When will new Football staff be announced?

[Woodsa]

Hard to believe we were in this situation two years ago. I recall RW being announced in December and announcing his staff in January. I was hoping that CBO would announce his staff soon but realize it could take 3-4 weeks to finalize his staff.

Anyone hearing differently?

 

[NVboiler]

He has stated that as his choices were still involved in post-season play, he wouldn't announce them until their season ended. So hopefully we will be getting competent people and not rejects.

 

[boilermaker75]

He has stated that as his choices were still involved in post-season play, he wouldn't announce them until their season ended. So hopefully we will be getting competent people and not rejects.

And hopefully that means he mostly has his staff.

 

[*Shockerrr*]

Sounds like Odom has a pretty good idea but if I was to guess I believe Odom knows who his main coaches will be by now. If any are coming from UNLV he’s giving the school respect during bowl season. Yes it would be nice to know sooner than later to help this roster going forward. Players may know but nothing public yet 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[boilermaker75]

Sounds like Odom has a pretty good idea but if I was to guess I believe Odom knows who his main coaches will be by now. If any are coming from UNLV he’s giving the school respect during bowl season. Yes it would be nice to know sooner than later to help this roster going forward. Players may know but nothing public yet 🤷🏼‍♂️

I think, and hope, you are right that many UNLV coaches will follow him. It would be great for hitting the ground running.

 

[POTFHBTFU]

Well good news is UNLV plays early - a week from today! I think we will see pieces come together after that. It also seems marion is being courted for other jobs including head coach at UNLV (unlikely based on AD comments) and the rumor at OK St so I suspect we’ve got a week or so for that to be sorted out. I expect defense we will know next week though, his OL coach seems decent and we need to hit portal hard there so hopefully soon for him.

 

[*Shockerrr*]

I think, and hope, you are right that many UNLV coaches will follow him. It would be great for hitting the ground running.

Just my guess after hearing Odom speak. Not saying they all will but yes brining UNLV coaches with would definitely help the transition.

 

[Chi-Boiler]

Sounds like Odom has a pretty good idea but if I was to guess I believe Odom knows who his main coaches will be by now. If any are coming from UNLV he’s giving the school respect during bowl season. Yes it would be nice to know sooner than later to help this roster going forward. Players may know but nothing public yet 🤷🏼‍♂️

The nice thing is that UNLV's bowl game is super early in the season, next Wednesday against Cal.

 

[Beerbelly Boiler]

O/U (3) on how many coaches he retains?

 

[Woodsa]

The nice thing is that UNLV's bowl game is super early in the season, next Wednesday against Cal.

I suspect the day after will be a big day... for Purdue.

 

[Woodsa]

O/U (3) on how many coaches he retains?

I think it will be higher than that. I say 5.

 

[Chi-Boiler]

O/U (3) on how many coaches he retains?

Retains from the current Purdue staff or brings from his UNLV staff? I haven't seen much of anything about those that were on Walters' staff. No idea if they all got canned or what not.

 

[boilermaker75]

Retains from the current Purdue staff or brings from his UNLV staff? I haven't seen much of anything about those that were on Walters' staff. No idea if they all got canned or what not.

I would not be surprised if they were all gone. I kind of suspect that.

Edit: Of course Walters did show his chops as an OC!

 

[krf3632]

I would not be surprised if they were all gone. I kind of suspect that.

Edit: Of course Walters did show his chops as an OC!

Agree they're likely all gone, but I do think Sinz and Conard would be good to keep around. Same for Carter. Providing none of the negative stories hinted at on other threads involve any of them.

 

[POTFHBTFU]

I would not be surprised if they were all gone. I kind of suspect that.

Edit: Of course Walters did show his chops as an OC!

I would actually be surprised if Lamar Conard isn’t retained and there is speculation he will. Some of the players including Mockobee are close with him, he is a Purdue guy, and he did pretty good with Mockobee and Tracy. He wasn’t a “walters” guy anyways.
Titles will likely change. Coaching rules change a bit next year. Plus you always have offensive analysts.

Sam carter is a possibility as he worked directly under Barry Odom at Mizzou and Arkansas for several years. He actually didn’t follow Walters to Illinois, he’s probably more Odom than Walters.

Brick Haley was also with Odom at Mizzou.

Marcus Johnson was on odoms staff for I think a year but it wasn’t a great year after he lose Heupel.

Grant OBrien is another guy that was on odoms staff but a junior level.

Justin Sinz and TJ McCollom were Brohm holdovers and obviously boilers at heart, have nothing against then if there’s a good spot for them.

Kiero Small came from Michigan who had a top notch strength and conditioning. We didn’t have much injuries this year lol so can’t complain too much.

Don’t forget we get 10 assistant coaches, 5 strength and conditioning, and 4 grad assistants plus we can have analysts who aren’t allowed to recruit but can now coach so Conard becomes valuable even if he’s not officially one of the 10 assistants. We had 8 analysts this year so 24 coaches essentially and 4 grad assistants. UNLV looks to only have 3 analysts so even if he brought over his entire team we could have 5 holdover spots left without adding new positions.

I would guess the following coaches would come that have stayed with him

DC Mike Scherer (been with him at 3 prior stops since 2019)

RB Cornell Ford (Mizzou and UNLV)

I also am hoping we can keep

OC Brennan Marion - of course

OL Vance Vice (better than what we’ve had, unless he has another guy that is better of course)

ST James Shibest - assuming we can get his PK too. I was impressed in the presser how often Odom mentioned kicking and how big of a priority it is.

 

[POTFHBTFU]

Joe Dineen has posted on Twitter that he is out. No surprise but what that does tell me is it wasn’t an abrupt housecleaning.