Other sites are saying he's heavily in the mix for the starting NT position. Is this true or just blind optimism?
I've read the same things. I guess we will just have to wait and see. If it is true, we have a lot more quality depth.
Read part of a article on TOSS interviewing Clark. Basically said that Palmaro is a better coach than Thompson, that he teaches more detail than Thompson did. Interesting!
Not surprised. Thompson was brought in more as a recruiting star than a coach and he didn't light the world on fire at either job. Seems like we have a better mix of coaches and recruiters.
It may depend on the sort of guys you're bringing in as to how much detail you have to give. I imagine the 5 star HS superstars have been to enough camps and such to know some tricks. 3 star projects, not so much. They may be partly why Thompson wasn't as "detailed." Just coming from a different experience than what the situation was here. I'm stretching, but just playing devil's advocate.
Everybody gets coached the same. You have to be able to play the technique that the coaches want you to play. It doesn't matter what their star rating was if they don't play the proper technique, they can't play.
Wasn't Thompson the one that found Clark or was that Carson? Either way, he was brought in to recruit more than coach and he didn't do a great job at that.
I bow to your experience. That is troubling to hear. We need coaches that can recruit more than recruiters that can coach.
He was here because he was Saban's recruiting coordinator and he would do what Monte wanted him to do in regards to technique. Kiffin made no bones about going out and getting the best recruiters from the best staffs he could get, if nothing else just to say he did it.
I thought it was Dooley who found Clark. A few weeks after Dooley salvaged the 2010 class he inked Clark who no other big schools wanted. I was thinking Dooley had ties to him or his coach somehow, could be wrong as my memory doesn't get better.
