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Please please please make Garrett official. That will be SO much fun.
 
Pilchard said:
Don't understand how a reasonable person (or group of people) could look at the background of Mike Elko, Josh Gattis and Jason Garrett, and determine that Jason Garrett is the most likely to succeed as a head football coach at Duke. Jason Garrett has never coached on the college level. His last exposure to college football was as a player at Columbia more than 30 years ago. Even if Garrett (who was just fired mid-season by the Giants for being a crappy OC) had demonstrated transformative X and O skills as a football coach, there are so many elements of college football that are night and day different than the NFL that Garrett's complete lack of experience on the college level would/should make it impossible to rate Garrett as the preferred hire over Gattis and Elko. Can't wait to see the make up of Garrett's staff.
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agree 100% but to me it is very possible that Duke preferred Elko and Gattis, along with Elliot, and that they were just leveraging Duke (and practicing interviewing; apparently Poindexter needs this practice) to increase their current comp by a few hundred thousand while they wait for a better opportunity next year
 
Pilchard said:
Don't understand how a reasonable person (or group of people) could look at the background of Mike Elko, Josh Gattis and Jason Garrett, and determine that Jason Garrett is the most likely to succeed as a head football coach at Duke. Jason Garrett has never coached on the college level. His last exposure to college football was as a player at Columbia more than 30 years ago. Even if Garrett (who was just fired mid-season by the Giants for being a crappy OC) had demonstrated transformative X and O skills as a football coach, there are so many elements of college football that are night and day different than the NFL that Garrett's complete lack of experience on the college level would/should make it impossible to rate Garrett as the preferred hire over Gattis and Elko. Can't wait to see the make up of Garrett's staff.
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Here’s what an article on The Ringer had to say regarding Garrett: New York needed an offensive mind who could get the most out of a quarterback who gets worse the longer he holds the ball and a dynamic but somewhat unorthodox group of skill-position players. Garrett might have been the worst possible candidate for that job.

Yeah I’d say he definitely seems like a guy who can elevate Duke!
 
thatguy2016 said:
agree 100% but to me it is very possible that Duke preferred Elko and Gattis, along with Elliot, and that they were just leveraging Duke (and practicing interviewing; apparently Poindexter needs this practice) to increase their current comp by a few hundred thousand while they wait for a better opportunity next year
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If they even got that far. Has Duke actually interviewed any of these people or is this all smoke from the AD so they don't look incompetent? Garrett is an incompetent hire.
 
 
I can't even begin to describe how bad Garrett's tenure as OC was with the Giants. It was so uninspired and lackluster. Zero creativity, zero ability to use the skills of certain players, zero ability to adjust to the game. Did not seem to have a good relationship with any of the players of fellow coaches. Threw players under the bus to the press.

This man have no connections to college football. Who the hell is going to be on his staff? Who is going to recruit? This is an absolute dumpster fire of a hire (if official). Monken is 10x the hire, and it seems like Duke never even considered him seriously.

This is great news for WF.
 
PaddyWF said:
If they even got that far. Has Duke actually interviewed any of these people or is this all smoke from the AD so they don't look incompetent? Garrett is an incompetent hire.
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They did interview Elko and pretty sure on Elliott. Don’t think they interviewed Gattis though.
 
WRS said:
Hahaha omg seriously? Did they use up their whole budget on Venables and Lebby?
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He'll be gone in a year anyway, if the past is any indication. Flummoxing hire. Not a terrible hire, but not up to expectations. At least he didn't bring back Mike Stoops.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
He'll be gone in a year anyway, if the past is any indication. Flummoxing hire. Not a terrible hire, but not up to expectations. At least he didn't bring back Mike Stoops.
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This will be Roof's 6th different school (GT, NC State, App. State, Vandy, Clemson, and now OK) over the last six seasons. Realize that coaching requires lots of transitions, but old Ted seems to have trouble keeping his job.
 
BarcaDeac said:
Georgia DC Dan Lanning to the Ducks as their new head coach
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Quick riser. Lanning is 35. As a 24 year-old HS coach, he met Todd Graham at a coaching clinic and Graham brought Lanning on has a GA at Pitt and then AZ State. After parting ways with Graham, Lanning got a job as a GA at Bama (where he met Kirby Smart), and used that experience to get a full time assistant's job (LB Coach) at Memphis under Mike Norvell. In 2018, Smart hired Lanning as LB coach. When UGA DC Mel Tucker got the Colorado head job, Lanning was promoted to DC at UGA. He has been UGA DC for the last three seasons. Lanning has a strong rep as a recruiter.
 
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Pilchard said:
This will be Roof's 6th different school (GT, NC State, App. State, Vandy, Clemson, and now OK) over the last six seasons. Realize that coaching requires lots of transitions, but old Ted seems to have trouble keeping his job.
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It's odd to say the least. It's not like he has been fired everywhere he has gone or "encouraged to move on," but that has happened enough. Regardless, I think that Venables will be the de facto DC and Roof the figurehead and teacher. He has worked with him at Clemson and Roof knows the southeast, though I don't think he is much of a recruiter. OU is kind of raiding the Clemson defensive staff, FWIW, and also got their director of recruiting and player development. Seems like something is amiss there.
 
Lanning reports are premature, apparently. I'm sure he is getting some looks, though.
 
Pilchard said:
Don't understand how a reasonable person (or group of people) could look at the background of Mike Elko, Josh Gattis and Jason Garrett, and determine that Jason Garrett is the most likely to succeed as a head football coach at Duke. Jason Garrett has never coached on the college level. His last exposure to college football was as a player at Columbia more than 30 years ago. Even if Garrett (who was just fired mid-season by the Giants for being a crappy OC) had demonstrated transformative X and O skills as a football coach, there are so many elements of college football that are night and day different than the NFL that Garrett's complete lack of experience on the college level would/should make it impossible to rate Garrett as the preferred hire over Gattis and Elko. Can't wait to see the make up of Garrett's staff.
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He transferred back to Princeton and was starting QB there.
 
I'm somewhat surprised in that I thought he could land somewhere much higher than Duke as a HC.
 
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