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[htownkidd]

Like you all, i don’t why he would leave as well. However, even though the NCAA has eliminated the cap on “on-field coaches,” there are only 11 coaches, 10 assistants plus the HC, allowed to go on the road for recruiting.

i only found one picture of Rashad Wadood visiting a HS this offseason. Additionally, currently, Oregon has one too many off-campus recruiters/assistants. They also elevated some of their miscellaneous staff to on field assistants with DBs and cornerbacks recently plus more recent promotions on the offensive side of the ball.

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One piece of evidence from the prior 2025 year shows him below the S&C coaches, strategically placed, because above S&C there are the 10 off campus recruiters + Lanning; will stein, tosh lupoi, and Ra’Shaad Samples (RBs) are all above Hampton.

Moreover, you will notice Hampton has the title of defensive backs. So it appears that despite coaching on-field last season, Rashad might not have been an off-campus recruiting assistant. This is likely as all the non-off campus recruiters but on-field coaches do not have Oregon bios on their website, just like Rashad — cc: Kamran Araghi and Koa Ka’ai who were recently promoted.

My guess is that he is the #3 guy in the Oregon DB room and moving to Miami would be an increase in the responsibility while also becoming a more defined #2 guy.

Other Evidence: Oregon lost two coordinators and promoted from within to fill those roles. Chris Hampton, formerly co-DC/DBs, is now just the DC.

Special teams coach Joe Lorig has been with Dan Lanning since the beginning. His original title was ST/nickels coach; when he was at Penn State under Brent Pry, it was ST/OLBs. The latest Oregon football release didn’t have nickels on there although his X bio still does.

Want to know how we can reasonably speculate Rashad is the third most powerful voice in the room? Prior to playing for E Washington, he played at Arizona State. At Arizona State, his cornerbacks coach was none other than Joe Lorig himself, who has coached every position in the back 7 since his coaching career began in 1997.

When Lorig left ASU, Rashad did too. As did Lanning, who was a GA then recruiting coordinator at ASU for two separate years. Lanning would once again work with Loring while he was in Memphis prior to getting hired as UGA’s OLB then DC. At Memphis, Lanning was ILB/RC and Loring was OLB/ST.



Mario possibly gives more recruiting evaluation autonomy than Lanning?

Nice work.

 

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So your basically saying he is Oregons version of Terry Jefferson...

Hahah. I believe he had a bit more responsibilities than Terry tbh, just from the outside looking in, I doubt Loring is doing much recruiting at this stage of his career. If he comes to Miami, I’m guessing he’d have an increased role from what he had last year at Oregon, and Terry as well would have an increased role from what he had under Etheridge.

He also had a definite title that Terry didn’t have, and appears slated to have been promoted again as they dropped DB coach from Hampton’s title and just put safeties. He was enough of a presence that he shared the best DB coach award with Chris Hampton.

Before he moved to on-field, he was director of community engagement for two years which is a recruiting role.

 

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Nice work.

Appreciate it

 

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More associations:

Although he was coached by Joe Loring, Loring did not recruit him. Mario wants to make sure guys love the University of Miami when he hires them because that passion has to come across when recruiting & coaching. Well also know he does staff interviews.

Well, Wadood showed he did twofold: by almost attending the University, but instead going to the university coached by Mario’s own head coach, Dennis Erickson. I doubt Mario will blame a guy for choosing Dennis Erickson & Greg Burns over Al Golden, Paul Williams, and Dorito.

And the Venn Diagram continues. . . .. Rashad Wadood and Will Harris were recruited by the same guy: Greg Burns who coached at USC for four seasons (‘02 to ‘05), one year in the NFL, Tampa Bay (06), one year at Kansas State (07), then four years at Arizona State with Dennis Erickson.

Greg Burns is currently the DB coach at Washington State University, where he played under Mike Price—Erickson’s self-recommended WSU successor who he beat out as a junior in HS, Price was a senior, for the starting quarterback position, who moved to safety.

Rashad Woodad’s younger brother currently works at Washington.

the Washington Huskies made an addition to their recruiting office on Tuesday evening, hiring UConn director of high school relations and NFL liaison Jaleel Wadood. After holding various positions in coach Jim Mora's recruiting department since 2022, Wadood will leave one set of Huskies for another to become Jedd Fisch's director of high school relations.

His brother was a 2x all-PAC CB who played under Mora @ UCLA from 2014 to 2017. Attended St. John Bosco, CA. Rashad attended Lakewood, CA. Rashad played at ASU from 2011 to 2013 then EWU in 2014 & 2015.