10th On Field Assistant

El Paso Eagle · December 31, 2017

With the NCAA approving a new on field coaching position will the Mean Green this new coach?

BTG_Fan1 · December 31, 2017

They gotta use it.. the question is what position is it? RBs don’t have an official coach but they do have Choice and Sims.. TEs don’t have an Coach but I would assume they are under Mainford since he is the inside WRs..

I really hope we would bring in a great recruiting coach.

Cr1028 · January 1, 2018

I would assume Choice moves into an official “on-field” running back coach role

Edited January 1, 2018 by Cr1028

UNTLifer · January 2, 2018

Go get Marcus Trice.

Arkstfan · January 2, 2018

I've seen a few head coaches say they would make the 10th assistant a recruiting coordinator and float between positions to help as needed rather than being assigned a position to coach.

Others have said they would probably use it to have a dedicated special teams coordinator who wasn't balancing that with coaching a position.

Two rumors floating around A-State have been that one option being considered is to have a dedicated special teams coordinator who didn't have other responsibilities (our SC also coaches receivers) and the other option being splitting defensive line coach into DE coach and DT coach. My guess is it will likely come down to who is available to hire that they like and what they are good at more than looking at it as we need an X coach.

aztecskin · January 2, 2018

Seth Littrell is doing the RB/TE coaching himself, so that Biagi can do the ST stuff.

It makes sense that they would get an on-field RB coach and Littrell could then do more of the overseeing.

Edited January 2, 2018 by aztecskin

Monkeypox · January 2, 2018

On 1/1/2018 at 12:11 AM, Cr1028 said:

I would assume Choice moves into an official “on-field” running back coach role

I approve of this.

GMG24 · January 2, 2018

2 hours ago, Arkstfan said:

I've seen a few head coaches say they would make the 10th assistant a recruiting coordinator and float between positions to help as needed rather than being assigned a position to coach.

Others have said they would probably use it to have a dedicated special teams coordinator who wasn't balancing that with coaching a position.

Two rumors floating around A-State have been that one option being considered is to have a dedicated special teams coordinator who didn't have other responsibilities (our SC also coaches receivers) and the other option being splitting defensive line coach into DE coach and DT coach. My guess is it will likely come down to who is available to hire that they like and what they are good at more than looking at it as we need an X coach.

I like the recruiting coordinator move, let's them actually go recruit as opposed to staying on campus. But I'm willing to bet Choice officially joins staff as RB coach

BTG_Fan1 · January 3, 2018

5 hours ago, GMG24 said:

I like the recruiting coordinator move, let's them actually go recruit as opposed to staying on campus. But I'm willing to bet Choice officially joins staff as RB coach

Choice has helped land multiple recruits, one of them said he helped this cycle and Greg White was his get as well..

Im assuming having him on the 10-man staff allows him more freedom to go visit recruits compared to his current position?But I have no idea if there are any limits on how he can recruit in his current role.

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Sidenote: I really hope the staff finds a spot for Jeff Wilson if he doesn’t make it to the next level. East Texas kid and he gave a lot to this team, and could and should help the younger guys. Kind of view him similar to Buyers.

GMG24 · January 3, 2018

11 hours ago, BTG_Fan1 said:

Choice has helped land multiple recruits, one of them said he helped this cycle and Greg White was his get as well..

Im assuming having him on the 10-man staff allows him more freedom to go visit recruits compared to his current position?But I have no idea if there are any limits on how he can recruit in his current role.

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Sidenote: I really hope the staff finds a spot for Jeff Wilson if he doesn’t make it to the next level. East Texas kid and he gave a lot to this team, and could and should help the younger guys. Kind of view him similar to Buyers.

Analyst or any other non position coach can only recruit on campus. I'm not for sure but I don't think they can contact kids either, only once they're on campus can they make contact. Position coaches can visit kids. UTSA GA was posted on the Kellogg kid from Tennessee I believe, and I'm almost certain that is a recruiting violation.

El Paso Eagle · January 4, 2018

Just saw where it looks like K-State is hiring (as their 10th) a coach who had recently taken a job with UTEP. Wonder how many P5's will raid G5's for this new position??

forevereagle · January 4, 2018

1 hour ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Just saw where it looks like K-State is hiring (as their 10th) a coach who had recently taken a job with UTEP. Wonder how many P5's will raid G5's for this new position??

Pretty much all of them.