Charlie Partridge - Defensive Line Coach

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Jiggafini19Deux said:
This is serious business here. What an awesome hire this is. The defensive staff is really going to be rock solid.

Coach P with the ND brand and resources behind him? Let's go.
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You apparently know something about this coach. If you are super excited about it, Then we should all be.

I don’t know much about him and will have to read up.
 
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irishff1014 said:
Insane might be a strong word.
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Why? Entire secondary returning. Lbs and DEs returning. Incredible freshman class coming in. Lots of experience at all levels. Elite staff, another year in the system for a group that was pretty elite the 2nd half of the seasons. Look at the sack and TO numbers and consider they basically did it in 10 games.
We def need a good portal DT or two, but sky is the limit for the defense next year.
 
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Te'o4Heisman said:
Why? Entire secondary returning. Lbs and DEs returning. Incredible freshman class coming in. Lots of experience at all levels. Elite staff, another year in the system for a group that was pretty elite the 2nd half of the seasons. Look at the sack and TO numbers and consider they basically did it in 10 games.
We def need a good portal DT or two, but sky is the limit for the defense next year.
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And the head f'ing gangsta Chris Ash pulling the strings.
 
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Staff changes are always interesting to me when they follow rumors of the head coach tinkering with the idea of leaving. Not that I necessarily believed the rumors but I wonder if this is good news as far as Freeman’s tenure is concerned.
 
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arrowryan said:
Why is this considered a home run hire? Just curious. I don’t know anything about him.
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Elite recruiter, elite at coaching his position, experience at DC and HC, NFL and high level college experience.

He was the guy coaching JJ Watt when he was a pizza boy.
 
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Te'o4Heisman said:
Why? Entire secondary returning. Lbs and DEs returning. Incredible freshman class coming in. Lots of experience at all levels. Elite staff, another year in the system for a group that was pretty elite the 2nd half of the seasons. Look at the sack and TO numbers and consider they basically did it in 10 games.
We def need a good portal DT or two, but sky is the limit for the defense next year.
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We need 3 DT’s 2 of them being starters. Boubacar is our best pass rushing end. Young was slower with the extra weight. Yes, we just hired a new DL coach that is supposed to be good. Hopefully he can help him. Today is the first day of the portal so we’ll have to see what the can do with the DT’s.

Sneed is one of my all time favorite recruits but he can never put it all together. We will miss KVA for the first 6 weeks or so. KVA might end up the best linebacker in the last 10-12 years outside of Jaylon Smith.

Until we know exactly how that plays out insane isn’t on the table for me.
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:
He was my guy my first semester as a GA at Eastern Illinois in fall of 2002. Elite recruiter. We stacked the roster for when Tony Romo and that class left. The program is going to have bigger inroads on the DL now and in Florida. He can coach DL, LB, special teams. He's been a DC and was HC at FAU for three years. Stacked their roster for Kiffin.

This is tremendous. Great way to start off the New Year. If this is Pete and Marcus' first show across the bow, be fucking warned.
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We now have more coaching sources on staff than Driskell. Only took one hire!
 
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I can't begin to tell you how well thought of Patridge is in South Florida. This is MASSIVE, solely for the recruiting...

...but the guy is also an elite DL coach. I think his Pitt teams ranked top 10 in sacks each year he was there (although I may be misremembering that). Amazing, amazing hire.

Also (and this is the optimist in me, maybe) but I don't think this is a move Partridge makes if he believes Freeman is leaving for the NFL next year.
 
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Katzenboyer said:
Also (and this is the optimist in me, maybe) but I don't think this is a move Partridge makes if he believes Freeman is leaving for the NFL next year.
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I say this as a person who thinks Freeman is around beyond 2026, but the alternate thought would be that he is hitching his wagon to a coach who DOES have NFL aspirations at some point.
 
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Excellent hire. He’s done a great job with the Colts in the short time he was here.
 
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I say this as a person who thinks Freeman is around beyond 2026, but the alternate thought would be that he is hitching his wagon to a coach who DOES have NFL aspirations at some point.
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You're not wrong - that's the other side of the coin. But Partridge already was coaching in the NFL. Why hitch your wagon on a maybe if what you want is the NFL, and you're already there?
 
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Ash, Partridge and Dave Doeren were all GA guys at Drake. Years later, At one point all three of them were head coaches.

Partridge was a natural with parents. I've never seen anything like it. Every interaction was a coaching clinic, too. He'd be teaching guys swim moves, rips, whatever. It was pretty cool to watch him work.

He's only spent two years in the NFL, and it is this current one. He's a college coach all the way. Only 52 years old with nearly 30 years of coaching experience.

@Katzenboyer is right about Coach P's rep in South Florida. I really hope it manifests itself on the recruiting trail. In the one year he was at EIU, we kicked down some doors and brought in some dudes at the FCS level. In some cases we were signing guys we had no business getting. By 2005 we were back on top of the OVC after a couple of down years after Romo and those guys left.
 
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Katzenboyer said:
You're not wrong - that's the other side of the coin. But Partridge already was coaching in the NFL. Why hitch your wagon on a maybe if what you want is the NFL, and you're already there?
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I agree with you. If I were a position coach or coordinator, there isn't a coach I would rather hitch my wagon to than MF, no matter whether he remains at ND or goes to the NFL. By the time he is finished, MF could have a coaching tree to rival Saban's. I know that's a bold statement, but coaches are, and will be, drawn to working for him.
 
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