Rounding Out 2022 Coaching Staff

[florange44]

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.

Is this “that” Joe Daily who was almost our QB years ago?

 

[orangenauburn]

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.

Would love to take a chance with Joe

 

[rrlbees]

Is this “that” Joe Daily who was almost our QB years ago?

Yes

 

[OrangeTarheel]

Is this “that” Joe Daily who was almost our QB years ago?

I am pretty sure he started against UVA in the opener in 2002 or 3

 

[sutomcat]

I am pretty sure he started against UVA in the opener in 2002 or 3

I think you are thinking of Joe Fields, we started for us at QB in the opening game at Purdue in 2004 as a true frosh.

Joe Dailey spurned SU for Nebraska, then transferred to UNC.

 

[Cuse_Albs]

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.

Agreed, Holliday would be great in terms of knowledge of the position and could hopefully hit the ground running in terms of the system. His areas coached leads me to believe he must have some ins at some local HS’s. Great find!

FWIW, I also would not be disappointed with Sampson. From all accounts he would be a great recruiter and ambassador for the program.

 

[Ernj]

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.

Interestingly, not sure if it is legit or not but there is a second Twitter profile for OC Anae (@CoachAnae808) in which he says he created a new official profile. Looking at following (football and Hawaii related) might suggest it to be true.

One person he is following is Jared Ursua, current WR coach at Weber State.

 

[rrlbees]

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.

I have never heard of Holliday. Is there any concern about his controversial firing?

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Interestingly, not sure if it is legit or not but there is a second Twitter profile for OC Anae (@CoachAnae808) in which he says he created a new official profile. Looking at following (football and Hawaii related) might suggest it to be true.

One person he is following is Jared Ursua, current WR coach at Weber State.

Is that Ursua Major, or Ursua Minor.

 

[rrlbees]

Interestingly, not sure if it is legit or not but there is a second Twitter profile for OC Anae (@CoachAnae808) in which he says he created a new official profile. Looking at following (football and Hawaii related) might suggest it to be true.

One person he is following is Jared Ursua, current WR coach at Weber State.

Ursua is also the recruiting coordinator and is a native of Hawaii.

 

[Ernj]

Is that Ursua Major, or Ursua Minor.

Must be Major. His younger brother was drafted in 2019, guessing he is Minor.

 

[Ernj]

Ursua is also the recruiting coordinator and is a native of Hawaii.

Yup

 

[sutomcat]

I have never heard of Holliday. Is there any concern about his controversial firing?

No idea. Couldn’t find any specific reasons why he was not brought back but one article said 2 WRs on the two deep has recently transferred elsewhere. Probably related to that?

This article talks about the situation some. He apparently was an excellent recruiter who raised the talent level of the WRs at Utah significantly.

Utah football and receivers coach Guy Holliday have parted ways

Kyle Whittingham has decided to make a coaching change. The Utes are parting ways with wide receivers coach Guy Holliday after five seasons with the program.

247sports.com

 

[Jake]

Who was the stud recruiter the Hoos hired away from us a few years ago?

 

[orangenauburn]

Who was the stud recruiter the Hoos hired away from us a few years ago?

Think it was a running back coach, Chris Beatty. Then he was unemployed a year later regardless.

It was 2015. He came here he was gone with change. He went to Virginia and was let go when Bronco came in

 

[IthacaMatt]

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.

We need a monster defensive line coach. We need a guy there with a big personality.

And yes, if we had a guy with an NFL pedigree to coach WR who could also recruit well, that would be a home run.

 

[IthacaMatt]

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.

Eh, is he really good enough? We need somebody a little crazy to coach D line. We don't have superior talent, so we will need superior attitude, work rate & motivation. Maybe some gimmicks in our schemes.

 

[OrangeTarheel]

I think you are thinking of Joe Fields, we started for us at QB in the opening game at Purdue in 2004 as a true frosh.

Joe Dailey spurned SU for Nebraska, then transferred to UNC.

Thank you yes you’re right

 

[Cusefan69]

Hopefully be it WR or Dline we will get an announcement on that this week. I think the Anae/Beck hires should eliminate any angst a positional coach would have, so hopefully this final piece to the puzzle is bottomed out. Exciting times again for football and recruiting.

 

[money3189]

We need a monster defensive line coach. We need a guy there with a big personality.

And yes, if we had a guy with an NFL pedigree to coach WR who could also recruit well, that would be a home run.

Chris Achuff is capable. I heard he is better at D line. Also, personality is great but it doesnt mean they are good teachers. I know a lot of big personality rah rah guys that cant coach a lick. Don't provide instruction feedback or adjustments. All for show.

 

[UD1954]

I really don't think giving White one less defensive coach is the way to go... why tinker with our one bright spot {defense}

 

[qdawgg]

Chris Achuff is capable. I heard he is better at D line. Also, personality is great but it doesnt mean they are good teachers. I know a lot of big personality rah rah guys that cant coach a lick. Don't provide instruction feedback or adjustments. All for show.

This exactly. Listen to what these guys are saying, not how excited they say it.

 

[sufandu]

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.

What does he do the rest of practice? Special teams aren't practicing for 2 full hours everyday.

 

[FrancoPizza]

Is this “that” Joe Daily who was almost our QB years ago?

You mean the one who made Deleone fall off his chair?

 

[SUDadx2]

What does he do the rest of practice? Special teams aren't practicing for 2 full hours everyday.

If our specialists are not working on their trade the full practice every day, then we shouldn't be surprised our special teams stink. And any player who isn't willing to work on their craft the entire practice, then they shouldn't be on the team.

During the season we only practice Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with a walk-thru on Friday for a game on Saturday. Those three practices really aren't that much time to work on everything that needs to be done in order to be a top special teams team.

There's so much that needs to be worked on here. Each of these special skills requires hundreds of hours to master.

• Kickers
  • Kick offs
  • On-side kicks
  • Fields goals
  • Extra points
• Punters
  • Hang time
  • Distance
  • Accuracy
• Long snappers
  • Field goals and extra points
  • Punts
• Holders - last season should have taught us how important this function is.

A full-time specials teams coach probably won't have the help of a graduate assistant, but he will have a manager or two (every position group does) who can help keep things moving while the ST Coach is working with a specific specialist or group

Back when I was coaching I read this book written by the late George Allen. It helped me appreciate the value of special teams and helped us win a couple of games.


Practices are usually 2-3 hours long and can get pretty boring for a lot of players. One of the things we did to break up practice and stress the importance of special teams was to put a ten-minute period in the middle of practice every day to work on a different special team and different situations. Too many teams treat special teams as an afterthought and only do special teams at the end of practice when it feels like punishment to the players who have to stay.

I don't remember the exact quote, but George Allen said something like players will treat special teams as import and the coach does. So, we put special teams right in the middle of practice and did it every day.

Like most things in life, the more time you put into these skills, the better you will be.


By the way, several Division I programs have a dedicated specials teams coach. I looked at a few and here's some that I found.

• Georgia
• Cincinnati
• Ohio State
• Boston College
• Stanford
• San Diego State.