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Another Texas tech flavor assistant strength and conditioning coach Billy Yates reported to be coming to BGSU. Reported in Lubbock news online. We'll see if it's true

This will all help establish a southwest recruiting pipeline which is great. My concern is Ohio recruiting. Do we have enough coaches with connections to Ohio high school football?

No!

I don't think strength coaches recruit off campus a lot.

So far as the "Ohio relationships" go.... It'd be nice to have a ready made pipeline, but it's not like those guys were born with those relationships... they formed them like these guys will. I'd rather give the coach the latitude to build his staff his way than restrict him with a geographical bias.

Flipper wrote:I don't think strength coaches recruit off campus a lot.

So far as the "Ohio relationships" go.... It'd be nice to have a ready made pipeline, but it's not like those guys were born with those relationships... they formed them like these guys will. I'd rather give the coach the latitude to build his staff his way than restrict him with a geographical bias.

There's too much emphasis on this. BG will be well represented at football camps this summer and will establish connections then with high school coaches and players, that's honestly where a lot of exposure happens anyways for kids who want play at the FBS level.

A couple interesting coaching moves recently:

UTSA defensive coordinator Neal Neatherly is the new defensive coordinator at Eastern Michigan. We just hired the safeties coach from UTSA as our defensive coordinator. The link between them is EMU head coach Chris Creighton, who interestingly enough was also Brian Ward's former boss as two different coaching stops (Drake and Wabash). Given the commonalities it appears the scheme and approach might not be changing too drastically, and despite the bowl meltdown that's probably for the best given how our D had gelled over the last half of the season.

Also, a coach Babers just hired (Chris Beatty) left Syracuse after about a month to join DJ Durkin at Maryland. A little BG payback by proxy there.

Apparently impressed by getting beat by them for recruits, Babers hired two coaches from the boat-rowers at WMU. Roy Wittke, our former recruiting coordinator who was not on Twitter, was moved to "player development" at Syracuse and away from recruiting. Many Syracuse fans were initially upset that he would have been their potential recruiting coordinator given that he never used Twitter:

http://syracusefan.com/threads/assistan ... st-1604777" target="_blank

In addition to the strength coach from Texas Tech it looks like Jinks brought in a recruiting assistant from Texas Tech named Luke Wagner. Radio silence on all other coaching moves, but the AFCA convention is next week in San Antonio, TX of all places. Both the UTSA and Texas State jobs are open and Jinks would have been a strong candidate for both. Kingston acted fast and it apparently paid off.

I find it a little odd that we have our assistant coach position, actually 3 available, listed on the NCAA Market Website:

http://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/7777680 ... ball-coach" target="_blank

I've used that site to search for jobs in athletic departments (SID, marketing etc.) and have seen posts for D2 D3 coaching positions but I can't recall ever seeing a Div 1 football position listed.....

Dayons_Den wrote:I find it a little odd that we have our assistant coach position, actually 3 available, listed on the NCAA Market Website:

http://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/7777680 ... ball-coach" target="_blank

I've used that site to search for jobs in athletic departments (SID, marketing etc.) and have seen posts for D2 D3 coaching positions but I can't recall ever seeing a Div 1 football position listed.....

Interesting...my guess is Jinks is done hiring from his inner circle and wants to bring in outside candidates, hopefully people with Ohio ties to round out his staff.

Dayons_Den wrote:I find it a little odd that we have our assistant coach position, actually 3 available, listed on the NCAA Market Website:

http://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/7777680 ... ball-coach" target="_blank

I've used that site to search for jobs in athletic departments (SID, marketing etc.) and have seen posts for D2 D3 coaching positions but I can't recall ever seeing a Div 1 football position listed.....

I use that site often as well and I've definitely seen several D-1 jobs listed, some of them even P5 Conference jobs (normally things like recruiting assistant) and FCS head coaching jobs. I think a lot of schools just post every job that comes available on there.

found Eliano is in Houston recruiting. Already has someone there offering prospects. Morrison is in Chicago.

It was announced today that Billy Yates is our new strength and conditioning coach. Coming from Texas tech as the assistant strength and conditioning coach. Played some pro ball prior to that.

Very impressed with Coach Yates. And the players are even more impressed.

Go Falcons!

Glad to hear that...looking at his CV, he doesn't appear to have the certifications...particularly through NSCA...that Edinger and Hourigan did.

Found something that appeared to be about him or at least someone that has same stats Said he graduated from Texas a&m with a degree in agriculture development