Any chance we have a dual position coach to save money?

[mj4president]

Has this been done before? Like a coach who is the DC and does a positional duty too?

[Tim Harris]

Most DCs also coach a position.

Chavis coached LBers at A&M
Rhoads coached the DBs last year

[RaisinHog]

Almost always ... Paul rhoads DC / defensive backs .... Chavis / line backer

[Cotton]

A month ago we were trying to spend $7mm on a head coach and now we're trying to pinch pennies...

Christmas must have hit hogville pretty hard lol


(New Years Eve got me pinching pennies too)

[Boss Hog in the Arkansas]

I believe Saban helps coach DB's at Bama as well

[The_Bionic_Pig]

A month ago we were trying to spend $7mm on a head coach and now we're trying to pinch pennies...

Christmas must have hit hogville pretty hard lol


(New Years Eve got me pinching pennies too)

Exactly what I was thinking

[ricepig]

Exactly what I was thinking

That 20% tax on salaries, and buyouts, over $1m adds up, hopefully we can fund a staff.

[Rudy Baylor]

troll accounts should at least be entertaining

[Hardcore Hoggy]

I just hope we have a special teams coach. So aggravating watching our ST suck under Bielema.

[Rudy Baylor]

I just hope we have a special teams coach. So aggravating watching our ST suck under Bielema.

MMQB Snowflakes Unlimited won't allow us to hire James Shibest

[Jek Tono Porkins]

I just hope we have a special teams coach. So aggravating watching our ST suck under Bielema.

No kidding. JLS, despite his faults as a head coach, was a dedicated special teams coach and was pretty good at his job. I remember in the Sugar Bowl when we blocked the punt towards the end of the game, Petrino said in the press conference that JLS ran up to him during the game and came up with a plan to block the punt based on Ohio State's punt protection scheme he had observed throughout the game. No doubt that would have gone totally under the radar with Bielema at the helm.

One of the crazy things about Bielema was that if you go back and read on his Wisconsin tenure, he said one of the things that helped him the most was delegating special teams to other coaches after a few years of him trying to do it himself. Once he did that, Wisconsin's special teams improved tremendously. Then he gets to Arkansas and tries to do it himself again and utterly failed.

[farmhawg]

troll accounts should at least be entertaining

Maybe but the op is clearly not very good at it.....

[Hardcore Hoggy]

No kidding. JLS, despite his faults as a head coach, was a dedicated special teams coach and was pretty good at his job. I remember in the Sugar Bowl when we blocked the punt towards the end of the game, Petrino said in the press conference that JLS ran up to him during the game and came up with a plan to block the punt based on Ohio State's punt protection scheme he had observed throughout the game. No doubt that would have gone totally under the radar with Bielema at the helm.

One of the crazy things about Bielema was that if you go back and read on his Wisconsin tenure, he said one of the things that helped him the most was delegating special teams to other coaches after a few years of him trying to do it himself. Once he did that, Wisconsin's special teams improved tremendously. Then he gets to Arkansas and tries to do it himself again and utterly failed.

It was just bizarre. I mean likely the most bizarre coaching snafu at Arkansas will always be the fact that Houston Nutt couldn't recruit and develop a QB to save his life even though he was a QB in his playing days, but this was just odd as well. A big fat former lineman coaching ST while also trying to be the Head Coach, what could go wrong?

[JusJim]

Has this been done before? Like a coach who is the DC and does a positional duty too?

You do realize that here in just a couple of weeks the coaching staff can go from 9 to 10 for the first time ever.....So I really doubt that anyone is very concerned about doubling up and cutting back.