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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3687348, member: 27"] In the last couple of years of the Dantonio era, the MSU offense got progressively worse. SU alum Dave Warner was the OC. Dantonio’s reluctance to fire Warner would play a big role is his getting fired (there were other things going on as well). His last year, he was forced to shake up the offensive coaching staff and he moved Samuel to a DB position. I believe he kept Warner at OC, the unit still stunk and the whole staff was fired. Anyway, I don’t think it was something Samuel did. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. My take on the change: We have had Reno Ferri and Justin Ludwig as our WR coaches. I would say development of the WR unit under these guys has not been optimal. Why? Neither played in the Babers system, neither were WRs as players and neither were really WR coaches. I think Dino realized he needed to add some coaches on the staff with ties to the Northeast and didn’t really have a place to put them, so he stashed them at the WR spots. I think Dino realized he needed a coach to teach these young WRs how to play. Maybe it came down to Lepak or someone from the outside. Lepak would be great teaching the position...he knows the Babers system really well from the perspective of a player and a coach. But he doesn’t have the recruiting experience and he doesn’t have ideal experience as a WR coach at this level. Samuel lost his mentor when Dantonio was fired. Dino needs a real WR assistant coach, needs someone whose has recruited in our recruiting territories and needs someone who is likely to stay a while. Almost the entire WR unit is African American. Samuel played WR in college and has coached the position at the highest level for more than a decade. He knows what it takes to become a big time WR at this level. He is going to have a lot of credibility with the players from day one. That he has strong ties recruiting Michigan is great. We have tried hard to get into MLK and Cass Tech in Detroit for a long time, with little success, Terry has strong ties to these schools. If anyone can get us into the Motor City, it is this guy. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2020/02/11/michigan-state-football-assistant-coach-terrence-samuel-unlv/4721999002/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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