Grant Heard added to coaching staff

bleuwolfe · Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:10 pm

Ole Miss: Arkansas State quarterbacks coach Grant Heard has accepted a position on Hugh Freeze's staff at Ole Miss.http://www.coachingsearch.com/coaching- ... icker.html

does this mean Brewer is going to UNC?

ReservoirReb · Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:31 pm

It certainly appears as if that is a possibility.

JustBlues · Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:04 am

Brewer is gone. I'm sure ready for some good news, but it just seems to keep getting worse and worse.

jimmt · Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:57 am

I am excited about this hire. He was an excellent receiver and has a good reume with players he tutored having great success in th NFL.

StrongRebel · Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:30 pm

Gross... This is better than Matt Luke hire though, but still is completely disgusting.

lewindha · Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:01 am

I would've been more OK with this if they had kept Brewer.

Deadman · Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:06 am

lewindha wrote:I would've been more OK with this if they had kept Brewer.

Did I miss something but wasn’t Brewer asked to stay and decided on his own to leave?

ReservoirReb · Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:49 am

Deadman wrote:
lewindha wrote:I would've been more OK with this if they had kept Brewer.

Did I miss something but wasn’t Brewer to stay and decided on his own to leave?

You didn't miss anything.

A10Rebel · Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:51 am

Fail on this hire.

lewindha · Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:14 am

I don't know. I just didn't see Brewer leaving Ok. State b/c he wanted to work with Nutt. I thought he wanted to come home. If I believe that, then I believe something didn't sit right with him and Freeze.

bleuwolfe · Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:33 am

lewindha wrote:I don't know. I just didn't see Brewer leaving Ok. State b/c he wanted to work with Nutt. I thought he wanted to come home. If I believe that, then I believe something didn't sit right with him and Freeze.

fwiw - heard he will be the OC at UNC, if true then its a step up for him

1OLEMISSREBEL · Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:34 am

lewindha wrote:I don't know. I just didn't see Brewer leaving Ok. State b/c he wanted to work with Nutt. I thought he wanted to come home. If I believe that, then I believe something didn't sit right with him and Freeze.

that's what it seems like to me too...

JustBlues · Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:01 am

Look at it this way. Let's say you've been coaching in Div 1 FBS for seven years. The teams you have coached during that time have been successful for the most part. You have a body of work in lesser divisions and Juco before that, including head coaching experience, and your div 1 experience includes offensive coordinator as well as position coach. You have several players that you've mentored who are now in the NFL. You are associate head coach. You work hard to hold things together by yourself while the search committee looks for a head coach. Now, that search committe goes out and hires a new head coach with less experience than you. The new coach has a grand total of three years as an assitant coach, all on losing teams, and one as a head coach. Regardless of whether you think the new guy deserves the position, it is awful difficult to find yourself working for someone less experienced than you are.

Deadman · Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:04 am

ReservoirReb wrote:
Deadman wrote:
lewindha wrote:I would've been more OK with this if they had kept Brewer.

Did I miss something but wasn’t Brewer to stay and decided on his own to leave?
You didn't miss anything.

i had to fix what i did miss...

lewindha · Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:09 am

JustBlues wrote:Look at it this way. Let's say you've been coaching in Div 1 FBS for seven years. The teams you have coached during that time have been successful for the most part. You have a body of work in lesser divisions and Juco before that, including head coaching experience, and your div 1 experience includes offensive coordinator as well as position coach. You have several players that you've mentored who are now in the NFL. You are associate head coach. You work hard to hold things together by yourself while the search committee looks for a head coach. Now, that search committe goes out and hires a new head coach with less experience than you. The new coach has a grand total of three years as an assitant coach, all on losing teams, and one as a head coach. Regardless of whether you think the new guy deserves the position, it is awful difficult to find yourself working for someone less experienced than you are.

Exactly. Brewer was just as qualified to be OC as Frank Wilson was/is, and he wanted to be at Ole Miss IMO. Isn't that why everyone is so on board with Freeze, b/c he wanted to be at Ole Miss.