Juan Castillo: New OL Coach

[TommyA13]

Not announced yet, but he’s recruiting…

His dad is the DL coach at Michigan, might be pretty hard to pry him away.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

His dad is the DL coach at Michigan, might be pretty hard to pry him away.

For now.

 

[djorange1989]

For now.

Exactly. They still have to hire a head coach and whomever that is will bring his own guys

 

[Blanko97]

Yes

3 yards per carry in a million snaps

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/lequint-allen-1.html 4.5 yards/carry!! Put some respect on Lequint's name!

 

[ImperialOrange]

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/lequint-allen-1.html 4.5 yards/carry!! Put some respect on Lequint's name!

521 receiving yards and 4 tds as well to go with 1,000+ rushing and 16 td's... and his blitz pickups were filthy.

 

[OrangePA]

I'll disagree there. He had good vision, great shiftiness which is why he could roll off would be tackles and good enough acceleration. What he did lack was top end speed but he's our best 10 yard RB since DC3 was on the hill.

Sean Tucker?

 

[OrangePA]

He was just an offensive assistant in 95 and 96 and a TE coach in 97, he switched to OL in 98.

He was OL coach from 98-2010, then DC in 2011 and 2012.

And he was regarded in Philadelphia as an outstanding OL coach.

 

[ImperialOrange]

Sean Tucker?

Had about 2 extra gears over Allen and our best >10 yard rb since??? More rushing yards and ypc, less TDs, less recs, less rec yards, lessor blocker, more injury prone. Specifically who I had in mind when I stated 10 yard RB. Bad man when healthy but if I need 5-10 yards for a first or a score Allen offers more

 

[sufandu]

Had about 2 extra gears over Allen and our best >10 yard rb since??? More rushing yards and ypc, less TDs, less recs, less rec yards, lessor blocker, more injury prone. Specifically who I had in mind when I stated 10 yard RB. Bad man when healthy but if I need 5-10 yards for a first or a score Allen offers more

I think you're confusing team offense with player productivity. Yes, Lequint has better hands and has proven to be better at blitz pick up in the pros. But Lequint's recieving and TD production were boosted a lot by playing with McCord and being in a superior offense where defenses could not key on him in his last year. When you look at his sophomore production when he was in the same offense as Tucker was, his production was lower in every way. Tucker actually averaged 2 more yards per catch over his career than Allen. And Tucker was not injury prone. He was injured early in his last year and never had the opportunity to recover. As a bell cow carrying the offense his sophomore year he was healthy and as a true freshman thrown to the wolves behind a terrible oline he remained healthy while often making something out nothing for us. As a pro he has remained healthy and Tampa uses him as their goalline guy, so he must have the chops for under 10 yards.

Allen was great for us and has the heart of a lion. I think people's opinions on players are often framed by the team's success. Allen was fortunate enough to play for Fran and Nixon last year. Tucker never had that kind of opportunity. I think the same thing is happening with regards to opinions toward some of our players this past season. If Angeli stayed healthy, other guys would be viewed more positively than they have been this year.

 

[ImperialOrange]

I think you're confusing team offense with player productivity. Yes, Lequint has better hands and has proven to be better at blitz pick up in the pros. But Lequint's recieving and TD production was boosted a lot by playing with McCord and being in a superior offense where defenses could not key on him in his last year. When you look at his sophomore production when he was in the same offense as Tucker was, his production was lower in every way. Tucker actually averaged 2 more yards per catch over his career than Allen. And Tucker was not injury prone. He was injured early in his last year and never had the opportunity to recover. As a bell cow carrying the offense his sophomore year he was healthy and as a true freshman thrown to the wolves behind a terrible oline he remained healthy while often making something out nothing for us. As a pro he has remained healthy and Tampa uses him as their goalline guy, so he must have the chops for under 10 yards.

Allen was great for us and has the heart of a lion. I think people's opinions on players are often framed by the team's success. Allen was fortunate enough to play for Fran and Nixon last year. Tucker never had that kind of opportunity. I think the same thing is happening with regards to opinions toward some of our players this past season. If Angeli stayed healthy, other guys would be viewed more positively than they have been this year.

That's fair and I do think recency bias is a real thing in proverbial player rankings... myself and every LeBron goat supporter included.

Tuck was, is, a freak show athlete. He played on one leg at Syracuse more than reported but anyone that watched knew. Not sure Nixons run up the middle 90% of the time would have suited him anymore than it did for last years team though.

Big difference, IMHO, is he could turn a LQA 10 yard run into a 50+ yard house call. We have sadly lacked game breakers like that whilst other teams seemingly have them all over against us. That said LQA was more likely to turn 0-1 yard runs into 4 or 5 and move the sticks.

It's obviously subjective though. Would you rather Chris Johnson or Derrick Henry type conversation and really not a wrong answer there.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[cusefan88]

"I'm thrilled to join this incredible University and work alongside Coach Fran and this great group of staff and student-athletes," Castillo said. "Syracuse has always had a special place in my heart because of George DeLeone, who was one of my mentors. I'm looking forward to developing great young men."

 

[orangepassion]

"I'm thrilled to join this incredible University and work alongside Coach Fran and this great group of staff and student-athletes," Castillo said. "Syracuse has always had a special place in my heart because of George DeLeone, who was one of my mentors. I'm looking forward to developing great young men."

I hope he can also develop great young blockers

 

[RoysRunts]

Hire another Mt Union Guy

 

[UnknownOrange]

the deleone tree of influence continues to bear fruit

 

[shu 49]

the deleone tree of influence continues to bear fruit

He was a great oline coach.

 

[sufandu]

That's fair and I do think recency bias is a real thing in proverbial player rankings... myself and every LeBron goat supporter included.

Tuck was, is, a freak show athlete. He played on one leg at Syracuse more than reported but anyone that watched knew. Not sure Nixons run up the middle 90% of the time would have suited him anymore than it did for last years team though.

Big difference, IMHO, is he could turn a LQA 10 yard run into a 50+ yard house call. We have sadly lacked game breakers like that whilst other teams seemingly have them all over against us. That said LQA was more likely to turn 0-1 yard runs into 4 or 5 and move the sticks.

It's obviously subjective though. Would you rather Chris Johnson or Derrick Henry type conversation and really not a wrong answer there.

I guess that's where we'll have to agree to disagree. I saw plenty of Tucker runs, especially freshman year, where it looked like a no gain and he got 5. It was the first thing people talked about when he first started getting serious run. And, especially early in the season, I saw LQA get tripped up at the LOS by an ankle tackle. He had some big short yardage runs for us too, and I think those stick out in people's minds the same way it seemed like Jordan never missed a last second shot.