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Message: [QUOTE="Ozcuse, post: 110915, member: 766"] He was a former OL and OL/tight ends coach in college and the NFL (I think we've heard that story before) and his teams at Fresno St. were known for power running and having a dominant OL. He was OC and recruiting coordinator at UNLV when they landed Randall Cunningham. The guy has recruited some other impressive players as well. These were some of his former players: David Carr, Ryan Mathews, Richard Marshall, Logan Mankins, James Sanders, Alan Harper, Rodney Wright, Tracy Rogers, Ron Cox, Aaron Craver, Marquez Pope, Lorenzo Neal, Jethro Franklin, Tony Brown, J.D. Williams, Mike Withycombe, Michael Stewart, John Fina and Tedy Bruschi. Also from his wikipedia page on the academic improvement of the football team under Coach Hill: "Also under Hill's leadership, Fresno State has greatly improved the academic performance of its football players. During Hill's tenure the team has produced (as of 2005) 65 Academic All-WAC players, compared to a total of nine in the entire history of the program before Hill's arrival. In 1999, senior cornerback Payton Williams became the first Fresno State football player to achieve Academic All-American status. In each of the last two years, the Bulldog football program has produced two of the most decorated students on the Fresno State campus. In 2006, lineman Kevin Cooper was awarded the President's Medal as the top graduating student at Fresno State. Last spring, Bulldog kicker [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Stitser']Clint Stitser[/URL] was a finalist for the President's Medal after winning the Dean's Medal for the Craig School of Business as its top graduate. Both young men graduated with 4.0 GPAs." Now I don't think SU has a good chance of getting him since all his roots are in Cali, he may see a coordinator position as being beneath him, and we may not want him for the recruiting reasons you listed. But I do think the guy plays a style of ball that Marrone understands and when it works, looks pretty dominant. Also the man coached under Bill Belichick at Cleveland and has a mean handlebar moustache. [/QUOTE]

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