Question is... Was he the DC the last time Wisconsin met UT in a bowl game?? If I remember correctly, they got stomped??
everyone needs to withhold judgement untill everything is settled. if it is him it is a solid hire. i mean everyone acts like we should be hireing the megastars. monte was a mega star and his def didint do so hot last year. he is a smart guy and he is going to get the right people. they know more about x's and o's than we do...chill
This guy has been Wisconsin's recruiting coordinator he brings his recruiting skills to the table. He has been a good not great DC. Thompson was not a great DC either. In the end, I would be ok with this hire but not overly excited. Recruiting is more then half of winning in big time college football. If Dooley hires this guy he clearly understands that.
Kelly is the only coach I know of who has had much success and sucks at recruiting. Dorean with Smith would make for an awesome recruiting staff on D. The question would be can they coach? Dorean has done enough to show he is a good coach but has not wowed me atleast. 17 overall last year and their offense was not very good. Many of the scores against the D were off turnovers. Ohio St. had two INTs basically returned for TDs and a punt return for a TD. That was 21 of their 31 points. Wisconsin cannot defend the pass well with out taking too many men out of the box but like most teams that are not in the SEC get few big time DB recruits. These guys are generally in warmer weather areas. It is hard to defend teams with good WRs and QBs when your DBs are the speed of our LBs, I exaggerate but not by much.
Looking at their recruiting...they had one guy as a DB who runs under a 4.5...that is one guy. We just had a LB commit who runs under a 4.5...McCoy and Mayo are as fast as their DBs. It is what it is. All about scheme in the Big Ten and coaching except for OSU and maybe Penn St.(recently doing well in recruiting).
And your excited about the guy who recruited a team with that little speed? If your excited about his recruiting, I just don't know. I'm not saying the guy is bad. I dont know. But I don't see much here that says he is really good, especially at recruiting. I guess I'm also not a big fan of bielema(sp?). I saw his horrible game management skills in the tenn bowl game. Can we say run the ball? If he had they would have beaten tenn by two touchdowns. Guess I can't hold that against doeren though.
They are in the Big Ten dude. No one has speed at DB if they are not OSU...Penn St. and Michigan do at times but Michigan is down right now. It is convincing a guy from FL to come live in an ice box. If you really think that should be done if a good recruiter at Wisconsin then you need to study recruting a little deeper. As in where do the speed guys come from...
ok. So he can't do what everyone knows needs to be done to beat osu. That's our guy... Yes, do realize that recruiting to Wisconsin and big ten would suck. My point is him being the recruiting coordinator there with their current roster does nothing to make me feel good. Great, so he can't get fast deep south guys to go there like everyone else. Why is that good recruiting? I do believe that cdd knows how to recruit so I trust he will get good recruiters, but this Gus resume doesn't unto itself make me feel good.
Read his bio and give me reasons for the statement you make!:fool: