A recruit could think otherwise.
Imagine your offered a scholarship by Billy at UL. He then shows up at your house and says: “I believed in you at UL and I still believe in your talent now. You’re good enough to play in the SEC. I need you.”
Is that not loyalty?
Edit: sorry, misread and thought you were implying Napier isn’t loyal.
20 staff by my count (21 with Napier himself)
1. Billy Napier
2. Jabbar Juluke (RB Coach to RB Coach)
3. Darnell Stapleton (OL coach to OL coach)
4. Patrick Toney (DC to DC)
5. Doug Domingue (Video to Director of Recruiting Innovation)
6. Bri Wade (Director of On campus recruiting, same)
7. CJ Wilford (Defensive Analyst to Defensive analyst)
8. Edward Thompson (S&C assistant, same)
9. Mark Hocke (S&C and Associate HC, same)
10. Ashoor Peera (Dir of Player Engagement to AST Director of Football Ops)
11. Ryan O’Hara (Offensive Analyst, same)
12. Frank Ogas (Dir of Player Development to AST Dir of Player Development)
13. Braxton Morris (defensive QC to defensive QC)
14. Nick McDonald (Recruiting QC to personnel analyst for offense)
15. Jacob LaFrance (Director of player personnel to same)
16. Kyle Kazakevicius (Director of Recruiting and Offenside Analyst to Assistant DFO for Quality Control / Assistant to the Head Coach)
17. Tony Hill (associate director of sports med/head FB trainer to same)
18. Joe Hamiliton (QC player personnel and recruiting to defensive analyst)
19. Karmicharl Dunbar (S&C assistant to same)
20. David Doeker (offensive grad assistant to same)
21. Andrew Burkett (Dir of research and eval, same)
Jeez, is this a reflection on Mullen or the Florida AD Stricklin and the Florida athletic program as a whole?
Were the people previously in these positions incompetent, or did the positions actually exist?
If in fact this is a reflection on Stricklin (I have read on UL-Gainesville message boards of displeasure with Stricklin's neglect of soft infrastructure), I only half-jokingly say I fear for the loss of Maggard.
“But just to kind of make sure we’re all the same page here: We’re gonna take a small group of people with us to work through signing day."
Napier, who coached UL to 12 straight wins after a season-opening loss to Texas, said there’s “basically a little bit of a gentleman’s agreement here that it’s important to our (Cajuns) team, and our players, and our administration to get through signing day … (and) the bowl game.”
“So we’re going to take a very small group. The rest of the staff will coach (UL) the rest of the way. And then, after signing day’s over, we’ll start working on, really, assembling the rest of the organization. That’s the approach we’ll take.”
....so basically, we'll keep you intact until after the bowl game. Then, it's a free for all. Good luck, UL.
I thought the ncaa had a limit of 13 “coaches”…. Silly Me!
I’d expect Maggard to be scooped up next year if we have another great season. Doing so would probably give him the relief of not retiring Bob Marlin.
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