criticized but I'm thinking Springer moved on to the league or something. we have new ST coach this year and yes, looks like we need some work but we do have freshmen specialist handling punting and kicking.
I leave for a year, and you're still a moron.
Let's review the first part of you being a moron:
Marshall beats ND on the road, and suddenly you think the entire staff is about to be poached by Alabama.
Guidry: If you review the threads where I discussed his hire, I said that the two defenses he coordinated that I coached against were extremely athletic and talented (thanks, in quite a large part, to taking FBS kids who had been kicked out of their original school). I said he could be a good coordinator, but that his off-field baggage wasn't worth that risk. Having to decide to take a college athlete based on off-field issues is understandable. Having to decide if taking a coach due to off-field issues shouldn't be a question any school bothers to entertain.
Trickett: Remember, we were discussing him coaching receivers. Our receivers last year were less than average. He was fired from his last job for leading an underperforming position. His head coach before that didn't take him along to his new job. It's not a good track record no matter how you try looking at it. But you came here trying to act like an OC who put up 360 yards somehow makes him a great OC or somehow refuted my previous arguments. Brilliant. Trickett had the worst play call in that game for either team when he tried the fade ball on third and goal.
Marshall had 4th and 1 at the 50. Fail.
Marshall had 1st and goal at the 4. Fail.
2nd and 3 at the 4 in another drive. Fail.
A well coordinated game makes that a 20 point Marshall win.
Marshall's most important play on offense came on a play that didn't work - the double pass. Can we give Trickett and/or the receivers coach credit for possibly coaching the receiver not to force a bad throw and take off with it instead? Possibly. But the play call didn't work, and it was far more to do with the receiver just making a play than it was a good play call.
So again, an OC putting up 360 yards in a game isn't impressive. In fact, it is below average. Using a 360 yard performance as support for your argument is moronic.
Springer: An awful hire. He was the STC of the worst special teams unit in the country for the previous two years. His ST at Marshall were average producers with poor preparation. Your claim of him being "in the league" to justify that it was a good hire or that he has coached good special teams units shows your leverage lack of coaching knowledge. Many coaches get hired and rehired based on relationships with other coaches. Him being an assistant special teams coach in the NFL is not a promotion. Want a list of assistant position coaches in the NFL who resigned to be full-time FBS position coaches on staffs that I was on? In other words, going from a full-time FBS coach to an assistant position coach in the NFL is not a promotion, as many coaches choose to do the complete opposite. You simply cannot argue with data and facts that Springer has done anything quality as a special teams coordinator in his last three years of coaching. Two of the three seasons were the worst in the county and the other was average prodocution and poor preparation. Hell, look at the extent of his current bio:
"Jeremy Springer joins the Rams after spending the last four seasons as a special teams coordinator at the college level, most recently at Marshall in 2021 after overseeing Arizona's specialists from 2018-20. At Marshall, Springer oversaw a special teams unit that ranked seventh in Conference USA in total kickoff return yards with 421 and also tied with Old Dominion for the most kickoff returns for touchdowns (2), including a long of 99. The Thundering Herd's 38.1 yards per kickoff return ranked fourth in the conference in 2018."
His highlights at Marshall were ranking seventh in C-USA in kick return yards (which is an illogical measure of success) and fourth in yards per kickoff (another illogical measure of success). Stellar production!
We are . . . AVERAGE!
I have at least three years of results that my argument is based on. You had to resort to one game, without even an impressive one game, and now have to hide your face again for once again being wrong.
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