Thanks Rye. I remember you being the one who favored Roof’s hire now.
The tell will come when DD has to replace his staff. Eventually that will happen as they move on – I’m glad they are here and the contributions they bring but as we know things will change good or bad. DD has done well by his staff but that will not be forever.
57, Staff replacement is not a 10 out 10 in kind of deal. DD has already had to “replace” 60% of his offensive staff and all are IMO upgrades. (replacements: McDonald, Ledford and Drinkwitz) You could say 80% since Kitchings left but chose to return.
On the other side of the line DD has had to replace 75% of the staff. I’m not sure could upgrade our DL coach but we will know at the end of 2018 season if Patrick has is or not. Aaron Henry is not an upgrade for Clayton White but DD has hedged his bets by hiring Roof to coach safeties which I consider to be at a minimum an equal replacement and probably an upgrade.
So what is different in Wolfpackland? For onething DD is all for the coaches having time to be with their families. He actually ran a coach out of the Murphy Center and told him to go home and spend time with his wife and kids. He was against the new recruiting period because the assistant could schedule vacations during that time.
In contrast to Rye, I believe Dave and Hux together put the knew defense together. Contrary to many fans Hux is respected in the coaching ranks. If DD did not include his DC in the research, design and change to the 4-2-5, it was the dumbest CEO thing that DD has ever done.
I bring this up again to illustrate the involvement the assistants have in the big picture — more than position coaches. Coaching is not a lot different from any other job in that the more the assistants have involvement in the entire process, the more job satisfaction.
Considering DD success replacing staff so far, I’m going to put off worrying about that until he starts to fail to bring in good replacements.
