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Kobie Jones reportedly hired as GT’s next CB coach. No official announcement yet. Previously Alabama’s CB coach. Replaces Ricky Brumfield
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gtjackets930
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What happened to Brumfield?
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Left the program in October. Don't think word ever got out exactly what happened.
Georgia Tech Football: Special Teams Coordinator Ricky Brumfield No Longer With Program
After not making the trip to Virginia Tech, it was announced today by Georgia Tech that special teams coordinator/associate head coach/cornerbacks coach Ricky B
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He resigned mid season. People made guesses, but nothing is clear.
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A little bit of an overstatement. He was a graduate assistant working with CBs at Alabama. Would be the youngest (by far) member of the staff. It was reported that Key had also been looking at the high school ranks in GA to find this replacement.
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Kobie Jones has two years under his belt as cornerbacks coach at Alabama. Has an MS in Info Technology from Alabama State:
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From Jackets Online (not behind the paywall)
"Jones worked as a graduate assistant at Alabama under Kalen DeBoer last season according to Alabama's official media guide working with cornerbacks under the Tide's co-defensive coordinator Colin Hitschler and Maurice Linguist. Jones is a former Alabama State defensive back and quarterback and would be the youngest member of Key's on-the-field staff. He would replace Ricky Brumfield who resigned midseason for unspecified reasons as the corners coach.
JOL sources indicated that Key was aiming for a younger coach to fill the corner coach position and in addition to interviewing multiple sitting college coaches, Key spoke with several high school coaches as well about the position."
"Jones worked as a graduate assistant at Alabama under Kalen DeBoer last season according to Alabama's official media guide working with cornerbacks under the Tide's co-defensive coordinator Colin Hitschler and Maurice Linguist. Jones is a former Alabama State defensive back and quarterback and would be the youngest member of Key's on-the-field staff. He would replace Ricky Brumfield who resigned midseason for unspecified reasons as the corners coach.
JOL sources indicated that Key was aiming for a younger coach to fill the corner coach position and in addition to interviewing multiple sitting college coaches, Key spoke with several high school coaches as well about the position."
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The way I understand it, Alabama has a different coaching structure than GT. GT has a CB and a Safety coach, Alabama has a DB coach position, with an off-field CB and Safety coach under him. He was promoted from GA to this off-field CB position.
Coming to GT is a promotion to be sure, his responsibilities were definitely higher than a typical grad assistant but lower than an on-field coach like Brumfield.
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Reports: Key finalizing staff hires with more to come
Georgia Tech football coach Brent Key has been interviewing potential replacements for his vacant cornerbacks coach job
Mike Polly also added to the staff.
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Alabama runs a 4-2-5 with a rush end, a scheme pretty similar to ours. Their nomenclature is different - Bandit = DE (Yondjouen), Wolf = EDGE (Height), Sting = OLB (Tatum), Husky = Nickel/Sam (Shelley), Rover = SS (Powell-Lee) - but the positions are the same. They run a zone base defense but also call man sometimes - including sometimes man on one side and zone on the other. No more pattern-matching like in the Saban era.
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Getting a person with relationships at IMG is a great idea
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The rumor is Key and Santucci wanted a hands-on coach that could coach corners and recruit - thus a young guy that can do both.
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Looks like a solid hire to me.
Mike Polly is another really solid hire - rumor is this was Buster's guy - OL coach/Run game coordinator at MTSU, previously coached OT,TE, RB with a long track record of coaching OL.
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Looks like a solid hire to me.
Mike Polly is another really solid hire - rumor is this was Buster's guy - OL coach/Run game coordinator at MTSU, previously coached OT,TE, RB with a long track record of coaching OL.
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I would add a 3rd area. knowing where the football is. aka turn around so we dont get PI or better yet maybe even get some interceptions
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Excellent point. Our secondary has little to no awareness of how to properly cover a receiver. It must take exceptional talent to master the art of being able to simultaneously track the receiver and the ball in flight. You really don't see many college or pro secondary personnel that can consistently do it. Hopefully with some improved coaching we can at least make some small improvement.
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It's a really tough position to excel at. Imo, you can either tackle or not when you get off da bus. Tackling is a lot like speed or height...hard to coach. Also, the rules that favor the O make it tough. WRs push off at will...see 4th Qtr PI call in Athens for just one example. It's readily apparent every game I watch. It will be this Monday too between ND/OSU.
IF we can keep em, this secondary recruiting class can be a huge improvement when they grow up.
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When two cats jump up in air fighting each other their arms and legs are striking thier opponent. Also, when they come down each one land on feet ready for more
We do a poor job of coaching arm fighting w our db to defend push off.
Ideally this new db has more like cats than poodles and can slap away stiff arm push off like uga.
This years ol and dl improved, but now we have young talented guys who excelled in hs without needing superior arm fighting techniques.
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I see more and more teams’ DBs covering with their back to the ball. This used to be an indication you got beat. Maybe not so much anymore, and maybe it’s a coached technique now. I dunno.
I will say I don’t like it, but it may be here to stay. You cannot play the ball if you never look for it. Again, I dunno.
I will say I don’t like it, but it may be here to stay. You cannot play the ball if you never look for it. Again, I dunno.
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Playing DB is really hard. The best DBs are extremely athletic. With the advent of the back shoulder throw the better QBs can make it is near impossible to cover a receiver with exceptional athletic ability one on one.
Part of GT's issue with BDs is we have not gotten any real pass rush for years from our front 4 and even when we blitz. That puts DBs is an incredibly tough spot. Even the very best DBs will have a difficult time covering a receiver when a QB has over 5 seconds to throw the ball without pressure.
Mostly we need to improve our pass rush and get better athletes at the DB position. Coaching can help, however, players need to have the athletic ability at that position to execute what they have been trained to do.
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Hand checking/arm fighting being allowed opened Pandora's box. It's somewhat similar to targeting in that it's too much to ask of officials, at least from a consistency angle. A push off by a WR is very hard to prevent from hand checking/arm fighting, but it would be much easier to call by officials....however the powers to be won't allow it, at least not meaningfully as only the most obvious examples are called....sometimes.