Wright told them they each had 15 minutes to convince him they needed to stay on staff.
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Originally posted by Wallst View Post
To decode this for the non pitt staters:
LG = Larry Garman off campus recruiting guy who has been at Pitt since Adam and Eve were a twinkle in Gods eye. But important for local high school connections and I'm sure BW was told during the process that Garman stays
JP = not Jerry Partridge, but John Pierce. Supposed to be an exceptional recruiter and has done well developing most running backs considering he probably never knew what we were going to run
JL = Josh Lattimore - Pitt grad who just came to Pitt to coach the DL this past year. The kids love him and he is fiery
MK = Matt Karleskint - WR coach. probably kept his job when he showed BW that he knew more routes than a jet sweep, bubble screen and slant.
I've had the conversation on Lattimer and Karleskint before (interestingly enough, both Fort Scott guys who I think would've been HS teammates for at least a year or two). Not sure why we wouldn't want to keep MK as our WRs are consistently our best or near-best position group and one of the only places where you can really see annual improvement in most guys. And I'm of the opinion that despite having the same guys, our DL play has dropped over JL's tenure, so I have plenty of concerns there, but if the players have loyalty to him and he's a good recruiter, I'm fine with keeping him around. One thing I'll be interested to see is if he sticks with DL or moves to LBs, which is what he played at an AA level at Pitt State.
One of the nice things about bringing in a coach from completely the outside is that if it turns out it was a bad decision on any of these guys, he shouldn't have a problem jettisoning them in a year. We all know one of our biggest problems in recent years has been sticking with guys who just couldn't get it done.
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Originally posted by Predatory Primates View PostI agree about the WR's. Many have improved greatly year by year. Am OK with the RB coach, but a little leary. They only really had one succesful back out of the spread the whole time they ran it. Not sure how much of that is on the OL, though???Sent from my GorillaPad
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Originally posted by GorillaBacker View Post
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If Wright does decide to keep Karleskint I bet he quickly realizes Karleskint is not the guy for the job in a pass heavy offense. Not real "players" coach. After Beck resigned JJ told the players to hook up with their position coaches after the meeting - Karleskint was AWOL, and had NO contact with them after. My hunch is he doesn't make it long.
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Originally posted by GorillaBacker View PostIf Wright does decide to keep Karleskint I bet he quickly realizes Karleskint is not the guy for the job in a pass heavy offense. Not real "players" coach. After Beck resigned JJ told the players to hook up with their position coaches after the meeting - Karleskint was AWOL, and had NO contact with them after. My hunch is he doesn't make it long.
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Originally posted by Predatory Primates View PostWright told them they each had 15 minutes to convince him they needed to stay on staff.
If Wright is going to turn this around, it would be in his best interest to send them all packing. Based on the comments, the worst offenders have already been dismissed.
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