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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4554255, member: 27"]
Almost correct.  Rocky was the DC and LB coach at NM in 2020 and 2021.  In 2022, they promoted a young guy to LB coach and Rocky focused on being a DC.

Travis Fisher has mostly coached all the defensive backs in the past, so he knows CBs and safeties and is used to the workload.  But it would be a big ask to have him responsible for so much of the defense (5/11) in his first year coaching the 3-3-5.

I assume Rocky gave up the LBs last year at NM for a reason (too much work for a guy his age?), so this might come into play.

And remember, Coach Achuff was the LB coach before he took over the DL and could easily move back there if we found a DL coach we really liked.

Dino already addressed the key areas he needed to for recruiting, so I don’t think recruiting is a giant concern here.  We have Florida covered, so have a couple of coaches for PA and we have a guy for NJ/NYC.  The biggest area that we don’t have covered right now is the DC metro area.  If we can get a good defensive coach with a lot of contacts in that area, that would be awesome.  But honestly, we have been struggling somewhat in that area for some time.  Not a big deal if we go in another direction

Bottom line, we could conceivably hire a safeties coach, a CB coach, an LB coach or a DL coach.  Given the backgrounds of our staff, there is a lot of flexibility here.
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