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[QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 927513, member: 3201"]
This seems like a good thing for you guys.  He's obviously got strong coaching skills, but this is a chance for an upgrade.  To be perfectly frank, having a WR coach who doesn't like/isn't good at recruiting is a major opportunity lost.  I mean, you almost can't afford to have any position coach not be at least a competent recruiter, but WR coach especially.  That's usually not a position where you need a guy with 20 years of experience and expertise, where  you just bite the bullet and bring on a sub-par recruiter.  Sometimes you just have to deal with it in a quality OL coach, QB coach or coordinator, but RB and WR coaches generally need to be able to get after it on the trail.
 
Should be interesting to see if you replace him with somebody from a more prestigious job than Phoenix Junior College.  I know that's kind of deceiving for a lot of reasons, but still.  Should be interesting to see where they go with this.  One direction would to be bring someone in with connections in the Northeast and NYC area.  Other option would be to bring someone in from an SEC staff that knows how to really get after recruiting and put him in charge of your recruiting program and count on them to make those connections.
 
I don't follow the coaching ranks to that level, but I'd be at least looking for guys that came off the support staff of Alabama, LSU, UF, FSU, OSU under Urban maybe, and are in their first job at a small school somewhere. The recruiting machines in place at those schools matter (as much as it's funny to laugh at Addazio at BC).
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