Can't go nary a single stream without hearing from any/all announce teams, "he's the quarterback's best friend and have played with one another since grade school!"
Hawkins has always been my dark horse “most likely to stay” guy. Retain Cobbs and your pitch is “hey we’re going to give you some decent money and 20+ touches a game”. Decent pitch considering how many G5 RBs leave and get buried on a depth chart.
Considering (hindsight being 20/20, personal pro-RB-position bias aside) what EricMorris was able to do with one, two, THREE QUARTERBACKS IN A ROW, in ChandlerRogers, ChandlerMorris, and DrewMestemaker, let alone recruiting the potential, future, one-or-two UNT quarterbacks in Jimmerson-and-Poffenbarger, this Mean Green fan is less-concerned about the QB-position, at least here, in the short-term, and definitely thinks that, as great (not good) those QBs were the past three years, they all proved that such successes could be replicated with the right team, staff, scheme, and perhaps, schedule, and that total-effort should be focused on keeping CalebHawkins and/or building the depth at RB and WR for whomever lands the QB position to hand-off or throw to.
Start with the O-Line (PLEASE), the D-Line (these two are usually the worst positions for so-called "G6" programs and hardest to replace, because the best "big uglies" go to top, blue-blood programs, so, the 300-pound-something linemen on either side of the ball are slim-pickings for the "runts of the litter", and DrewMestemaker was sacked at least a handful of times against Tulane and while offense most-certainly "puts butts in seats", "defense wins championships".
Am not entirely sold on the idea that, as potentially deserving as he is, that that is necessarily the best call to make, in terms of getting PatrickCobbs a HC position. IMHO, he should stay RB-coach and maybe get a chance to coach as interim HC in the bowl game (a likely scenario if it's neither EricMorris nor NealBrown???) and become offensive-coordinator at-best, in the coming two years, but not be made permanent HC. He has to show that he can be a coordinator, first.
A raise? Yes. Am all for him being the next highest-paid staffer behind the HC, by all means, perhaps even over a coordinator, offensive or defensive.
Getting a loyal, true-blue (more like Mean Green) fan that was a player to stay as a coach, long-term, and continue to produce well is such a rarity for such a program to get, let alone retain for long, and trying to keep him where he's best and continue to be among the best at in the game, here, is the goal, as opposed to trying to....force him upward into a position he's not entirely ready for nor most-everyone else is ready for.
You think Coleman would leave to OSU? I was curious about him. His size, not his ability.
I think he is kind of tied to Mestemaker. But not closely
Can't go nary a single stream without hearing from any/all announce teams, "he's the quarterback's best friend and have played with one another since grade school!"
But, will see what happens.
Hawkins has always been my dark horse “most likely to stay” guy. Retain Cobbs and your pitch is “hey we’re going to give you some decent money and 20+ touches a game”. Decent pitch considering how many G5 RBs leave and get buried on a depth chart.
yeah I think the Tulane guy last year had that happened to him. Stay and get 1500 yards next year.
Considering (hindsight being 20/20, personal pro-RB-position bias aside) what EricMorris was able to do with one, two, THREE QUARTERBACKS IN A ROW, in ChandlerRogers, ChandlerMorris, and DrewMestemaker, let alone recruiting the potential, future, one-or-two UNT quarterbacks in Jimmerson-and-Poffenbarger, this Mean Green fan is less-concerned about the QB-position, at least here, in the short-term, and definitely thinks that, as great (not good) those QBs were the past three years, they all proved that such successes could be replicated with the right team, staff, scheme, and perhaps, schedule, and that total-effort should be focused on keeping CalebHawkins and/or building the depth at RB and WR for whomever lands the QB position to hand-off or throw to.
Start with the O-Line (PLEASE), the D-Line (these two are usually the worst positions for so-called "G6" programs and hardest to replace, because the best "big uglies" go to top, blue-blood programs, so, the 300-pound-something linemen on either side of the ball are slim-pickings for the "runts of the litter", and DrewMestemaker was sacked at least a handful of times against Tulane and while offense most-certainly "puts butts in seats", "defense wins championships".
I wonder if Cobbs is going to want a promotion
same. I think he deserves one.
Am not entirely sold on the idea that, as potentially deserving as he is, that that is necessarily the best call to make, in terms of getting PatrickCobbs a HC position. IMHO, he should stay RB-coach and maybe get a chance to coach as interim HC in the bowl game (a likely scenario if it's neither EricMorris nor NealBrown???) and become offensive-coordinator at-best, in the coming two years, but not be made permanent HC. He has to show that he can be a coordinator, first.
A raise? Yes. Am all for him being the next highest-paid staffer behind the HC, by all means, perhaps even over a coordinator, offensive or defensive.
Getting a loyal, true-blue (more like Mean Green) fan that was a player to stay as a coach, long-term, and continue to produce well is such a rarity for such a program to get, let alone retain for long, and trying to keep him where he's best and continue to be among the best at in the game, here, is the goal, as opposed to trying to....force him upward into a position he's not entirely ready for nor most-everyone else is ready for.