The limit is 9 assistant coaches and there are 12 or 13 areas to be covered so some guys have to do double duty like Jay Niemann as Defensive Coordinator and Safeties coach and Uremovich who had Running Backs and Special Teams last year. It makes me wonder whether Carey will make Bob Cole the Offensive Coordinator as well as QB coach rather than hire a dedicated OC. Cole has been here a few years and acted as OC at numerous other schools. Or Carey could be OC himself but that would be a lot on a new coach's plate.

OC - Open
QB - Bob Cole
OL - Joe Tripodi
RB - Open
WR - Thad Ward
FB/TE - Open
ST - Open

DC/S - Jay Niemann
DL - Brett Diersen
LB - Kevin Kane
CB - Open

In the ESPN article following us at the Orange Bowl, it said Tripodi will be the OL coach. Going off gut, I think Carey will hire an OC and give up calling plays.

Kane is going to get a promotion, either as ST coach or recruiting coordinator (or maybe both).

Here's the quote:

Quote:Joe Tripodi, who will coach the offensive line exclusively after the bowl, tells the group to avoid the head fakes Florida State defenders like to use on their rushes ("Never look in their eyes"). He quizzes players on the Seminoles' blitz schemes.

The OC almost certainly handle a position group. Very rarely is a coordinator not doing anything else, with a 9 man staff you generally can't afford to have it any other way. Dunbar's role was likely an accommodation to him, and possibly an early hint that he had some extra health needs.

Grad ass to OLine coach on an Orange Bowl team? WOW! That is as big a jump in coaching as I seen in a long-g-g-g-g time. I don't get it. We could not a more experienced coach in such a key spot.

Hell - we want back into the party next year. ...LA,Phoenix,Dallas, New Orleans. We are NOT shooting for Detroit or Boise.

(01-08-2013 09:29 PM)NIU05 Wrote:  Grad ass to OLine coach on an Orange Bowl team? WOW! That is as big a jump in coaching as I seen in a long-g-g-g-g time. I don't get it. We could not a more experienced coach in such a key spot.

Hell - we want back into the party next year. ...LA,Phoenix,Dallas, New Orleans. We are NOT shooting for Detroit or Boise.

He was already a de facto position coach on this year's team. I don't know how many other FBS GA's were handling a position group of their own this year like he was.

Wisconsin's OL coach went from GA to OL coach in the middle of the year.

Wouldn't mind if they hired Wisconsins old oline coach, Bart Miller. He's difinitely an up and comer.

I saw the quote about Tripodi before the bowl but misread it to mean he was handling the O-line FOR the Orange Bowl, presumably on an interim basis. It looks like he is actually the new O-line coach and I like his background as not only a two year starter at Northwestern but the recipient of an award for toughness and warrior mentality. Plus he coached a position group here last year and knows everyone, and our O-line is now a veteran group so it won't hurt to have a younger coach there. Sounds good to me.

http://www.niuhuskies.com/sports/m-footb...joe00.html

I updated my original post above to show Tripodi as the O-line coach.

(01-08-2013 10:26 PM)NIU1981 Wrote:  I saw the quote about Tripodi before the bowl but misread it to mean he was handling the O-line FOR the Orange Bowl, presumably on an interim basis. It looks like he is actually the new O-line coach and I like his background as not only a two year starter at Northwestern but the recipient of an award for toughness and warrior mentality. Plus he coached a position group here last year and knows everyone, and our O-line is now a veteran group so it won't hurt to have a younger coach there. Sounds good to me.

http://www.niuhuskies.com/sports/m-footb...joe00.html

I updated my original post above to show Tripodi as the O-line coach.

Young guys like tripodi can become good recruiters due to narrow age gap to the recruit