ND Coaching Changes 2016

[phgreek]

Mike Elko: Sources tell FootballScoop there have been overtures from other programs; but sources tell us Wake Forest defensive coordinaor Mike Elko is likely to wind up in South Bend.

ND to interview internal candidate Elston tomorrow...just enough time for Phil knight to intervene for the ducks...if Elko is ready, just sign him...GEEZ!

 

[Blaise]

ND to interview internal candidate Elston tomorrow...just enough time for Phil knight to intervene for the ducks...if Elko is ready, just sign him...GEEZ!

OR more likely Elko, like any of us, likes being recruited and wants to see what Oregon or Florida has to say before he commits here... you never just say yes to the first girl who asks u to the dance, you check out all your options and pick the hottest one

 

[ACamp1900]

you never just say yes to the first girl who asks u to the dance, you check out all your options and pick the hottest one

 

[phgreek]

OR more likely Elko, like any of us, likes being recruited and wants to see what Oregon or Florida has to say before he commits here... you never just say yes to the first girl who asks u to the dance, you check out all your options and pick the hottest one

Unless the one you really want is sitting on the end of your bed with nothing but one of your shirts on...you shoppin around then?

 

[Ndaccountant]

I bet you hooked up at weddings with the first pussy that would brush your side too....

 

[irishff1014]

Elko according to Loy left about an hour ago.

 

[dwshade]

new coach at temple..prob missed it in the coaching changes thread as non-ND and ND coaching changes were being discussed in there..that's why i made this one

Thanks. That one got past me.

 

[dwshade]

Actually they did kind of shut down Louisville. The score is misleading. It was 12-10 Wake at the beginning of the 4th quarter. Then Wake kept giving the ball to Louisville in their own territory. Out of Louisville's 4 possessions in the 4th quarter, 2 started in WF territory, 1 at the Louisville 48 and one at their 35. Plus there was a pick six in there that distorts the score further.

Correct. I watched that game and for three quarters WF held Louisville's offense down as well as any defense I saw this year. Aggressive, sound defense.

 

[dwshade]

OR more likely Elko, like any of us, likes being recruited and wants to see what Oregon or Florida has to say before he commits here... you never just say yes to the first girl who asks u to the dance, you check out all your options and pick the hottest one

Just can't see him at Oregon. He's been an east coast, midwest guy far so long. Went to college at Penn.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

ND COACHING CHANGES 2016

ND COACHING CHANGES 2016

Haven't been following it much. What's great about Elko? WF didn't exactly shut down Louisville or Clemson, allowing more points than our fired DC when we played them last. What am I missing?

What's great is his name is NOT Elston, and he's not part of the current establishment. He's an outsider.

Guess you can say the endearment towards him is the same one lots of people felt for Trump on Election Day.

Maybe Elko will "drain the swamp" of shitty tackling and uninspired play!!!!!!

Maybe he will MAKE ND DEFENSE GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!

 

[ND Fan Vancouver]

Whoever we get as a DC will have some fairly good talent much of which simply hasn't been put in position to maximize their ability. We need a new defensive philosophy and scheme to create more pressure, allow our play makers make plays and cut down on giving up big plays. We need some true sophomores to really emerge this year ie Daelin, Kareem, Love, Vaughn and also we need some veterans to really step up starting with Tillery, Tranquil, Bilal etc. If we can do this I honestly think we can get back to 10-2. I have a ton of confidence in our offense. I think Kelly will tighten up play calling and I think Wimbush is going to be dynamic. I had a look at his HS highlight film last night and he is a dynamic play maker. If we don't improve defensively we could certainly be looking at another sub .500 season though. I truly think this.

 

[IrishLax]

figured one specific to ND changes as they are getting placed in 2 different threads and now we have more than BVG to replace
CURRENT
1-Wide receivers coach: Mike Denbrock
2-Offensive line coach: Harry Hiestand
3-Quarterbacks coach:
4-Offensive coordinator:
5-Tight ends coach:
6-Running backs coach: Autry Denson

7-Defensive coordinator:
8-Defensive line coach: Keith Gilmore
9-Defensive backs coach: Todd Lyght
10-Linebackers coach: Mike Elston
11-Special teams coordinator:

Off-field staff
Special assistant to the head coach: Bob Elliott
Strength & Conditioning coach: Paul Longo
Asst. S&C coach: Jeff Quinn
Asst. S&C coach: David Grimes
Asst. S&C coach: Jeff Flint
Defensive analyst: Greg Hudson
Special teams analyst: Marty Biagi
Senior defensive analyst: Jeff Burris

This is literally a copy and paste of a pay walled VIP post by Tom Loy on 247... you know better...

I know it's not "inside info" but you can't just be ripping someone else's post like this without attribution when it's not free content.

 

[tko]

What's great is his name is NOT Elston, and he's not part of the current establishment. He's an outsider.

Guess you can say the endearment towards him is the same one lots of people felt for Trump on Election Day.

Maybe Elko will "drain the swamp" of shitty tackling and uninspired play!!!!!!

Maybe he will MAKE ND DEFENSE GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!

I still think we bring the New Zealand rugby players in to teach some serious tackling skills. Finish it off with some hacka dancing.

 

[PANDFAN]

latest per 247---offer on table and a VERY GOOD ONE,

per a source he said "He loved it at Notre Dame today. Loved it,"

he would bring 1 ASSISTANT DL coach Dave Cohen <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7biLNEvuodM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Latest on Notre Dame and Mike Elko (9:30 pm Update)

 

[PANDFAN]

This is literally a copy and paste of a pay walled VIP post by Tom Loy on 247... you know better...

I know it's not "inside info" but you can't just be ripping someone else's post like this without attribution when it's not free content.

sorry, didn't realize a roster of coaches were vip or special info....removed

 

[koonja]

latest per 247---offer on table and a VERY GOOD ONE,

per a source he said "He loved it at Notre Dame today. Loved it,"

he would bring 1 ASSISTANT DL coach Dave Cohen <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7biLNEvuodM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Latest on Notre Dame and Mike Elko (9:30 pm Update)

Wow, this would be amazing.

IMO, the 3 coaches that need to go, in order:

Longo,


Gilmore,
Booker.

This would mean Gilmore and Booker were taken care of, assuming the DL coach would still coach DL and not move to something else.

 

[BeauBenken]

latest per 247---offer on table and a VERY GOOD ONE,

per a source he said "He loved it at Notre Dame today. Loved it,"

he would bring 1 ASSISTANT DL coach Dave Cohen <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7biLNEvuodM" allowfullscreen="" height="315" frameborder="0" width="560"></iframe>

Latest on Notre Dame and Mike Elko (9:30 pm Update)

Dave Cohen Bio - Wake Forest Football - WakeForestSports.com

In 1999, Cohen joined head coach Dave Clawson's first-year staff at Fordham and spent three seasons as the defensive coordinator, associate head coach and linebackers coach. Following the 2001 season, Cohen returned to Delaware for four seasons and helped the Blue Hens to the FCS national championship in 2003 with a 40-0 shutout of Colgate in the title game. Delaware went 15-1 that season en route to the national title. He was named the I-AA National Defensive Coordinator of the Year by Football Monthly.

Following his four-year stint at Hofstra, Cohen became the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Western Michigan in 2010. In 2011 the Broncos' defense was ranked 10th in the nation in turnovers gained with 31, was sixth in red zone defense and first in the nation in fourth down defense. Three of his players earned All-Mid-American Conference honors with Drew Nowak earning All-America status.

In 2012, Cohen took over the linebacker duties at Rutgers and coached one of the top defensive units in school history. The Scarlet Knights finished fourth in the nation in scoring defense (14.2 points allowed per game), tied for ninth in turnovers gained (32) and 10th in total defense (311.6 yards per game). Linebacker Khaseem Greene earned Big East Defensive Player of the Year honors and was named an All-America after making 136 tackles and forcing six fumbles. Green was a fourth round pick of the Chicago Bears in the NFL Draft.

In 2013, Cohen coordinated a Rutgers defense that ranked third in the nation in run defense.

Cohen is reunited on the Wake Forest staff with defensive coordinator Mike Elko. Elko served as the defensive coordinator at Hofstra from 2006-08 under Cohen.

 

[NDShark]

latest per 247---offer on table and a VERY GOOD ONE,

per a source he said "He loved it at Notre Dame today. Loved it,"

he would bring 1 ASSISTANT DL coach Dave Cohen <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7biLNEvuodM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Latest on Notre Dame and Mike Elko (9:30 pm Update)

Thanks for sharing -- appears to be some intensity there, which is nice.

 

[#1rish]

latest per 247---offer on table and a VERY GOOD ONE,

per a source he said "He loved it at Notre Dame today. Loved it,"

he would bring 1 ASSISTANT DL coach Dave Cohen

Latest on Notre Dame and Mike Elko (9:30 pm Update)

Interesting, Cohen was previous ex-DC for Rutgers before his time at WF. Was accused of bullying and verbal abuse by a player but was ultimately cleared. Hope he's able to establish some sort of relationship with East Coast recruits. All but disappeared since Diaco left (with the exception of the Ademilola twins from NJ).

 

[dublinirish]

Dave Cohen Bio - Wake Forest Football - WakeForestSports.com

 

[NDdomer2]

Elko would bring a long time LB coach with him to coach DL?

 

[phgreek]

latest per 247---offer on table and a VERY GOOD ONE,

per a source he said "He loved it at Notre Dame today. Loved it,"

he would bring 1 ASSISTANT DL coach Dave Cohen <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7biLNEvuodM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Latest on Notre Dame and Mike Elko (9:30 pm Update)

...Thank God...at least it appears they did what they could to get a decent DC. Worried they were gonna hold everything up in order to interview internally. That should have been done weeks ago and killed the external search if an internal candidate was the man.

 

[PANDFAN]

ACU expects to announce new football coach soon

regarding Denson, HOWEVER On RB coach Autry Denson...

INDICATES HE WILL REMAIN as RB coach at ND for 2017

 

[GATTACA!]

Interesting, Cohen was previous ex-DC for Rutgers before his time at WF. Was accused of bullying and verbal abuse by a player but was ultimately cleared. Hope he's able to establish some sort of relationship with East Coast recruits. All but disappeared since Diaco left (with the exception of the Ademilola twins from NJ).

He doesn't respect safe spaces?..........do not want

 

[NDShark]

He doesn't respect safe spaces?..........do not want

If anyone cares to read...it's unclear to me what happened. It sounds like Cohen called him soft and a p-word during study hall and other people piled on and then the player quit? Also note that this followed up Mike Rice's investigation. He was their bball coach who was throwing balls at players, pushing them and using gay slurs.

Rutgers football player claims defensive coordinator Dave Cohen bullied and verbally abused him | NJ.com

Rutgers releases investigator's report on Jevon Tyree football bullying allegations | NJ.com

 

[dwshade]

Elko would bring a long time LB coach with him to coach DL?

He's coached the DL the last four years at WF. Most of these guys are capable of coaching different positions. Elston started out for us on DL then moved to LB.

 

[IrishLax]

One interesting point of note... Gilmore has 7 years of special teams coaching experience, and has also coached RBs and played/coached LBs.

It wouldn't surprise me that if Elko brings in the DL coach he likes that Gilmore is retained as a special teams coach + some other capacity. I'm also interested to see if Elston would stay, and what happens to Lyght given that Elko coaches safeties. I really hope we keep Lyght as a cornerbacks coach, because I've been super impressed with the CBs he signed last year and how he coached them up as true freshmen after BVG stopped asking them to do impossible shit.

 

[NDgradstudent]

Are we expecting Urban to offer Elston a "title" (like Alford) to try to lure him away? He wouldn't be offered the DC position at OSU right?

 

[Meatloaf]

Josh Newberg ‏@joshnewberg247
Based on what I'm hearing regarding the financial terms of the deal offered by ND to Mike Elko, I find it nearly impossible he turns it down

From twitter. Fairly certain he covers Florida State and covers the ACC a bit.

 

[dwshade]

One interesting point of note... Gilmore has 7 years of special teams coaching experience, and has also coached RBs and played/coached LBs.

It wouldn't surprise me that if Elko brings in the DL coach he likes that Gilmore is retained as a special teams coach + some other capacity. I'm also interested to see if Elston would stay, and what happens to Lyght given that Elko coaches safeties. I really hope we keep Lyght as a cornerbacks coach, because I've been super impressed with the CBs he signed last year and how he coached them up as true freshmen after BVG stopped asking them to do impossible shit.

I'm quite certain Elston will remain as LB coach and recruiting coordinator. He's been with Kelly 13 years and he's very happy at ND. Also would expect Lyght to remain as CB coach with Elko handling safeties.