Rounding Out 2022 Coaching Staff

[Cuse_Albs]

It is extremely exciting to go into the season with proven offensive and defensive coordinators, especially coupled with top ST and QB coaches. On paper this may be the best coaching staff on the hill since the late '90s and possibly back further. Kudos to JW and DB for putting this staff together despite the headwinds.

With the announcements of Anae and Beck, we need one more hire to complete the coaching staff for 2022, assuming Sampson is not the heir apparent there. I have summarized the changes below. Any info on additional duties for Anae, Ligashsky, White, etc can be filled in below.

2021:
HC: Dino
x OC/QB: Gilbert (fired)
x WR: Samuels (left/hired at Kansas)
RB: Lynch (assumed to be back)
x TE: Ferri (fired)
OL: Schmidt (confirmed back)
DC: White (confirmed back)
LB: Achuff (assumed to be back)
x DL: Reynolds (fired)
DB: Monroe (assumed to be back)
CB: West (assumed to be back)

2022:
HC: Dino
x OC: Anae (possible WR role too?)
x QB: Beck
x WR: Sampson? (unconfirmed, most likely DT jumping the gun)
OL: Schmidt
RB: Lynch
x ST: Ligashesky (possible TE role too?)
DC: White (possible LB role too?)
LB: Achuff (possible move to DL?)
DB: Monroe
CB: West

Happy Holidays and let's look forward to going bowling in 2022.. LGO!

 

[Goin' Deep]

Would love to get a WR coach who can REEEEEEEEEEE -CRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUIT!!!

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Is Lynch a good recruiter? If not, we should move on.

Our Ss stunk last year. We need better play there. How much of that is talent vs coaching?

 

[sutomcat]

Is Lynch a good recruiter? If not, we should move on. Our Ss stunk last year. We need better play there. How much of that is talent vs coaching?

He is a good recruiter and a coach almost universally respected and liked by the players. Losing him would not be a positive thing imho.

 

[TheHaze315]

I gave ADJW and HCDB a lot of crap this year, but man have they absolutely CRUSHED this off-season so far.

 

[orangepassion]

Need to round out the staff with a good recruiter. Either a big personality with good recruiting connections like Monroe or somebody like Ferri who was very good at uncovering underrecruited guys like a Sean Tucker/Marlowe Wax. That's the one piece (besides Swag Daddy) this staff is missing.

 

[Cusefan69]

Do we have any sense of how Anae and Beck did recruiting at UVA? Strong? Middle of the road? Agree need a rain maker on the recruiting front.

 

[Consigliere]

Is Lynch a good recruiter? If not, we should move on. Our Ss stunk last year. We need better play there. How much of that is talent vs coaching?

Not sure what Lynch has to do with safety play. Am I missing something?

 

[orangepassion]

Not sure what Lynch has to do with safety play. Am I missing something?

Maybe Tucker, who Lynch was actually coaching, ran over our safeties?

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Not sure what Lynch has to do with safety play. Am I missing something?

They were two separate points.

 

[orangenauburn]

Beck has done well recruiting, especially QBs

 

[cusefan88]

Achuff moving to DL coach makes sense. Bulk of his experience is there

 

[orangepassion]

Achuff moving to DL coach makes sense. Bulk of his experience is there

You'd think being able to say he coached Chandler Jones in the NFL would be helpful on the recruiting trail going after D-Linemen.

 

[EnviroSciGuy]

I gave ADJW and HCDB a lot of crap this year, but man have they absolutely CRUSHED this off-season so far.

Same here; I was pretty skeptical about keeping Dino, but I like the way things have been playing out.

 

[Cuse_Albs]

What does everyone think the likely direction of the new hire will be here… Offensive or defensive side of the ball?

I think you could flip a coin between LB or DL for Achuff given the progression of our young LBs and his prior experience with the DL. White also has some experience coaching LBs but a majority of his career he coached the secondary/defensive passing game. Is it possible that Anae handles WRs in addition to the OC role? He coached inside WRs at Virginia and BYU along with OC responsibilities in the past. Lastly, is there any possible additional departures from the assumed stayers?

My best guess is a WR coach hire, White to coach LBs with Achuff coaching DL or Achuff coaching DL and LBs, Ligashesky to coach TEs.

 

[SUDadx2]

I don’t want Ligashesky coaching anything but special teams.

Special teams is one-third of the game.

No area underperformed more last year than special teams; only 14 touchbacks, the worst punt game in the ACC, terrible FG game.

Please don’t waste Ligashesky by splitting his duties with a position group. This would be a wasted hire if we do that.

 

[qdawgg]

What does everyone think the likely direction of the new hire will be here… Offensive or defensive side of the ball?

I think you could flip a coin between LB or DL for Achuff given the progression of our young LBs and his prior experience with the DL. White also has some experience coaching LBs but a majority of his career he coached the secondary/defensive passing game. Is it possible that Anae handles WRs in addition to the OC role? He coached inside WRs at Virginia and BYU along with OC responsibilities in the past. Lastly, is there any possible additional departures from the assumed stayers?

My best guess is a WR coach hire, White to coach LBs with Achuff coaching DL or Achuff coaching DL and LBs, Ligashesky to coach TEs.

I personally don’t care which side of the ball the last hire goes. I think recruiting prowess should be main focus.

 

[UD1954]

Coaching TE's at Cuse won't interfere with anything ... don't change what White's D is doing...get a DL coach.

 

[rrlbees]

I don’t want Ligashesky coaching anything but special teams.

Special teams is one-third of the game.

No area underperformed more last year than special teams; only 14 touchbacks, the worst punt game in the ACC, terrible FG game.

Please don’t waste Ligashesky by splitting his duties with a position group. This would be a wasted hire if we do that.

Almost every dedicated ST coach also coaches a position. Lustig was a GREAT ST coach and he’s always been a ST coach, but he also coached first RB and then outside WRs here.

 

[SUDadx2]

There are many ways to cut this, but as bad as our special teams were last year I would use Ligahesky 100% of the time to address this area.

Ligahesky looks like a great hire. Let him do what he does best Our special teams were terrible last year. Special Teams cost us at least two games last season.

It’s my understanding that our specialists, kickers, punters and long snappers often workout away from the rest of the team during practice. If the ST coach also has responsibility for a position group, who is watching the specialists? Last year’s performance tells me we lost sight (both literally and figuratively) of this last season.

Let’s be honest, we don’t use the TE position enough to justify a full time coaching assignment. A GA can work out the TE’s. TE’s can run routes with the WRs, block with the OL and learn the H-Back responsibilities with the RB’s.

I would consider David Gettis who has been on staff as a Quality Control coach as a WR coach. He played WR at Baylor and the NFL, and has experience as a WR coach.

Just an opinion.

 

[Cusefan69]

There are many ways to cut this, but as bad as our special teams were last year I would use Ligahesky 100% of the time to address this area.

Ligahesky looks like a great hire. Let him do what he does best Our special teams were terrible last year. Special Teams cost us at least two games last season.

It’s my understanding that our specialists, kickers, punters and long snappers often workout away from the rest of the team during practice. If the ST coach also has responsibility for a position group, who is watching the specialists? Last year’s performance tells me we lost sight (both literally and figuratively) of this last season.

Let’s be honest, we don’t use the TE position enough to justify a full time coaching assignment. A GA can work out the TE’s. TE’s can run routes with the WRs, block with the OL and learn the H-Back responsibilities with the RB’s.

I would consider David Gettis who has been on staff as a Quality Control coach as a WR coach. He played WR at Baylor and the NFL, and has experience as a WR coach.

Just an opinion.

Good points but I am 100 percent expecting TE to get re-introduced to our offense here with the new coaches in house and I am definitely looking forward to having Chris Gedney kind of kick ass TE being a weapon for us again.

 

[SUDadx2]

Good points but I am 100 percent expecting TE to get re-introduced to our offense here with the new coaches in house and I am definitely looking forward to having Chris Gedney kind of kick ass TE being a weapon for us again.

I hope you’re right. I love an offense that utilizes the TE.

There are several ways to slice this up without giving Ligashesky any responsibility for anything but special teams; Anea OC/TE, another GA etc…

Improving our special teams could make a huge difference next season. We lost at least two games in 2021 because of poor specials teams play.

• Can Szmyt return to his previous form and success?
• Can we get a holder who turns the laces away from the kicker?
• Can we kick the kickoff into the end zone and prevent any return more than 14 times? Worst in the conference.
• Can we help out field position with a solid punt game? For heaven’s sake, we have two scholarship punters. Who else has two scholarship punters?

 

[721Comstock]

I hope you’re right. I love an offense that utilizes the TE.

There are several ways to slice this up without giving Ligashesky any responsibility for anything but special teams; Anea OC/TE, another GA etc…

Improving our special teams could make a huge difference next season. We lost at least two games in 2021 because of poor specials teams play.

• Can Szmyt return to his previous form and success?
• Can we get a holder who turns the laces away from the kicker?
• Can we kick the kickoff into the end zone and prevent any return more than 14 times? Worst in the conference.
• Can we help out field position with a solid punt game? For heaven’s sake, we have two scholarship punters. Who else has two scholarship punters?

Is this kinda the same as -
"when you have two starting QB's, you actually don't have any starting QB's"?

But yeah - we need a dude who can consistently punt it 40+ yards.
Not a shankapotamus who misses every 3rd punt, and routinely gives the opponents gift-wrapped field position for a scoring opportunity.

 

[orangeinohio]

He might be around for only one season.
Let’s get the most out of him.

 

[sutomcat]

There are many ways to cut this, but as bad as our special teams were last year I would use Ligahesky 100% of the time to address this area.

Ligahesky looks like a great hire. Let him do what he does best Our special teams were terrible last year. Special Teams cost us at least two games last season.

It’s my understanding that our specialists, kickers, punters and long snappers often workout away from the rest of the team during practice. If the ST coach also has responsibility for a position group, who is watching the specialists? Last year’s performance tells me we lost sight (both literally and figuratively) of this last season.

Let’s be honest, we don’t use the TE position enough to justify a full time coaching assignment. A GA can work out the TE’s. TE’s can run routes with the WRs, block with the OL and learn the H-Back responsibilities with the RB’s.

I would consider David Gettis who has been on staff as

I think the new hire is going to be a WR coach. The issue with the team this year was offense and I think Dino would be willing to add another coach to the offense to help address our issues there.

We might go with a young WR coach here. Guessing our budget for assistant coaches is pretty much shot with the recent hires of 3 experienced, well respected coaches.

If we stay internal, I think the new likely hire is Sampson. He has a position with more responsibility and a bit more experience as a WR coach. But either sound like good hires.

If we were to leave the hire to Coach Anae, his first choice would probably be Hagans, the WR coach at UVa. But UVa recently announced he will be retained, which I assume means he signed a new contract with them. So let’s assume he is out.

His second choice would probably be Guy Holliday. Who is Guy Holliday? Guy was his WR coach at BYU. He reportedly wanted to take him to Charlottesville along with Beck and a couple of others, but Hagans was always in place at UVa and Bronco wanted him to help recruit Virginia.

BYU's Robert Anae leaving for Virginia, taking 3 assistants with him

BYU offensive coordinator Robert Anae will follow Bronco Mendenhall to the University of Virginia an d he will take three of the four offensive coaches he's worked with at BYU with him, he announced on Wednesday.

www.deseret.com

So he was left at BYU. Took a job at Utah after that. Was apparently fired around February of this year. It was a controversial move his son openly questioned on social media and as far as I can tell, he was not rehired by anyone else.

Guy is from Baltimore. Went to college in Pennsylvania. Has coached at a lot of places, including a short stint at Cornell. I would guess he has some contacts in a bunch of places we could recruit WRs.

Guy Holliday - Football Coach - University of Utah Athletics

Wide Receivers 5th Year Fifth-year wide receivers coach Guy Holliday is a 27-year veteran of college coaching, including more than two decades coaching receivers

utahutes.com

If the focus is more on addressing recruiting in the NE, the top target might be Joe Dailey, who is currently the WR coach at BC. He is of course from Northern NJ and might help address long standing issues at Syracuse recruiting that area.