Joel Filani WR Coach

All About UNT · December 10, 2015

http://www.cougcenter.com/2015/12/9/9883348/wsu-offensive-qc-joel-filani-joining-north-texas-staff

dml7007 · December 10, 2015

North Texas: Per source, Washington State offensive quality control Joel Filani will join Seth Littrell’s staff coaching receivers.

http://footballscoop.com/the-scoop/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Filani

Eagle-96 · December 10, 2015

footballscoop.com reporting that former Texas Tech wide receiver Joel Filani will be named UNT wide receivers coach. Filani spent 2013 and 2014 as a graduate assistant for receivers at Boise State. He spent last season as an offensive quality control coach at Washington State. The first of many Air Raid protégés.

Wag Tag · December 10, 2015

Leach, Texas Tech connection! Nice

Ben Gooding · December 10, 2015

If Harrell gets named OC and a few other pieces fall in place we might end up with the youngest coaching staff in the country.

TheReal_jayD · December 10, 2015

H-towngreen · December 10, 2015

Think this is a good addition. Also leads me further to believe that Harrell is headed here as the OC

adman · December 10, 2015

If Filani is coming you better believe Harrell is coming as OC.

brownisgreen · December 10, 2015

My brother, a Tech fan, had told me about this earlier today. Interesting hire. I remember when he played.

hickoryhouse · December 10, 2015

If Filani is coming you better believe Harrell is coming as OC.

why? Your statement makes no sense. Harrell might be coming but are you suggesting that getting a young guy like this as a WR coach can only be led by another young guy with the same amount of time under his belt? Or is it because they both hail from tech with littrell? That is silly. Nothing about this hire necessitates hiring Harrell. i like the idea of a young staff and I think this is a good start to that young staff, keeps it in the same philosophy and all, but Harrell is not the right guy for the full time OC here, qb coach and co oc sure.

Tyler Maryak · December 10, 2015

If Harrell gets named OC and a few other pieces fall in place we might end up with the youngest coaching staff in the country.

if our guys are doing poorly, maybe our coaches can just sub in.

Think this is a good addition. Also leads me further to believe that Harrell is headed here as the OC

i like the addition too, even if they're young. If they do well and stick around a while, we have good consistency for our players and recruits.

aztecskin · December 10, 2015

I'm 90% sure Graham Harrell is the OC.

El Paso Eagle · December 10, 2015

I'm 90% sure Graham Harrell is the OC.

Pictures or it's not real

ChristopherRyanWilkes · December 10, 2015

why? Your statement makes no sense. Harrell might be coming but are you suggesting that getting a young guy like this as a WR coach can only be led by another young guy with the same amount of time under his belt? Or is it because they both hail from tech with littrell? That is silly. Nothing about this hire necessitates hiring Harrell. i like the idea of a young staff and I think this is a good start to that young staff, keeps it in the same philosophy and all, but Harrell is not the right guy for the full time OC here, qb coach and co oc sure.

They also are both currently coaching under Leach at Washington State. Most likely this is a "Hey, I'm going to OC at North Texas, want to come with me?" type of deal and this is Harrell's guy. Yes they are buddies from Tech days also.

FYI: North Texas can't afford "Co-Offensive coordinators" that's for big programs who want to keep assistants so they give them a better title (as explained on another thread).

Edited December 10, 2015 by ChristopherRyanWilkes

MeanGreenTexan · December 10, 2015

They also are both currently coaching under Leach at Washington State. Most likely this is a "Hey, I'm going to OC at North Texas, want to come with me?" type of deal and this is Harrell's guy. Yes they are buddies from Tech days also.

That's what we hope. Wonder why Filani would leak but Harrell wouldn't though...

Edit: Possibly because he's going to coach through the Sun Bowl? Dec.26th.

Edited December 10, 2015 by MeanGreenTexan

Withers940 · December 10, 2015

ChristopherRyanWilkes · December 10, 2015

That's what we hope. Wonder why Filani would leak but Harrell wouldn't though...

Edit: Possibly because he's going to coach through the Sun Bowl? Dec.26th.

I think it has something to do with recruiting... That's what RV indicated last night about some of the guys they are going after. They are still expected to finish up some recruiting before their teams will let them go. I imagine Leach told Filani he can go ahead and go because he wasn't too involved with the recruiting process like Harrell is.

aztecskin · December 10, 2015

Pictures or it's not real

Haha.

No pics but ...

... aside from all the DMs I've gotten, it makes sense since they have 1) similar philosophies (a Seth Littrell requirement per the presser) 2) are buddies 3) it's a return to home for GH 4) its a promotion with a possible raise .

HarringtonFishSmeller · December 10, 2015

One whole year of coaching experience is all this guy has? And, it's "Offensive Quality Control?"

I like the hire of Seth Littrell and all, but...let's hope the other hires have a longer resume in actual coaching, not just bouncing around in NFL and Arena League training camps before getting cut, then disappearing for four years.

CaribbeanGreen · December 10, 2015

If you watch the Barnett interview with Littrell - particularly when they discuss his time at Tech - he speaks fondly of the offensive staff he was with and sort of glowingly mentions how much fun they had and that they "had to be one of the youngest offensive staffs in the country"...(paraphrasing). Point being, I don't think youth or inexperience is going to be viewed as much of a negative for Littrell, and may even be seen as a significant positive. Just thinking out loud.

Cerebus · December 10, 2015

One whole year of coaching experience is all this guy has? And, it's "Offensive Quality Control?

*cough* recruiting specialist *cough*

MGNation92 · December 10, 2015

*cough* recruiting specialist *cough*

I love it. Going from Mac's philosophy of "Iowa, walk ons, whats recruiting, florida, our whole team will be walk ons because we don't have to recruit" to "every coach on staff, including the head coach, will recruit their asses off". Its a new day indeed gentlemen. And I for one, couldn't be more excited.

HarringtonFishSmeller · December 10, 2015

*cough* recruiting specialist *cough*

Really, after less than one year of coaching, he's a recruiting "specialist?"

HoustonEagle · December 10, 2015

I am all for having one of the youngest staffs in the country. We need that energy. We need guys that have everything to prove. These guys will also relate to the current kids coming out of HS. With that said we are really going to suck next year. So prepare yourself because the growing pains are going to be, well, painful.

Edited December 10, 2015 by HoustonEagle

adman · December 10, 2015

why? Your statement makes no sense. Harrell might be coming but are you suggesting that getting a young guy like this as a WR coach can only be led by another young guy with the same amount of time under his belt? Or is it because they both hail from tech with littrell? That is silly. Nothing about this hire necessitates hiring Harrell. i like the idea of a young staff and I think this is a good start to that young staff, keeps it in the same philosophy and all, but Harrell is not the right guy for the full time OC here, qb coach and co oc sure.

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