Any ideas of where CPJ will head with the new AC

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Skeptic said:
Hate to be a killjoy but didn't they try this before and not much changed so Johnson went back to working with them?
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Yeah, that was Ray Rychleski. We hired him for the 2015 season, which was because we were surprisingly bad on ST in the 2014 season considering our record. If you want to look at how we ranked according to the Football Outsider's Special Teams FEI for 2013-2017: 23, 64, 31, 18, and 125. We saw improvement, but apparently not enough to keep him longer than a year. The abysmal ST we had this last season should force us to rethink. Though with a healthy King next year, we might decide it's not necessary.
 

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Skeptic said:
Hate to be a killjoy but didn't they try this before and not much changed so Johnson went back to working with them?
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I believe Sewak had the OL playing so poorly in 2015 that we needed to add another OL coach to compensate. Obviously this meant taking away a coach from another position group and Johnson chose ST. Considering how bad our STs were this year (not just having less talented specialists, but kick coverage and punt coverage were not good), id say our ST coordinator made a difference.
 

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Cam said:
Yeah, that was Ray Rychleski. We hired him for the 2015 season, which was because we were surprisingly bad on ST in the 2014 season considering our record. If you want to look at how we ranked according to the Football Outsider's Special Teams FEI for 2013-2017: 23, 64, 31, 18, and 125. We saw improvement, but apparently not enough to keep him longer than a year. The abysmal ST we had this last season should force us to rethink. Though with a healthy King next year, we might decide it's not necessary.
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Wasn't walkosky also ST or was he OL help? Maybe walkosky was OL.
 

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mj claz said:
I believe Sewak had the OL playing so poorly in 2015 that we needed to add another OL coach to compensate. Obviously this meant taking away a coach from another position group and Johnson chose ST. Considering how bad our STs were this year (not just having less talented specialists, but kick coverage and punt coverage were not good), id say our ST coordinator made a difference.
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Johnson always had 2 OL coaches until one was let go and there had been a chorus of critics who decided we needed a ST coach. I would guess that he was pressured into that change. Adding "another OL coach to compensate" was just going back to the way Johnson had done it for a long time.
 
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tech_wreck47 said:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.nc...council-introduces-football-staff-size-change


Good article on possible NCAA football staff size changes.

Supposedly there is multiple schools with over 40 support staff alone, so not including the 9 on field coaches and graduate assistants if I'm reading it right. One school (which was not named..... cough cough Bama) has 97.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cb...staff-sizes-survey-shows-inconsistencies/amp/
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There's a LOT of loopholes there. The key phrase being: who will participate in on-campus football recruiting activities in FBS

Doesn't account for scouting, gathering and making recruiting materials, BS positions like defensive and offensive "quality control" staff, etc. I think they need to go further to include anyone who recruits, coaches, or has anything to do with scouting and game planning.
 
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Skeptic said:
Hate to be a killjoy but didn't they try this before and not much changed so Johnson went back to working with them?
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Some data in Sugiura's MyAJC article on Nov 28
What went wrong: Special teams rarely provided a lift
Between 2012 and 2015, Johnson broke with his longstanding approach and used a coach specifically for special teams, and the Jackets were in the top 52 in kickoff return average three of the four seasons. In the six seasons in which the special-teams units have been split up among the staff, Tech has been in the 96th or lower four times.
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Tech’s best years in kickoff return in Johnson’s tenure occurred when the staff had a special-teams coach and Jamal Golden was the returner. Whether Golden made the return team what it was or coaching made Golden the returner he was is open to debate.
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