Does anyone know who Purdue hired for the Strength Coach and should we read anything into Parker going out with the Head Coach recruting, ie will he be on staff?
Strength Coach and Parker
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I'm not sure why you'd drag Parker around with you if you don't plan on offering him a job. Especially after what he's been through the past few months.
What better way to get to know Parker than to travel with him on recruiting visits for a few days.
Best kind of job interview.
Best kind of job interview.
I was asking this in another thread. Shephard was one of 2 receivers coaches at WSU. Might CJB set up something similar?
That's well and good, but what message are you sending? Hey guys, I'm the new coach! And here is the guy you might be familiar with who I'm not keeping around.
I don't think recruits are going to be making their decision based on whether we're keeping Parker or not.
Just looking for clues to the question of whether Parker is being retained. Not sure why CJB would bother to take him on a recruiting trip if not. The "informal interview" theory seems like a plausible one.
I have no personal knowledge of who has been hired as S&C coach, and I have no way of verifying the name below is the actual hire. However, I googled "new purdue football conditioning coach," and the 6th result gives this snippet from a 2 day old KHC post:
"Justin Lovett is the football program's new strength and conditioning coach, we've learned. He had been at Western Kentucky since 2014, ..."
"Justin Lovett is the football program's new strength and conditioning coach, we've learned. He had been at Western Kentucky since 2014, ..."
G&B article suggest Shepard will be receivers coach.
Regardless, Brohm likes him a lot and he is a Indiana native and will be a recruiting asset in FW especially.
I get what gbi said. I go on what purduesports posts more for this type of thing.
Parker may stay on the staff for continuity purposes. However, as I've said before, one of our biggest weaknesses in the past 3 years was the level of athletes we recruited, and Parker was our best recruiter. We are as good or as bad as we are chiefly because of Parker. If he stays, I hope his sets his recruiting sites a lot higher. I'd like to see more 4 star recruits as targets and signed than 2 star and low 3 stars.
If he stays, I hope Parker isn't even the recruiting coordinator. We got the money to spend, go out and get a position coach that's a top notch recruiter. Better recruits are the main thing we need, why not get someone that's proven to be a good recruiter. Need a closer.
Guys I'd go after:
Vance Bedford, former Texas DC. Hire him as DB coach. Previously coached at Louisville and Michigan so he knows the area and knows the TX recruiting area.
Don Pellum, Oregon LB and recruiting coordinator. Hire him as a LB coach. Has connections to the West Coast, and Oregon always recruited TX well so we can double dip into TX.
Ben Strickland, FAU DB coach, hire him as CB Coach. Former walk-on at Wisconsin. Was a Graduate Assistant and than Secondary coach there before moving on to FAU. He's young and smart, and has ties to the midwest area.
And the man overseeing all of it was Hazell. It is widely known that Hazell was a micromanager. I'll retell the story about Coy Cronk as an example:
When John Shoop went to visit to see both Anthrop and Cronk, Shoop wanted to offer Cronk a scholarship on the spot before any one else. When Shoop called Hazell to get the ok, Hazel turned him down.
I think the recruiting was a much bigger issue because of Hazell than Parker.
And it is impossible to evaluate Parker's recruiting as if it existed in a vacuum. Who factors more on a recruit's college choice, the head coach or the recruiting coordinator? That's a no brainer. All we really know for sure about Parker is he's a hard worker, a stand up guy, and players bond well with him. That said, it's CJB decision and if he's got other plans then so be it.
This is just an honest question by a guy who does not really know how the previous staff worked:
How much control did Parker really have over Purdue's recruiting under Haze? I mean, did he have significant decision making power on who Purdue targeted/offered, how they marketed the program, which schools they visited, etc.? Or, was he more the point person on the staff who coordinated the logistics of recruiting among all the coaches who were involved?
How much control did Parker really have over Purdue's recruiting under Haze? I mean, did he have significant decision making power on who Purdue targeted/offered, how they marketed the program, which schools they visited, etc.? Or, was he more the point person on the staff who coordinated the logistics of recruiting among all the coaches who were involved?
If you can coach well it doesn't matter what position it is. It's more about being a good teacher than experience with a specific position group. I liked him and what he got out of that team. Hope he keeps him on board.
I never understood the Cronk recruitment. Hazell went to see CC play several times He was looking at their RB. he obviously saw Cronk. and Cronk initially stated before other teams started recruiting him that he wanted to play for Purdue. Hazell had to have seen the blocks and holes Cronk created. Did Hazell believe Cronk loved Purdue so much that he would walk on like Anthrop did?
I think we will get them now that are not trying to sell the Haze........
It absolutely matters. if you've never played or coached a certain position how are you going to coach it. That's like taking a guy who played OL and asking him to be your QB not how it works.
The overall strategy of recruiting always sits with the HC. Hazell obviously wanted a certain type of player here and we were all the worst off for it. I don't think you can discount the fact that a lot of players loved Parker as a coach, and that personality can be an invaluable asset if you set it in the right direction. I'll trust Brohm with whatever his choice ultimately ends up being, but I would consider Parker to be one of the few people on the staff who wasn't a liability the past 4 years.
Disagree. Big difference between coaching a different set of skills and asking a player of one skill set and body type to perform another skill not fitting to his body type. So the analogy doesn't hold water. A six five 300 lb OT is not likely to succeed running a chair route but there's no reason a good six five 300 lb coach can't teach route trees and break skills to a bunch of receivers. Point being that nothing in sports is quantum physics. Young coaches change position groups all the time in college and in the NFL.
I mentioned it at the time but will again as a reminder. Hazell went to Clinton Central High School in the bye week to watch Jackson Anthrop. That tells you all you need to know about Hazell's recruiting. Central Catholic blew Clinton Central out, as always. Anthrop played one series the second half. Plus you gotta guess Anthrop coming to Purdue is a given. Hazell was just awful.
lot of truth to that...it is an art since they all can learn drills and strategies...
Re: strength coach
Don't know who it is but, unlike the last joker, I'm hoping the strength coach actually increases the strength of the team.
My god we were out muscled the last 4-6 years...
Don't know who it is but, unlike the last joker, I'm hoping the strength coach actually increases the strength of the team.
My god we were out muscled the last 4-6 years...
Yes, that's the first part of what we reported on KHC. Not sure why it would have showed up on Google search.
I get what you're saying, but this is a B10 P5 program, the ONLY other position I'd be somewhat comfortable with Parker taking is TE's. I agree to an extent that you can learn to coach certain positions, but let's be honest we are in no position to let a guy learn on the fly. If you have no experience coaching certain positions you can learn drills and what not but there's a hell of a whole lot of technique that goes into it. It's not as simple as a guy is a good WR coach so he can automatically switch to another position and be good there too. You really have no idea, and sadly with the state of our program you can't experiment and let a guy learn something completely new. I like Parker, appreciate what he's done in the past few months, but let's not pretend that he hasn't been on this staff for a while, a staff that won 9 games... if he stays Im fine with it, but it wouldn't be a big loss if he left.
I hope S&C is a point of emphasis for the new staff. I could not believe how we were manhandled in games under the previous regime.
Well, Carlisle wasn't exactly given Grade A Prime beef to work with either.
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