New Special Teams Coach: Ricky Brumfield

[ECE '76]

A word of warning: Our GA Tech friend says Ricky Brumfield "was awful" and "basically fired" as ST Coordinator. Listen here:

 

[orangemass]

It looks like you guys decided to punt on talking about Brumfield.

Bunch of punters

 

[SmilinBob]

Was he with GT when SU played them? I assume if he was that would be an interesting small sample of how good/bad he was.

 

[rocklloyd]

One of my sales guys in atlanta who is heavily involved in gatech football said the guy left mid season and no one know why.

 

[sutomcat]

Was he with GT when SU played them? I assume if he was that would be an interesting small sample of how good/bad he was.

He was. The GT game was the second week of the season. Key acknowledged Brumfield was no longer with the team in late October.

I think the GT fan who does the videos should have acknowledged that Brumfield did well enough as the special teams coach for GT in 2023 to get a big raise and promotion for 2024. I understand, a fan wants to minimize saying good things about a lost coach.

If you look at the coaching history for Coach Brumfield, I think we can expect he will not stay here long. For whatever reason, the guy bounces from job to job very quickly.

Ricky Brumfield

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

ramblinwreck.com

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[swish7]

Cannot be worse than what we had and an even moderate improvement on specials probably puts us in the CFP last year.

 

[CuseLegacy]

 

[upperdeck]

in mid Oct last year they were leading the country in blocked kicks

ST control kick return/coverage
Punting stuff can be coached for sure but so many variables there
FG how well do you block and block kicks

We were bad at both levels of blocking on FG and Punts last yr

missing making FGs , better kickers make FGs that dont get blocked

We didnt really do much on blocking kicks, Gt did

returns on kick offs who knows. so few chances. But the big ones add up.

 

[CuseLegacy]

 

[sutomcat]

This post piqued my interest. It turns out the first college job for Brumfield and Ambrosie was at Union College. Not the terrific engineering school in Schenectady. The NAIA school in Barbourville, Kentucky.

They were both there from 2001 to 2003 and both got their masters from Union. I believe their head coach was a guy named John Luttrell.

What are the odds we got both these guys so closely together? I would imagine if Coach Brumfield had a chance to put in a good word about Coach Ambrosie, he did.

Someone should write a story about this, getting quotes from both coaches on their days at Union.

I bet it would be a good read (hint, hint).