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Mom says:
“He’s a wide receiver, so I check stats and I check stats from when the head coach started,” Mrs. Holloman says. “I check wide receiver/coach stats. I see who he’s got into the NFL if anybody. I see once they’ve gotten into the NFL what they’ve done with themselves.
Curious how she views James Coley of UGA. I'm sure all of our former WR's may say something negative about Golden, but maybe not specifically Coley. Depending on how she looks at his history...
UGA:
Kirby Smart is a new HC and a defensive coach, pretty much has no resume for WR's, if she takes a look at Bama, she will see only 2 successful WR's since he has been there, despite him having no affect on them. (Julio Jones / Cooper)
James Coley resume can be taken many different ways.
-Never been a WR coach before.
-Will probably get alot of help and assistance from Kevin Beard, who is also on the UGA staff. (Kirby Smart took a page out of Saban's book)
-As a QB coach at Miami High, he was apart of the offensive staff and (possibly) helped develop Andre Johnson / Roscoe Parrish.
-As a Assistant Head Coach at Norland High, he was the OC and (possibly) helped develop Dwayne Bowe
-As a FSU OC, no WR's were drafted.
-As a Miami OC, 2 WR's are in the NFL that played under him. Allen Hurns and Phillip Dorsett.
A total of 5 WR's (4 are productive in the NFL, 1 is Dorsett who hasn't proven himself just yet despite being 1st rounder). It really depends on if she gives him any credit for any of these guys...which I don't think he deserves judging off the fact that he has NEVER coached WR's, and is a QB coach by nature and by heritage (He played and coached QB most of his career).
Miami:
Mark Richt resume is honestly skewed if you ask me, because he has been a coaching longer. Regardless....
-As a QB coach in FSU (1990-1993), he most likely did not work with any WRs. But there were 3 WR's drafted during this time.
-A better chance of him affecting WR's was as an OC from 1994-2000 at FSU. 9 WR's were drafted.
-Twice as an OC (in 1995 and 2000), Richt had 3 WR's taken in one draft.
-As HC of UGA, only 7 WR's were taken in Richt's 15 year tenure. That is honestly not that good. About 1 WR every 2 years is not good.
-However, Richt as a coach is known to be a great person, I'm sure mom knows how much his players love and rave about him...so much so that he has 2 former players from 2 difference schools (Dugans FSU and Thomas Brown UGA) on his staff. One of which (Dugans) will be a face to face example of what type of person Richt can help her some become. An in home visit from Dugans and Richt should be all we need to wrap this up. Richt is
#6 on the list of Head Coaches for getting players drafted.
Ron Dugans is the only coach out of these 4 (Coley, Richt, or Smart) who has coached WR's directly before this year. He is also the youngest coach.
-No WR's drafted from his time at Georgia Southern, but he did develop star receiver Raja Andrews who broke many school records, and was All-Conference. Raja Andrews probably would've been drafted if he wasn't 5'8.
-At Louisville he had 1 WR drafted in Devante Parker, who has not proven himself in the league just yet. But has been injured.
-At USF no WR's were drafted.
-Poor outcome if you look at the overall years/players in league. From 2007-2015, he has 1 first rounder, and 3 players that broke school records, but overall...he has only coached 1 player to the draft in his 8 years.
-What I can say however, just like Kevin Beard is on UGA's support staff...We have Jorge Baez, who was a WR coach for the following:
Prominent Player worked with (10)
WR Dexter McCluster (2nd)--Ole Miss '10 -- Kansas City Chiefs
WR Sinorice Moss (2nd) - Miami '06--New York Giants
WR Roscoe Parrish(2nd) - Miami '05--Buffalo Bills
WR Devin Hester(2nd) - Miami '06--Chicago Bears
WR Mike Wallace (3rd) - Ole Miss '09--Pittsburgh Steelers
WR Darnell Jenkins (FA) - Miami '08--New England Patriots
WR Shay Hodge (FA) - Ole Miss '10-- Cincinnati Bengals
WR Kevin Beard (FA) - Miami ’03-- Buffalo Bills
WR LaQuinton Evans (FA) - Southern '12--Tennessee Titans
WR Jared Green(FA) - Southern '12--Carolina Panthers
WR Rod Jefferson(FA) - Lambuth '11-(Arena) Miss Hound dogs