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Jan 21, 2014 10:58:19 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 10:58:19 GMT -5
FC, you and I see eye to eye more often than not, but on this one I don't share your opinion. I guess a lot of my favoring Coach Skrosky is because I know him and like him. If we were a upper level SEC team I might question the choice, but we're not. I like Skrosky's history. Especially the small private highly selective nature of the schools from which he got it. He has been a head coach albeit transitional, but he has served with some top notch HC's.
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Jan 22, 2014 11:12:42 GMT -5
Post by whoanellie on Jan 22, 2014 11:12:42 GMT -5
The Main Thing in Building a Staff is getting a great relationship and not trying to figure out what to do. These guys are all working off the same philosphy: per Adam T/N article
New Elon coach brings on coordinator with deep bonds By Adam Smith / Times-News
Published: Monday, January 20, 2014 at 23:29 PM. ELON — Damian Wroblewski is on board as offensive coordinator for the Elon football team, another staff hiring that connects new coach Rich Skrosky with ties to his background in the business.
Wroblewski also will coach Elon’s offensive line. He arrives after two seasons as Rutgers’ offensive line coach, which proceeded five seasons as offensive line coach at Delaware, the perennial Football Championship Subdivision power that will be a Colonial Athletic Association opponent of Elon’s starting next season.
For two days in early 2012, Wroblewski had joined Ball State, where he would have worked under Pete Lembo, the former Elon coach, and Skrosky, then Ball State’s offensive coordinator.
Then the call came from Rutgers and he left for the Scarlett Knights.
“He’s really, really bright. He’s beyond bright,” Skrosky said Monday. “He’s so intelligent, from the first time I met him.”
That was in 1999 at an American Football Coaches Association convention, months after Wroblewski had wrapped up his playing career at Lafayette, where he was a two-time All-Patriot League offensive lineman as a center and the team’s Most Valuable Player his senior season.
John Strollo, the former Duke, Elon and Ball State offensive line coach, long regarded by Lembo as a brilliant offensive strategist, was Wroblewski’s position coach at Lafayette. Strollo introduced Skrosky to Wroblewski at that AFCA convention 15 years ago.
Wroblewski was the offensive coordinator, offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Bryant from 1999-2001. He moved on to coach the offensive lines at Pennsylvania (2002-03), Hofstra (2004-05) and Stony Brook (2006).
At Hofstra, he worked under Warren Ruggiero, the former Elon and new Wake Forest offensive coordinator, who ex-Elon players often called a mastermind.
Skrosky said Wroblewski has coached in similar systems that fit the no huddle, up-tempo offensive philosophy that will be employed at Elon.
Wroblewski’s experiences from Delaware (2007-11) should prove particularly valuable for the Phoenix. Delaware went to two FCS national championship games during his time there. For four years, he served as Delaware’s assistant head coach, run game coordinator and recruiting coordinator.
So he has recruited — rather successfully — in the CAA footprint, the league where Elon is headed. And Skrosky said he feels quite comfortable bouncing any range of ideas off Wroblewski, from equipment questions to summer camp scheduling.
“Every check mark I could think of, he has it,” Skrosky said, “and I’ve known him since he literally got into coaching.”
One more hiring, a defensive assistant, remains to complete Elon’s new coaching staff. Skrosky said he anticipates announcing that last one within a week.
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Jan 22, 2014 11:43:26 GMT -5
Post by whoanellie on Jan 22, 2014 11:43:26 GMT -5
coaching is a very insestual per Scoop Navy: Former Elon defensive backs coach Dan O'Brien will join the Navy staff as outside linebackers coach.
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Jan 22, 2014 11:55:52 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2014 11:55:52 GMT -5
coaching is a very insestual per Scoop Navy: Former Elon defensive backs coach Dan O'Brien will join the Navy staff as outside linebackers coach. WOW! That is a huge surprise! I thought DB's were easily the worst corps we had over the last two seasons, and not because of the personnel. Good luck to Monken & Bateman on that one.
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Jan 22, 2014 12:19:31 GMT -5
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Post by fc4life on Jan 22, 2014 12:19:31 GMT -5
Agreed on the DB's we were brutal.
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Jan 22, 2014 14:11:26 GMT -5
Post by keepitreal on Jan 22, 2014 14:11:26 GMT -5
My feeling on our OC and DC - Coach Robo has two pretty experienced OC mentors in our HC and our new QB coach (about 6 years or so OC at monmouth) so I am not concerned about the OC. Our DC has plenty of football experience and I am hoping that he tailors a defense based on our current players and not try to install a system that we may need years to get the right players to do it well. I look at Sam Houston St under their former coach (now at GSU) - he and his staff initially tried to install O and D systems without the right players. After about a season of problems they changed and built O and D schemes to match their players abilities and they got very good very quick.
In the last three years I think our D scheme did not match the players abilities, hence one reason (of many) for the really bad numbers.
And just a little FYI .... Monken and Bateman at Army, O'Brien rumored to be going to Navy as assistant outside linebacker coach :-)
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Jan 23, 2014 8:23:12 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 8:23:12 GMT -5
And just a little FYI .... Monken and Bateman at Army, O'Brien rumored to be going to Navy as assistant outside linebacker coach :-) Yep, my bad on that. Same wishes to the folks at Navy then.
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Jan 23, 2014 21:11:50 GMT -5
Post by keepitreal on Jan 23, 2014 21:11:50 GMT -5
Last piece of the staff puzzle? ... source is www.elon.edu athletic department staff directory .... Patrick Madden - google searches of his backgound suggest he would be involved with the special teams and as a defensive assistant. Coached at Weslyan 1999-2000, Columbia (defensive assistant and special teams coordinator) 2000-2005, Boston college (defensive graduate assistant) 2007-2009, UNH (strong safeties and outside linebackers) 2010, Omaha Nighthawks of UFL (DB and quality control) 2010, Lawrence Academy (Defensive coordinator) 2011, and lastly at Tufts (special teams coordinator and D-line assistant) 2012-2013.
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Jan 30, 2014 11:23:44 GMT -5
Post by keepitreal on Jan 30, 2014 11:23:44 GMT -5
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Feb 5, 2014 23:11:06 GMT -5
Post by whoanellie on Feb 5, 2014 23:11:06 GMT -5
nice to talk w/ the new coaching staff today at signing luncheon from Coach Skrosky's intro a lot of the position coaches are all familiar w/ each other one way or another.
Be patient, but these guys will compete and will win. Conditioning/ strength and player development will make the difference.
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