The House of Blue

I think right now, Joker is going to hire what he believes is a good coach to help, if he does prove to belong and gets to have a long career here, you'll see him go a little younger at some positions but right now, he has to have a mix of both. Last year, everyone was complaining about having a bunch of recruiters and not having any good coaches. I believe as a young head coach, you do a lot of things by trail and error. He has a db coach that understands the dc style of play and now he's getting an more experience wr coach that understands his oc style of play.

Too old. Joker canned all of Brooks coaches because they were old and could not recruit now we are moving back. Our staff is getting older and older. How do 50 year old mean relate well to 17 to 18 year olds?

I'm on the fence about it, but it seems to be solid if not spectacular.

Tee's recruiting juice won't be replaced, but Washington is a very experienced WR coach with some time on special teams. He's got southern ties and presumably contacts in the HS coaching ranks. Ultimately, I think he can be an asset, technique-wise, to our receiving corps, he can at least get in the door of southern schools, and his experience may be useful to Nord coaching special teams.

I'm not over the moon about this hire, but I think it's a solid one at the very least.

That is a good point. As much credit as we're giving Tee (and he deserves a lot) it's not like he was landing 7-8 kids per class. He got 3-4 this year off the top of my head.

3 by my count. And I would guess you could give credit to like 3 coaches for Taylor.

Definitely an old staff as a whole but I think it is a good balance to go along with a young head coach and young team. Also, if Joker can win games, it is a staff that will get younger as 1-2 coaches will leave after each season. Not sure how big a role they play yet, but there is a good group of young guys working with the staff in Andre Woodson, Jonathan Martin, Tommy Cook, etc that I think all have potential to be solid position coaches in the near future.

I don't think you will see recruiting drop off much. UK obviously isn't going to replace Tee Martin but I think we will see Pardue have more success as he now knows more ins-and-outs on recruiting, as well as, there is no doubt Cassity>Brown in recruiting. Top it off with likely the best recruiting class the state has seen in years and the '13 class still has potential to be quite good.

I was going to say this earlier but thought I'd get hammered for it. I don't think youth in a coach is that big of a deal. I think parents of recruits look for more of a steady hand of a experienced coach than that of a young coach who will party with their son. JMO.

He certainly would not have lasted 11 seasons under Fulmer if he couldn't recruit. Fulmer once said that he looked for coaches that can recruit first, and that can coach second. But, it does seem that this guy can coach based on his resume, which kinda indicates to me that Joker knows his WRs need some hands on help. Finally, gotta believe that Tee and Sanders have some input in this hire.

I'm guessing Phil gets the next opening on the staff?

As far as age goes, it's tough to find a young guy with a lot of recruiting ties. Takes years in the business, most of the time as a college assistant, to develop those.

Who was that 4-star WR that committed to So. Miss a few years back?

Justin Jordan?

Or the Triplett kid. I think he was pretty highly rated also.