Saw he stepped down as Georgia's OL coach yesterday. I advocated for him as a Hiller replacement before he announced his decision to resign a few months ago. The article mentioned he's stepping away to spend time with family which is understandable but guessing it's also only temporarily. Luke is the former Ole Miss head coach replacing Hugh Freeze and has also worked under Phillip Fullmer and David Cutcliffe. Allen and Luke both coaches 3 seasons at Ole Miss together prior. He would be a no-brainer to replace Hiller assuming interested.
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Luke could be the Perfect guy to bring in as off field Analyst... Give him any title he wants (to keep his resumes' fresh)..., along with any amount of time he needs for his family (which is why he's stepped away from full time coaching)... At minimum,he could very good for by helping us by "coach the coach" ... and great for him to be able to take as much time off for his family as necessary..., while keening his mind in the game...
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Hiller for life!
Let’s go big boy!
Prove these haters wrong!
Let’s go big boy!
Prove these haters wrong!
I love the idea of bringing another guy to work with Hiller. if there is not huge improvement then we can slide him right into the position. He will already have some familiarity the schemes, the kids, the program. We would not be starting over from scratch.
I see no downside with bringing a guy like Matt Luke in to help the OL and have a coach in reserve if Hiller can't get the job done in this new offense.
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You might hurt Hiller's feelings and cause him to leave....
nevermind, you're right
There is 0.0000000000000001% chance that Luke is coming to Indiana in that role. If he wanted that role, he would have taken it back at Georgia (for more $$$) - that happened to just win the national championship.
I really do agree with the idea that we need a retired OL coach to come in as an analyst.
I really do agree with the idea that we need a retired OL coach to come in as an analyst.
There's nearly zero chance he's coming here but while I'm a part of the this day-dream at all about adding the possibility of his heading here for any reason I'll throw in a gig for him as Also his sons Analyst on his H.S. team and have him bring his entire family up here on an unofficial visit of the Entire town, high school, along with an a preview aimed at primarily the wife and children's areas of interest, with as much guaranteed time off to be with them as needed.
It's a football forum... I'm endorsing being a part of this big off-the-wall fantasy During this few weeks especially...
Can't hurt to dream (I've lately been dreaming I'm part of a "gone rouge" F-35 Flight working the skies above Ukraine and Belarus)🍺🇺🇸🍺 (We're winning) but we need fuel (where's that rogue tanker above Poland whose entire crew is ready to face courts martial ?😉🇺🇸)
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If we hurt your feelings, would you leave? lolYou might hurt Hiller's feelings and cause him to leave....
nevermind, you're right
Doubt Hiller's feelings can be hurt at this point. I'm sure he knows a lot of people think he is incompetent.
Unfortunately there is only one person's opinion that matters to Hiller, Allen's, and Allen doesn't see things the way we do. Why? Who knows, but Hiller's line has gotten multiple QBs hurt over the last five years, apparently can't run block at all based on YPA and generally under performs every other position group on the IU roster. It is incredibly hard to imagine what performance evaluation system Allen uses to justify Hiller's continued employment.
Unfortunately there is only one person's opinion that matters to Hiller, Allen's, and Allen doesn't see things the way we do. Why? Who knows, but Hiller's line has gotten multiple QBs hurt over the last five years, apparently can't run block at all based on YPA and generally under performs every other position group on the IU roster. It is incredibly hard to imagine what performance evaluation system Allen uses to justify Hiller's continued employment.
The main problem we have is Allen has such a "cushion" before he gets on the hot seat. We're screwed for another couple of years unless a huge donor steps in.
I just don't get people thinking coach Allen is the problem. Has he had mistakes in hiring coaches, all coaches have. He has improved recruiting and the defense while choosing the wrong OCs twice out of three chances, we will see with Bell if he continues that trend or breaks out of the mold like he did with DeBoer.
Let's see if coach Allen rights the ship this season before throwing him under the bus, I understand several have never like coach Allen as the HC of IU.
Let's see if coach Allen rights the ship this season before throwing him under the bus, I understand several have never like coach Allen as the HC of IU.
I like him and in no way want him fired, but he's got to produce this year. He's had a couple good recruiting years, brought in coaches he wants, gotten rid of players and coaches he doesn't want, supposedly killed it in the Portal.
This is a deciding year
I doubt this is the deciding year on coach Allen but IU needs to turn around this season.
While I want this year to be major a turn around, I don't see why this would be the deciding year or even close to that if it isn't. We had a horrible year (after two good ones), but have stacked recruiting classes a couple years in a row now and that doesn't appear to be changing. Allen is going to be more involved with the defense, so I expect them back to the level of two years ago, which is how we are going to win games.
Allen is building a program, that takes time.
Allen is building a program, that takes time.
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If we have another bad season, then it will make it very tough to keep recruiting well. It would make it that much tougher on Allen to keep the program on the right trajectory.
And were you one of the chorus saying he would never hold this class together after last season?
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No. But that has little to do with my post. Losing makes it tougher to recruit, especially if you have back to back losing seasons.
Are you saying losing has no effect on recruiting or just wanting to pick a fight?
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I said that many were saying that there was no way that CTA could hold this class together after last season.
Obviously they were wrong.
I agree that another season like last one COULD derail recruiting but that is just speculation.
I believe that CTA's message or philosophy resonates with young men today. I have no idea how much losing would affect the response to his message.
Obviously they were wrong.
I agree that another season like last one COULD derail recruiting but that is just speculation.
I believe that CTA's message or philosophy resonates with young men today. I have no idea how much losing would affect the response to his message.
I'm not sure anybody outside of the staff believed that they would keep all of the recruits. I'll own that I was very pleasantly surprised. To answer your question...losing matters to recruits...a ton.
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I agree that CTA's message resonates with recruits but I think many doors in recruiting would still close on us if they don't believe in the product we are putting on the field.
This year is very important to the program. Hopefully we can make this past year look like the fluke.
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