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Mark Snyder (Texas A&M Defensive Coordinator)

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Congratulations to Coach Snyder. We should rejoice in his shot to move on (a sign of a strong program) and especially to his dream job (coaching for his alma mater).

Eager to hear who JT has chosen in advance for this situation, as I bet he's been ready for quite some time. I hope Mel can come back, tho Heacock or whoever JT appoints will do a great job.
 
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By Steve Helwagen Managing Editor
Date: Apr 12, 2005

According to a source, OSU defensive coordinator Mark Snyder is the choice to succeed Bob Pruett as the head coach at Marshall. Snyder would be introduced by the school on Thursday.
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A source indicated to Bucknuts.com Tuesday night that Ohio State defensive coordinator Mark Snyder is the likely successor to Bob Pruett as the new coach at Marshall.

Snyder, an Ironton, Ohio, native and a Marshall graduate, would be introduced at an 11:30 a.m. news conference Thursday in Huntington, W.Va., the source indicated.

He would succeed Bob Pruett, who retired after nine years on the job in February.

Earlier this week, Marshall interim president Michael Farrell had indicated the coaching choice would be introduced sometime this week.

"The search is coming into its final week," Farrell said over the weekend.

It appears that Snyder has outlasted interim coach Larry Kueck, who directed the Thundering Herd through spring football. Marshall wraps up spring drills with a scrimmage Saturday at 4 p.m.

OSU head coach Jim Tressel had made comments publicly and placed phone calls to help promote Snyder's candidacy for the Marshall job.

"Mark Snyder is a perfect fit for Marshall," Tressel said of Snyder's chances for the job. "He’s a graduate, he’s ready, he’s trained hard, he’s very talented."

Snyder was a Division I-AA All-American at Marshall in 1987. The Herd was national runner-up in I-AA, losing the championship 43-42 to Northeast Louisiana, and Snyder set the single season MU record for interceptions with 10 that year.

Snyder worked as a part-time assistant at Marshall and Central Florida following graduation in 1988 before landing on coach Jim Tressel's Youngstown State staff in 1991.

He stayed as linebacker coach through 1996, rising to defensive coordinator that final season. Snyder then coached defensive ends at Minnesota from 1997-2000, then rejoined Tressel at Ohio State in 2001 as linebacker coach.

He was elevated to defensive coordinator in 2004, when Mark Dantonio left to become head coach at Cincinnati.

Snyder's departure would leave OSU with just three assistants on the defensive side of the ball -- line coach Jim Heacock, linebackers coach Luke Fickell and newly hired defensive backs coach Paul Haynes.

Those coaches would likely help the Buckeyes complete spring practice, which ends with the April 23 Scarlet and Gray Game.

Tressel could then opt to elevate one of those coaches to the coordinator's role or bring in a new coach to fill that job.

Two names that have been rumored for weeks as Snyder pursued the Marshall job were former OSU defensive backs coach Mel Tucker and former OSU defensive coordinator Gary Blackney.

Tucker left OSU this winter to become the DBs coach on Romeo Crennel's first staff with the NFL's Cleveland Browns. (Tucker is also a Cleveland native.)

Blackney left OSU to become the head coach at Bowling Green and is now an assistant under Ralph Friedgen at Maryland.

Snyder's departure would leave Tressel -- beginning his fifth year on the job at OSU -- with just three coaches from his first OSU staff in 2001. The remaining members of that staff include Heacock (the last remaining holdover from the John Cooper staff), quarterbacks coach Joe Daniels and offensive line coach/offensive coordinator Jim Bollman.

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Sorry to see Snyder go, but I am sure Tressel will find a great replacement...I don't expect our veteran defense to miss a beat.​
 
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I am truly happy for him as an individual, but my friends this is not good for the this team this year at all. Look at my previous post, I am borderline cyncical in my optimism but I really think this hurts. We have 3 assistants on D now. We need to get this open role filled. I do not think anyone on the team is ready to be promoted, but the new guy we bring in should be someone whose schemes are not that different then what we ran... ugghh not good.

Anyway good luck down there in Marshall, all day tomorrow I am going to have to hear stupid people hell at me and say wooo hooo We got a HERD on!!!
 
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JT has known about this for months... it was no secret that Snyder would explore the job market a bit (most good assistants do). JT is the type to prepare ahead of time for multiple outcomes, and he saw this one coming long ago. Nevadabuck is an insider and believes it will be Heacock tho Tucker and others still have a shot.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
But, I think it will obviously be even better with Snyder calling the shots, especially if he calls them (with few exceptions) like he did from the second half of the Purdue game.
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You cannot be serious. In my opinion, Snyder cost us the Purdue game by not blitzing Orton (who had a bad leg at the time), and instead letting him sit back and pick our depleted secondary apart. An 80 yard drive later, our comeback hopes were dashed and we lost. As far as I'm concerned, Marshall can have Snyder -- I never thought he was that good of a D coordinator.
 
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buckeyeboy said:
In my opinion, Snyder cost us the Purdue game by not blitzing Orton (who had a bad leg at the time), and instead letting him sit back and pick our depleted secondary apart
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Strangely, how many times did that happen late in ballgames with MD calling the defense? Plenty. The blitz opens the possibility for a big play...break a tackle and its a foot race. After watching two DC's call the same late-game soft zones, I would say it is a decision from the top.
 
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good for him... he's a good coach and I hate to lose him, but this is best for his family...

Congrats Coach Synder... now lets hope Coach Tressel has a good replacement (he's had time to think this through)...
 
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LloydSev said:
I can't beleive they are tossing Tucker's name around as a possible DC for us.. lol.. he just left!
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Well--- I fyou don't want to miss a beat... who would you rather have?

Anyway, the guy is a rising star in his own right... what is he? 33?
 
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I wish coach Snyder all the best at Marshall, unless they're playing us again.

As for Tucker, leaving an NFL job for a coordinator spot doesn't seem to me to be a good career move if he wants to caoch in the NFL again. I think NFL teams could understand a guy leaving for a head coaching job, but leaving his home-town NFL team for a college coordinator job would indicate to most NFL people that he wants to be a college coach.
 
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buckeyeboy said:
You cannot be serious. In my opinion, Snyder cost us the Purdue game by not blitzing Orton (who had a bad leg at the time), and instead letting him sit back and pick our depleted secondary apart. An 80 yard drive later, our comeback hopes were dashed and we lost. As far as I'm concerned, Marshall can have Snyder -- I never thought he was that good of a D coordinator.
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remember a few years before when tight press coverage cost us the purdue game.... that game had a helluva lot more impacto on our season too
 
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If Heacock moves to DC, he probably won't work with the DL much anymore, correct? IMO this is one of the key losses if he is promoted to DC. Snyder clearly will be missed, but the key to next year's defense is how well our talented but young DL players do. They came into their own at the end of the season, but I'd much rather have a great DL coach like Heacock mold Patterson, Green, Gholston, etc into strong compliments to Pitcock and Kudla.

I feel bad for Snyder that he has had to wait this long. He's going to get over there just in time for it to all be over. But landing your dream job late is better than not at all.
 
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That is what I am sayig Nevada.. Everyone was saying this team was so much better with Smith, but if you look at it, our D was a lot better later in the 2nd half of the season. I think he had a good thing going, it takes a while to adjust to the role of OC or DC. I am really torn hear part of me want to promote within to keep things consistent, but at the same time I do not want to pass the opportunity in taking an up and coming youung guy or guru....

I am sure JT has been calling around well before this, but it will be hard to get a guy who has already spent the spring with his team and so on...

Nevada or Alan have you heard of them contactig ayone outside the internal ring of coaches?
 
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