I count 39 filled/open positions for the staff. Don’t know off the top of my head what we had in the Edsall 2.0 era, but just feels like a significant increase (10+ more).
Agreed, just looked at Bama's entire staff and it sits around 40 and I never remember hearing about all these positions before. It is a good sign we are invested in playing big boy football.
And some of these people are from schools like Texas Tech, Georgia Tech , and LSU
Mora definitely knows how to build a modern day college football program. Not sure how much more this is budget-wise than the RE2 program but it was certainly part of the week-long conversations in Idaho. Shows the AD and president's office were all-in.
After watching the Cinci game, hopefully it also leads to some big boys on the OL and DL.
Errin Joe, a Lakeland, FL native, who started his final two seasons for Georgia Tech (2014 and 2015) as a Tackle while Preston Pehrson was a (Georgia Tech) O grad assistant. At the time, Pehrson was "... responsible for helping coach the OL, specifically the tackles." GM Pehrson's recruiting HIS guys.
He did say in response to a tweet that was saying they were excited about him bringing his scouting ability that it is a team effort so if he is choosing his team we can only be excited looking at how Texas Tech grew and now won a bowl game due to the work of him, Davidson
his Twitter bio says he is the associate director of player personnel at Georgia Tech
Pretty sure he used to run scouting for 247
Bart Simmons used to be the National Recruiting Guru for Rivals/247 and CBSS for decade plus…
It seems he was a more recent follow of Mora which made me question it
Mike Ryan also listed as a defensive analyst. Could that be former Husky OL Mike Ryan? He’s currently at U Maine…Both Davidson and Errin Joe (current GA at Georgia Tech) are both listed on the UConn website as part of the “Player Personnel” department which is led by Perhson.
That Mike Ryan i thought had legal issues going on. Would be great if it was.
Maybe as he seems to be getting a lot of UConn followers including Davidson and follows Mora
There are two “UConn” Mike Ryans. One is DC/LB Coach @ Maine, the other is Phillip Michael Ryan who ran into a bunch of legal problems in PA secondary to a serious accident and then other issues.
The one getting follows is the DC/LB at Maine
The one that got into trouble was our starting left tackle for a few years no?
Yes…
The other would be ineligible for hire…
Given an Errin Joe is now included on UConn's current football staff directory as Dir of Recruiting - Evaluations, he may update his Twitter soon. Same same with Beau Davidson, Dir of Player Personnel (ex-Texas Tech), and Robert Trombley, Dir of Creative Content for Football (ex-LSU Recruiting Creative Media Coordinator and previously Miami University Dir of Football Video and Design). All report up to GM Preston Pehrson.
Appears to be, yes. Utica grad, his Twitter is almost all UConn retweeted and a few from Utica.
love it! guys that have been around the big boy programs from different parts of the US (primary spots we'd like to recruit mostly) in mind...
