Ash's greatest strength
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Ash's greatest strength
Ash had a lot of positives, but I think his greatest strength was how wide his coaching connections and how he was able to recruit and retain an amazing staff of assistant coaches. I really like the idea of Mac as the HC, but one thing I question with him is whether is coaching network is large enough to put together a quality staff beyond dudes that coached or played at MSU.
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Re: Ash's greatest strength
Where did we get the Texas recruiting funnel from? Seems like we should keep that faucet running. Anybody have the answer to that?
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Re: Ash's greatest strength
Didn't that sort of begin with former assistant (and ex-Griz player) Justin Gaines, who was from Texas?Counter Assault wrote:Where did we get the Texas recruiting funnel from? Seems like we should keep that faucet running. Anybody have the answer to that?
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Yeah, I think Justin Gaines got his foot in the door and then Ash made it a priority to continue to send coaches down there to recruit.John K wrote:Didn't that sort of begin with former assistant (and ex-Griz player) Justin Gaines, who was from Texas?Counter Assault wrote:Where did we get the Texas recruiting funnel from? Seems like we should keep that faucet running. Anybody have the answer to that?
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Gaines started it and DePrato and Bo Beck have hit Texas hard the last few years.Counter Assault wrote:Where did we get the Texas recruiting funnel from? Seems like we should keep that faucet running. Anybody have the answer to that?
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Re: Ash's greatest strength
I think his connections are overstated tbh.
If we had this amazing staff, we wouldn't have 5 wins this year. An amazing staff either brings in a lot of talent, coaches up non-talented players, or both. So clearly something is missing, and it doesn't all lay on Ash and Marshall.
If we had this amazing staff, we wouldn't have 5 wins this year. An amazing staff either brings in a lot of talent, coaches up non-talented players, or both. So clearly something is missing, and it doesn't all lay on Ash and Marshall.
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Re: Ash's greatest strength
I agree 100% with this. For some reason members of Ash's staff get a free pass on here, even though they may be the positional coach for groups that have struggled. There are several that I am just not as sold on as the majority on here are.bobcat99 wrote:I think his connections are overstated tbh.
If we had this amazing staff, we wouldn't have 5 wins this year. An amazing staff either brings in a lot of talent, coaches up non-talented players, or both. So clearly something is missing, and it doesn't all lay on Ash and Marshall.
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Re: Ash's greatest strength
Ash's greatest strength is in recruiting QB's, If he had put as much emphasis on recruiting Defensive players we wouldn't be in the situation we are now.
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Re: Ash's greatest strength
This point is inarguable. He is a QB recruiting genius.cats2506 wrote:Ash's greatest strength is in recruiting QB's
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Re: Ash's greatest strength
Not sure why we care about recruiting in Texas? We should be more like UM (Montana's team) and recruit only in-state kids. The Griz don't have a single player on their team from outside this state so why should we?
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Re: Ash's greatest strength
I was actually wondering how many Montana kids were on the rosters of each of the teams on Saturday so I counted them in the Chronicle Rag insert. I tossed it away, but I think the Griz had 34 Montana kids and the Cats had 44 Montana kids on the rosters. Perhaps I miscounted but that is what I recall.GoCats18 wrote:Not sure why we care about recruiting in Texas? We should be more like UM (Montana's team) and recruit only in-state kids. The Griz don't have a single player on their team from outside this state so why should we?
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Re: Ash's greatest strength
probably about rightBobcatDel wrote:I was actually wondering how many Montana kids were on the rosters of each of the teams on Saturday so I counted them in the Chronicle Rag insert. I tossed it away, but I think the Griz had 34 Montana kids and the Cats had 44 Montana kids on the rosters. Perhaps I miscounted but that is what I recall.GoCats18 wrote:Not sure why we care about recruiting in Texas? We should be more like UM (Montana's team) and recruit only in-state kids. The Griz don't have a single player on their team from outside this state so why should we?
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Re: Ash's greatest strength
It was 46 Cats, 29 griz, according to an article Colter wrote last week.BobcatDel wrote:I was actually wondering how many Montana kids were on the rosters of each of the teams on Saturday so I counted them in the Chronicle Rag insert. I tossed it away, but I think the Griz had 34 Montana kids and the Cats had 44 Montana kids on the rosters. Perhaps I miscounted but that is what I recall.GoCats18 wrote:Not sure why we care about recruiting in Texas? We should be more like UM (Montana's team) and recruit only in-state kids. The Griz don't have a single player on their team from outside this state so why should we? [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38]