Auburn hires NFL veteran Rich Bisaccia as running backs, special teams and assistant head coach
My Auburn friends are telling me this will put Derrick Green over the top and choose Auburn. We'll see.
http://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.ssf/2013/01/auburn_hires_nfl_vet…
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:22 PM ^
It's like riding a bike I'm sure, but that track record wouldn't exactly wow me.
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:55 PM ^
Fred Jackson was a QB coach before he switched to RB coach at Michigan, though I will admit that there are probably more parallels there.
(Edit: Added list of experience for Jackson - from Mgoblue.com)
R(S) | POSITION | SCHOOL |
1979-81 | Offensive Coordinator, QBs, WRs | Toledo |
1982-86 | Offensive Coordinator, QBs, WRs | Wisconsin |
1987 | Wide Receivers | U.S. Naval Academy |
1988 | Quarterbacks, Wide Receivers | South Carolina |
1989-90 | Offensive Coordinator, QBs, WRs | Purdue |
1991 | Quarterbacks | Vanderbilt |
1992- | Running Backs | Michigan |
1995-96 | Offensive Coordinator | Michigan |
1997-2002 | Assistant Head Coach | Michigan |
2003-07 | Associate Head Coach | Michigan |
2008- | Running Backs | Michigan |
January 3rd, 2013 at 5:48 PM ^
RB coach. I never knew how that was approached since you don't see it very often.
January 3rd, 2013 at 7:00 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 6:58 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:25 PM ^
Gus M is still the head coach and he runs a spread
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:25 PM ^
Hasnt he stated several times tha he wants to play in a pro style offense? Regardless of who coaches the RBs at Auburn, they are still going to run the spread. I still say advantage Michigan.
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:26 PM ^
Meh, they were always going to have somebody coach the position, and a guy whose last stop was as a special teams coach for a failing team doesn't scare me from a recruiting perspective, NFL or no. Green doesn't fit with Auburn's new system and this hire doesn't change that either.
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:46 PM ^
Dunn doesn't fit OSU's spread and yet he committed there, so who knows in regards to power backs in a spread system. Regardless, I hope we aren't disappointed.
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:54 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:57 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 5:16 PM ^
He doesn't? Urban Meyer sure liked sending Carlos Hyde up the middle off of dive plays.
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:40 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:43 PM ^
Voll Tide!
January 3rd, 2013 at 5:03 PM ^
I thought it was Troll Tide.
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:40 PM ^
Are your "friends" and why would you listen to them?
Are they related to Derick Green?
My friends just told me Derrick Green is a cannibal.
January 4th, 2013 at 12:04 AM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 4:55 PM ^
isn't even the competition for Green anymore...its probably Florida State.
January 3rd, 2013 at 5:14 PM ^
And who was asking him the questions? Oh, an Auburn guy? Would you really expect him to say they were totally out of the running?
January 3rd, 2013 at 5:11 PM ^
I have a hard time believing that Auburn's hiring of a guy who probably has never met Green before, with whom he has no relationship and can't legally forge one for some time, would sway a kid to a tire-fire program, regardless of his "pedigree" as a special teams coach in the NFL. Mattison was a DC in the NFL, for a pretty good defense, and it wasn't like kids immediately flipped their commitment when he was announced.
January 3rd, 2013 at 5:43 PM ^
Said your friends were dumb.
Seriously though, I don't see how this hire would sway Green, or how anyone could make that claim. Derrick Green can come to Michigan, start from day one, and be a first-round draft pick after winning the Heismann Trophy as a junior.
Why? We play a pro style offense and have recruited the best OL talent in the country, along with one of the best QBs in the country. Why would he go Auburn where he has to compete with other talented RBs who are more suited to a system he doesn't want to play?
January 3rd, 2013 at 6:03 PM ^
Get new friends.
January 3rd, 2013 at 6:15 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 6:52 PM ^
January 3rd, 2013 at 7:36 PM ^
So a seemingly lifer NFL special teams coach that was never a running backs coach is supposed to scare me? Fred Jackson is laughing right now.
The last NFL hire that Auburn made worked out so well for them.
January 3rd, 2013 at 8:04 PM ^
pooped excellence - that should put Green over the top for Michigan
January 3rd, 2013 at 9:30 PM ^
Wow, with you pooping excellence, and Hoke pooping gold, we should get all the recruits now.
January 4th, 2013 at 4:01 PM ^
Time for new friends.