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Any update on our 2018 coaching staff...

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clawsout

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...Anyone have an update on any changes....personnel...or coaching assignments, etc.....for our 2018 football staff ?....Have we hired a new DC ?....or is someone being "re-assigned", etc ?...come on votb....skippy.....someone's gotta know something....( NOW we can do this "the easy way"....OR we can do this the "hard way"...... :o ).......
 
Madison Guernsey of the ISJ reported earlier today that offensive line coach Dorian Keller won't be retained...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/MGuernsey_ISJ/status/947281357415129088[/tweet]
 
I was told today ISU won’t be making any announcements on coaching staff until after the late signing date, which is in February.
 
who Has been doing the recruiting for the O line? They’ve been getting good guys. I am wondering what’s going on in their minds? I am not going to lie this feels like a strategy move not really a performance move, even though our sack numbers are way high
 
up for the challenge said:
Why are these coaches leaving the program? Is that good or bad?
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It's neither, it happens all the time in college football. Better offers and/or opportunities come along and they take them. Beside Trox leaving to OSU I don't think many other coaches "left" the program, they were shown the door now that Coach Phen has his footing with the program and he can start building it the way he wants. The Kramer era coaches that are still here are great coaches and I'm glad they're still here.
 
Tacoma5 said:
up for the challenge said:
Why are these coaches leaving the program? Is that good or bad?
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It's neither, it happens all the time in college football. Better offers and/or opportunities come along and they take them. Beside Trox leaving to OSU I don't think many other coaches "left" the program, they were shown the door now that Coach Phen has his footing with the program and he can start building it the way he wants. The Kramer era coaches that are still here are great coaches and I'm glad they're still here.
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well said Tacoma5. For a guy like Coach Trox, that is a great opportunity. It sounds like he is an analyst this season with the offensive staff and the newspaper article from ISJ I thought I recalled it stated he will make approx. the same money at OSU this year as he did at ISU. But the thing for Coach Trox is now he has his foot in the door and he his in the PAC 12 with a head coach that he has a previous relationship with and has coached along side before when they were both young assistants. So in a year or two or however long when one of those OSU coaches leaves to go to another school Trox could be in line to get a position coach job at a OSU which I would assume is a 200,000$ a year salary approx. (that is just a guess by mean on the salary at OSU), then if he can work his way up to an o-coordinator job within 10 years he is making between 500,000$ to a million bucks at a PAC 12 school that is an amazing opportunity for him and his family. Gotta leave and go take that job in my opinion if you have a chance to get your foot in the door like that.
 
I believe Ferriter is being brought in as a up grade as the offense slumped in the second half of the season last year. GO BENGALS
 
Tacoma5 said:
up for the challenge said:
Why are these coaches leaving the program? Is that good or bad?
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It's neither, it happens all the time in college football. Better offers and/or opportunities come along and they take them. Beside Trox leaving to OSU I don't think many other coaches "left" the program, they were shown the door now that Coach Phen has his footing with the program and he can start building it the way he wants. The Kramer era coaches that are still here are great coaches and I'm glad they're still here.
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Coach Kramer did not retain any of Coach Zamberlin assistant coaches when coach Zamberlin was fired and coach Kramer fired most of his coaches it seemed during his years at ISU before coach Kramer was fired. Coach Phen is firing a lot of coach Kramer coaches now. Like you said, they were shown the door. So now you have new coaches coming in and the beat goes on. Maybe, just maybe, if these head coaches and assistant coaches could win 50% of their games the changing of the guards would not happen so often.
 
FCS football is entry level coaching. Idaho State has had a ton of good assistants over the years — James Franklin, now head coach at Penn State; Derek Mason, now head coach at Vandy; Kyle Whittingham, head coach at Utah; Gary Anderson, formerly head coach at Utah State and Wisconsin. They all moved up at first opportunity. The best you can hope for is s couple of years from truly bright, successful young assistants.
 
Some of Kramer's assistants moved upward and onward. Don Bailey moved up to Hawaii, even if it was a bad move, and Todd Bates is currently at Clemson.

http://www.clemsontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=28500&ATCLID=211507276
 
Roman Sapolu will apparently be the new offensive line coach...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/MGuernsey_ISJ/status/958510943926870017[/tweet]

Roman Sapolu is in his second season as a graduate assistant at Nebraska in 2017, and his third season overall on the Husker staff. Sapolu works primarily with the offensive line, assisting Mike Cavanaugh who was Sapolu's position coach in college at Oregon State.

In 2015, Sapolu was a graduate manager on the offensive staff, primarily working with the offensive line. As a graduate assistant, Sapolo continued to assist Cavanaugh while expanding his duties to include on-field coaching and instruction.

Sapolu started his coaching career in 2014, after his senior season with the Beavers was cut short due to injury. A four-year letterwinner on the offensive line, Sapolu remained on the Beaver squad for the remainder of the season and assisted coach Cavanaugh.

Sapolu earned his degree in liberal studies from Oregon State in 2014. His father, Jesse, was a member of the San Francisco 49ers from 1983 to 1997, earning four Super Bowl rings with the team.
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Roman Sapolu Bio
 
Hope Sapolu is as good a coach as his dad was a player. Real curious about our new D.C. hope he's a big cog in a great defense just finishing his commitment before he can be introduced. GO BENGALS
 
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