After Brent Brennan announced on National Signing Day that he'd relegate coaching staff changes to Thursday's press conference, it built today up with dramatic suspense as to what kinds of adjustments would be hitting the program.
In my opinion those expectations were met as Brennan announced that Arizona would be with three new coaches taking the roles of the offensive, defensive, and special teams coordinators. If Brennan was going to remain in Tucson which I thought was the correct decision albeit a difficult one, then making major shifts to the surrounding coaching staff was the answer and he delivered.
Moving on from Dino Babers was the most obvious decision here as his entire system seemed to mess with everything good Arizona had going offensively and now it's up to the next OC to clean up those mistakes and bring this offense back to what it's capable of doing. Hiring outside of the program I think will make a lot of fans happy and that hire has to be a slam dunk considering the implications it has in terms of roster retention, next season success, and even plucking some good players out of the portal for the upcoming season.
I was definitely surprised when Duane Akina especially was demoted but keeping him around in the role that he was so successful at when Jedd Fisch was head coach is a massive win for this coaching staff and recruiting process as he can focus on what he's best at in this day and age. I'm honestly expecting Brennan to roll with Danny Gonzales as DC for the mean time as he never explicitly gave Gonzales a position in the press conference, I believe because he has to consider Gonzales a candidate but I'm curious to see what happens there.
Checkout the article below for more insight on Brennan's Thursday announcements and be sure to sound off with questions or any potential thoughts surrounding this big news:
In my opinion those expectations were met as Brennan announced that Arizona would be with three new coaches taking the roles of the offensive, defensive, and special teams coordinators. If Brennan was going to remain in Tucson which I thought was the correct decision albeit a difficult one, then making major shifts to the surrounding coaching staff was the answer and he delivered.
Moving on from Dino Babers was the most obvious decision here as his entire system seemed to mess with everything good Arizona had going offensively and now it's up to the next OC to clean up those mistakes and bring this offense back to what it's capable of doing. Hiring outside of the program I think will make a lot of fans happy and that hire has to be a slam dunk considering the implications it has in terms of roster retention, next season success, and even plucking some good players out of the portal for the upcoming season.
I was definitely surprised when Duane Akina especially was demoted but keeping him around in the role that he was so successful at when Jedd Fisch was head coach is a massive win for this coaching staff and recruiting process as he can focus on what he's best at in this day and age. I'm honestly expecting Brennan to roll with Danny Gonzales as DC for the mean time as he never explicitly gave Gonzales a position in the press conference, I believe because he has to consider Gonzales a candidate but I'm curious to see what happens there.
Checkout the article below for more insight on Brennan's Thursday announcements and be sure to sound off with questions or any potential thoughts surrounding this big news:
