Got a transcript of the call.. Day: "Jeff, get your ass up here by tomorrow" .. Hafley: "uh.. OK"
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Got a transcript of the call.. Day: "Jeff, get your ass up here by tomorrow" .. Hafley: "uh.. OK"
2 Things
- “We can get a lot better”. Holy crap.
- “This is the most fun I’ve had coaching in a long time”
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Not often you get to play with such great toys
altho Hartline's probably having a pretty good time too
altho Hartline's probably having a pretty good time too
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Just look at the recruiting classes Meyer stacked up.
Hafley walked into the WHAC like Tom Hanks at the FAO Schwarz in Big.
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At the risk of drawing everyone’s ire, I’m just going to come right out and say it. This is the first year that I don’t miss coach Kerry “White-Hot” Coombs quite so much.
At least schematically.
At least schematically.
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Question, are the DBs playing better because they are playing with more confidence or is it because they are playing with impeccable technique akin to what Coombs had his group playing with?
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Hstead
Legend
I know a lot around here do not listen to the Zack Smith podcast, but it is really really good. He breaks down the defense and uses ProFootball metrics or something like that, an organization that grades every team and player in the country every week. After last week, the Silver Bullets are #1 in overall D, #1 Pass D, #1 Sacks, and #2 against the run. Ridiculous.
Normally I would be the first one to say "pump the brakes", but we have played an average of the #40th best team in the country compared to Georgia playing the #90th and Bama playing the 80th. And that includes Uga playing ND helping their average tremendously. We have played better competition than other schools though be it competition that is not nearly as good as what is coming down the road quickly.
Normally I would be the first one to say "pump the brakes", but we have played an average of the #40th best team in the country compared to Georgia playing the #90th and Bama playing the 80th. And that includes Uga playing ND helping their average tremendously. We have played better competition than other schools though be it competition that is not nearly as good as what is coming down the road quickly.
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tell me he's exploiting the opportunity available to him and routinely promoting sex toys as a revenue stream
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https://theathletic.com/1263394/201...fley-ohio-state-defense-tackling-improvement/
How Jeff Hafley’s emphasis on tackling has vastly improved Ohio State’s defense
By Bruce Feldman 3h ago
When Dave Wannstedt was coach at Pitt, he got used to seeing a lot of unfamiliar faces around the Panthers’ football offices. In the offseason, he always was open to allowing high school and college coaches to visit his staff.
Wannstedt had gotten so used to seeing one of those visiting coaches that one day, he turned to defensive coordinator Paul Rhoads and asked: “Did we hire Jeff Hafley? Because every time I turn around, I’m bumping into him in the hallways or in the meetings.”
They hadn’t. Well, at least not yet. Hafley was in his mid-20s and the secondary coach at FCS member Albany. Everyone around the Panthers’ program liked him, so when Wannstedt had a GA opening in 2006, Hafley seemed an obvious choice. Wannstedt knew he was smart, hardworking and personable, making him an ideal fit for the staff. Hafley, a former Siena College wide receiver, became the Panthers’ secondary coach in 2008 and might’ve been their best recruiter, too, because of the work he did in his home state of New Jersey.
“He brought us (four-star recruits) Bryan Murphy, T.J. Clemmings and Ray Graham, K’Waun Williams, who is still playing in the NFL, and Dion Lewis,” Wannstedt said. “Jersey was always a big spot for Penn State, and Greg (Schiano, then the Rutgers coach) had been getting most of the players, but thanks to Jeff, we were getting as good of players out of there as anyone.”
Wannstedt, now a Big Ten Network/Fox Sports analyst, isn’t at all surprised at how quickly his protégé has made a big impact at his new place, Ohio State, where Hafley, 40, is the co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach. Turns out no one who has coached with Hafley is surprised.
The Buckeyes are No. 2 in the nation in fewest yards per play allowed (3.54); they finished 72nd last season (5.77). More impressive, only three teams are allowing fewer plays of at least 30 yards per game than the Buckeyes, who host Michigan State on Saturday night. They have surrendered four in five games; in 2018, they allowed 39, which ranked No. 118.
One big reason is Ohio State is doing something most other teams are having a harder and harder time with: tackling. Coaches all over the country have lamented their inability to tackle as well as they used to because health and safety concerns have forced practice and drill schedules to change. The Buckeyes, though, are tackling better than they have in years. Hafley’s standard has not changed. On the team goals board, they work to have fewer than six or seven missed tackles a game. He told The Athletic the only time this season they missed that was in a 76-5 blowout of Miami (Ohio).
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How Jeff Hafley’s emphasis on tackling has vastly improved Ohio State’s defense
By Bruce Feldman 3h ago
When Dave Wannstedt was coach at Pitt, he got used to seeing a lot of unfamiliar faces around the Panthers’ football offices. In the offseason, he always was open to allowing high school and college coaches to visit his staff.
Wannstedt had gotten so used to seeing one of those visiting coaches that one day, he turned to defensive coordinator Paul Rhoads and asked: “Did we hire Jeff Hafley? Because every time I turn around, I’m bumping into him in the hallways or in the meetings.”
They hadn’t. Well, at least not yet. Hafley was in his mid-20s and the secondary coach at FCS member Albany. Everyone around the Panthers’ program liked him, so when Wannstedt had a GA opening in 2006, Hafley seemed an obvious choice. Wannstedt knew he was smart, hardworking and personable, making him an ideal fit for the staff. Hafley, a former Siena College wide receiver, became the Panthers’ secondary coach in 2008 and might’ve been their best recruiter, too, because of the work he did in his home state of New Jersey.
“He brought us (four-star recruits) Bryan Murphy, T.J. Clemmings and Ray Graham, K’Waun Williams, who is still playing in the NFL, and Dion Lewis,” Wannstedt said. “Jersey was always a big spot for Penn State, and Greg (Schiano, then the Rutgers coach) had been getting most of the players, but thanks to Jeff, we were getting as good of players out of there as anyone.”
Wannstedt, now a Big Ten Network/Fox Sports analyst, isn’t at all surprised at how quickly his protégé has made a big impact at his new place, Ohio State, where Hafley, 40, is the co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach. Turns out no one who has coached with Hafley is surprised.
The Buckeyes are No. 2 in the nation in fewest yards per play allowed (3.54); they finished 72nd last season (5.77). More impressive, only three teams are allowing fewer plays of at least 30 yards per game than the Buckeyes, who host Michigan State on Saturday night. They have surrendered four in five games; in 2018, they allowed 39, which ranked No. 118.
One big reason is Ohio State is doing something most other teams are having a harder and harder time with: tackling. Coaches all over the country have lamented their inability to tackle as well as they used to because health and safety concerns have forced practice and drill schedules to change. The Buckeyes, though, are tackling better than they have in years. Hafley’s standard has not changed. On the team goals board, they work to have fewer than six or seven missed tackles a game. He told The Athletic the only time this season they missed that was in a 76-5 blowout of Miami (Ohio).
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
I stand by original statement. Call it two more years, and then Hafley can write his ticket. Nooo, not Rutgers or any Mid-Am team, but something like a Tennessee, once proud, but now downtrodden, that will pay a big salary. He's 'turned on the light' for people like Okudah, and can envision more 4-5* DBs venturing to tOSU to learn and earn their way to the NFL. Not sure how long Mattison will continue working, (or Larry J either), but don't believe Hafley will be content with a DC job. He's got to learn the 'how to' become a college HC, and tOSU is a perfect learning laboratory. Besides, don't sense any friction with Day, and they were (I believe) both coaches with the Niners at the same time. Anyway, the juggernaut continues on…..Go Bucks!
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
"I ALWAYS KNEW I'D COACH WITH HIM AGAIN:" DAY AND HAFLEY'S PATH BACK TO SAME SIDELINE
Ahead of the 2016 football season, Ryan Day and Jeff Hafley needed jobs.
The pair of 37-year-old position coaches landed in San Francisco, interviewing for posts on the 49ers staff amid a regime change. The team went 2-14 with Day as the quarterbacks coach and Hafley manning the secondary, and Day departed for Ohio State following the season.
It would seem their chapter would close as two ships passing in the night, a brief stint together as assistants coaching on opposite ends of the ball who found marginal team success.
That’s not how they saw it, though.
“I told him on Sunday, we were going to coach together,” Day said. “I didn’t know I’d be the head coach here, and that’s how it would work out. But I always knew I’d coach with him again.”
Now the head coach and co-defensive coordinator of the No. 4 college football team in the country, respectively, Day and Hafley are writing new chapters together, but their story began almost 20 years earlier.
Day and Hafley’s collegiate careers ran nearly concurrently, with Day playing quarterback for New Hampshire from 1998-2001 and Hafley playing wide receiver for Siena from 1997-2000.
Their coaching careers began immediately after, as Day coached tight ends for his alma mater and Hafley coached running backs at Worcester Polytech before ending up as a defensive assistant for Albany in 2002.
With New Hampshire and Albany less than four hours apart, it was working summertime football camps on the East Coast where the young coaches first took notice of each other. Even when Day left for Boston College in 2003, Hafley said the two hung out and talked football at camps.
From there, both worked up the ranks –– Day becoming an offensive coordinator for Boston College after stints at Temple and Florida, while Hafley took defensive backs coach positions at Pittsburgh and Rutgers –– before breaking into the NFL in 2012 for Hafley and 2015 for Day.
The end of the 2015 NFL season saw both Day and Hafley’s head coaches fired, and job openings in San Francisco found the pair reunited. Hafley said they even interviewed together with former Oregon and Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly.
When the season began, Hafley and Day found themselves frequenting each other’s offices with schematic questions, seeking perspective from the other side of the field.
Entire article: https://www.thelantern.com/2019/10/...n-day-and-hafleys-path-back-to-same-sideline/
Ahead of the 2016 football season, Ryan Day and Jeff Hafley needed jobs.
The pair of 37-year-old position coaches landed in San Francisco, interviewing for posts on the 49ers staff amid a regime change. The team went 2-14 with Day as the quarterbacks coach and Hafley manning the secondary, and Day departed for Ohio State following the season.
It would seem their chapter would close as two ships passing in the night, a brief stint together as assistants coaching on opposite ends of the ball who found marginal team success.
That’s not how they saw it, though.
“I told him on Sunday, we were going to coach together,” Day said. “I didn’t know I’d be the head coach here, and that’s how it would work out. But I always knew I’d coach with him again.”
Now the head coach and co-defensive coordinator of the No. 4 college football team in the country, respectively, Day and Hafley are writing new chapters together, but their story began almost 20 years earlier.
Day and Hafley’s collegiate careers ran nearly concurrently, with Day playing quarterback for New Hampshire from 1998-2001 and Hafley playing wide receiver for Siena from 1997-2000.
Their coaching careers began immediately after, as Day coached tight ends for his alma mater and Hafley coached running backs at Worcester Polytech before ending up as a defensive assistant for Albany in 2002.
With New Hampshire and Albany less than four hours apart, it was working summertime football camps on the East Coast where the young coaches first took notice of each other. Even when Day left for Boston College in 2003, Hafley said the two hung out and talked football at camps.
From there, both worked up the ranks –– Day becoming an offensive coordinator for Boston College after stints at Temple and Florida, while Hafley took defensive backs coach positions at Pittsburgh and Rutgers –– before breaking into the NFL in 2012 for Hafley and 2015 for Day.
The end of the 2015 NFL season saw both Day and Hafley’s head coaches fired, and job openings in San Francisco found the pair reunited. Hafley said they even interviewed together with former Oregon and Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly.
When the season began, Hafley and Day found themselves frequenting each other’s offices with schematic questions, seeking perspective from the other side of the field.
Entire article: https://www.thelantern.com/2019/10/...n-day-and-hafleys-path-back-to-same-sideline/
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OregonBuckeye
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Okudah makes it sound like he's teaching them better technique which has in turn led to increased confidence
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