akim

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

 

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M-Wolverine

January 3rd, 2013 at 6:58 PM ^

I'm saying that it's not a big recruiting inducement. The better parallel would be if Fred Jackson took a job at LSU as a QB coach and someone was worried they'd look a quarterback recruit because of it. Neither guy has produced anyone from that position in a long time.

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The Baughz

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.

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go16blue

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.

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chewieblue

January 3rd, 2013 at 4:54 PM ^

Apart from being a horrid blocker, Dunn is a good fit for what Urban's offense is evolving into. Slimy Ohio HC likes his backs to be big enough to control the triangle area between the guards. Think dive back in the Academy style veer offenses. That seems to be where that position is headed in that "Urban Shot Gun and Read" system.

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King Douche Ornery

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.

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bronxblue

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. 

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Ron Utah

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?

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Perkis-Size Me

January 3rd, 2013 at 6:15 PM ^

a coach he has no relationship with at a school not running his system? stranger things have happened, sure, but i don't think this changes much. but i'm not derrick green, so what do i know?

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Swazi

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.

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