Coaching changes

[Yupster]

Looks like the QB coach, Justin Roper, is headed to Holy Cross

https://twitter.com/HCrossFB/status/1221880495153340416?s=19

[Irocon]

Also not pertaining to us but Bo Pelini is leaving Youngstown state to go back to LSU. So it will be interesting to see who they pick next.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...e-coordinator/

[sevelev711]

Well safe to say that the Bo Pelini experiment wasn't a huge success for the Penguins, they had that outlier title game appearance, but I can't even recall them making the playoffs other than that. I'm not a huge believer in "[Sport] is better when [team] is better," but I do think that YSU is one of the few schools in FCS that can move the needle at the national level. Wouldn't be bad for them to be good so that beating them is more fun.

[Yupster]

Blue42 pointed out in another thread that Isaac Fruechte left to take the OC job at D2 Northern State a couple weeks ago.

How would people characterize the moves? Up? Sideways? I know they are OC positions, but they are lesser schools. Just wondering what to make of these departures.

[clenz]

Blue42 pointed out in another thread that Isaac Fruechte left to take the OC job at D2 Northern State a couple weeks ago.

How would people characterize the moves? Up? Sideways? I know they are OC positions, but they are lesser schools. Just wondering what to make of these departures.

Fruechte went to join the guy he got his coaching start under at UWL.

Both took OC jobs. Even an OC job is a step up in terms of responsibility than a position coach. He's more likely to get an OC role if he succeeds as an OC at Northern State for 3 years than 3 more years as the WR coach at UNI. He proves he can run an offense and he'll get a higher OC offer. He got an OC job at 28 years old.

OC at HC is higher than WR coach at UNI. It simply is. It's an OC job at a D1 university. Period. He was just named an OC at a D1 university at 32 years old. That's always a step up from a position coach.

It's not a ton different than P5 position coach taking a OC/DC job at the FCS level for the chance to take that experience and resume booster.

Assistants leave programs all the damn time. The average assistant stay - outside of guys like JJ who are truly connected to the HC - is something like 2 years. You're always moving, always jockeying to be in position for that next step up, to get that experience. The coaching world isn't like any other job world. Not even close.

Hell, even the HC world the average tenure is 3.8 years - source https://www.businessinsider.com/coll...7-12?r=US&IR=T

It's lower at the FCS world as they get chances to get an FBS gig as a coordinator or HC at a G5 if they succeed

[Yupster]

Awesome stuff, Clenz. Thanks.

[Blue42]

No argument here.

If you get the chance to run an offense or a defense as the coordinator you have to take it.