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SIAP JESS SIMPSON EXPECTED TO BE MIAMI'S NEW DL COACH

My thoughts from a previous thread (before he was confirmed):

IF it's Simpson, I don't believe this is an "underwhelming" hire. Patke was underwhelming. This would be outside the box for sure - Simpson has had an unconventional career track - but the fact remains that Quinn thought highly enough of him as a coach to pry him away from his first college gig after two months.

Things I would like about him -

- Apparently very well-respected and as a defensive coach
- NFL experience as an assistant DL coach learning from one of the best minds in the business
- HC experience, albeit at the HS level (but an extremely impressive resume there)
- Very well-connected in Georgia

Things I would be concerned with -

- No college coaching experience (two months at Ga. State doesn't count)
- No recruiting or development "pedigree" - not saying he can't recruit or develop players, but we can't look at his resume and say "he pulled X guy" or "he developed Y guy" at the college level
- This would be almost certainly be a "stepping stone" gig - which I may actually be okay with (see below)


Unconventional to be sure, but right now I'd lean on the side of liking it for a couple key reasons. First, as I've stated elsewhere I love position coaches who are upwardly mobile. Miami was at their best when they had coaches who stayed for 3-5 years and then got coordinator or HC jobs or bounced to the NFL. We've trended in the other direction lately... This guy spent 20 years at Buford and built a powerhouse. Everyone LOVES him in Georgia. His record there was a ridiculous 164-12 so it's safe to say he knows about the culture of winning. I think he felt like he gave all he could to HS coaching and wanted to see where things took him. Apparently they took him to the NFL just weeks after landing a college job.

In reading some of the articles on Simpson, it looks like he just loves to coach. Even the stuff I've read with him as an assistant with the Falcons - his favorite part of the day is getting on the grass and grinding. He might not want to just upload data and organize gameplans for Bryant Young and Dan Quinn all day. Everything I've read indicates he has a real passion for the game, a passion for his players (in a non-Penn-State way), and just loves to coach.

It comes down to whether you look at this as hiring someone without the requisite P5 experience, or getting in on the ground floor of a really good football coach who's trending up in the ranks. If I had to put a word on it, I'd label this hire "risky", but definitely not "underwhelming."
 
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This guy is not the big name, **** hire, but maybe after the Kul debacle Richt does not want a prima donna maverick on his team any more. This guy appears to know the Georgia high school landscape very well which we definitely need access to for our trench guys. Plus, he's got good coaching experience at the high school level and now the NFL. So he knows what's needed to get guys into the league.

If he can recruit the **** out of Georgia and buy into Diaz/Richt's program, then this will prove to be a great hire.

Time will tell.
 
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This will definitely give us more opportunities with quality recruits from Georgia.

Interested to see how this will work out.

Hopefully he's aggressive.
 
love how richt is going about recruiting. we're locking down south Florida. cherry picking talent from jax and other parts of Florida and going into GA. never really got kids from jax or GA before. both have tons of talent. sprinkle in the other few kids from around the country who are actively trying to get to UM, and we'll be good. this team will be 60-65% south Florida, another 15% from the rest of the state, 10% GA and 10% the rest of the country.
only straight ballers from outside FL and GA are going to get in here.
 
Word on the street is he had also just signed a 10 year extension with a 45 million dollar buyout..

TIFWIW
 
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I'm ok with the hire, if it's Simpson. Makes sense, if KP & CP didn't want the job, to get a guy who can help you further establish a foothold in what's becoming a new hotbed of football talent (Georgia). While some may knock his lack of P5 experience, is it really the worst thing to have a guy like him come in an inherit JJackson/JGarvin/GWillis/NSilvera/Others and build from there? He built a winning culture at his HS program (7 titles in 12 years anywhere is impressive), presumably by recruiting and developing young players.
 
Some of you are making this out like we're hiring the dude right out of high school.

Just spent two years on an NFL staff, has deep recruiting ties to the state of Georgia, and had a DL that executed an aggressive, nasty front. What's not to like?
 
This has to be considered a "WIN" sense Kool left we can tell a DL recruit that your new Coach has an NFL pedigree and one of the best High School football coaches ever in the state of GA an area that we now have access with this hire (if this is the hire)

Kool was considered one of the best in college football we can easily highlight the fact this guy has pro coaching experience.
 
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luciano.8 said:
I will trust the staff's decision on this instead of a bunch of cry baby fans who know little to nothing about college football and recruiting. Expect a lot of Georgia d linemen! Yes you can say his resume is meh but he is a legend in Georgia, one of the most highly respected and reputable coaches ever, got the call to help be on the defensive staff for an NFL team under a great defensive minded head coach. I like this 100%.
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No doubt, just like Rumph has reeled in all the Heritage guys like Campbell. Expect big things.

Our defensive staff has to be the worst/least experienced in Power 5 football.
 
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DiegoCane said:
No doubt, just like Rumph has reeled in all the Heritage guys like Campbell. Expect big things.

Our defensive staff has to be the worst/least experienced in Power 5 football.
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You're not wrong as far as experience. And I've never been a believer in the "get coach X and he'll get us player Y." But I believe Simpson is a good coach based on what I've read about him, and I'm not sure it's fair (yet) to equate least experienced with worst...
 
ghost2 said:
You're not wrong as far as experience. And I've never been a believer in the "get coach X and he'll get us player Y." But I believe Simpson is a good coach based on what I've read about him, and I'm not sure it's fair (yet) to equate least experienced with worst...
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It's not a Power 5 staff. Simpson, Patke, Rumph, Banda.
 
I don't believe in the "get coach x and you'll get player y" either. and I don't think that is why rumph was hired at all. and I don't think this guy is hired to bring in a specific player. I think he'll land us several players over however many years he's here in GA just b/c of his ties, though.
 
It's not a defensive staff with Power 5 experience. Semantics, but I think there's a difference there. I think Simpson is a good coach. I think Banda is a good coach. I think Rumph is a good technical coach and a terrible recruiter. I think Patke was a bad hire.
 
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