Herald article on Hickson and Barry

[canesdogo]

This. There’s only so much you can teach a rb. Maybe you can teach how to hold the ball better, maybe you can teach him to run a little lower. But that’s about it. The things that make a good RB ( instincts, vision, tackle breaking ability, agility, speed) cannot be taught. So as a RB coach your main job is to find guys with those characteristics.

Allabout............I think Duke J. would be a good example.....enhance natural ability....agreed.

 

[mirvin88]

"we don't know if Barry can recruit, but he can't be worse than Searles"

 

[DemCanesByke]

Our guys got manhandled, that’s on Gus. Couple that with bad QB play, stacked boxes, predictable play calling and Searles and you get what we saw this year.

I'm not putting that on Gus Oline was the only unit that looked weak. Everyone knew our plays the oline had no chance. We even knew the plays before the snap.

 

[caneallday21]

I'm not putting that on Gus Oline was the only unit that looked weak. Everyone knew our plays the oline had no chance. We even knew the plays before the snap.

Plus our best olineman was a guard who was forced to play tackle without the footwork and quickness for a tackle. I literally can't understand why nobody ever sees that. You could have the best oline coach in the country and our oline would be average at best

 

[kalinis]

I was going to ask who was worse...Searles or Paul Williams? But then I looked at Paul's 247 profile and see he was the primary recruiter for Artie, JJ, Jamal Carter, MJ, Redwine, RJ, and some other players.

Sooooo......Searles is definitely our worst positional coach ever.

line take time to develop but searles got Donaldson/Scaife/campbell/reed/Gaynor/Herbert/Hillary not defending hinm his coaching was so bad he made it look worse then was at oline but there is talent in that room who still have time to develop into legit oline guys

 

[AUcane]

All eyes on Barry

Having the NFL on his resume is an instant recruiting pitch. He’s got a tough job ahead of him but anything would be an improvement as well.

All eyes on Barry from a technical/teaching/coaching POV, not recruiting, imo. Identifying kids is one thing but developing them, coaching them etc is what we hired Barry for.

For me, all eyes are on Hickson. Need him to be a recruiting monster.

 

[pyhooya]

I was going to ask who was worse...Searles or Paul Williams? But then I looked at Paul's 247 profile and see he was the primary recruiter for Artie, JJ, Jamal Carter, MJ, Redwine, RJ, and some other players.

Sooooo......Searles is definitely our worst positional coach ever.

Jon Richt says Hi

 

[iLoveTDs]

"we don't know if Barry can recruit, but he can't be worse than Searles"

Searles recruited with the exception to this class (think they knew Richt was on the way out, etc).

We have a lot of talent at OL thanks to him. They sucked thanks to Richt.