THE PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS, PART TWO.

This must be the all-name side of the bracket… Bolt AND McMackin… nice

Thompson never actually coordinated a game at LSU — Saban reduced him to a crying heap inside of a month or so after he was hired.

On passing downs, the sets can be nightmarish, an effect reflected in his defense’s excellent passing stats during his tenure at Southern Miss, LSU, Arkansas, and Florida.
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FYI, he only coached at LSU for a month. During the offseason. Before resigning to take the DC job at Arkansas (LSU then hired Will Muschamp as DC/figurehead). Yet Thompson’s bio on the OM website says he “brings to Ole Miss experience from five Southeastern Conference schools ­ Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, LSU and South Carolina.”

Nevermind, Muschamp wasn’t the DC that replaced Thompson. Brainfart.

Coachorgeron hiredat Thompson cuh he sed he bringuhme a pailofdose minnows. And Coachorgeron needdose lilbaitfish whencoachgo fishindis weekend. See, Coachorgeron knose youneed good minnuhs wheniyuh trytah seduce those tasteeredanspecks onto thehuk, Coachorgeron needmo dansome floppywalmartwormsto make dishappen, datsthe Orgeronfamuh leesecret.

Excited? OF COURSE I’M EXCITED! YOU MUST BE EXCITED, OR YOU WILL RUN STADIUM STAIRS!!

I hope Grandma decides to not renew her season tickets. I don’t know how long she’d last running stairs with her walker.

Just remember that Minnesota’s defense can not get any worse than the last performance we all saw.

Assuming by “we” you a) get the NFL Network and b) cared about whatever bowl it was played in Tempe a week or so before the National Title and Fiesta Bowls.

True dat Billy, he broke in near record time under Saban. That or he enjoyed what some of us know as “work to live” instead of Nick’s method which is “work to work”.

Can anyone verify any of the rumors as to why Thompson left LSU after a month?

I heard something crazy like he and Saban were driving through Louisiana on a recruiting trip, or to visit a high school practice, and they got into a heated argument on the way about directions or God knows what, and Thompson told him to pull over and Thompson walked to the nearest gas station.

The above cannot be true, or 100% accurate at least, but something obviously happened.

Neither one of them are sane, apparently.

Corwin Brown, not your typical uptight white guy coaches at ND…

Did you know that the hole’s only natural enemy is the pile?

Can coaches earn Fulmer Cup points?

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/6789034

Nice misdirection Orson, sending the Orgeron to lay waste to Sudan while you enjoya nice stay along the French-Swiss border.

yeah, nit-picking on geography has to be the nerdiest of the nerdy. But then again, people knowing obscure crap is part of the bizzare appeal of this place.

You caught us!

Not that it matters, and it may make things actually worse, but Thompson won’t be running his 3-4 Joe Lee Dunn system at Ole Miss. He was brought in to help Orgeron run his own 4-3 system and maybe bring in some different blitz packages. So we’ll still be running a fairly conservative defense. Of course, we’ve probably been too conservative under Orgeron, so a middle ground between Orgeron’s sets and Thompson’s sets may actually be a good thing.

You guys get to play us this year though, so you’ll get to see what happens, though most of our defenders will likely be looking at the bottom of Tebow’s cleats the whole game either way, so it may not matter.

For Corwin Brown, the skies the limit if only because the Irish defense has been in the basement for what seems like forever.

Hey now, the Raiders’ whole defence was pretty competent – and they have the cool Ryan brother (think Big Lebowski with grey hair.) That’s gotta be worth something…

Re #8: Of course they aren’t sane. Find me the last wholly successful SEC head coach or coordinator who was certifiably in possession of all his marbles.

Rebel84—

That was the design with Spurrier at SC last year. Tyrone Nix was the straight guy to Thompson as they worked as “co-coordinators.”

Spurrier then reduced his role over the year, essentially putting Tyrone Nix in charge of the defense. They then went 3-1, with the one loss being the Jarvis Moss FG block game in Gainesville.

Just four months ago he didn’t know if he was going to stay in coaching. That should scare you a bit.

If you will look at the bottom of that story, it was last updated in January of 2006. Nix was the DC at SCar last year, if I am not mistaken.

What Thompson did last year, seems to be a bit of a mystery.

Someone get OOC to break down what happened.

What the hell has he been doing?

Um, and scratch the whole prior comment. It was all Nix’s fault.

Ah—AD at Central Arkansas last year. Weird…

I was going to crack out some junior-high-level French:

Qu’est que-ce le raison pour utiliser le version francais de magnum? Et, pourquoi n’etait presenter pas un description pour l’homme Africain-d’Amerique? J’accuse Sarkozy.

but the google translation back to English is better:

What is this that the reason to use the French version of magnum? And, why wasn’t to present not a description for the man African-in America? I show Sarkozy.

Yeah, I thought Thompson found alternative employment after the 05 season- maybe late spring ‘06. Thanks for the kind words about our defense dropping like bowling pins on running plays under the co-DC days. I was willing to say they scattered like sheep, but I’ll gladly take whatever credit you give us. It’s the least you can do for us after you stole Charlie Strong from us, however.

That is gebumst quite above, DC Trojan!

Actually, Thompson was the AD last year at I believe Central Arkansas, or wherever his alma mater is. So he wasn’t even in coaching last year. Personally, I question the hire, but I do think either way that we needed some creativity added to our defense, and I’m hoping Thompson will bring that if nothing else. I will say that I would be totally against the hire if he was coming in to run his own gimmick defenses, but since he’s running a mix version, I can accept it as an infusion of creativity to a stale 4-3.

Little known fact is that Thompson was actually one of The Orgeron’s coaches at NW State, so they have a history together. That’s apparently the reason Thompson decided to get back into coaching, and Thompson’s apparently the only person that The Orgeron was willing to hire as a DC. The Orgeron has been his own DC since his arrival until this hiring.

Either way, it can’t get much worse for us. Our staff currently is made up of retreads at the main posts (Werner from Miami at OC, Kehoe from Miami at OL coach, and now Thompson from [insert university here]at DC) and high school coaches at the remaining posts (Freeze at TE, Wilson at RBs, etc.).

Am I the only one that thought the Magnum intro was the best part of that post? I mean, the rest was good and all, but MAGNUM. Right there is your Wednesday mustache, motherfuckers.

DC—

Because “dans le role de Magnum” never fails to make us giggle in our seat.

Am I being a major-league bleeding heart here, or does it seem like Junior Rosegreen did a lot of celebrating considering the guy he hit was still face-down on the ground?

And am I a bad person for being glad that Reggie Brown is starting for the Eagles, while Rosegreen presently can’t get into an NFL game without paying admission like everybody else?

Part of my brain says the story goes like this:

Thompson at Arky stifled UTenn circa 2001 with the Bandit style defense, which UTenn promptly stole and used vs. UF in the 2001 9/11 delay game which they won in Gainesville (really, though, due to the fact Travis Stephens exploded)…Spurrier was “impressed” with the innovative scheme and later hired the architect, Thompson, as he saw a defensive version of himself, but suckier.

What I’m trying to say is that Thompson got alot of career mileage out of one game he didn’t even coach;

Also, I could be entirely wrong about all of that.

I’m not getting too excited for Chizik. He’ll either win a lot of games and move on to a better job, or he’ll lose and go back to being a coordinator. Either way, 3 years and he’ll be gone.

But I did hear that the offseason practices look a lot more organized than they did in past years, and the juco o-linemen Chizik brought in actually look big—you know, like offensive linemen.

Our d-line got dominated by I-AA UNI, Toledo, UNLV, and Iowa, and that’s just listing the non-conf games. The o-line was the worst I’ve ever seen.

SMQ’s too-early preview of ISU says that Bret Meyer was erratic. And believe me, I tried to blame Meyer last year. But every time I looked at the replay, there’d be some ungodly amount of pressure on him. He’s a pocket quarterback (yes, I know, that’s hard to understand because he’s black), and there was no pocket for him.

The helmet to helmet from Rosegreen on Reggie Brown doesn’t deserve glorification. That was dirty and could have hurt him. Not to be a wet blanket; I’m just a fan of the rules/safety in sports.

Chizik’s defense at Texas got really ordinary once Michael Huff got drafted. There were times last year when it looked like he was playing 9 guys at a time.

The A&M game was particularly hard to take. Texas was utterly helpless against their option. Chizik didn’t once alter his game plan to address it.

The performances against KState, Nebraska, Iowa and Ohio State weren’t much to write home about either. All were marked by an apparent unwillingness to adapt scheme to the attack.

Rebel84-
If The Orgeron had problems sharing control of the offense with Noel Mazzone, how well do you think he’s going to work with Thompson on the side of the ball he actually knows something about?

Orson,

 #33 has it right. Chizik’s defenses last season were freaking laughable against the pass. His secondary was atrocious, and coming into the A&M game, with the #1 run defense in the nation, after getting shredded by A&M’s option in ‘05, Chizik still wasn’t able to teach his players how to stop the option.
 I really don’t understand why anyone rides Chizik’s jock when he was a LB coach at texas for the last two years, as well as being the DC, and his LBs sucked horribly.
 You do realize that in the last two years, his incredible defenses at texas gave up well over 500 yds rushing to A&M, don’t you?
 
 BTW, re: your report on Notre Dame moving to the 3-4, you don’t move to the 3-4 b/c you lack DT-type linemen, b/c the DEs in the 3-4 are usually larger than the DTs in the 4-3. You move to a 3-4 b/c you have an overabundance of LBs, or at least athletes you think you can make into LBs.
 If I had to take an educated guess, I’d say Notre Dame is moving to a 3-4 b/c they believe it will get more speed onto the field, something they’ve been sorely lacking the last two seasons.
 However, if they don’t get some CBs and safeties who can cover, what the front 7 does to stuff the run won’t matter, b/c they’ll still get torched by the deep pass.
 Also, I have no clue where you’re getting the idea that the 3-4 is “funky” or new; if anything, more teams are moving AWAY from the 4-3 to the 3-4. Calling the 3-4 “funky” would have been more valid 4 years ago, before New England convinced everyone in the NFL it is the defense to run, and it trickled down again to the college ranks.
 The only “funky” defensive scheme in college right now is the New Mexico/WVU version of the 33 Stack, or 3-5-3/3-3-5.

Personally, I’ve been against O hiring a DC for the exact reasons you mention capitolhill. I just can’t see him working well with someone else on that side of that ball. That said, Thompson is probably more suited to make that work than anyone else.

Thompson has come in with the idea that this is O’s defense and he’s just going to help him run it. That, and the fact that Thompson and O have known each other for a while makes me think it’ll work out better than the Mazzone experiment. I don’t think we’ll set the world on fire, but I do believe that the Thompson-O marriage will work much better than the Mazzone-O marriage.

Another big difference is trust. O seems to trust Thompson and respect him. I don’t think O ever trusted Mazzone and definitely didn’t respect him. The trust factor should make for a better working relationship.