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Traylor will finally have the support and facilities to "sell the ice cream to the eskimos". Congrats to him, maybe we should keep an eye out for his position staff or the unemployed TAMU coaches for our DC

Agreed I understand giving FBS position coaches the opportunity to advance, but lets earn some stripes as a DC at the FCS level maybe make a few friends along the way (get an up on the portal entries) But we give Caponi the bus keys and he loads it with anyone willing to leave Ames for Denton as defensive staffers All experienced with a defensive scheme we again don't have the personnel for Then hire a UH assistant that's never ran a room to coach our front So even if we axed or demoted our DC the remaining crew will be no different

Justin Deason snagged a high school gig after Morris left for P5. Deason was the DC for TAMUC national championship team with Carthel. Deason would have been a great DC (with a proven resume) instead of giving these Iowa St position guys a shot.

Its not the DC fault, he knows the 3-3-5. He's coached a position group for this defense, he doesn't have the experience to run any other. The 3-3-5 will work but you must have the right personnel and safeties and linebackers that can tackle in the open field. We have neither. And although we have excellent facilities good juco and portal entrants have better opportunities.

Definitely. A few months ago we wanted a splash, didn't want a hayseed FCS coach like Carthel. I'm not gonna guarantee these last two as wins but nobody would have left feeling embarassed, especially from a defensive standpoint.

One of our wishlist guys for HC was Garret Riley (now Clemson OC), he didn't look too impressive against Duke

Come On fellas, you hire a DC thats never been a DC, a linebackers coach thats spent the last 5 years as an assistant player rep then you sprinkle in a defensive line guy thats never ran his own room and expect to not get 60 hung on you? Then your receipt keeper can maybe get us in a few high school kids (2 yr works in progress) when you need coaches and folks with connections with other coaches that can give you a heads up with portal kids. Which is the single most important connection to have, in the new football environment

Dang it! I was trying to be overly positive since the last couple of hires wrecked my defense. But you sniffed me out, yes Jennings is an alum and he's bounced around a few places (his industry has deemed him not a go getter) maybe why he's available. I'm excited once more, mainly because you boys tell me to give this a chance. 🙂

Now we are talking! Jennings is a home run hire. Maybe he can help our DC

He’s been a grad assistant since July 21 and 11 mos as a high school coach but technically you are correct though

Didn’t have a bio on the Houston coaches page so I can’t verify that. Hopefully he’s an ok coach

Well now I’m hearing the dline coach is a first year grad assistant from Houston that played at smut. So we are falling fast on the defensive side. Holy cow

He’s not an on field coach

A concern that I have is Gilbert, he brings the smoke with our recruiting but can he be everywhere? Owens is a huge resource but he can’t visit coaches, families or kids. He can sit things up where our foreigners can visit. I know I’m blowing it up a lot, but to think theirs not going to be eyes on coach o just waiting to slap recruiting violations upon us (Smut). So to me the support staff lb coach is another product that finds talent but has NEVER been in a high school or living room. I pray I’m wrong but we were blazing until the defense came onboard

Iowa st runs a 3-5-3 so our assistant personnel director is coaching a good amount of defensive players that’s my reasoning for being so skeptical