02-10-2020, 04:33 PM
(02-10-2020, 01:53 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: I won't pretend to know everything that makes a good or bad hire. But can someone explain to me why they consider it to be a good hire? Because just looking at from a leyman's perspective it seems to be, at best, a let's wait and see situation.
-Scott Frost's start in Nebraska has been rough to say the least. He's been on almost every "hot seat" list for 2020.
-Frost is the only coach in Nebraska in decades to have a losing record (9-15) through 2 seasons.
-The offense Walters lead finished 7th in the Big Ten.
-Walters was let go from Nebraska.
-Walters will be taking an enormous pay cut from 700k salary in college. Why did he not take a similar job at another school?
-Walters has ZERO NFL coaching experience
None of this is to say he'll be a bad hire. Again, it just question why it's been deemee a "good hire". I'm just curious what I'm missing. From my perspective, we've got a coach coming off two terrible years who was let go, taking a big pay cut, with no pro coaching experience.
What am I missing that makes this a good hire?
I think you're missing that it's only an assistant position coach hire.
He's someone that knows the NFL from his 8 years as a player and has a similar amount of college coaching experience - covering both WRs and as offensive co-ordinator.
He's someone who was offensive co-ordinator for the top scoring offense in the country in 2017.
Elsewhere his players seem productive under his tutelage:
His main WR at Nebreska broke all school receiving records (and is now on the Bengals)
His main WR at Colorado broke 43 Colorado and Pac-12 records
His main WR at NC State was the all-purpose leader in the ACC
His main WR at Texas A&M broke the school records for most season and career touchdowns and was second for receiving yards
He's also a former finalist for the Broyles Award for the best College Assistant Coach and someone rated his coaching enough to pay him $700,000 a year.
As a layman that seems a decent resume for an assistant position coach. I don't expect he'll stay an assistant WR coach for long.
