MatelaAntwerp wrote:If he was so good why did he move to coach Corners at OSU. They needed a DC right around the time he left.
OSU did not need a DC when he left, they needed a coach for the corners. When the previous DC retired, they moved up one of the coaches already on their roster. Backman had an opportunity to move up to a BCS program and took advantage of it. He knew Tressel from his early days in Berea (Tressels' father and Beckmans' father were both coaches at Baldwin-Wallace).
You think it is moving up to be a DC at one school and move to another school and be their Corners coach. Not even Defensive Backs coach. Corners.....
I'm saying the school he is coaching at makes a difference. Whether you realize it or not, being a positions coach at OSU is a better stepping stone then being a DC here.
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
- Ernest Hemingway
Warthog wrote:I'm saying the school he is coaching at makes a difference. Whether you realize it or not, being a positions coach at OSU is a better stepping stone then being a DC here.
I am not saying you don't have an argument, but some evidence would be nice. If memory serves me i can't name the last position coach from OS to get a HC gig. I can name the last BG coordinatoor to get a HC job.
MatelaAntwerp wrote:I am not saying you don't have an argument, but some evidence would be nice. If memory serves me i can't name the last position coach from OS to get a HC gig. I can name the last BG coordinatoor to get a HC job.
Mark Dantonio is HC at Cincinnati, Mark Snyder is HC at Marshall, and I believe there are a couple more.
"I don't believe I can name a coach, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, who did it better than Doyt Perry."
-1955 BG Assistant Bo Schembechler
MatelaAntwerp wrote:I am not saying you don't have an argument, but some evidence would be nice. If memory serves me i can't name the last position coach from OS to get a HC gig. I can name the last BG coordinatoor to get a HC job.
Mark Dantonio is HC at Cincinnati, Mark Snyder is HC at Marshall, and I believe there are a couple more.
Although who was the last BG coordinator to get a HC job at a school other than BG? Regardless of if you think Beckman made a "step down" to take a non-coordinator job, I don't think you can logically argue that he made a poor career decision.
And again, I find the original intent of this thread and any thread like it to be disrespectful and a complete waste of time.
"I don't believe I can name a coach, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, who did it better than Doyt Perry."
-1955 BG Assistant Bo Schembechler
Although who was the last BG coordinator to get a HC job at a school other than BG? Regardless of if you think Beckman made a "step down" to take a non-coordinator job, I don't think you can logically argue that he made a poor career decision.
And again, I find the original intent of this thread and any thread like it to be disrespectful and a complete waste of time.
Warthog wrote:I'm saying the school he is coaching at makes a difference. Whether you realize it or not, being a positions coach at OSU is a better stepping stone then being a DC here.
I am not saying you don't have an argument, but some evidence would be nice. If memory serves me i can't name the last position coach from OS to get a HC gig. I can name the last BG coordinatoor to get a HC job.
And the last BG coordinator (other than Brandon) to get a Division I head coaching job was?
Walt Harris was OSU's quarterbacks coach when he became the head coach at Pitt. Lee Owens wasn't a coordinator when he went from OSU to Akron.
TG1996 wrote:Regardless of if you think Beckman made a "step down" to take a non-coordinator job, I don't think you can logically argue that he made a poor career decision.
And again, I find the original intent of this thread and any thread like it to be disrespectful and a complete waste of time.
Agree
"The name on the front of the jersey is more important than the name on the back" -Herb Brooks
Gregg Brandon is the head coach of our football team. He will be the head coach of our football team this year, next year and probably the year after that. Naming candidates for a job opening that doesn't exist and won't exist for the forseeable future is pointless.
I like the direction this team is going in. They've shown improvement in some key areas (defense, special teams and running the ball) They're playing with heart and there's a great deal of talent on the roster. If we can get good quarterbacking, we'll be in the hunt for the MAC title next year.
I'll be very disappointed if we finish any worse than 7-5. Miami, Temple and Toledo should be wins. Akron could be a win.
MatelaAntwerp wrote:If memory serves me i can't name the last position coach from OS to get a HC gig.
Must not have a good medium-term memory.
From the Gary Blackney File:
His final coaching spot before Bowling Green was at Ohio State where he began his tenure in 1984 as a defensive backs coach under Earle Bruce and ended as an inside linebackers coach from 1988-90 under John Cooper.
Blackney was a positions coach (ILB) at Ohio State immediately prior to being named the head coach at The Bowling Green State University.
MatelaAntwerp wrote:If memory serves me i can't name the last position coach from OS to get a HC gig.
Must not have a good medium-term memory.
From the Gary Blackney File:
His final coaching spot before Bowling Green was at Ohio State where he began his tenure in 1984 as a defensive backs coach under Earle Bruce and ended as an inside linebackers coach from 1988-90 under John Cooper.
Blackney was a positions coach (ILB) at Ohio State immediately prior to being named the head coach at The Bowling Green State University.
Bg football was not a big focus for me when I was ten. But great find anyway. I had no ida Blackney coached at OSU or with Cooper.
