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azgreg wrote:

I'd be thrilled. Can't imagine he'd be a bad recruiter.

azgreg wrote:

Interesting, no coaching experience but some good name recognition.

DrWildcat wrote:

azgreg wrote:

Interesting, no coaching experience but some good name recognition.

Not the same because he doesnt have the experience like you said but I think he can have an Antonio Pierce impact on recruiting.

by the way fuck you Pierce you traitor piece of shit

PHXCATS wrote:

DrWildcat wrote:

azgreg wrote:

Interesting, no coaching experience but some good name recognition.

Not the same because he doesnt have the experience like you said but I think he can have an Antonio Pierce impact on recruiting.

by the way fuck you Pierce you traitor piece of shit

I'd argue even bigger. Only 4 years removed from a rushing title. Kids know his playing days which couldn't be said the same for 18 year olds and Pierce. He stopped playing in 09. (Although the pipeline to Poly is another story)

btfd16 wrote:

PHXCATS wrote:

DrWildcat wrote:

azgreg wrote:

Interesting, no coaching experience but some good name recognition.

Not the same because he doesnt have the experience like you said but I think he can have an Antonio Pierce impact on recruiting.

by the way fuck you Pierce you traitor piece of shit

I'd argue even bigger. Only 4 years removed from a rushing title. Kids know his playing days which couldn't be said the same for 18 year olds and Pierce. He stopped playing in 09. (Although the pipeline to Poly is another story)

Agree on all fronts, except Pierce was on MSPN as well which probably helps him

azgreg wrote:

Dont let that man off campus until he signs

PHXCATS wrote:

azgreg wrote:

Dont let that man off campus until he signs

I know he was a great NFL running back but we don't know if he can coach or recruit a lick. I think I'd rather have a known commodity with a proven track record.

Irish27 wrote:

That would be big.

I think this will be huge. While he doesnt have the coaching experience of Antonio Benedict Arnold Pierce I think he can have a similar impact in recruiting for U of A.

To me this can only help. Who really cares what a no name running backs coach does anyway; getting some name recognition for the program and putting a potential recruiter there a good move.

PHXCATS wrote:I think this will be huge. While he doesnt have the coaching experience of Antonio Benedict Arnold Pierce I think he can have a similar impact in recruiting for U of A.

Well Pierce had pretty good connections to Southern CA before taking the ASU job. I'm not sure Murray has those same types of connections at the moment. He should get an opportunity based on name recognition but we will see how it plays out. I'm hoping for good results.

PHXCATS wrote:I think this will be huge. While he doesnt have the coaching experience of Antonio Benedict Arnold Pierce I think he can have a similar impact in recruiting for U of A.

This is hire that we will regret I think. APierce is very well connected look at the SoCal kids he has brought to Tempe. Merlin Robertson, Jayden Daniels, and every lbpoly kid. I think that between Sumlin and Murray we can do better in Texas. We need to hire somebody like Pierce for Cali because meat and Yates are not cutting it. What if we made a run at donte Williams again. Crazy I know

Just drives me nuts on how we seem to mess up hiring alums like Pierce and Joe Salavea. These are the type of things that makes you say to hell with AZ football.

RB’S to me are a dime a dozen. It’s not like we haven’t had guys who were 3 star go for over 1200 yards a year. We need corners and lineman in droves. They are the guys who are hard to get and make the most difference IMO

azcat49 wrote:Just drives me nuts on how we seem to mess up hiring alums like Pierce and Joe Salavea. These are the type of things that makes you say to hell with AZ football.

RB’S to me are a fine a dozen. It’s not like we haven’t had guys who were 3 star go for over 1200 yards a year. We need corners and lineman in droves. They are the guys who are hard to get and make the most difference IMO

This. Since Mike Bell in like 2002 we've seemingly always had a rb that can go for 1000 yards and 10 TDS in a season every year, no matter how good or bad our team or roster is.

Its way to early to say if this hire was a mistake but I certainly would have preferred someone that has some history of coaching and recruiting successfully. I keep hearing Big Joe's name brought up and why didn't we hire him. We did hire him. I think it was Stoops that hired him. A year later Stoops got fired along with all of his coaches. Now Big Joe has a great gig up north and is probably firmly entrenched as an assistant head coach and he's not coming here. I wish people would stop whining about things they cannot change.

Oh you could change it. He could and should have been retained instead of allowing RR to hire his old buddy who wouldn’t recruit. Every staff typically has one holdover coach and we choose to let big Joe walk.

As for Pierce, RR chose a guy with experience instead of trying to tap into a LA school that produces a number of college ready guys. These are just head scratching decisions and we just continually pay the price with poor recruiting and mediocre teams

azcat49 wrote:Oh you could change it. He could and should have been retained instead of allowing RR to hire his old buddy who wouldn’t recruit. Every staff typically has one holdover coach and we choose to let big Joe walk.

As for Pierce, RR chose a guy with experience instead of trying to tap into a LA school that produces a number of college ready guys. These are just head scratching decisions and we just continually pay the price with poor recruiting and mediocre teams

My issue with this is that people or some people seem to think its the school's doing. Every incoming new coach to any school is given latitude in hiring assistants. RR chose not to retain Joe. Yea I would have liked Joe to stay as well but RR didn't know Joe. My guess is you're not gonna get Joe back unless the head coach he works under gets fired and his assistants are let go. Certain people keep whining and whining.

Why don't they slide Glenn Parker into this position?
The last report that I heard was that he was living in Tucson with a position at U of A as a Staff Analyst. Not sure if he is still working here?

or
Ask John Fina if he is interested?

Love ne some alumni coaches BUT for this position coach I don't want an experiment

Anybody know what he's talking about?

azgreg wrote:Anybody know what he's talking about?

Taking Tucson kids out of Arizona is a good thing?

14 of 18 Freshman Red shirted last year


Bruno Fina? What position does he play?

whatisee wrote:14 of 18 Freshman Red shirted last year


Bruno Fina? What position does he play?

OL for Salpointe. Class of 2020.

Antonio Parks is in the Tranfer Portal.

side note...so is Braxton Burmeister

Merkin wrote:

azgreg wrote:Anybody know what he's talking about?

Taking Tucson kids out of Arizona is a good thing?

Dave Heeke is not a smart man. That was a really stupid tweet, why even tweet that

whatisee wrote:Antonio Parks is in the Tranfer Portal.

side note...so is Braxton Burmeister

What a surprise! Hello, Rocky Long.

Sammy Morrison in the transfer portal. He had a lot of promise as a Freshman. Wish him luck

azgreg wrote:

WTF is going on?

New O line coach


https://247sports.com/college/arizona/A ... ssion=true

We better grab another Lineman or 2 because our depth suddenly sucks. Losing 2 highly rated guys in Lukusa and Eletise is not what I want to hear after a decent OLine recruiting haul in December. Seems we start to address the depth issues in the trenches and then the departures start. Arizona Fooseball at its finest.

A cheezit bowl would signify maybe a 1-2 win improvement at most

ASUHATER! wrote:A cheezit bowl would signify maybe a 1-2 win improvement at most

Should we honestly expect any more than that?

I want more but I would take the Cheez It Bowl without a doubt

UAEebs86 wrote:

….and another one bites the dust. Shit.

Looking ahead to spring ball, how are we looking? Is Gunnel on campus? How bad will the loss of Eletise hurt us?

Any news on Tate? Has he been working to improve his game?