Miles Smith never actually coached the DBs last year. He was with the nickels before Abraham left and he stayed with nickels after Abraham left. His "DB coach" was in title only
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Miles Smith never actually coached the DBs last year. He was with the nickels before Abraham left and he stayed with nickels after Abraham left. His "DB coach" was in title only
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Illini also losing recruiting staffer Nate McNeal, who will reunite with Rod Carey and Thad Ward to head the recruiting department at Temple.
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Man, i hope we beat Rutgers on Saturday
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
To give a bit of context to why this is creating this sort of reaction where we all know of plenty of examples (Steve Spurrier Jr, Brian Ferentz, Shane Beamer, Skip Holtz, etc) of sons being part of their father's staffs in college football, everyone of those cases I mentioned involved the son first going out and proving themselves at a job outside their father's nest before getting hired under the father. The culture of football coaching is very much a "pay your dues" sort of thing. These low-level assistant jobs are hard and thankless, intentionally and needlessly so in a lot of cases, because that's the culture.
Miles Smith skipped the line, and that's naturally going to cause a reaction. Which is the real shame of it, because at the end of the day, Lovie has done no favors for Miles' career in football here. He's perfectly capable of landing him a job somewhere else under a coach Lovie knows and trusts to pay his dues, but foolishly decided to take a shortcut that isn't in his son's best long-term interests.
Miles Smith skipped the line, and that's naturally going to cause a reaction. Which is the real shame of it, because at the end of the day, Lovie has done no favors for Miles' career in football here. He's perfectly capable of landing him a job somewhere else under a coach Lovie knows and trusts to pay his dues, but foolishly decided to take a shortcut that isn't in his son's best long-term interests.
Please tell me that is it
would you like me to lie? lol
No. Give it to me straight. How many more positions is Lovie going to take over?
HoopCity
- Huntsville, AL
Looks to me Lovie is taking care of his own. What actually is Miles' title and might he now get a buy-out too ?
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
$12 million is a lot of money.
After Boese I dont think anyone else.
Illinivek23
- Gurnee
Werner mentioned Boese on his show this morning.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Nope, 12, see the contract here. Slightly in excess of 12 really because there's also the pro-rated salary through 2/1/19. Probably more like 13.
And now it's down to a much more manageable 4 (or closer to 5, for the same reason).
I imagine S&C coaches are relatively easy to replace. I hope at least. Thanks for the info.
Cook
- Richmond, VA
This situation is so wack. To your point, that's what Lovie told/made Scheelhaase do. Why wouldn't he do the same wrt Miles?
Lovie only has three sons, and one is his agent.
S/C are arguably the most important coach though.
True. But I would hope that one could make a relatively "quick" hire with a competent replacement and not lose too much. Granted, the way things have gone, maybe I shouldn't be so hopeful...
Exactly, as much as I would LOVE to have Nate back, I can't imagine anyway that happens under Lovie now.
Bolded: This still isn't true but losing Butkus hurts. I've got no fight left in me here.
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