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<blockquote data-quote="illinoistradition" data-source="post: 1373777" data-attributes="member: 8560"><p>It’s been a long time since I have posted, but I wanted to keep it simple on this first post back. In 2010 Illinois hired a 26 year old GA from Arkansas to replace the TE coach who left in the spring of that year. This GA was Chip Long, now at 34 the OC at Notre Dame. I can tell you that after being around the college game for four years, there are some established coaches who have made their way up through no merit—simply who they know. They barely had an idea of what was going on. There are others, sometimes those that start as GAs, that are naturals at a young age. I will defer to the fact that USC was going to hire him as their DL coach if their current one left. USC has slightly more pull in assessing coaching quality than Illinois.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="illinoistradition, post: 1373777, member: 8560"] It’s been a long time since I have posted, but I wanted to keep it simple on this first post back. In 2010 Illinois hired a 26 year old GA from Arkansas to replace the TE coach who left in the spring of that year. This GA was Chip Long, now at 34 the OC at Notre Dame. I can tell you that after being around the college game for four years, there are some established coaches who have made their way up through no merit—simply who they know. They barely had an idea of what was going on. There are others, sometimes those that start as GAs, that are naturals at a young age. I will defer to the fact that USC was going to hire him as their DL coach if their current one left. USC has slightly more pull in assessing coaching quality than Illinois. [/QUOTE]
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