Al Washington - DL Coach & Def. Run Game Coordinator

calvegas04 · Sep 10, 2022

Riddickulous said:
He could still turn it around, but he's looking like the worst hire on the new staff. DL has been THE best position group on the team over the last decade. Reliably productive year in and year out, with consistently good depth. He seems to have erased that in a single offseason. Incredibly disappointing.

Worse than HH?

T-Boone · Sep 10, 2022

Agreed. I just read in another thread that he was OSUs DLine coach last season? Is that correct? Didn't they stink in that department?

ThePiombino · Sep 10, 2022

T-Boone said:
Agreed. I just read in another thread that he was OSUs DLine coach last season? Is that correct? Didn't they stink in that department?

He coached linebackers at OSU last year I believe

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ulukinatme · Sep 10, 2022

calvegas04 said:
Worse than HH?

Washington inherited a pretty stalwart group on the DL. Hiestand had to come in to clean up Quinn's mess.

IRISHDODGER · Sep 10, 2022

Washington getting absolutely trashed by OSU fans saying “I told you so”. Some fans said he was a great recruiter but horrible talent developer (see last year) and then most fans said he wasn’t a great recruiter or great talent developer.

BeatSC · Sep 10, 2022

IRISHDODGER said:
Washington getting absolutely trashed by OSU fans saying “I told you so”. Some fans said he was a great recruiter but horrible talent developer (see last year) and then most fans said he wasn’t a great recruiter or great talent developer.

But a good pal of MF apparently

IRISHDODGER · Sep 10, 2022

BeatSC said:
But a good pal of MF apparently

Which means he probably lands on the staff regardless of whether he retained Elston as DC b/c Elston wasn’t staying to be DL Coach

stpeteirish · Sep 11, 2022

Yeah everyone thought every coaching change was an upgrade. Doesn’t look that way now.

Wish we had guys like McNulty and Taylor around to “help” Rees and a head coach who has a little offensive experience.

Jiggafini19Deux · Sep 16, 2022

Everyone is buggin' out on Rees and Hiestand. Early returns on the DL are definitely worth questioning.

2023 and 2024 DL recruiting is going quite well. The 2022 DL Room at The Gug needs to show a lot more going forward, especially if the defense is going to need to drop haymakers for this team to win games. They've looked dead assed in the fourth quarter twice so far.

irishff1014 · Jul 3, 2023

I am not blaming the Scott deal on him because I thought it was a loooooong shot with Him anyways. But I did expect a little better recruiting from him.

And maybe I was expecting to much from him.

PutuporShutup · Jul 3, 2023

irishff1014 said:
I am not blaming the Scott deal on him because I thought it was a loooooong shot with Him anyways. But I did expect a little better recruiting from him.

And maybe I was expecting to much from him.

He’s recruiting and coaching worse than elston did at ND…. And the consensus was elston wasn’t a good enough recruiter

There’s a lot of talent on this years dline, just not a ton of interior size. It should be an extremely disruptive unit. Big year for Washington and the line

Crazy Balki · Jul 3, 2023

PutuporShutup said:
He’s recruiting and coaching worse than elston did at ND…. And the consensus was elston wasn’t a good enough recruiter

There’s a lot of talent on this years dline, just not a ton of interior size. It should be an extremely disruptive unit. Big year for Washington and the line

As usual, insane overreaction and not remotely accurate.

ab2cmiller · Jul 29, 2023

#10

GrangerIrish24 · Jul 29, 2023

ab2cmiller said:
#10

Obviously whoever put this together is not a member on this board

NDisme · Jul 29, 2023

Wild Bateman is 3, his Defenses at UNC were just awful

Rizzophil · Jul 29, 2023

NDisme said:
Wild Bateman is 3, his Defenses at UNC were just awful

Does anyone have a recruit list for weekend BBQ

WilliamWallace · Jul 29, 2023

Rizzophil said:
Does anyone have a recruit list for weekend BBQ

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JamIrish · Jul 29, 2023

ab2cmiller said:
#10

I'm not surprise, I know a lot of people think Al Washington needs to do better but I like him. Recruiting wise he got a real solid group last year, this year I like 3 of the 4 guys we have committed (not too high on Sevellano). Of the nine guys he's landed 7 are ranked as top 200ish guys by at least one service. He also had a hand in getting Ausberry and KVA according to services, who I think are the two best LB's we've landed in the past two classes. The '25 class looks to have some dudes with legit ND interest.

dublinirish · Jul 29, 2023

WilliamWallace said:
Found this over at Rivals,

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So many of these kids are future ND commits it’s a good group

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PutuporShutup · Jul 29, 2023

JamIrish said:
I'm not surprise, I know a lot of people think Al Washington needs to do better but I like him. Recruiting wise he got a real solid group last year, this year I like 3 of the 4 guys we have committed (not too high on Sevellano). Of the nine guys he's landed 7 are ranked as top 200ish guys by at least one service. He also had a hand in getting Ausberry and KVA according to services, who I think are the two best LB's we've landed in the past two classes. The '25 class looks to have some dudes with legit ND interest.

I’m not high at all on the 23 class dline, maybe Vernon if he keeps his act together and is dedicated, but Washington didn’t land him.

Mukam looks slow to me, maybe traore develops. Houston needs to change his entire body.

I’m higher on the 24 class as he’s landed some good under the radar players

ThePiombino · Jul 30, 2023

JamIrish said:
I'm not surprise, I know a lot of people think Al Washington needs to do better but I like him. Recruiting wise he got a real solid group last year, this year I like 3 of the 4 guys we have committed (not too high on Sevellano). Of the nine guys he's landed 7 are ranked as top 200ish guys by at least one service. He also had a hand in getting Ausberry and KVA according to services, who I think are the two best LB's we've landed in the past two classes. The '25 class looks to have some dudes with legit ND interest.

Ausberry over Bowen IYO?

Irish#1 · Jul 30, 2023

NDisme said:
Wild Bateman is 3, his Defenses at UNC were just awful

Knowing how to recruit isn’t the same thing as knowing how to coach! Lol

PutuporShutup · Jul 30, 2023

He’s probably 4th best at nd alone

JamIrish · Jul 30, 2023

ThePiombino said:
Ausberry over Bowen IYO?

I like Ausberry a little better because he gives us that play in space backer. I think he's a little more advanced than Drayk is too currently. Both are really good though and potentially, the best 1-2 punch we've had since Coney/Tranquill. They compliment each other really well. I think Zinter also flashed in the spring game too.

rtrn2glory · Jul 30, 2023

Off subject but what's the over under on Washington's waist line? 46.5?

PutuporShutup · Jul 30, 2023

rtrn2glory said:
Off subject but what's the over under on Washington's waist line? 46.5?

Uh… way over

Jiggafini19Deux · Jul 31, 2023

rtrn2glory said:
Off subject but what's the over under on Washington's waist line? 46.5?

Giddyup · Jul 31, 2023

I don’t care to know either.

LSWho? · Oct 15, 2023

This guy took a lot of heat last year and early this year. But Al Golden isn't the only "Al" coaching his ass off.

ThePiombino · Oct 15, 2023

LSWho? said:
This guy took a lot of heat last year and early this year. But Al Golden isn't the only "Al" coaching his ass off.

Let's pump the brakes. This was the 1st game in which the DL imposed its will this season.

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