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Article: Hurlie Brown To Be New RB Coach

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It's not the worst idea in the world to groom guys with no college coaching experience in Hurlie's old position. A sort of apprenticeship.
 
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – University of Miami alumnus Hurlie Brown, who won two national titles with the Canes, has been named the program’s new running backs coach, head coach Al Golden announced Sunday.

Brown had spent the previous two seasons as a member of Golden’s staff as the senior football operations coordinator and was responsible for community outreach and recruiting official visits among other administrative duties.

Prior to returning to his alma mater, Brown spent four-plus years at Louisiana-Lafayette, where he served as defensive backs/kickoff team coordinator (2007-10) and secondary coach (2010-11).

The Merritt Island, Fla., native was a standout safety for the Hurricanes from 1988-91. After winning two national titles under Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Erickson, he began his coaching career as a graduate assistant under Erickson for the 1992 season.

He was signed as a free agent in 1992 by the Washington Redskins and signed as a free agent with the San Francisco 49ers the following season. He later went on to play for the Sacramento Gold Miners, San Antonio Texans and the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League from 1993-97. Following his CFL career, he worked as an assistant coach at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In May 1999, he returned to his prep alma mater, Merritt Island High School, serving as special teams coordinator and defensive backs coach before joining FIU in 2001.
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i believe coach golden....hopefully Hurlie has been learning from past Rb coaches....

I just thought Lockette has a proven history and better chance in recruiting....
 
Consigliere said:
Oh Snap said:
*shrug*


Won't make or break our season
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Enough of these can make or break the season...

Coley coaching QBs and the offense (never really did much of either),

Brown coaching RBs (never), and

Carroll coaching WRs (never)
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Coley has one year of calling plays for a terrible team (FIU). He also schemed the game plans with Jimbo for the past couple years. Sure, he hasn't called plays, but I wouldn't exactly say he hasn't coached the offense before. I am pretty sure he has experience working with the QBs as well.

Like another poster said, Carroll coached TE's and now will be coaching WR's which is a different position group, but not a drastic change.

I don't think it is as worrisome as some are making it out to be. Again, Golden is the guys who see these coaches on a daily basis and can judge whether or not they can transition to said position group or not. I doubt he hires someone if he believes they will be a garbage teacher of talent. Once one of his hire's begins to seem like a poor fit, I will begin to be concerned. Up until now, I believe he has earned the benefit of the doubt.
 
Consigliere said:
Oh Snap said:
*shrug*


Won't make or break our season
Click to expand...

Enough of these can make or break the season...

Coley coaching QBs and the offense (never really did much of either),

Brown coaching RBs (never), and

Carroll coaching WRs (never)
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Is it bad that the entire offensive staff is going to have to write in permanent marker on their hands so they remember what position they are coaching?
 
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CaneBoss said:
Consigliere said:
Oh Snap said:
*shrug*


Won't make or break our season
Click to expand...

Enough of these can make or break the season...

Coley coaching QBs and the offense (never really did much of either),

Brown coaching RBs (never), and

Carroll coaching WRs (never)
Click to expand...

Coley has one year of calling plays for a terrible team (FIU). He also schemed the game plans with Jimbo for the past couple years. Sure, he hasn't called plays, but I wouldn't exactly say he hasn't coached the offense before. I am pretty sure he has experience working with the QBs as well.

Like another poster said, Carroll coached TE's and now will be coaching WR's which is a different position group, but not a drastic change.

I don't think it is as worrisome as some are making it out to be. Again, Golden is the guys who see these coaches on a daily basis and can judge whether or not they can transition to said position group or not. I doubt he hires someone if he believes they will be a garbage teacher of talent. Once one of his hire's begins to seem like a poor fit, I will begin to be concerned. Up until now, I believe he has earned the benefit of the doubt.
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I am not going to rehash the Coley argument because it is done, in terms of hiring an Xs and Os guy and a QB coach...he is not that based on the track record. Could Coley be good, sure. Could these hires work out, sure. Call me skeptical on this one, along with Coley.

As for coaching TE and moving to WR, is it a drastic change...MAYBE. I don't know. I understand they both run routes and catch balls, but that doesn't mean a guy over at TE can just move to WR with ease. We have a lot of guys moving on offense, we have a guy who wasn't "coaching" but now is a coach.

Color me skeptical. Golden is a defensive dude too, I have faith in him without a doubt but if I was hiring an OC/QB Coach and RB coach, I wouldn't have went after either of these guys. Could they work, sure. Just color me skeptical.
 
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MAGIC CITY CANE said:
Consigliere said:
Oh Snap said:
*shrug*


Won't make or break our season
Click to expand...

Enough of these can make or break the season...

Coley coaching QBs and the offense (never really did much of either),

Brown coaching RBs (never), and

Carroll coaching WRs (never)
Click to expand...

Is it bad that the entire offensive staff is going to have to write in permanent marker on their hands so they remember what position they are coaching?
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I thought u were going to go with the musical office joke, but I like this one too.
 
Golden is putting together a recruiting staff. If you know football you can coach RB's and WR's. That is where most SEC teams put there recruiters. If you want to keep teams out of SoFla you better have some outstanding recruiters. If you can coach TE's you can coach WR's you guys are crying about nothing. Only new hire I would worry about is Coley's play calling
 
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