Director of Recruiting Aashon Larkins to Ole Miss
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Rising star within the program Director of Recruiting Aashon Larkins has been hired by Ole Miss as their lead defensive analyst. We've now lost two important off-field recruiting guys this offseason. There's been some buzz about Denard Robinson potentially joining the program in an off-field role, but not sure the validity of those rumors
February 17th, 2022 at 7:46 PM ^
Whoa Nellie
February 17th, 2022 at 11:05 PM ^
Took the words right out of my mouth.
February 17th, 2022 at 7:50 PM ^
Bad look by Patridge taking our guys, no ? All that we did for him.... he can go elsewhere for guys.
February 17th, 2022 at 7:56 PM ^
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
February 17th, 2022 at 8:18 PM ^
Personally, I don't find it to be a bad look by Partridge. If he wants to offer Ashon a promotion and an opportunity to advance his career, I think he should be able to do that.
I don't think he owes Jim Harbaugh, or Michigan any kind of gentlemen's agreement to pass on guys that are on staff simply because Michigan gave him his first opportunity at the college level. Just the way career development works in the coaching profession.
February 17th, 2022 at 8:32 PM ^
I never will understand how so many on this blog take guys getting other jobs, so personally. It's a business and your HC was openly looking for another job, this guy gets a promotion and people want to complain about it.
February 17th, 2022 at 9:26 PM ^
And . . . I remember when nobody wanted our guys. It's good to have guys that other people want.
February 18th, 2022 at 8:04 AM ^
Plus the coaching fraternity is so much about how you have worked with and who have personal connections to. This is especially true at the analyst level. It would be surprising to me if Partridge didn't take some Michigan guys, just because he has connections to get real info on these people.
February 17th, 2022 at 8:35 PM ^
He gave Larkins a promotion. If Michigan can’t match, that’s on Michigan.
February 17th, 2022 at 10:03 PM ^
My bad...I assumed it was a lateral move.
February 18th, 2022 at 12:28 AM ^
It's not that he left for a promotion, it's where he went to get a promotion. Going from Michigan to Ole Miss is one step up and two steps down.
February 18th, 2022 at 5:01 AM ^
No the fuck it’s not
February 18th, 2022 at 7:29 AM ^
I wouldn’t even take a promotion to live in that state.
February 18th, 2022 at 10:27 AM ^
Mississippi is great. Birmingham is like a little Detroit without the bombed out looking sections, and rural Mississippi is pretty much like rural Michigan. And Ole Miss is a pretty good University. I don't know where it ranks, but I can't imagine it's much behind Florida in the SEC.
People who think the south is still like Deliverance need to get out more.
February 18th, 2022 at 10:37 AM ^
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USNWR rank/25th-75% SAT/acceptance rate
Florida #28 / 1290-1460 / 31%
Ole MIss #148 / 1050-1270 / 88%
February 18th, 2022 at 10:50 AM ^
As someone who spent tons of his childhood visiting Mississippi, it is a shithole.
It may not be deliverance, but it’s not much better. Everything about that state is awful and depressing. The only redeeming qualities of that state is it’s coast (and even that is pretty subpar) and how cheap it is.
February 18th, 2022 at 2:48 PM ^
Birmingham, MS is like Detroit? Don’t you mean Birmingham, Alabama is like Detroit?
February 17th, 2022 at 8:33 PM ^
When he didn't get the bump to replace Courtney Morgan I suspected this would happen. It's too bad. Recruit's families liked him.
February 17th, 2022 at 9:31 PM ^
Michigan’s coaching staff is going to continue to be raided because JH hires and grooms good to great assistants/coaches/coordinators/et al. Be happy for this, because it means we will continue to hire and develop the best. Some will stay, some will go on to better opportunities, and some will go now and return later.
February 17th, 2022 at 10:03 PM ^
Yeah, you look at top programs and they have a ton of turnover. Harbaugh has shown the ability to pick good assistants and staff, and hopefully that continues.
February 17th, 2022 at 10:27 PM ^
The job is probably easier.
February 17th, 2022 at 10:29 PM ^
I saw this posted twice and assumed it was Hoek at it again.
February 18th, 2022 at 1:29 AM ^
This is great for the program. Michigan has established itself as a program that will give coaches an opportunity to transcend. Promoting an analyst or any coach to better position only helps attract better talent to replace
February 18th, 2022 at 8:15 AM ^
Michigan, the incubator of coaching careers....
that's not a bad thing.