Some comments (many from me) speculating on how Coach Bloomgren might fill his staff. Figured it deserves its own thread.

Quote:@CoachSearchCFB
Sounds like new #Rice HC Mike Bloomgren has offered the DC position to #Michigan safeties coach Brian Smith.

Speculation from another thread:

(12-06-2017 04:02 PM)mrbig Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 03:49 PM)ricedtea Wrote:  Hey, I'm new here. Hope the hire is good. But regarding staff: looks like Stanford's Quality Control coach Joe Ashfield just followed some Rice accounts on Twitter including Rice Athletics, Glynn Hill and Thresher Sports

Nice catch. In addition, the following guys just started following @RiceFootball (but no other Rice accounts that I noticed):
Brad Idzik (@idz10) - offensive GA at Stanford and his dad was GM for the Jets (not sure if he overlapped with Bloomgren)
Nathaniel Willingham (@NTWillingham) - Defensive Assistant at Stanford

Jerry Mack - head coach at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) also started following both @RiceFootball and @RiceAthletics. He and Bloomgren spent 2 years together at Delta State in 2004-2005 and he interned with the Jets when Bloomgren was there in 2009 & 2010.

Brandon Lee, the NCCU strength coach, is now following @RiceFootball and Coach Bloomgren.