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Jody Sears

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I wasn't a fan of Sears, specifically his inability to put together W's.

But, I will give the man credit as an awesome recruiter and program base builder.
Both programs who ultimately canned him are now national powers, meaning he recruited the team that whopped up on the BSC this year. Weber can point to him as a catalyst in where they are today also.

He ran a clean program and hats off to him!
 
Green Cookie Monster said:
I wasn't a fan of Sears, specifically his inability to put together W's.

But, I will give the man credit as an awesome recruiter and program base builder.
Both programs who ultimately canned him are now national powers, meaning he recruited the team that whopped up on the BSC this year. Weber can point to him as a catalyst in where they are today also.

He ran a clean program and hats off to him!
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He still comes to the home games and supports the players and meets with their families. Pretty honorable - but probably pretty easy to do when you make $225k for sitting at home lol...

Honestly though, I wish him the best. His teams just had terrible game planning, bad game management, and the strength and conditioning seemed to not be there and the injury bug ruled. If I’m Portland State, I hire him for three years to build a base, the fire him, and offer the job to the top Pac12 OC and see what happens!
 
Green Cookie Monster said:
Weber can point to him as a catalyst in where they are today also.
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I had to create an account just to say, on behalf of Wildcat fans, that this is categorically false. Sears left Weber bereft of talent.
 
Sperbeck built the base of this program, that's how Sears won 7 games in his first year and shed the interim HC label to get the full time gig. Sears does get credit for keeping things together and bringing in a lot of the talent we are seeing today (even though we were told on this board that sanctions crippled recruiting :roll: ).

But the way Sears lost the locker room last season and how he and his staff repetitively were out-coached and didn't have his teams prepared speaks volumes on the decision to fire him. Taylor only kept two coaches (Montgomery and Plemons who bailed for Fresneck) from Sears' staff. That says a lot about the way things were heading under Sears.

Bottom line is Sears brought in a lot of the talent and Taylor and his staff are doing a great job of having them prepared every week and getting the most out of the players.
 
I agree with SD. The foundation was laid by Sperbeck. Sears did a pretty good job recruiting the past few years, especially locally. But I think this current staff would be faring well regardless. They seem to know how to motivate the kids and put them in positions to be successful. Most of all, they know how to scheme and make in-game adjustments.

While this team certainly does have talent, I can’t wait to see what this program looks like once this current staff has a few of their own recruiting classes under their belt.
 
Haha! Sears ran Weber's program into the ground. Jay Hill gets ALL the credit for building the program into what it is today. Just look at Hill's first season with Sears' players. They were awful. They lost their first 9 and only won 2 games. Hill has said it himself, the players had no idea how to win when he arrived. The culture was toxic.
 
Sperbeck built the foundation by winning 35 games in 7 years?? Then he was fired and the program was put on probation. Foundation? The same staff that recruited the athletes the year before he was extricated managed to win more games in one season than he ever did the season after he left. And the genius who can’t wrap his mind around the NCAA limiting recruiting contact as a hindrance in obtaining the best recruiting class possible is absolutely clueless about the recruiting process. I don’t know what happened at Weber and I’m not saying Jody was a great head coach, but at least he ran a clean program.
 
I knew giving Sperbeck his due would trigger you.  :lol: 8-)

You enjoy your time in the north end zone Saturday night?
 
Next time you think you see me at a Hornet game you should grow some balls and introduce yourself...but we both know you'd can't and won't :rofl:
 
OldSchoolHornet said:
Next time you think you see me at a Hornet game you should grow some balls and introduce yourself...but we both know you'd can't and won't :rofl:
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OSH, I welcome you back as a regular poster here. Perhaps I will put all three of my balls on the line for our next matchup against Weber on Nov. 2 (perhaps #2 vs #5?!), and I will supply the beers to broker a peace accord.

We all love-hate this damn program and they’re freaking winning their asses off. Can we forgive all of our own keyboard warrior faults and get along?

In Marcel Marquez’s name we pray, Amen.
 
That's a lot of balls...I'd think about getting that checked.
I support all the SAC State players, ex-players and any coach who hasn't put us on probation.
I don't support people who have never played or coached at Sac State or in any other program at this level but choose to HIDE behind a keyboard and act like they actually had the ability to do either.
I can't remember ever having a problem with you so given the chance I'd absolutely have a beer with you.
Thank you.
 
BuckeyeHornetFan said:
While this team certainly does have talent, I can’t wait to see what this program looks like once this current staff has a few of their own recruiting classes under their belt.
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That's actually my biggest concern going forward, especially on the offensive side. Not a lot of FCS recruiting experience on the staff. Hopefully the style of play will make it an easy sell to prospective recruits.

Losing CJ Hutton to Davis is not a good sign, being a Folsom kid and all. Maybe Davis letting him also play baseball weighed in his decision?
 
OldSchoolHornet said:
Sperbeck built the foundation by winning 35 games in 7 years?? Then he was fired and the program was put on probation. Foundation?
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You can cite all the reasons against you want. But it doesn’t make it less true.

The program rebounded from the completely awful Mooshagian era to become a near .500 program. Only 2 Hornets head coaches won more games than Sperbeck.

As SD pointed out, Sperbeck left the program’s talent in a good place which is precisely why they won 7 games during Sears first season. While Sears and his staff weren’t great game day coaches, they also continued to recruit fairly well which has brought the program to where is today.

Taylor and company have seemingly taken it to a new level with their system, preparation, and game day coaching.

So, yes, it is fair to say that the foundation of the current era was laid by Sperbeck. The improvement in local recruiting started with him.

There was nowhere to go but up after Mooshagian.
 
Brady is arguably the only HC in the history of Sac State football who was worse than Mooshaigian. I can see why you think Sperbeck was better than Moose.
 
VintageHornet said:
BuckeyeHornetFan said:
While this team certainly does have talent, I can’t wait to see what this program looks like once this current staff has a few of their own recruiting classes under their belt.
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That's actually my biggest concern going forward, especially on the offensive side. Not a lot of FCS recruiting experience on the staff. Hopefully the style of play will make it an easy sell to prospective recruits.

Losing CJ Hutton to Davis is not a good sign, being a Folsom kid and all. Maybe Davis letting him also play baseball weighed in his decision?
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I’m not concerned about that at all. They just landed a commitment from the area’s all-time single season rushing leader.

Losing Hutton is no biggie to me. They can’t get every kid from Folsom. Parker Clayton is a bigger, better player anyway.
 
Yeah, I love that RB pickup - kid has a great motor. Anxious to see who else we sign.

And I didn't mean to imply that I don't have confidence in this staff to recruit. It's just that it's the only unknown left. Everything else is golden.
 
Getting tired of seeing post about who was the best so I wanted to post the records here:



Coach Tenure Record Pct. All time rank
Dave Strong 1954–1956 4–18-1 .196. 10
Johnny Baker 1957–1960 15–22 .405. 6
Ray Clemons 1961–1975 70–76–3 .480. 3
Glenn Brady 1976–1977 2–18–1 .119. 11
Bob Mattos 1978–1992 84–73–2 .535. 2
Mike Clemons 1993–1994 9–11 .450. 4
John Volek 1995–2002 31–57–1 .354. 8
Steve Mooshagian 2003–2006 11–33 .250. 9
Marshall Sperbeck 2007–2013 35–44 .443. 5
Jody Sears 2014–2018 20–35 .364. 7
Troy Taylor. 2019–Present. 5-2 .714. 1

Please restrain yourself from pointing out Taylor does not have a full season yet. Just wanted to give perspective to the discussion. Sperbeck violated NCAA rules, check this out from an article about NCAA violations.

More than a quarter of all Division I colleges, 43 percent of all universities that play in the high-profile Football Bowl Subdivision and more than half the members of the Power Five conferences committed major violations of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules in the last decade, an Inside Higher Ed analysis shows.
The NCAA's Division I Committee on Infractions issued findings of major violations in 114 cases during the 10-year period from January 2006 through December 2015, according to a review of the association's major infractions database.
Of the 351 colleges and universities in Division I, 96 were found guilty of such infractions. Sixteen institutions (see box at right) were censured more than once, and two -- the University of Oklahoma and West Virginia University -- were punished three times each.

Hope this helps. No I did not play college football and I expect someone to offer to perpwalk me into CoachTaylors office so he can explain football to me.

Also, I double checked, this is part of Big Sky Fan boards, appears to be only requirement.
 
HornetHope said:
Getting tired of seeing post about who was the best so I wanted to post the records here:
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I don’t believe the discussion ever ventured into who was ‘best’. It was only about giving Sperbeck credit for rebounding the program from the depths of the ocean and getting it pointed upward. Did he make mistakes? Absolutely. Was he the best HC in Hornets history? Of course not. But he left the program 6 years ago and left it in a much better place than he found it.

Local recruiting improved under his watch and has continued since. Sears immediately benefitted from what Sperbeck left behind and continued to recruit well locally himself.
 
Excellent due diligence on the numbers. I couldn't help but wonder how many of those 96 institutions who were found guilty of infractions received actual probation sanctions AND experienced the exit of both the football HC and the AD.
I will say that I am relieved the statistics show that we cheat less than Oklahoma...but I'm fairly sure every other program in the nation could say the same thing.
 
I can’t help but wonder how many of those institutions that were issued sanctions got there because of an “anonymous” letter?
 
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