Lamar Football Coaching Search

[Skinny1]

He was the OL coach at Texas State the final 2 seasons when Schultz was there so that would appear to be the guy

Saw where he was Director of Football Operations at Baylor last year.

[KABrother88]

Saw where he was Director of Football Operations at Baylor last year.

 

Yes he wasn't retained by the new HC at Texas St and landed at Baylor. Has also worked at Arkansas St, New Mexico St, UC Davis and Northern Colorado.

[KABrother88]

Hearing there could be an announcement today to reveal the new staff. We will see if anything becomes of it.

[KABrother88]

Another name to potentially watch is Kevin Brown. He was a WR at TCU while Schultz was there and was a GA after his playing days finished. He later coaches at Texas St for a short period while Schultz was OC then moved on to UTSA for 5 seasons with the final 4 as being the OC. Was fired after the 2015 season and is now the HC at San Antonio Christian HS. Not a whole lot of indication if this is indeed a hire but someone to potentially look out for.

[puddin tane]

FootballScoop is reporting that Smith will be the DC

 

this dudes defense SUCKED at UL.

[KABrother88]

Hearing there could be an announcement today to reveal the new staff. We will see if anything becomes of it.

 

And that would be a no

[geezer]

I see on the recruiting thread that Shultz is making home visits with prospects, do you know if any of the old assistants are still with him or is he following up on recruits that were already on the target list? Man is Shultz under a ton of work if he is the only one evaluating player prospects and coaches both at this point with what two weeks til signing day.

[Skinny1]

And that would be a no

 

This is not good, we need most coaches in place by Monday. Isn't there some kinda NCAA rule about offering scholarships only by the school's staff (employee)? Thought there was some potential issues about Bobby Knight talking to recruits when Pat was head basketball coach.

[KABrother88]

I see on the recruiting thread that Shultz is making home visits with prospects, do you know if any of the old assistants are still with him or is he following up on recruits that were already on the target list? Man is Shultz under a ton of work if he is the only one evaluating player prospects and coaches both at this point with what two weeks til signing day.

 

I was told that no assistants were retained. I don't exactly know how recruiting operates after a coaching change as far as how the new coach knows who was recruited by the previous staff. The official offers to players are documented but as far as players that may be on the fringe without an offer yet they may just quit hearing from the school. The next 2 weeks a critical for the 2017 class. I don't really see us filling the class with this short amount of time so I'd expect to see some late qualifiers, late JUCO adds and some FBS transfers this summer.

[KABrother88]

This is not good, we need most coaches in place by Monday. Isn't there some kinda NCAA rule about offering scholarships only by the school's staff (employee)? Thought there was some potential issues about Bobby Knight talking to recruits when Pat was head basketball coach.

 

Yes prospective student-athletes are to be recruited by the coaching staff only and that's what the issue was with Bobby Knight...talked to a couple of guys from Indiana and told them they would be great a Lamar yada yada yada...so since he was not on staff it was technically a recruiting violation.

[KABrother88]

Based off of his twitter account, Eric Buchanan will be the new RBs coach. He spent last year at Iowa Western CC as the DB coach and ST Coordinator. Played DB at TCU from 2002-2006. Not seeing where he was between graduating and working at IWCC. Could have been at the HS level and that's not really documented

[spoonbill]

I'm assuming the coaches will be announced Monday sometime or Tuesday due to MLK day. I'm guessing coach wanted to introduce the new coaches to the returners before they make a formal announcement. There's a meeting Monday morning.

[PeckEm]

this dudes defense SUCKED at UL.

 

That seems to be our strategy...find a defensive coach from the FBS team with the worst defense and hire him.

[spoonbill]

FootballScoop is reporting that Arkansas St TE coach Dan Dodd will be the new OC under Mike Schultz

 

1980-82 - San Clemente (CA) HS (QB/WR)

1983 - Santa Ana Mater Dei (CA) HS (RB/LB)

1984 - Long Beach St Anthony (CA) HS (HC)

1985-88 - Butler County CC (HC)

1989-90 - Utah St (RB)

1991-95 - Western Illinois (OC/QB)

1996-97 - New Mexico (QB/Pass Coord)

1998-99 - TCU (OC/QB)

2000-06 - New Mexico (ST/WR/Recruit Coord)

2007-10 - Tulane (OC/QB)

2011-13 - Capistrano Valley (CA) HS (HC/AD)

2014-16 - Arkansas St (TE/Recruit Coord)

 

Per his twitter he is definitely the OC and his son Bobby is tight ends coach. Hoping the whole staff will be announced formally today. First official workouts were this morning.

[dBerrySports]

Per FootballScoop:

 

Lamar (FCS – TX): Faulkner University (NAIA – AL) defensive coordinator Cam Clark has accepted a position on the Lamar staff, per source.

[spoonbill]

Per FootballScoop:

 

Lamar (FCS – TX): Faulkner University (NAIA – AL) defensive coordinator Cam Clark has accepted a position on the Lamar staff, per source.

 

His twitter page says Outside Linebackers/ Safeties Coach Lamar University.

[KABrother88]

Ok so here is what we know for sure

 

HC - Mike Schultz

OC/QB - Dan Dodd

RB - Eric Buchanan

TE - Bobby Dodd

OL - Brad Bedell

 

DC - Melvin Smith

DL - Todd Ivicic

OLB/S - Cam Clark

 

That leaves WR, ILB and CB

 

FCS limits coaching staffs to 11 employees coaches of any type (counting the HC. Last season we had 10 by my count but it appears to me that Kevin Brown and Troy Douglas are part of the staff putting it back at 10. My guess at the moment is Brown would be WR and Douglas be CB with Smith taking ILB. I don't know if we hired one of the others to be a Director of Football Ops or something similar to that capacity. Also aren't sure who will be recruiting and special teams coordinators. My guess would be Ivicic would be ST since he has a long history of it but several of the new coaches has filled that capacity at some time.

[geezer]

Per the last post on the recruiting thread and the NCAA rules Dodd has to be official on staff in some position. Also makes sense that a kid he was already recruiting would follow him.

[spoonbill]

Ok so here is what we know for sure

 

HC - Mike Schultz

OC/QB - Dan Dodd

RB - Eric Buchanan

TE - Bobby Dodd

OL - Brad Bedell

 

DC - Melvin Smith

DL - Todd Ivicic

OLB/S - Cam Clark

 

That leaves WR, ILB and CB

 

FCS limits coaching staffs to 11 employees coaches of any type (counting the HC. Last season we had 10 by my count but it appears to me that Kevin Brown and Troy Douglas are part of the staff putting it back at 10. My guess at the moment is Brown would be WR and Douglas be CB with Smith taking ILB. I don't know if we hired one of the others to be a Director of Football Ops or something similar to that capacity. Also aren't sure who will be recruiting and special teams coordinators. My guess would be Ivicic would be ST since he has a long history of it but several of the new coaches has filled that capacity at some time.

Dan Dodd was recruiting coordinator at Arky St.

[KABrother88]

Dan Dodd was recruiting coordinator at Arky St.

 

Several of the coaches have held that title at some point of his career. I can't recall seeing a coach be an OC and position coach to go along with the RC title. We will see when the staff is officially announced.

 

Also in an article posted by the Beaumont Enterprise about recent DL commit Teron Brown, it labeled Kevin Brown as the WR coach so that fills that spot as I expected.

[Dracula]

Strength and Conditioning coach?

[KABrother88]

Remember West Georgia HC Will Hall who had been linked as a candidate? Just took the OC job at UL-L.

[KABrother88]

[tweet]822472169749934080[/tweet]

 

Coaching staff announced via twitter

 

OC/QB - Dan Dodd

RB - Eric Buchanan

OL - Brad Bedell

WR - Kevin Brown

 

Co-DC - Melvin Smith

Co-DC/DB - Troy Douglas

DL - Todd Ivicic

OLB/S - Cam Clark

 

Note that Bobby Dodd wasn't announced as well as no one is given the ILB position group.

 

Edit: Original tweet was deleted but here is the article from the website.

 

http://lamarcardinals.com/news/2017/1/20/football-schultz-names-assistant-coaches.aspx

Edited January 20, 2017 by KABrother88

[spoonbill]

Hearing that Bedell is off to Boise State, probably for a good bit more money. It happens when you have good assistants but I hoped we wouldn't lose any this quickly, before we even got to spring practice. I don't imagine there were many HCs sniffing around the assistants on the staff last year lol.

[KABrother88]

Hearing that Bedell is off to Boise State, probably for a good bit more money. It happens when you have good assistants but I hoped we wouldn't lose any this quickly, before we even got to spring practice. I don't imagine there were many HCs sniffing around the assistants on the staff last year lol.

 

He's has already changed his Twitter bio and picture to indicate as such. Almost a year to the day (March 14 cause I was curious to know and had to look it up) that Lamar lost a brand new assistant. Last year was DL coach John Blake who left for the NFL's Buffalo Bills in the same capacity. At least Bedell was here long enough to help bring in a recruiting class. From what I had heard he was is a really good coach and recruiter so now Lamar will have some searching to do to fill that role. Last year's OL Coach for Boise State Scott Huff made $285,000 but also had the CO-OC title. He left for the University of Washington last week. The lowest paid member of Boise State's staff last year made $135,000 so I would assume Bedell is getting a pretty heafty raise.

 

Speaking of now former OL coaches...I hadn't seen it mentioned here but Chuck Langston is now the OL coach at North Texas.