Brian Mason

NDpendent · Mar 4, 2023

calvegas04 said:
Does no one want to ride it out with MF?

When you have good coaches you will have them leave for promotions.

FWIrish4 · Mar 4, 2023

Polish Leppy 22 said:
It's not a MF thing. It's a college football is turning into an unsustainable hell for assistant coaches thing. We've seen a good number (Florida just lost 3 assistants to the NFL) jump to the NFL for less stress, no recruiting, no NIL stuff, and sometimes more money.

The head coaches won't jump because they make too much money, but my guess is assistants will continue leaving unless the NCAA changes the recruiting calendar and signing day. December is an idiotic month in college football right now.

Yes, this is spot on. I believe the coaches association is voting on new calendar formats to present to the NCAA because of this.

No idea how these coaches maintain a family.

allenm5333 · Mar 4, 2023

FWIrish4 said:
Yes, this is spot on. I believe the coaches association is voting on new calendar formats to present to the NCAA because of this.

No idea how these coaches maintain a family.

Cover 3 podcast discussed this this week. They actually said the numbers aren't dramatically different than in past. Also, many of these assistant coaches at the college are there because they can recruit. NOT because they are scheme or actual coaching gurus. Recruiters won't be brought to NFL

Huntr · Mar 4, 2023

stlnd01 · Mar 4, 2023

allenm5333 said:
Cover 3 podcast discussed this this week. They actually said the numbers aren't dramatically different than in past. Also, many of these assistant coaches at the college are there because they can recruit. NOT because they are scheme or actual coaching gurus. Recruiters won't be brought to NFL

Maybe it’s the timing then? It feels like this coaching carousel has been spinning since October. It’s March.

Used to be most assistant coach moved happened right after signing day, which was a month ago now. Maybe the NFL extending its schedule a bit pushed their coach hiring season later. Maybe more of our guys are NFL candidates right now. But it would be nice to have a stable coaching staff for a week or two.

Because while I agree it’s not a big problem for Freeman that his coaches get hired away for “better” jobs, it is a problem for recruiting and, to some extent, retaining current players. All this instability makes it really hard to build relationships. Hypothetical but if Stuckey leaves, does Styles or Colzie look at their third WR coach in three years and say “I’m outta here.”

ThePiombino · Mar 4, 2023

2 coordinators down, 1 to go...

StPaul_Irish · Mar 4, 2023

Marty B time?

notredomer23 · Mar 4, 2023

1. I sincerely hope Freeman is able to maintain the special teams culture Mason was able to create in such a short time. I don’t think we will see too significant of a drop off if starters are still itching to be on punt block and such.

2. Part of me feels special teams coach be damned and they should hire a stud recruiter on the offensive side. Then I remember how bad Polian was and I don’t wanna go back to those times.

rtrn2glory · Mar 4, 2023

Whoever we get to replace we need to be sure we keep what Mason has instilled within the program. Dudes were excited to do special teams and it showed. We can't take a step back with that mentality

Jiggafini19Deux · Mar 4, 2023

Kerry Coombs didn't go to Madison with Fickell and stayed with the Bearcats under Satterfield. The UC connection.

Levar Woods at Iowa can coach TE and ST. He's also from Iowa and played there, and with Kirk not going anywhere he might have a job for life.

zbikowski88 · Mar 4, 2023

Giddyup · Mar 4, 2023

Chris Haering was a TE and ST coach with Rudolph at Wisconsin. Not sure how good of a recruiter he is. Just a name to keep an eye on.

Grahambo · Mar 4, 2023

Congrats to Mase. Anytime anybody lands a dream job or gets promoted I got to be happy for that person.

NDFAN2008 · Mar 4, 2023

I’d rather lose Mason than Stuckey

Katzenboyer · Mar 4, 2023

Tough loss, but nothing that can't be overcome.

EvilleIrish · Mar 4, 2023

Who is Loy saying is a candidate?

NDFAN2008 · Mar 4, 2023

Marty Biagi used to be an assistant here

Cackalacky2.0 · Mar 4, 2023

On the list of coaches I’m worried about losing STs is near the bottom. Good luck Brian!

Jiggafini19Deux · Mar 4, 2023

EvilleIrish said:
Who is Loy saying is a candidate?

Marty Biagi at Ole Miss. He was a finalist when Freeman hired Mason.

zbikowski88 · Mar 4, 2023

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SouthSideChiDomer · Mar 4, 2023

Jiggafini19Deux said:
Kerry Coombs didn't go to Madison with Fickell and stayed with the Bearcats under Satterfield. The UC connection.

Levar Woods at Iowa can coach TE and ST. He's also from Iowa and played there, and with Kirk not going anywhere he might have a job for life.

Also played LB and spent 3 years coaching LB at Iowa. So he could help with either (both?) of the coordinators' position groups.

Irish4life · Mar 4, 2023

Makes perfect sense, best of luck

StPaul_Irish · Mar 4, 2023

How were Ole Miss Special teams?

Old Man Mike · Mar 4, 2023

Biagi was a punter and a kicker at Marshall. If he has gone on to coach that on several college teams, logic says that he knows what he's doing there. Lane Kiffen hired him off Purdue's staff. One assumes that Kiffen is knowledgeable about such things and he liked Biagi. Ole Miss felt that it needed a lot of ST improvement going into last year. Biagi was supposed to be an answer. I don't know if he was, but Freeman must think so if he's being considered. There are remarks around that Biagi made sometimes in his career watchlists for ST coach of the year. ... and did so two separate years. I don't have details about that.

IAIrish · Mar 4, 2023

Im on the Lembo train after watching SC in the bowl game. ND needs ST to be an elite/advantage if offense/ defense are less than elite.

NDRock · Mar 4, 2023

StPaul_Irish said:
How were Ole Miss Special teams?

Not sure but I’m hoping our success last year had a lot to do with Freeman focusing on being great there and not just Mason. We’ll see.

Jiggafini19Deux · Mar 4, 2023

Pete Lembo has something that is far more valuable than South Carolina's special teams performances.

He's won 112 games as a head coach.

Played at Georgetown. Coached at Dartmouth, Lehigh and Rice.

allenm5333 · Mar 4, 2023

Jiggafini19Deux said:
Pete Lembo has something that is far more valuable than South Carolina's special teams performances.

He's won 112 games as a head coach.

Played at Georgetown. Coached at Dartmouth, Lehigh and Rice.

And was the head coach at Ball State. Which is in what state...?

ColinKSU · Mar 4, 2023

allenm5333 said:
And was the head coach at Ball State. Which is in what state...?

Ball.

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