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huskymedic said:
Doug Shearer - only grad assistant retained by Diaco.

Background article: http://www.nhregister.com/sports/20...-uconn-grad-assistant-turned-tight-ends-coach
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Congrats to Doug, local guy from the valley starting his career. He now has the opportunity to see the styles as a grad ass't under a former unsuccessful coach and hopefully...
what will be freakin' great in coaching, recruiting and style of HCBD. Talk about "learning " what works and what doesn't.."big picture"......Best of luck Doug...same home town as Danny O'....
 
06029 said:
The issue is that Diaco has never been the head coach and this is his first time putting together a staff. Now he may know, like and trust these people. They may be wildly successful as a staff together. Or, it could go the other way. But, on face value alone, if Cummings is true as OC, it has some hollowness to it and certainly is not the splash people wanted. But check the thread below about Cummings from the Chips message board. And the hire from ND, a GA is not the same as hiring a position coach from ND.
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=340&f=2793&t=12461809
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There it is again. He does not call the plays. This has me concerned.
 
Irish Loop said:
Can someone just tell me when it's time to panic? Should I do it now, or wait for a defensive coordinator, or is it something I can put off until the Spring Game?
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In 20 minutes...
 
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I think we all fell in love with the work done by guys like Terry Richardson and Todd Orlando. I'm sure there are other guys out there that can coach winning football. Like I said earlier Diaco knows his arse is on the line. He doesn't want to flop in his first HC job. He is bringing in guys with similar philosophies and work ethic and hopefully we get results sooner than later. One thing Warde mentioned at the opening presser was that our assistant coach pool of money would be at the top of the American Conference. Can't ask for anything more than that given our financial situation.
 
Stinger92860 said:
There it is again. He does not call the plays. This has me concerned.
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Let's watch a few games before we get concerned. Deleone had a track record of calling plays. Didn't stop us from incurring false start and illegal motion penalties. We will see how good we are just by how organized the offense looks. It never looked organized GDL.
 
Palatine said:
Lots of Buffalo and the MAC.
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The MAC has produced very good coaches. They see Uconn as a step up. I am good with this. Plus buffalo has been pretty good under Quinn and his staff. Was at the ohio state game when BU played and they played them extremely tough.
 
I really hoped and expected a top notch mid major OC or a P5 QB coach to take the OC job. Diaco, as a young DC turned HC, could offer a lot of freedom to an OC and give that person a chance to shine. Plus, there is an incumbent QB that shows a lot of promise. I expected to get a lot of interest for that position.

Cummings put up over 30 points just twice last year, against two of the worst teams in FBS. CMU got held to 27 by Western Michigan, one of only 3 teams that WMU held under 30 points last year. I know he had a good 2012, but that was 2012.
 
It was also reported he lost his starting qb and rb in the first gamd last year. Dont enough about his roster at cmu to pit that all on him. Diaco didnt.
 
Diaco was the top assistant in the country in 2012. But that was 2012.

Cummings lost quite a few pieces from 2012 to 2013, I prefer to look at the full body of work, rather than the last 2 seasons. This is the boneyard, we should expect nothing but dissatisfaction, regret, and hand-wringing. We know better than Diaco, we have google and wikipedia.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
I really hoped and expected a top notch mid major OC or a P5 QB coach to take the OC job. Diaco, as a young DC turned HC, could offer a lot of freedom to an OC and give that person a chance to shine. Plus, there is an incumbent QB that shows a lot of promise. I expected to get a lot of interest for that position.

Cummings put up over 30 points just twice last year, against two of the worst teams in FBS. CMU got held to 27 by Western Michigan, one of only 3 teams that WMU held under 30 points last year. I know he had a good 2012, but that was 2012.
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My god it must suck to be as miserable as you
 
I am very pleased. I will not pretend to know better than Coach Diaco who should be selected as his assistant coaches. I am simply happy that he is moving quickly to assemble his staff. Go UCONN!
 
I think many of you are just crazy.

Let me summarize ... these ACs are guys Diaco knows. They come from a common tree. One branch may be UBuffalo - THE State University of New York - but the more common thread is Brian Kelly & Jeff Quinn. We should be great with their work at Cincinnati & Central Michigan. And the ND piece.

Cummings & Foley come in targeted at our OLine where we have a Big 2014 question mark. I want them to come with a solid solution. Unlike DeLeone, 2 guys can work together in harmony. This also calls for solid OLine recruits NOW. JUCO if necessary.

Yes. It's a damn good thing if we have 3 guys who've been Recruiting Coordinators. We need to finish this coming signing day with 6-8 solid kids. There are lots of movements in the last few years in January. These guys - Buffalo, UConn, CMU, ND - need to know the good targets NOW.

We are going to be a Program that finds raw kids and develop them. Don't expect 4/5 Stars. Now, who has the Florida connection.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I really hoped and expected a top notch mid major OC or a P5 QB coach to take the OC job. Diaco, as a young DC turned HC, could offer a lot of freedom to an OC and give that person a chance to shine. Plus, there is an incumbent QB that shows a lot of promise. I expected to get a lot of interest for that position.

Cummings put up over 30 points just twice last year, against two of the worst teams in FBS. CMU got held to 27 by Western Michigan, one of only 3 teams that WMU held under 30 points last year. I know he had a good 2012, but that was 2012.
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So a coach is supposed to lose his starting QB, RB and 4 starters from the OL and shine. What a loser Cummings must be. I believe they put up 30 ten times in 2012, but hey...that's 2012.
 
Pudge said:
I think many of you are just crazy.

Let me summarize ... these ACs are guys Diaco knows. They come from a common tree. One branch may be UBuffalo - THE State University of New York - but the more common thread is Brian Kelly & Jeff Quinn. We should be great with their work at Cincinnati & Central Michigan. And the ND piece.

Cummings & Foley come in targeted at our OLine where we have a Big 2014 question mark. I want them to come with a solid solution. Unlike DeLeone, 2 guys can work together in harmony. This also calls for solid OLine recruits NOW. JUCO if necessary.

Yes. It's a damn good thing if we have 3 guys who've been Recruiting Coordinators. We need to finish this coming signing day with 6-8 solid kids. There are lots of movements in the last few years in January. These guys - Buffalo, UConn, CMU, ND - need to know the good targets NOW.

We are going to be a Program that finds raw kids and develop them. Don't expect 4/5 Stars. Now, who has the Florida connection.
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From something I posted way back a few pages by now Pudge - >>FWIW from an article I read back when he was hired @ CMU: "Based on the players that Mike Cummings recruited at Marshall, it looks like we might have a foothold in the great state of Alabama. 42% of the players Cummings recruited at Marshall were from Alabama. Western Pennsylvania and Florida also seem to be strong areas for Cummings."<<
 
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noeynox said:
I think we all fell in love with the work done by guys like Terry Richardson and Todd Orlando. I'm sure there are other guys out there that can coach winning football. Like I said earlier Diaco knows his arse is on the line. He doesn't want to flop in his first HC job. He is bringing in guys with similar philosophies and work ethic and hopefully we get results sooner than later. One thing Warde mentioned at the opening presser was that our assistant coach pool of money would be at the top of the American Conference. Can't ask for anything more than that given our financial situation.
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What were Richardson's and Orlando's credentials prior to joining Edsall's staff? Was anyone worried when they were hired?
 
The CMU fans seem to think that Cummings was the top coach on their staff, that's good enough for me. He is also known as a good recruiter which seems to be a common thread with everyone on the staff Diaco is building. As far as play calling goes, Day never called plays until this year and he did a good job, play callers tend to look as good as the talent they have, especially QB talent.

My immediate hope is that each coach Diaco is bringing in can bring a recruit or two with them. Right now Ball State is the only MAC school with a higher rated recruiting class than CMU.

BTW Eric Fisher is a pretty good player.
 
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Kgun7 said:
What were Richardson's and Orlando's credentials prior to joining Edsall's staff? Was anyone worried when they were hired?
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No, because we didn't have google or wikipedia :)
 
Honestly, who specifically were some of you looking for us to hire? I'm not looking for general responses like "a high profile QB coach". I want names. Honestly, I think many of you see Central Michigan and already form your opinion of negativity. Let's give it time and see what happens.....I trust that Diaco knows a hell of a lot more than we do regarding what type of offense he wants run and what type of person he wants calling those plays.
 
Oxford Bob said:
No, because we didn't have google or wikipedia :)
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This is is so true. The other night I was eating dinner with my wife and in-laws and some random question came up and after dinner we looked up the answer on our phones. I said, "What did we do without Google!?" My mother in-laws response, "We didn't ask stupid questions!" Very fitting! Too much over analyzing everything in our lives!
 
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UCFBfan said:
Honestly, who specifically were some of you looking for us to hire? I'm not looking for general responses like "a high profile QB coach". I want names. Honestly, I think many of you see Central Michigan and already form your opinion of negativity. Let's give it time and see what happens.....I trust that Diaco knows a hell of a lot more than we do regarding what type of offense he wants run and what type of person he wants calling those plays.
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At the very least, maybe we can learn what it takes to beat a MAC team. :rolleyes:

Oh wait...we already did. We changed coaching staffs.
 
UCFBfan said:
This is is so true. The other night I was eating dinner with my wife and in-laws and some random question came up and after dinner we looked up the answer on our phones. I said, "What did we do without Google!?" My mother in-laws response, "We didn't ask stupid questions!" Very fitting! Too much over analyzing everything in our lives!
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You're last 2 posts make a great case for shutting down the board completely. Although your intent is clearly to marginalize anyone who poses a question or an opinion you disagree with. Most of us aren't passing judgement on our new coach just bouncing around questions and scenarios. And we've all heard that "coach knows best about everything" stuff before. Yet coaches keep getting fired.
 
Jimdish255 said:
You're last 2 posts make a great case for shutting down the board completely. Although your intent is clearly to marginalize anyone who poses a question or an opinion you disagree with.
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Jim...I think you misread his Google post.
 
Jimdish255 said:
I don't think so. Read both again.
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Now that I read them again, I happen to agree with him. If you really pay attention to what some "energy suckers" are posting, is he wrong?

Here's a recap of the 2013 season where CMU lost their starting QB and RB, never mind the 4 starting OL.

Central Michigan


The Chippewas (6-6, 5-3) made a long recovery after losing their starting quarterback and all-conference tailback in a season-opening loss to Michigan, but they managed to even their record in the finale, and become bowl eligible for the second consecutive year. A 42-10 blasting of Eastern Michigan to end the season provided a showcase for senior RB Zurlon Tipton, who had seriously injured his ankle in that Michigan game and missed most of the season. Tipton closed out the year with 216 rushing yards on 20 carries, and scored four touchdowns.

After a terrific 2012 offensive season (see my post where CMU was ahead of over a dozen P5 in offensive rankings), they managed to get to .500 in 2013.

But we should have hired an offensive coordinator who had a top 25 offense for a couple of years. Yeah...right.
 
I'm mildly concerned but at this point we might as have faith that in BD. I'm hopeful that that these guys will turnout to be a high energy enthusiastic group that get us back in the game...and then some. You just gotta believe:

 
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