Kansas Football Retains Defensive Line Coach Buddy Wyatt
by Owen on Jan 3, 2012 3:38 PM CST
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PrintAnd now for the BIGGEST news of the day that barely qualifies as news. Kansas football head coach Charlie Weis announced today that Buddy Wyatt will be retained as the defensive line coach on the Kansas coaching staff. Wyatt, who served the previous two years on the Jayhawk staff under Turner Gill, joins running backs coach Reggie Mitchell as one of two former staff members retained by Weis.
Again, no big surprise here just 'official news' now. This was expected given recent indications on the recruiting front. It does sound as if Wyatt will no longer hold a co-defensive coordinator role which seems expected given the fact that Weis is expected to bring in his own defensive coordinator at some point. It would be a little hard to see a situation where Weis would hire a new defensive coordinator and force them to hold a 'co' title with Wyatt. At the very least that would limit your options.
In addition to Wyatt and Mitchell, Weis has announced Rob Ianello (Recruiting Coordinator/Wide Receivers), Tim Grunhard (Offensive Line) and Ron Powlus (Quarterbacks) as members of his Kansas coaching staff.
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Intersting thought from the LJW article
Someone should be able to connect the dots back to our new DC since we know who the DL coach is, right?
Good idea, but I don’t even know where to start – looking for DC’s that Wyatt coached under (or maybe defensive-oriented HC’s), I guess?
Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jan 3, 2012 5:27 PM CST reply actions
from Wyatt's bio
Among the head coaches he worked for are Jim Wacker, Bob Simmons, Gary Barnett, R.C. Slocum, Bill Callahan and Mike Sherman.
Generally offense coaches – Barnett, Callahan, Sherman – as far as I know. Bob Simmons was a HC (and DC I think) at OSU, but his his most recent job was as TE/ST at Washington – he did coach at ND from ’02 to ’04, though. RC Slocum might make sense (DC and HC at TAM) … if it were 2003.
Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jan 3, 2012 5:39 PM CST up reply actions
OK, call me a conspiracy theorist, but...
Joe Kines
- DC at Alabama with Wyatt, 2003-06 (and interim HC in ‘06)
- DC at TAM with Wyatt, 2008-09
He’s 67 and supposedly retired, though. Maybe there’s someone who was on both of those staffs with Kines/Wyatt.
Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jan 3, 2012 5:43 PM CST up reply actions
STOP THE PRESSES
Let’s hope I’m wrong:
(actually, he has a pretty good resume; doesn’t appear that it translated at Akron, though)
Kevin Cosgrove
- DC at Nebraskan for 4 years, in 2007 with Wyatt
- DC at Akron with Rob Ianello in 2011
(Pardon my rambling)
Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jan 3, 2012 6:01 PM CST up reply actions
I hope you are wrong...
Surely we won’t end up with both the head coach and dc from a horrible Akron team. I would think it would be a little bit strange to have the removed hc become a position coach while the dc would remain a dc at a bigger school.
And Nebraska defenses were NOT that good when he was there (under Callahan)
Ugh
The poster formerly known as DCJayhawk0208
if i recall
That’s when they ent from the Black Shirts to the Brown Pants.
The name of that song played at KC Comets games in the '80's was Giorgio Moroder's "The Chase." Now you know.
by labbadabba on Jan 3, 2012 11:27 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Wasn't Powlus with them at Akron also?
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
Rock Chalk Talk
Yes he was.
But he was a positions coach at Akron. I guess I wouldn’t hold him as responsible as I would the head coach or top coordinators. I don’t know how their QB play was, but I guess you can sometimes only do so much if you don’t have a good QB to work with. (I am assuming he didn’t have anything to work with because it is Akron, but that is purely an assumption, I don’t know who they had or how good he was supposed to be.)
I don't know either and not saying anything one way or the other about Powlus.
But I will say that I’m not entirely crazy about taking Akron’s staff and bringing them all to Lawrence.
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
Rock Chalk Talk
I'd be very upset with Cosgrove as DC
He was really outclassed in the Big 12.
After playing Nebraska, I remember Chase Daniels said something along the lines of : ‘I saw more complex defenses in high school.’
by JayDevil on Jan 3, 2012 8:22 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Is it a DC that Wyatt has coached under
or a DC that coaches something other than DL.
could be
another problem with this theory is that everyone I’ve named is available right now – Weis wouldn’t have to wait
Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jan 4, 2012 12:26 PM CST up reply actions
2 retained from the previous staff
I like that especially since one is Mitchell. Did Gill retain just one person? It feels like he did but I can’t remember whom. I always thought that was a mistake.
by I need more Esteban on Jan 3, 2012 5:50 PM CST reply actions
Retained no one
But then brought Beaty back after Darrell Wyatt went to UT.
by hiphopopotamus on Jan 3, 2012 7:32 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
It was good to read the bio
and realize how much success he has had, especially with the flame-out at Akron.
I don't necessarily think
It has to be somebody Wyatt has coached under. This conspiracy theorist thinks the DC spot’s been locked in for awhile now, that coach is just still playing somewhere. Weis OKs with new DC that Wyatt will stay on the DLine, DC to be announced once his season is over. I think it’s also a possibility that Weis was afraid to lose the two juco DTs we just got if Wyatt wasn’t retained, seeing that that position would be worthless without them.
Pay heed...
yes, as dagger said above,
it could be that the DC-in-waiting just approved Wyatt b/c coaching the line is not his thing or knows enough about Wyatt to give the OK. But it was fun anyways.
Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448
by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jan 4, 2012 12:29 PM CST up reply actions
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