by eagle9903 on Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:58 am
My least favorite staff members are from worst to best: Devine, Bollman, Commissiong, Desai, Siravo (as DB coach only not recruiting coordinator), Martin, Smith, McGovern (as LB coach). (I'm leaving Washington off as a sentimental pick whose role I really don't understand).
Smith was pretty inoffensive but I don't remember him being mentioned with a single recruit, nor do I really give too much credit for the receivers improvement since it coincided with an offensive philosophy change and an inability to run. That said, he would have been my second choice for retention.
Devine is just so unbelievably bad it staggers my thought process and makes me more down on Day than I'd otherwise be (assuming there is a causal relation between the two hires). He has been horrendous in New England recruiting (although that could just be Spaz) and of course was a major player in killing our best institutional position group. Commish is pretty close to this category too.
Regardless this kind of retention is confusing at best. It certainly seems like they are doing whatever they can to get back to 6-7 wins as surely as possible but how the "stability" lesson hasn't been learned by now, I have no idea. I guess I see the "recruiting the northeast" angle, but as others have mentioned even if McGovern was a great recruiting for TOB when he was 42 doesn't mean he still will be at age 50, Devine has certainly never impressed, Day was (I believe) Haden's recruiter in the first Jags class and there was some buzz, but mostly he seemed to whiff after that also I doubt he does a whole lot of recruiting as OC.
I really want the Temple running backs coach and wouldn't mind Heater. Frye as the OL coach is a major question mark, but I will give Addazio more room their than elsewhere.
domingoortiz
eepstein0
corporal funishment
innocentbystander
davidgordonswang
maybe hansen