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I actually love that for Royston. He has a real passion for recruiting.Looks like Royston has been officially retained as well. Unfortunately, no longer a position coach, but at least still on staff. Director of Player Personnel, which might be great for him. He's a great recruiter.
He would likely be a graduate assistant coach not a position coach if he was a high school position coach. I wouldn’t be against him coming as a GA. We will need a few of them as well and they tend to be future position coaches in waiting.Would like to see I'Tavius Mathers given an opportunity as RB Coach. He coached 4 years as high school RB Coach here locally. Plus we know how great he was at MT his senior year. His local contacts as a high school recruiter alone would be excellent. Hope CDM will give him an interview anyway.
Funny you mentioned that. He was an offensive assistant GA for Stock during 2022-23 season. Is a masters degree needed to be a full fledged assistant these days?He would likely be a graduate assistant coach not a position coach if he was a high school position coach. I wouldn’t be against him coming as a GA. We will need a few of them as well and they tend to be future position coaches in waiting.
I don't see him on the football staff directory today.Looks like Royston has been officially retained as well. Unfortunately, no longer a position coach, but at least still on staff. Director of Player Personnel, which might be great for him. He's a great recruiter.
Mason’s staff seems to be pretty young and hungry. Guys with experience but also balanced with guys who are getting a crack at running their unitUnrelated to MT but, Memphis just hired two former players (both are defense assistants, Co-DC/DL and a CBs Position coach) but they’ve been practicing their craft at other colleges and NFL teams for 20+ years. Not rookie or semi-retiree hires like Stock was doing.
Young and hungry. Polar opposite of what we’ve had.Mason’s staff seems to be pretty young and hungry. Guys with experience but also balanced with guys who are getting a crack at running their unit
I think that has impressed me most with what he has assembled. All skew younger but that experience is impressive. I mean the OL guys. Gotta be a great recruting tool to say come play for Coach Simmons, a SEC lineman who is a two-time SB champ and blocked for Ben Roethlisberger.Mason’s staff seems to be pretty young and hungry. Guys with experience but also balanced with guys who are getting a crack at running their unit
I don't see him on the football staff directory today.
most of the football staff was at the women’s game tonight meeting with the fans and talking football. not sure I have ever seen that at Middle before!
Great get! Good to have him homeMason brings Paschall back home to coach special teams - Middle Tennessee State University Athletics
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Middle Tennessee head football coach Derek Mason announced today the hiring of former Blue Raider Luke Paschall as the program's special teamsgoblueraiders.com
Fantastic hire! He really made the most out of his talent when he was playing for us.Great get! Good to have him home
Loved me some Luke Paschall back in the day.
That’s what we needed. S&C might have been one of our weakest areas imo.
“There's going be an emphasis on physicality” - Q&A with Offensive Coordinator Bodie Reeder - Middle Tennessee State University Athletics
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — It took no convincing from Derek Mason to get Bodie Reeder on staff at MTSU as his offensive coordinator. Even with all the success the formergoblueraiders.com
The old adage still holds true. Games are won at the line of scrimmage.I think to have a successful team in general you have to be good in the trenches
Think some of you are missing the point. Yeah, games can be won or lost by line play, but that's not what I'm referring to. Over the course of a game, to win with this style and with this philosophy your OL play has to be exceptional to elite. And most G5 programs can't recruit an elite OL. Defenses can blow this up now which I'm restating since it didn't seem to sink in with my initial post.
Are you trying to say that you feel his philosophy using these personnel groupings require elite OL play or are you trying to say G5 schools can’t win with these personnel package as their primary groupings unless they have elite OL?
He's saying both.
The concern here is that teams that rely on power don't tend to do well at the G5 level. A lot of them even at the Power 5 level struggle. There are exceptions of course (Tulane and Troy have been very impressive with their power game even though they mostly operate out of shotgun)
Spread offenses allow for more smoke and mirror type of stuff, where you can better isolate favorable match ups. Think of our game @ Missouri when Stockstill and Richie James went off. Or go look at the old classic of App St. beating Michigan. App St. had far inferior athletes across the board but because they spread Michigan out and had a few dogs at WR they got it done.
It is much harder to do those things in a power style offense. Plays typically develop slower and it can be more challenging to abuse a match up because the offense isn't as spread out. Best example of a successful power style offense, in my opinion, is the L.A Rams and Michigan's team last year. Power offenses always look great on paper and the dry erase board but rarely work out when translated over to the field.
For a power style offense to have a chance to work you have to at least break even at the line of scrimmage and you better have a stable of good to great RB's. I worry greatly because MT has never had consistently good OL play. Ever. And I'm pretty sure if we ever did, they'd just transfer to a Power 5 anyway. (Whole OL transferred 2 years ago and they weren't even THAT good)