Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

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Just heard from a source that UCF director of sports performance (aka head strength and conditioning coach) Kurt Schmidt is expected to join Josh Heupel's staff at Tennessee.

Schmidt has a pretty good resume with some NFL experience. He spent one season at Missouri as the Director of Applied Performance for the Tigers in 2017 and went to UCF with Heupel when he got the job in Orlando. Schmidt before that worked as a strength, conditioning and nutrition assistant for the San Francisco 49ers. Before the NFL stint he worked at Memphis, Arkansas and Utah State.

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I wish he was our coach

Eh. To Be Honest I think we wound up with the better of the two for our current situation.

The boxes that would've been preferred to be checked in a new coach were:

1. A current HC: Heupel checks that box Elliott doesn't
2. A HC who has developed a program before: Neither checks the box.
3. A coach who can develop players: Heupel definitely checks this box with this background. You can't really make the case for Elliott as he has always had elite talent to work with.
4. A coach who can do a lot with a little: Once again Heupel displayed this with the talent level he had at UCF (7th in recruiting for the conference and finished 1st, 2nd and 4th). Once again you can't say this about Elliott.
5. A coach who is a good developer of men and a role model for the players: I believe both check off this box.
6. Recruiting: Elliott as of right now I believe way outshines Heupel in recruiting.

The most important boxes in my mind were 1-5 which I believe Heupel has more of than Elliott. The only thing Elliott could've really brought to the table that Heupel doesn't inherently bring is recruiting. But guys we got sold on our last coach/coaching staff on their recruiting prowess and that worked out like crap. Could Elliott do better? We may never know.

More than likely Elliott is going to get a job at a high profile opening where he walks into a program with talent ready to compete for championships like Kirby or he may just take over for Swinny after he leaves. If that's the case he will have instant success and we will have several in this fan base saying look at what we could have had but that is not an indicator in any sense that he could've been successful in our current situation here.
 
Obviously coming from the other side. This might be the start of the gates opening.
Yeah, reports of "no thanks" are PR for the coach. The scoop is likely not coming from the Tennessee side.

"Getting interest" could be as little as initial feelers that go out to multiple people to gauge the candidate pool. Or it could be a legit first interview that objectively didn't go well and the coach is taking control of the narrative so it doesn't look bad on him. Or yes, it could be a swing and a miss.

All I'm saying is you can't read much into it, at least until after the fact when the scuttlebutt eventually surfaces.
 
That's what i was thinking. If he knows what CJH is looking for, he may be better than a "big name". Only thing that hurts is its another change at the Strength coach position. How many have we had now over the past 10 years?
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