Babers adds HS relations coach

[jr4750]

And a host of other coaches! Including two former Baylor players, and a HS coach from DC. I like it!!

http://cuse.com/news/2016/2/19/FB_0219160610.aspx

 

[DocFlanders]

Love it. Babers is not fooling around, going for gold!

I'm thinking we were EXTREMELY fortunate to land him at Cuse.

 

[dooey139]

Director of HS Relations is interesting. Have we had that in the past/Do other schools have this position?

 

[money3189]

Director of HS Relations is interesting. Have we had that in the past/Do other schools have this position?

Not sure but its a good move.

 

[jgeorge322]

it appears weve finally entered the world of modern college football

 

[PhatOrange]

Solid. Babers gets it

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Not sure but its a good move.

We probably never had the budget for it.

 

[PhatOrange]

Gerald has a real interesting bio. Vincent Marshal as Quality Control Offense and Lanear Sampson, fabulous Grad Assistant hire. These are all solid support staff hires.

 

[money3189]

wow locksley is a scum bag for this

http://espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5426608

 

[Scooch]

So the new HS Relations guy has this in his job description: "responsible for gathering recommendations from high school coaches on prospects in Syracuse's primary recruiting areas. "

And in his bio...

• Gerald was the head football coach and assistant basketball coach at Washington Jesuit Academy, a tuition-free middle school for boys in Washington, D.C., from 2010-15.
• Gerald got his coaching start as a graduate assistant for Joe Paterno at Penn State
• Before entering the coaching ranks, Gerald was a standout receiver and kick returner at Colgate from 2000-03.

DC, Pennsylvania and New York.

Maybe people will relax now about "abandoning" our "core"?

 

[MSOrange]

wow locksley is a scum bag for this

http://espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5426608

Yes I made this point in another thread that Gerald was involved in that situation with Locksley. I'd hold it more against Gerald if he got along with Locksley!

 

[supp]

And a host of other coaches! Including two former Baylor players, and a HS coach from DC. I like it!!

http://cuse.com/news/2016/2/19/FB_0219160610.aspx

These moves further emphasize how important S & C is to this system. 4 strength coaches responsible for the football team? Some of the guys on the roster are in for a major culture shock come Spring practices. Interesting that Tuckson is a former Lester player.

 

[JoeSU]

Meanwhile at Michigan, Harbaugh has hired the father of one recruit as a "defensive analyst", and the mother of another in a "player development role". How can this not be against NCAA rules?

More Harbaugh shenanigans

 

[jr4750]

Meanwhile at Michigan, Harbaugh has hired the father of one recruit as a "defensive analyst", and the mother of another in a "player development role". How can this not be against NCAA rules?

More Harbaugh shenanigans

It's BS. Happens at all the $ECs too. Mich is playing for keeps against OSU. If you aren't Wisky, MSU, or OSU, you're screwed in the B10.

 

[texascpa]

Director of HS Relations is interesting. Have we had that in the past/Do other schools have this position?

Rutgers hired one this year.

 

[leftytg]

Gerald was a Rhodes Scholar candidate and has completed the coursework on a PhD, needing only to finish a dissertation. Impressive. I was wondering why he left the coaching ranks to go work at a middle school in DC, but after reading about that incident with Locksley, I can see why he took some time off from coaching. He seems to be an outstanding hire.

 

[OttoMets]

wow locksley is a scum bag for this

http://espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5426608

Yeah, I knew J.B. in college, he's a real good kid. He's one of Dick Biddle's former players, so I don't think he's too sensitive about getting yelled at. Situation must have been way over the line.

Character guy, good hire.

 

[Lou_C]

It's BS. Happens at all the $ECs too. Mich is playing for keeps against OSU. If you aren't Wisky, MSU, or OSU, you're screwed in the B10.

Yeah, support staff is one of the hugest, least visible, unregulated parts of the arms race. When crazy facilities are built, the pictures end up everywhere, but few people realize just how much support staff programs like Alabama and Ohio State have. Even besides the obvious recruiting advantage of hiring a kid's family or H.S. Coach, they like to hire a bunch of former high school coaches from prime areas as support staff, which gives tremendous recruiting pipelines.

I bet if you went back and looked at the changes that Jimbo Fisher and Dabo Swinney made when taking over their respective programs, the most dramatic difference would be in the number of support staff they have than when they took over.

 

[SU68]

wow locksley is a scum bag for this

http://espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5426608

I call B.S. on the racial discrimination aspect since both coaches involved are black.

 

[Whitey23]

I call B.S. on the racial discrimination aspect since both coaches involved are black.

The allocation of racial discrimination was made against the university not Locksley.

 

[orangeinjersey]

Yeah, support staff is one of the hugest, least visible, unregulated parts of the arms race. When crazy facilities are built, the pictures end up everywhere, but few people realize just how much support staff programs like Alabama and Ohio State have. Even besides the obvious recruiting advantage of hiring a kid's family or H.S. Coach, they like to hire a bunch of former high school coaches from prime areas as support staff, which gives tremendous recruiting pipelines.

I bet if you went back and looked at the changes that Jimbo Fisher and Dabo Swinney made when taking over their respective programs, the most dramatic difference would be in the number of support staff they have than when they took over.

I'll never forget our first game vs CLemson in the dome as part of the ACC. It looked as though each clemson player had their own personal coach on the field during warmups. It was essentially a 1-1 ratio.

 

[Lou_C]

I'll never forget our first game vs CLemson in the dome as part of the ACC. It looked as though each clemson player had their own personal coach on the field during warmups. It was essentially a 1-1 ratio.

Yep. And in addition to each one of them serving and actual role that helps the team, the majority of them probably have excellent contacts and open communication with talent-loaded high schools.

 

[RoysRunts]

We probably never had the budget for it.

Where did it come from? and why didn't the other staff have that allocation?

 

[TheCusian]

Where did it come from? and why didn't the other staff have that allocation?

Just guessing but when the new AD came in, he spent year one observing. Year two yielded a new coach - but the extra support might have been the plan regardless.

 

[longtimefan]

I'll never forget our first game vs CLemson in the dome as part of the ACC. It looked as though each clemson player had their own personal coach on the field during warmups. It was essentially a 1-1 ratio.

My group up in the 3rd level decided to count the number of Clemson staff on the field, working to warm up their players. We came up with 35.

 

[DoctorBombay]

We probably never had the budget for it.