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Any news on filling the football coaching vacancies?

Ok waiting isn't working much. The 2022 AFCA college coaching convention was held in Jan 9-11 in San Antonio. That coaching convention used to field the next year's openings which was nearly a month ago. I don't expect any announcements today, but certainly next week something should be breaking free on TWO prominent positions for us. A play-calling DC coach & WR coach (which Purdue will live and die on with Brohm's offense). DC can likely come within and backfill that opening with a position coach, but WR coach cannot be a swing and miss.
Anyone in the know with at least candidates would be appreciated. Applicants must have already been in the works.
 
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I haven't seen anything on possible WR coaches, but looking around I think Western Kentucky’s Josh Crawford looks interesting. I know Brohm probably doesn't want to keep raiding the same program, but their passing game was quite lethal this past year. Crawford only has one year of college experience having been a high school coach prior, but he was at some of the top schools in Georgia. That could lead to some in roads to the best recruiting areas in the country. Like I said, I haven't heard anything and I have no idea who Brohm might be considering. Just though this guy looked interesting.
 
Esox54547 said:
I haven't seen anything on possible WR coaches, but looking around I think Western Kentucky’s Josh Crawford looks interesting. I know Brohm probably doesn't want to keep raiding the same program, but their passing game was quite lethal this past year. Crawford only has one year of college experience having been a high school coach prior, but he was at some of the top schools in Georgia. That could lead to some in roads to the best recruiting areas in the country. Like I said, I haven't heard anything and I have no idea who Brohm might be considering. Just though this guy looked interesting.
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CJB, his brother, father & possibly son were in the picture at the Bellarmine vs Liberty game last night. I suspect it was more than a family visit to watch a small D1 game on a Thursday night. Either a coach was interviewed in Louisville area or a player was being evaluated as a portal transfer. Would be interesting to have a 6-7 to 6-10 T.E. with great hands (I'm just speculating with ZERO insight at all).
Due to the need for coaches, I would further speculate it was an interview offsite which is normal in the coaching world.
 
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purduepat1969 said:
Actually, yeah...

The hire I'm not sure I understand is McGee...others seem to be OK.

And its were, not we're if you're gonna be an asshole...
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Got to admit, I’m not wowed either. However, I’m not connected to the industry like they are. I’ll just have to see if good results continue or if there is slippage or not. We’ll see in 8-9 months.
 
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purduepat1969 said:
Not real impressed...
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I’m fine with all of them. McGee seems to be where most are not impressed but brohm coaches with him before and while he moves around a lot seems to be everywhere at least two years since 2003 and usually gets a promotion. It doesn’t hurt to have former coordinators and head coach on staff instead of unproven commodities that if successful will bail on you.
 
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I’m fine with all of them. McGee seems to be where most are not impressed but brohm coaches with him before and while he moves around a lot seems to be everywhere at least two years since 2003 and usually gets a promotion. It doesn’t hurt to have former coordinators and head coach on staff instead of unproven commodities that if successful will bail on you.
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was hoping for Tyler Stubblefield.
 
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purduepat1969 said:
Actually, yeah...

The hire I'm not sure I understand is McGee...others seem to be OK.

And its were, not we're if you're gonna be an asshole...
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Admittedly, the McGee hiring is one I am a little leery of, but, the Elson one is the one that really stood out to me as one that I did not understand.

I get that Purdue had 3 DC's essentially, but, Lambert was the headliner...and, given where Purdue was before he arrived...I would have thought that replacing him would still be fairly important to find someone of like quality and success...just really hard to believe that was achieved, and, really hard to believe that there were not some better potential candidates.

Admittedly...I know nothing...lots of guys with seemingly nice resumes that have proven to be awful in large part, so, perhaps this works...but, given what happened before Lambert, and, what then happened with him, I do have some concerns...Purdue REALLY needs some stability on that side of the ball from a coaching standpoint, and, lost a fairly critical piece in Lambert.
 
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Admittedly, the McGee hiring is one I am a little leery of, but, the Elson one is the one that really stood out to me as one that I did not understand.

I get that Purdue had 3 DC's essentially, but, Lambert was the headliner...and, given where Purdue was before he arrived...I would have thought that replacing him would still be fairly important to find someone of like quality and success...just really hard to believe that was achieved, and, really hard to believe that there were not some better potential candidates.

Admittedly...I know nothing...lots of guys with seemingly nice resumes that have proven to be awful in large part, so, perhaps this works...but, given what happened before Lambert, and, what then happened with him, I do have some concerns...Purdue REALLY needs some stability on that side of the ball from a coaching standpoint, and, lost a fairly critical piece in Lambert.
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English will call plays, not Elson.
 
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DAG10 said:
Admittedly, the McGee hiring is one I am a little leery of, but, the Elson one is the one that really stood out to me as one that I did not understand.

I get that Purdue had 3 DC's essentially, but, Lambert was the headliner...and, given where Purdue was before he arrived...I would have thought that replacing him would still be fairly important to find someone of like quality and success...just really hard to believe that was achieved, and, really hard to believe that there were not some better potential candidates.

Admittedly...I know nothing...lots of guys with seemingly nice resumes that have proven to be awful in large part, so, perhaps this works...but, given what happened before Lambert, and, what then happened with him, I do have some concerns...Purdue REALLY needs some stability on that side of the ball from a coaching standpoint, and, lost a fairly critical piece in Lambert.
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English has plenty of experience at DC and was a Broyles finalist at Michigan. He was also DC when brohm was OC at Louisville. When we said we had 3 DCs it’s true and I have a lot of confidence in English.
 
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POTFHBTFU said:
English has plenty of experience at DC and was a Broyles finalist at Michigan. He was also DC when brohm was OC at Louisville. When we said we had 3 DCs it’s true and I have a lot of confidence in English.
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Agree. English has done it well and at a high level in the past. Like most, not really HC material and trying to work some of the tarnish off the resume with good work here.
Would be awesome if he stuck around for awhile here and had success. I definitely don’t think all of the credit of last years defense solely goes to Lambert.
 
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POTFHBTFU said:
English has plenty of experience at DC and was a Broyles finalist at Michigan. He was also DC when brohm was OC at Louisville. When we said we had 3 DCs it’s true and I have a lot of confidence in English.
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I hope that it works...we had 3 DCs, but, Lambert was THE DC, and, hired as such.

I like English...I was happy that Purdue hired him...and, he will be the primary DC now it seems.

Hard to know how much of the improvement made last year was attributable to Lambert...hopefully less than he was given credit for.
 
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I hope that it works...we had 3 DCs, but, Lambert was THE DC, and, hired as such.

I like English...I was happy that Purdue hired him...and, he will be the primary DC now it seems.

Hard to know how much of the improvement made last year was attributable to Lambert...hopefully less than he was given credit for.
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Having a healthy Karlaftis the entire season helped. And being lucky on corner injuries where Purdue was thin…so thin in fact that a safety played the entire game at corner
 
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Having a healthy Karlaftis the entire season helped. And being lucky on corner injuries where Purdue was thin…so thin in fact that a safety played the entire game at corner
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Don't disagree, although, I do feel that Diaco was so inept, that even having Karlaftis would not have hidden that fact.

It is just tough to have been through 3 DCs in 3 years...

Diaco was a downgrade somehow...Lambert certainly an upgrade (literally impossible not to be...leaving the position vacant would have still been an upgrade)...not sure what English really represents...he is still better than Diaco...and probably better than Holt...but, it would have been nice to see them add someone that might have an impact in recruiting at the least to fill the position open with Lambert's departure.

Again...I don't foresee Purdue being dominant on that side of the ball anyway, and, even less so absent Karlaftis...but, they need some stability in the staff...especially on that side of the ball.
 
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nat100 said:
He wasn’t staying
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Did you know that during season? Or are you only saying that now after he left? Ie, yeah it makes sense he'd leave with an opening available at Wake Forest. But do you think Brohm hired him knowing he'd leave after one season?
 
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Did you know that during season? Or are you only saying that now after he left? Ie, yeah it makes sense he'd leave with an opening available at Wake Forest. But do you think Brohm hired him knowing he'd leave after one season?
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I say that knowing the reason he took the wake job. We weren’t keeping him once that was offered
 
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The forum just wants to be acquaintances
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you replied to somebody else , what coach did you like. So i replied for him. how was i supposed to know when you used the word you, you were asking the question of somebody else and not you're best friend , moi?
 
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I may be stating the obvious, but I’ve seen some comments about having multiple DCs and pros/cons. With having guys with that title have success with a system last year and stay, doesn’t that prevent a new hire “DC” from walking in day 1 and changing the whole philosophy to fit his system? I know CJB has a say as well, but I’m excluding him from the defensive room.
 
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I may be stating the obvious, but I’ve seen some comments about having multiple DCs and pros/cons. With having guys with that title have success with a system last year and stay, doesn’t that prevent a new hire “DC” from walking in day 1 and changing the whole philosophy to fit his system? I know CJB has a say as well, but I’m excluding him from the defensive room.
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They ran Brohms system last year. Brohm wasn't hiring anyone with a different system.
 
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