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Jeff Hafley (DC Green Bay Packers)

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kujirakira said:
Going to a Midmajor makes sense. You dont need a a homerun staff, recruiting is more even across conference, coaching up talent is more important, you can be good on just 1 side of the ball and make waves (Coord to HC often struggles with the side they havent coached).

Going straight to a P5 bottom feeder is always a dead end.
And we have countless incidents of that in recent years.

Not gonna lie, i hate this. Not even 1yr on the job.
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I wish he was sticking around but I don't see BC as a bad opportunity. It's not the most fertile recruiting area but there's also no major power directly in the area. It's a fairly weak conference at this point in time with only one top level program. If choosing between a second tier ACC program where you have to play Clemson, UVA, VaTech or Big Ten where you play OSU, Penn St and Wisconsin, the choice seems clear. I'd also argue that the lower level Big Ten programs are stronger than lower level ACC right now. As for a middling P5 program being a dead end, Nick Saban is the obvious example of that not being a certainty.
 
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Be interesting to see if he tries to poach any of Day's assistants. I watched that HBO documentary on Saban & Belichick and they got pretty hot talking about it and saying that's out of bounds. (Saban didn't try to take any Belichick assistants to Michigan St for instance.) Mike Vrabel obviously is on the other end of the spectrum on that discussion lol. We'll see where Hafley stands.
 
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Tanner said:
Be interesting to see if he tries to poach any of Day's assistants. I watched that HBO documentary on Saban & Belichick and they got pretty hot talking about it and saying that's out of bounds. (Saban didn't try to take any Belichick assistants to Michigan St for instance.) Mike Vrabel obviously is on the other end of the spectrum on that discussion lol. We'll see where Hafley stands.
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I am not judging but I would not be shocked considering how this went down.
 
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itownbuckeye said:
I wish he was sticking around but I don't see BC as a bad opportunity. It's not the most fertile recruiting area but there's also no major power directly in the area. It's a fairly weak conference at this point in time with only one top level program. If choosing between a second tier ACC program where you have to play Clemson, UVA, VaTech or Big Ten where you play OSU, Penn St and Wisconsin, the choice seems clear. I'd also argue that the lower level Big Ten programs are stronger than lower level ACC right now. As for a middling P5 program being a dead end, Nick Saban is the obvious example of that not being a certainty.
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See Narduzzi at Pitt.
Alabama is a name brand, most programs have ups and downs. Cant make that comparison by school.
Saban already had a Championship with LSU, so you cant make comparison on the coaching level either.
 
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I don't understand why some of you are so baffled by him leaving for BC. The last time that BC won 8 games was 10 YEARS ago! That is the lowest of ceilings. They won 6 games this season and 7 before that. He won't be beating CLemson, next to ever, so that's one L, other than that the conference isn't exactly a murder's row. And if he were to get 8 or even 9 wins, they're making a statue for him and he can use them as a stepping stone to a bigger school. If he flames out at that big program, he knows(as do all of us) that BC would welcome him back with open arms(hello Schiano). He has little pressure, and is closer to his roots, and a few 7 win seasons can propel his career. I'd argue that there's as much if not more talent in the areas of MA, upstate NY, NJ and parts of PA that he can draw from(not to mention the catholic HSs in OH).
Best of luck to him at BC. He will coach us to an NC victory than ride off to run his own program, a la Titty Bar Thomas, no big deal.
 
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Son of a Bitch this blows. Part of being a Buckeye fan I guess, do a great job as a coor at The OSU and you are on everyones radar to turn their program into OSU Jr.

I hope he goes out with a bang and does his best work in the next month because we are going to need everything he has, not half of him while he builds his staff and recruits for BC which I could hardly blame him for doing even though he needs to fulfill his obligation to Day first.
 
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Hstead said:
Son of a Bitch this blows. Part of being a Buckeye fan I guess, do a great job as a coor at The OSU and you are on everyones radar to turn their program into OSU Jr.

I hope he goes out with a bang and does his best work in the next month because we are going to need everything he has, not half of him while he builds his staff and recruits for BC which I could hardly blame him for doing even though he needs to fulfill his obligation to Day first.
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These situations never work out. He's already dividing his time between trying to build his class at BC and preparing for Clemson. If the focus isn't 100% on stopping Clemson's offense, I don't like our chances.
 
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