Tom Arth

BGSU Athletics Nut · Post by **BGSU Athletics Nut** » Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:55 pm

As many posts have stated, the Mike Jinks experiment isn’t working. Please, please help me get the word out about my choice: Tom Arth. He has to be strongly considered for the BGSU Head Football coach position. If we don’t hire him, I could see him beating us every year at Akron or Ohio when those coaches retire / step aside. He has Mid American Conference Champion written all over him. He checks all of the boxes I’m looking for.

1) Previous head coaching experience. In 4 seasons as a head coach at John Carroll University (a D-III school) his career record was 40-8. I believe 3 of those 8 losses were against Mount Union. However, he also defeated Mount Union in 2016. Currently in his second season at FCS school UT Chattanooga, he was 3-8, but is already off to a 4-1 start this year. He lost his first game this season Saturday to ETSU (whose only loss was to Tennessee). 6th year as head football coach!

2) Previous experience working in this part of the country. Tom Arth grew up in Cleveland, OHIO and played high school football at Cleveland Saint Ignatius. After graduating college, he spent 3 years as Peyton Manning’s backup QB with the Indianapolis Colts. Then he went back to his alma mater, John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland), and worked his way up to head football coach. He has spent time working in football in two of the states BGSU football should be heavily recruiting from (Michigan and Pennsylvania the others). Worked in football professionally in both Ohio and Indiana!

3) Defeat your rival. Tom Arth and John Carroll beat rival Baldwin Wallace in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 = EVERY SEASON! In 2016, John Carroll even beat the best team in the league: Mount Union. 4-0 against rival!

4) Anything else? Tom Arth was both the 2016 Ohio Athletic Conference Coach of the Year and the 2016 NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year! In 4 seasons at Division III, made the playoffs three years. 2018 Recruiting Class was tops in the conference.

Help me get the word out so we can get the BGSU Football program turned around!

Check out his UT Chattanooga bio and another article about him.

https://gomocs.com/coaches.aspx?rc=760&path=fb" target="_blank

https://www.ignatiuswildcats.com/news_a ... how/735984" target="_blank

Rollo83 · Post by **Rollo83** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:03 am

Welcome to this online forum Tom...

Class of 61 · Post by **Class of 61** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:12 am

He DOES have some excellent credentials, but you’re assuming we’ll be looking for a new HC soon. No matter if Arth is pursued ( or anyone else for that matter), it’ll take another 2+ yrs to “ right the ship”,

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 7:44 am

Hi Tom....how are you?

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 8:39 am

I'm going with Tom's agent... hello.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:17 am

kdog27 wrote:I'm going with Tom's agent... hello.

A coach that actually HAS an agent (along with having some HC wins under his belt) would be a massive upgrade

mbenecke · Post by **mbenecke** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:31 am

This would be the Robyn Fralick hire... and I'm intrigued by that.

guest44 · Post by **guest44** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:41 am

BG Athletics Nut with one post would be one of the more qualified in the room at a BGSU Athletics Department meeting. Let’s hire him to replace those Kingston hires, that can’t find better work.

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:13 am

hammb wrote:
kdog27 wrote:I'm going with Tom's agent... hello.
A coach that actually HAS an agent (along with having some HC wins under his belt) would be a massive upgrade

Good one!

jpfalcon09 · Post by **jpfalcon09** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:07 am

I'm all for this, imagine the Arth Vader memes!

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:43 am

We're giving the MAC a bad case of Arth-itis.... BOOK IT!!!

hiway44 · Post by **hiway44** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:20 pm

Hi Tom, welcome to the club, but your choice for the next coach at BGSU is not welcomed.

The next coach will be picked and evaluated by the AD and staff. We've learned an expensive lesson from Jinks and cannot get it wrong again.

Jinks will be gone soon and the DC will take over the rest of the season soon as interm coach. This will give BGSU several months to find a successor. NOT YOUR BOY!!! No more politics needed!

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:55 pm

hiway44 wrote:Jinks will be gone soon and the DC will take over the rest of the season soon as interm coach. This will give BGSU several months to find a successor.

mbenecke · Post by **mbenecke** » Mon Oct 01, 2018 4:18 pm

Almost no chance of an in-season change here. And also, are you sure you want Pelini to take over in the interim? I believe in the guy to get our defense turned around, but his unit has clearly been our weaker point so far this year.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:47 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:
hiway44 wrote:Jinks will be gone soon and the DC will take over the rest of the season soon as interm coach. This will give BGSU several months to find a successor.

To hiway44's credit, others are also saying a mid-season change is possible.

https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/coll ... 0181002151" target="_blank

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