Looking at the resume of our assistants

[TakingALook]

When Lembo came, he brought most of his staff from Lehigh.

When Paul Hamilton came, he brought most of his staff from ETSU (Jamey Chadwell not included).

When Skrosky and Swepson came, they filled in a brand new staff.  Swepson got an OC and DC from other I-AA schools, maybe not the best but they had experience.

Looking at the resume of our assistants (not saying they are bad)

-Damian Wroblewski (Off Coordinator) - Was previously offensive line coach at Rutgers before Elon.  Before that offensive line at Delaware
-Patrick Madden
(Def Coordinator) - Previously the linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at Tufts (D-III).  Before that was def. coordinator at a prep school.
-Scott Browne (RB and Special Teams Coordinator) - Survived from Lembo to Swepson to Skorsky.
 Before that Charleston Southern.  And before that a graduate assistant at South Carolina.
-Gerald Chatman (Def Line) - Previously graduate assistant for defense at Butler (non-scholarship) and Texas A&M.
-Terry Lantz (Def Backs) - Did safeties at Ball State, before that 10 years at Wofford with the secondary.
-Bill McCord (Def assistant) - Came from Bowdoin College (D-III) for defensive backs, before that LB and CB coach at Princeton.
-Cris Reisert
(Tight Ends and Recruiting) - Was wide receivers coach at Ball State.  Before that the same at Ohio Dominican -University (NAIA)
-Billy Riebock
(Wide Receivers) - Was OC and WR coach at Quincy University (D-II) before then moving to graduate assistant at Ball State
-Scott Van Zile
(QB) - Previous 14 years at various roles at Monmouth
-Ryan Horton
(Strength) - Previously at a private org.  Before that at FIU from their startup basically.

So looking at that:
Coordinators - Very little coordinating experience and one coach that has lasted through 3 staffs!?!?
Most of our assistants before us came from either graduate assistant gigs (very little experience) or D-III (no scholarships)
The coaches from Butler and Monmouth also dealt with no scholarships when they were there.

The big exceptions are Browne who basically has all his experience with Elon.  And Lantz who was at Wofford for a good long time.

Do any of these resumes surprise anyone else?  Especially that about our coordinators?  I would have thought the coordinators at the top conferences of FCS would be.... experienced.

[RC]

All one has to do is look at what they produced. We need entire new staff. Let's get Pence back. He has done well at new haven and had much better stats at Elon than RS

[fc97]

So Pincincie. Great stats at New Haven. Ok stars at Elon as OC. Mediocre at URI.

So..... what's the difference?

[fc4life]

Surely you are joking. Pincince should not be a candidate.

[Cougars]

I would say you get a couple different kinds of resumes at this level. You get the young GA, coached D2 or D3 and really looking to start his career.

Or

You get the long time coach who maybe fell off the wagon lost a job and is looking to kick start his career or a job to keep coaching a sport they love look at JMU coordinators. Both have like 30 and 40 years of coaching experience they have been at big schools, maybe even head coaches. We did this with Petercuskie.

I mean your always going to question a coach on his hires if they are first time coordinators. I understand that. We all know wrobo wasn't a coordinator he needed the money is all. I'm starting to think though he isn't as famous as an offensive line coach as everyone made him out to be. If he was that good don't you think someone would have offered him a better job.

I think Skrosky did some good things bringing in a Wrobo and Van Zile for a little age and experience as well as a Lantz and Petercuskie. I think he hoped they could teach the younger staff. Did it work out well obviously not. But when hiring a staff if you want coaches with experience you got to be willing to pay them. If Elon doesn't have the money we aren't going to be able to get top notch assistants.