Had you ever heard of Hauck before yesterday?
Yes I heard of Hauck before yesterday. He’s an excellent coach. You people are so caught up on a name . You never heard of Curt Cignetti either before Indiana hired him. Yes the same Curt Cignetti that NEVER WON A National Championship at James Madison but won a National Championship at Indiana. For the people that’s hung up on Chris Partridge please explain to me what he has done as defense coordinator. When he was the co defensive coordinator at Ole Miss he was terrible. People on here just talking nonsense and have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. This is an excellent hire by Bret.
I'll say the thing that will get everybody mad, what the heck, glad to be of service:
I had absolutely known of Hauck's success at Montana before, but true confession, when I saw the name I knew I had heard of the guy but had to look it up, and I had no idea about his association with Rocky Long and the 3-3-5.
Don't disagree, but don't DL like stunting and playing in 1 gap disruptive defenses?
Yep, starting about the 10:00 mark is where he starts taking questions and the scheme change/transfers are the first things he talks about.
No one did and that’s exactly the problem. Once again, we acted like we outsmarted everyone. Sometimes I want Bret to just go get a solid, established B‑level coordinator and let’s roll. He gets a little too cute with things sometimes, and it worries me.
It's often funny how these takes look a year later....
Doesn't seem the search goes back that far. Searched "Izzo" as a test and the oldest post I could find was July 1, 2015. So I can confidently say from July 1, 2015 through February 8, 2025, the name "Hauck" was not mentioned one time on this board.
I bet a lot of other posters have similar feelings.If you only follow the U of I, or P4 football, then you wouldn't know anything about Hauck. However, following FCS football, then you know that Hauck is a winner. His time at Nevada didn't produce many wins, but he definitely was a winner at the FCS level.
Tony White (now at FSU) ran the 3-3-5 at Nebraska with decent success in 2023 and 2024. He also had a talented DL at Nebraska during that time which is the position that will likely determine the early success of this scheme at Illinois next year. Henry's "bend-don't-break" defense was frustrating in its lack of aggression and creativity but ultimately limited big plays enough to keep us in every game. This new scheme will bring more aggression and creativity but at the expense of exposing the defense to big plays. The highs will be higher and the lows will be lower. I'm unsure about the hire but definitely intrigued.
Ditto. And they do not disappoint.
... and later that evening as we're basking in the afterglow of our meal we learn that the diners adjacent to us have succumbed to botulism.
I actually would anticipate our NT's being a little smaller and quicker, they'll be required to slant and stunt a lot more
OSU is going to spank a lot of teams.
I think we have a pretty good secondary.
