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Otiscane said:
What's his deal? How was he at Auburn?
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He’s a journeyman that recruits well and coaches well; from what I’ve heard. Not sure how he recently did at Auburn.

Worked under DJ Durkin, Kevin Steele; coached in the NFL for the Saints for a few years. Main recruiter on Laquan Treadwell at Ole Miss. Worked under James Franklin for a year at Vanderbilt.

I know for a fact that he loves UMiami and has wanted to be back here for a long time.

Auburn’s best cornerback transferred to Ole Miss, Jay Crawford. He worked with Zac Etheridge for a year at Auburn.
 
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cookies said:
He’s a journeyman that recruits well and coaches well; from what I’ve heard. Not sure how he recently did at Auburn.

Worked under DJ Durkin, Kevin Steele; coached in the NFL for the Saints for a few years. Main recruiter on Laquan Treadwell at Ole Miss. Worked under James Franklin for a year at Vanderbilt.

I know for a fact that he loves UMiami and has wanted to be back here for a long time.

Auburn’s best cornerback transferred to Ole Miss, Jay Crawford. He worked with Zac Etheridge for a year at Auburn.
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He's definitely a journeyman coach by the very definition of the word. As you noted, shared DB duties with Etheredge, also with Bryan Brown at Louisville (he's now at Ole Miss). He has had three different stints at Auburn and reportedly has a son who lives there selling real estate. Perhaps Crime Dawg will rent his place out to DVD. Lol. Anyways, I can think of worse candidates.
 
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Thought this was a fascinating aside from Mario. It’s interesting from many angles, however, what struck me was the mention of recruiter of the year.

“….every single identification is absolutely critical. Having coaches that can project; having people that are really committed to — the recruiting part is easy — identification: the digging deep and the finding out what’s really underneath the hood? What are you getting and does it really fit?”
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Because let’s call it what it is: this is a fast-moving industry. Coaches that are changing jobs year to year and you gotta be on guard against that. Talk about it all the time: you don’t want a position coach tryna have 4 or 5 four star guys by their name, just say they are recruiter of the year; when they know they (the recruits) really aren’t that as players and as people. So yeah, we’re taking deep, deep dives. You see what we do: we bring em to practice. If they can handle that part, that up close and personal & shadow these guys (current players)….”
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It’s part of the systematic approach that has Mario hesitant to make the easy internal promotion just to get it over & done with.

Our 2025 class has already exceeded the wildest expectations. It was ranked fourteenth and is the second worst finish not just the in Mario’s Miami tenure; it was the second-worst ranked class in his whole non-FIU head coaching career.

Miami took six more players (21) than the worst ranked class in Mario’s tenure; which was the transition class which had only fifteen guys.

2018: 13th at Oregon; was hired on December 8th, 2017 as HC after joining the staff as co-OC/OL/AHC in January of 2017. This same cycle, Miami finished with the 8th best recruiting class.

Do i even need to go beyond Penei Sewell and Jevon Holland to reiterate that their 13th ranked class was better than our 8th ranked class?

2019: Mario’s first full class in the big leagues. Oregon finished with the 7th ranked class. Mark Richt retired on December 30th, 2018. Manny Diaz was hired a few days later. Miami finished with the 27th ranked class.

2020: Oregon finished 13th; Miami 16th.

2021 Oregon finished 6th; Miami 11th

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2022: 16th @ Miami; 12th @ Oregon (would have been top 5, likely top 3, if Mario stayed)
2023: 7th
2024: 4th (Mario’s highest ever)
2025: 14th
2026: 9th

To be in a position now to reject commitments of highly ranked safeties like KJ Caldwell is blissful from a fan’s POV. Gotta feeling this hire will be a home run given the patience with which Mario is approaching making sure the quality of the hire is met.
 
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cookies said:
Rather than a predictive dart; just a guy who I believe would be a strong choice for the job

De'Angelo Smith - Defensive Passing Game Coordinator / Cornerbacks Coach / Director of Player Development - Football Coaches - Ohio University

Last Updated: Feb. 5, 2026 Twitter: @DLO614 De'Angelo Smith joined Ohio's coaching staff in 2017 as the cornerbacks coach. Since then, Smith has added director
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Overall, Ohio U is a very well-coached team. Them and Miami (Ohio).
 
MedleyCane said:
Overall, Ohio U is a very well-coached team. Them and Miami (Ohio).
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Yeah Ohio has a lot of good football players and a strong studious culture all-around. Miami OH is well deserving of their Cradle of Coaches moniker.

Smith played in the same backfield with Mike Mickens, who just went to the Ravens from Notre Dame, under Brian Kelly. They had 14 interceptions together. He made 5 starts at safety and the rest of his time was at cornerback.

He’s still young, he’s done it as a player at the highest level, Ohio’s passing defense has been strong under his decade long tenure, and it’s relatively easy to assess his performance because he has actually been at Ohio long long enough where he has had to identify players in multiple cycles and develop them until they go off outta college.

Before he worked at Ohio, he worked under Mark Dantonio, who was the head coach when he was recruited to Cincinnati, at Michigan State. He was a senior on the first of those Cincinnati Kelly teams that won the Big East back to back years.


He worked under Ohio DC Jim Burrow, Joe Burrow’s father, for his first two years on the job.
 
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cookies said:
Yeah Ohio has a lot of good football players and a strong studious culture all-around. Miami OH is well deserving of their Cradle of Coaches moniker.

Smith played in the same backfield with Mike Mickens, who just went to the Ravens from Notre Dame, under Brian Kelly. They had 14 interceptions together. He made 5 starts at safety and the rest of his time was at cornerback.

He’s still young, he’s done it as a player at the highest level, Ohio’s passing defense has been strong under his decade long tenure, and it’s relatively easy to assess his performance because he has actually been at Ohio long long enough where he has had to identify players in multiple cycles and develop them until they go off outta college.

Before he worked at Ohio, he worked under Mark Dantonio, who was the head coach when he was recruited to Cincinnati, at Michigan State. He was a senior on the first of those Cincinnati Kelly teams that won the Big East back to back years.


He worked under Joe Burrow’s father for his first two years on the job.
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You sold me!
 
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One9 said:
"Miami is absolutely still looking outside for a cornerbacks coach. The name that continues coming up is Oregon's Rashad Wadood." - InsideTheU

@cookies rn:
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Once i found out he turned down Miami to play for Dennis Erickson; and Will Harris + Rashad were recruiter by the same guy; I’m like there is zero chance in **** that Mario wants anyone other than this MF lol. Just this one. Add to it and it’s obvious cuz he wants to get back in LA/Cali badly

Will Harris’ teammate is Donte Wright and Juju Johnson’s new H.S. coach and Oregon is trending to flip Wright cuz Wadood coached the jit way back. Mario isn’t stopping.

************ said nah you ain’t reject my offer, I’m leaving the position open the whole spring we going to circle back at the end of april once spring is over.
Mario been sending Rashad screenshots side by side of the weather differences in Coral Gables & Eugene every other day like I remember….

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Connections matter in the football world, and the Wadood family is one to watch.

Khalil Wadood is the oldest of four children, graduated from Fairfax High and is the commissioner of the Snoop Dogg Youth Football League.

Brother Ghalee Wadood went to Dorsey, coached at Adelanto, worked for Arizona State and San José State, and is in his fourth year as associate manager of community impact and engagement, player relations, for the Rams.

Nephew Rashad Wadood, the son of sister Aneesah Wadood, went to Lakewood, played with Cooper Kupp at Eastern Washington, and at 32 is a rising assistant coach with Oregon handling cornerbacks …….Jaleel Wadood, whose father is Khalil, was a star defensive back at St. John Bosco High and UCLA and has worked for Jim Mora at Connecticut as director of player personnel.
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Rashad has a cousin who received a 6 figure NIL deal at 9 years old lmao.

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How many youth football players have six-figure deals? A 9-year-old in Snoop Dogg's league does

Third-grader Ghalee Wadood Jr. landed a six-figure NIL deal after a stellar season in Snoop Dogg's youth football league. His father says it will prepare him for life beyond the game.
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Mario prob already offered.
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I hope Mario gets greedy and hires Rashad and his younger brother here. Probably reminds him a lot of him and his brother.
 
cookies said:
Mario isn’t stopping.

************ said nah you ain’t reject my offer, I’m leaving the position open the whole spring we going to circle back at the end of april once spring is over.
Mario been sending Rashad screenshots side by side of the weather differences in Coral Gables & Eugene every other day like I remember….
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Rashad "Jason Candle" Wadood
 
It’s hard to forget about the disrespect when u trippin on the set….Rashad is about to burn Oregon, most importantly Lanning, for playing with him.

Rashad gets to Oregon and he has his former corners coach working with him and a LA dude who coached his younger brother as his mentor with him. For those not familiar with Wadoodology; Demetric Martin coached Wadood’s younger brother Jaleel & Joe Loring coached Rashad in college.

DMartin goes to Michigan State and reporters said Rashad was supposed to be the cornerbacks coach in ‘24. Lanning delays this by a year which means he delays the 6 figure salary Rashad thought he was about to get.
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He gets promoted for the 2025 season but it’s a year late while Lanning gives 6 dudes pay raises & himself another one the following year without Rashad’s title changing for the third season. Just highly doubtful that he stays. Important to note that Joe Loring went from Special teams/Nickels to just special teams on the newest staff listing….Chris Hampton is annexing the whole defensive back field …..he tryna run the secondary like Putin but whose Russian

EUGENE, Ore. — Chris Hampton will have his hands all over Oregon's secondary this season.

The departure of cornerbacks coach Demetrice Martin will allow Hampton, also the program's co-defensive coordinator, to coach all 19 scholarship defensive backs, as the meeting rooms will now convene as one.

"We meet together, all the DBs: corners, safeties and STARs," he told reporters on Thursday morning. "We have one meeting. It's really a big change.
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They are so messy up there. Imagine just gleefully putting your business out in front street like that. **** wrong with em

"Honestly, I've kind of always done that," he said. "This isn't the first time. A lot of people do it this way. It's really good as far as everybody being on the same page — one voice. We have guys who play multiple positions because we have one meeting. The terminology and the language that is spoken is the same. So it's kind of easier to move guys around and play different positions."

Hampton coached all of the team's defensive backs at McNeese State (2012-15) and during both stints at Tulane (first from 2016-19, and then as defensive coordinator from 2021-22).
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Now the top cornerback on their board is a jit who looked up to Rashad and Rashad had already coached. … after that spring game on April 25th that man should be outta Eugene.

This marks the first time since 2016 that Oregon has constructed its staff in this way. John Neal had acted as the team's defensive backs coach (the same title Hampton holds now), before Willie Taggart, Mario Cristobal and then Dan Lanning had turned to a cornerback/safety coaching split.

Hampton, seen as one of the sport's top up-and-coming defensive coaches, is now back in his comfort zone.

"If you asked me, honestly, yes, it would be my preference to do it this way," Hampton said. "But, you can do it both ways. I've done it both. But, if you asked me, preferably, I'd rather do it this way."
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This year's secondary is deep enough and talented enough that Hampton and defensive coordinator Tosh Lupoi have both suggested they may play more dime coverage, which incorporates extra defensive backs.

"That's kind of the hope," Hampton said of playing dime. "That way we can utilize these guys' skillsets. We have a bunch of them. We have some really good players. I'm fired up about our corners. The more guys we can get on the field the better, and I think it will help us in pass coverage for sure."
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Oregon got a CB from AL committed TODAY and said he’s still visiting Texas this weekend lmfao. Lanning knows what’s about to happen. He ain’t got the juice like that. Gotta get out ahead of it so fans don’t take it too hard when they no longer leading to flip wright


& contrary to all the Phil Knight propaganda, Oregon does not have unlimited money and can be quite cheap at times. For example because they had to pay a buyout to Syracuse for the wr coach they ended up giving him a lower salary than the dude before him.
 
cookies said:


Thought this was a fascinating aside from Mario. It’s interesting from many angles, however, what struck me was the mention of recruiter of the year.
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When i posted this, in the back of my mind I thought this might be a subliminal shot at Chris Hampton while referencing the lack of power Wadood has under his totalitarian regime……As Mario says himself, “the recruiting is easy…..”

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It felt like he was saying he can hire good talkers or anyone can do that part at a good university but it’s about getting the right guys in the room irrespective of perception and hype.

Moreover, working in the corner (pun intended) under the dictatorship of defensive backs room, Wadood’s responsibilities are insignificant and inadequate for a man of his evaluating and developmental acumen. Additionally, Wadood is advantaged against many others because he will hear better information because of his various ties throughout the nation although mainly within the pacific time zone.


I didn’t go there though because i thought it would’ve been a reach. Not anymore.
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Hustlin backwards ahh ***** ….. I could never have a Rashad Wadood in my circle and hold him back cuz he makes me nervous.
 
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