Joe Rudolph - Offensive Line Coach

[IrishLax]

I'll change the thread title in a sec, can't pass up an opportunity to troll @BeauBenken tho

 

[IrishLax]

 

[Giddyup]

4.5/5 hire.

 

[Giddyup]

 

[notredomer23]

I like this until Hartman gets sacked against Navy.

 

[fightingirish26]

Wisconsin fans trashing his coaching ability, that just cope or?

 

[Giddyup]

Cope, imo looking at the stats. We’ll find out firsthand though.

 

[WilliamWallace]

Well it’s not our last option! Gotta find some positives somewhere

 

[notredomer23]

Wisconsin fans trashing his coaching ability, that just cope or?

Elite OL coach, not so great OC from the sounds of it. I don't mind at all having 3 coaches on the staff with past significant OC roles.

 

[IrishLion]

I like this until Hartman gets sacked against Navy.

ND elects to defer in Dublin. Navy scores on an 12-minute, 16-play drive.

ND’s first play to answer: PA fake to Estime, fake swing to Tyree, deep shot from Hartman to Merriweather… but Hartman is victim to a sack-fumble.

We’re firing Freeman for not taking the ball first against Navy.

We’re firing Golden and Washington for the DL being lost.

We’re firing Parker for not running the damn ball.

We’re firing Hartman for not changing the play and a lack of ball security.

We’re firing Rudolph for his OL being shit after one play.

 

[Giddyup]

Rudolph was O line coach at UW when Jonathon Taylor was averaging 6.5 and 7 yds per carry.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

He coached the O Line that paved the way for Jonathan Taylor when he was a freshman. These were generally not four and five star guys either right?

 

[Giddyup]

Very rare for UW to get 4/5 stars on o line. A lot of diamonds in the rough.

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

I am content, it is not Watt. I hope Watt goes and picks up another gig and we scoop him up in 5-7 years.

 

[irishog77]

I gotta wonder when he was OC/OL coach at Wisconsin, was he really coaching the OL? Or was his version of Chris Watt coaching them?

Or was he coaching OL, and others were calling plays?

I don't really believe above JV level high school football, one can effectively coach the O-line and coordinate the offense. Way too much responsibility.

 

[DONTH8]

Very rare for UW to get 4/5 stars on o line. A lot of diamonds in the rough.

Diamonds forged from Sharp Cheddar.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

E L I T E hire

 

[rtrn2glory]

Joe Rudolph, Offensive Line Coach (FB), Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Joe Rudolph is the Offensive Line Coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

247sports.com

Posted in the other thread too.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Everything I read about this coach says he's very good at OLine coaching. (and TE coaching.) He has TEN OLinemen in the NFL and FIVE TE in the league as well. What I can't tell is if he is too ambitious for his role at ND (at Wisconsin he actually CALLED the offense until Chryst took it away from him in his last year there --- an opinion, this might in part explain why he left for VT, and might also have contributed to the relative mess that the WI staff became and the early firing of Chryst last season.)

I don't doubt that he can coach OLine --- everyone is saying that. I have no doubt that he will put in lots of work recruiting --- he was the central recruiting guy at WI. How insistent is he about calling the plays? How insistent is he about ultimately becoming Head Coach (he had titles like Assistant Head Coach before.) What seems sure is that he is a very strong personality with confidence and ambition.

 

[Giddyup]

I gotta wonder when he was OC/OL coach at Wisconsin, was he really coaching the OL? Or was his version of Chris Watt coaching them?

Or was he coaching OL, and others were calling plays?

I don't really believe above JV level high school football, one can effectively coach the O-line and coordinate the offense. Way too much responsibility.

At Pitt he was AHC/OL coach his line blocked for James Connor at 4.5-6 yds per carry.

 

[ACamp1900]

I'll change the thread title in a sec, can't pass up an opportunity to troll @BeauBenken tho

I have no idea who he is but LAX trolling the thread title makes me worry,…. Lol

 

[irishog77]

I'll change the thread title in a sec, can't pass up an opportunity to troll @BeauBenken tho

Lax sneaking off to go play until his dad comes home to spank him

 

[NDohio]

ND elects to defer in Dublin. Navy scores on an 12-minute, 16-play drive.

ND’s first play to answer: PA fake to Estime, fake swing to Tyree, deep shot from Hartman to Merriweather… but Hartman is victim to a sack-fumble.

We’re firing Freeman for not taking the ball first against Navy.

We’re firing Golden and Washington for the DL being lost.

We’re firing Parker for not running the damn ball.

We’re firing Hartman for not changing the play and a lack of ball security.

We’re firing Rudolph for his OL being shit after one play.

...and the final score is ND-56/Navy-7...

 

[Henges24]

If OMM likes him, I like him

 

[Giddyup]

I will say Joe Rudolph was a stud OL at Wisconsin and helped resurrect that program when Barry Alvarez got to town blocking for Brent Moss and Fletcher.

 

[ColinKSU]

Driskell - openly not a Rudolph fan - saying everyone jumped the gun on this and that he doesn’t even interview until tomorrow is *big weird* considering Joe already dipped from VA Tech on Twitter and Brent Pry literally congratulated him on the ND job.

 

[SouthSideChiDomer]

Let's hope he can build the same type of loyalty that Heistand did. It would be pretty great for both him and the program if, in a few years, he is able to claim NFL stars Joe Alt and Blake Fisher and have them come back to campus to help recruiting.

 

[calvegas04]

ND elects to defer in Dublin. Navy scores on an 12-minute, 16-play drive.

ND’s first play to answer: PA fake to Estime, fake swing to Tyree, deep shot from Hartman to Merriweather… but Hartman is victim to a sack-fumble.

We’re firing Freeman for not taking the ball first against Navy.

We’re firing Golden and Washington for the DL being lost.

We’re firing Parker for not running the damn ball.

We’re firing Hartman for not changing the play and a lack of ball security.

We’re firing Rudolph for his OL being shit after one play.

Leave them all in Dublin, F them!

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

I gotta wonder when he was OC/OL coach at Wisconsin, was he really coaching the OL? Or was his version of Chris Watt coaching them?

Or was he coaching OL, and others were calling plays?

I don't really believe above JV level high school football, one can effectively coach the O-line and coordinate the offense. Way too much responsibility.

 

[notredomer23]

Originally posted by Jamie at ISD: At Wisconsin in his last 3 classes, he signed 6 top 150 OL, 2 of which were 5 stars. That's the same amount of top 150 OL as ND in the same time frame and more 5 stars. If he can do it there, he'll definitely do it here.