Your new DC...
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This looks like a great hire. Track record of success in both on the field performance as well as recruiting.
Minnesota's DL had a lot more sacks than their linebackers and secondary. Hopefully he can create schemes that make our DL more disruptive than they've been in year's past.
Now we hold our breath for the DC hire...
Minnesota's DL had a lot more sacks than their linebackers and secondary. Hopefully he can create schemes that make our DL more disruptive than they've been in year's past.
Now we hold our breath for the DC hire...
Maybe it is the DC position? Or maybe Assistant Head Coach? Something additional besides DL.
He's supposedly, at minimum, a co-dc.
Looks like a great hire. Experience and success at this level!
I like the hire. Aside from on-field production, he's already plenty familiar with Indiana as he coached at Ball State for a couple of years and, per his bio on the MD site, had a primary recruiting area that included Indy and Chicago while coaching there.
A good hire to start filling the defensive staff. Coach Allen needs to really nail these hires as coach Bell is a wait and see for fans.
And it seems he may not be the DL coach, instead may be in charge of LB
Update: looks like he IS the DC
Wilt is “officially” DC
Wilt and Walt as the Coordinators this year…
Wilt and Walt as the Coordinators this year…
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I suspect he is the DC, otherwise no need or rationale to leave Minnesota, CTA will be "training" another guy as DC, hopefully that works better than with Warren who underwhelmed in both recruiting and coaching (could have been expected with track record at AFA). Now Allen will hire a linebackers coach as Wilt will be both DL and DC.
According to this article he Is now both our new DC and LB coach... :
247sports.com
Minnesota Football coach Chad Wilt will be the defensive coordinator at Indiana
Minnesota Football coach Chad Wilt will be heading to coach at Indiana
247sports.com
Seems like he has had success as a DL coach wherever he has went so he seems like a good coach. Now whether or not he will make a good DC/LB coach is the question. Hopefully it works out.
Minny Safety coach just left to be DC at Rutgers.According to this article he Is now both our new DC and LB coach... :
Minnesota Football coach Chad Wilt will be the defensive coordinator at Indiana
Minnesota Football coach Chad Wilt will be heading to coach at Indiana
He can hire his own DL coach then.
Seems really odd that he's also LB's coach when his expertise lies solely with the DL (based on his resume')...
- - Staff Directory - University of Minnesota Athletics
Seems really odd that he's also LB's coach when his expertise lies solely with the DL (based on his resume')...
- - Staff Directory - University of Minnesota Athletics
gophersports.com
I could be way off base, but this screams like CTA has someone that he wants at defensive line coach already in mind that he's trying to get.
Maybe DCs like being in charge of the LBs like OCs like being in charge of the QBs.
Might help him with new position group. Also Teagardin does the Huskies so less responsibility than the entire DL.Seems really odd that he's also LB's coach when his expertise lies solely with the DL (based on his resume')...
- - Staff Directory - University of Minnesota Athletics
Looks like a good coach but no experience as a coordinator is a bit concerning. Does he know coverages etc. No time to be learning on the job
My guess is that Allen will go back to calling defenses
We are likely choosing between
1) DC that has failed at the P5
2) DC that is succeeding at a lower level
3) A position coach at the P5
1) Has experience but to an extent has already proven to not be up to the task.
2) Has experience but competition level isn't completely comparable
3) No experience but only way to take a good coach away from another P5 school
I would go for #3 only if I really wanted a position coach from another P5 school (that could be the case here given his strong resume at DL). Otherwise, I would think #2 is the best course of action. I don't really like #1 since I'd rather roll the dice on someone than go with someone that has failed somewhere else.
1) DC that has failed at the P5
2) DC that is succeeding at a lower level
3) A position coach at the P5
1) Has experience but to an extent has already proven to not be up to the task.
2) Has experience but competition level isn't completely comparable
3) No experience but only way to take a good coach away from another P5 school
I would go for #3 only if I really wanted a position coach from another P5 school (that could be the case here given his strong resume at DL). Otherwise, I would think #2 is the best course of action. I don't really like #1 since I'd rather roll the dice on someone than go with someone that has failed somewhere else.
This is my take. From what I have read the guy is a strong recruiter and a good defensive line coach. Hiring him as a linebackers coach and a DC when he's never been one is a bit strange. Suggests two things. We are about to hire a defensive line coach that Allen loves, and I am guessing he will be brought in at a higher salary and maybe be a C0-DC. The Burton guy we hired and lost last year to Michigan State would fit this profile. The second thing is tells me is Allen just loved this guy during the interview process and valued him so much as a coach that he felt he'd succeed as a DC and in a position he had not coached. That's a strong statement, and a little scary I might add. As suggested I am guessing Allen is calling plays next year, and Allen just wants strong recruiters and good position coaches and hiring great position coaches, giving them promotional titles and growing them was the best way to get the position coaches and recruiters he wanted.
The only thing that makes any sense to me (if he truly is coming in at both DC and Linebackers coach...[not DL coach]...)..., is that Tom Allen intends to be his stand right behind him type of mentor and hopes to mold him in his own image... Appeared to have worked with Wommack..., let's hope lightening will strike twice...
Nope. He just picked up a football for the first time yesterday. total noob.
He has coached on the D side of the the ball , and when you do you are learning to coach defense . Most position coaches are there to learn so they can move up to be a coordinator and then a head coach . Coach Allen likes him , so I’m fine with the hire .
I would be more worried if he had a history of failing. I'm more optimistic about this hire than the last one.
I was just kidding around. Never being a DC is the only bad part about the hire.
Wilt's dad was coach at Taylor. I'd bet, at some point, Allen probably knew him.
Wouldn't surprise me if it was a Wommack situation, where Allen mentors his friend's son.
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I love this hire. Just love it!!
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If it works out the way the Wommack situation did then we're in great shape...!😀
Glad you are here to point out the obvious. Keep up the great work.
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