Senior Keegan Crafton tracked down Hodges outside of the weight room Friday, asking about the decision to retire and his hips. (When Leach recruits high-school players, he is forced to compromise on most talents, but he insists on speed.) Pulp (1972) var tag_id = document.getElementById('buylinkUMassMacPherson-hg-080917,ph05'); It says that theres an analytic side to calling a game as an offensive coordinator, and he knows what his numbers are and what his percentages are and he trusts his play, Olson said. To be a professional coach, watch old games and network with NFL personnel as much as you can. "We had always had West Texas guys. A.&M. Teryl Austin is in his first season as the Steelers' defensive coordinator. Jaynie Kergosien . You run into some difficulties sometimes if you bring in somebody thats outside of Hermiston, you wonder how loyal they are to Hermiston, Hodges said. if (photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring) > -1 || photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring2) > -1 || photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring3) > -1 || photocredit.indexOf(sellablestring4) > -1) { Mike Hodges (born November 14, 1945) is a former American football player and coach. For homework, we'll work pirate maneuvers and stuff like that.". As he allowed himself to be escorted toward the locker room, there were many things Mike Leach might have been thinking about. The 2023 NFL Scouting Combine continued on Friday, with the defensive backs participating in on-field drills. The plays change too often, in response to the defense and the talents of the players on hand, to bother recording them. On fall evenings, his voice echos around the Kennison Stadium complex, bouncing off the aluminum and off the facing of the school building east of the field. They say you cant teach an old dog new tricks, but he and his staff found ways to learn new tricks for the benefit of the program.. Like all of his siblings, he was a three-sport athlete at Central. Mike Adamle Michael David Adamle Position: RB 5-9 , 197lb (175cm, 89kg) Born: October 4 in Kent, OH (Age: 73-138d) More bio, uniform, draft, salary info 1 1 20 SUMMARY Career G 76 AV 12 Rush 308 Yds 1149 Y/A 3.7 TD 4 FantPt 178.0 Mike Adamle Overview Game Logs Career Postseason 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 Player Game Finder Splits Career 1971 Leading the Rapids will mark his first head coaching job. Mark has an incredible understanding of the spread offense and probably one of the best offensive minds Ive ever been around, Kay said. Its quarterback, Josh Heupel, passed for 3,850 yards that season, which was 1,700 more than any quarterback in Oklahoma football history had thrown for in a season. This is the name that will be displayed next to your photo for comments, blog posts, and more. Side by side at their lockers the players sat, silently, almost penitently, stomachs churning, waiting for their coach to show up and to make the place a lot less ordinary. THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Rams head coach Sean McVay has said that quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and John Wolford won't play in the preseason. each comment to let us know of abusive posts. Seventy players pushed into the middle of the room and bent down on one knee. Art Candi Jones . Hodges stuck with 6 Y Shallow. Football & Physical Education Nicosia Hooker . But on this night Wylie was a fly on Leach's shoulder, and his eyeballs were still in their sockets. The GACA chose to recognize Hodges not only for his outstanding record, but because his service and dedication proved to make the difference in the lives of thousands of student-athletes across the state of Georgia. Coach Hodges was far and above the best football guy and best guy for the kids, Thompson said Thursday. He can put 330-pound defensive linemen on the fast track to obsolescence and turn a pass-catching tailback into the holder of N.C.A.A. They are leaving empty spaces unprobed. But when Leach removes his starting quarterback, he does not mean for his offense to stop scoring touchdowns. Also, many of his recruits were prominent members of the 1998 UMass team that won the Division 1AA National Championship.[1]. in business. Wylie is Texas Tech's strength and conditioning coach. No one stayed long enough to build a program here. Hodges threw to four different receivers, at eight different spots on the field. He is energetic. We went for it on fourth and 5 on our own 23 -- in the first quarter. There was no skating lane; truth to tell, there wasn't a lot of in-line skating going on in Lubbock. The first play Leach called against Texas A.&M. scouts, were missing big talent -- or (much more likely, in Schwartz's view) Leach was finding new and better ways to extract value from his players. Still, football's mixed feelings toward passing are ingrained. Coaching career[edit] Hodges reportedly ran draft prospect interviews at the Senior Bowl, and should do so again at the combine. //LBtag_id.innerHTML = ''; 8th Grade English, Creative Writing Zelda Thuha . . "You get after him -- get after him like he stole something from you." var photocredit = "'COURTESY UMass ATHLETICS' 'Former UMass football coach Dick MacPherson has died. Correction: December 18, 2005, Sunday An article on Dec. 4 about Texas Tech Coach Mike Leach misidentified the hand signal used by fans of the University of Texas Longhorns in a sign to suggest their bovinity. He never had a losing season as a head coach. Players were surprised initially, but the signs were there. Whoever played quarterback for the Texas Tech Red Raiders was sure to create so much offense that he couldn't be ignored. But in Schwartz's view, college coaches tended to fail in the N.F.L. His teams won three state titles, six region championships and he led his teams to the semifinals seven times. Schwartz didn't know if Leach's system would work in the N.F.L., where they had bigger staffs, better players and a lot more time to prepare for whatever confusion the offense cooked up. The past three years, with all-state quarterback and 2014 5A Offensive Player of the Year Chase Knutz, the Bulldogs threw and threw often. His role in the 1998 national championship season is often overlooked because of the personality of Mark Whipple. He was a great man. 2. var sellablestring = "GAZETTE STAFF"; : https://bit.ly/3MZLjZ8#GoDutch#rollriversFB 1 9 84 Ben HodgesRetweeted Dr. Bob Jackson @PresMurrayState Jun 23 In Leach's first three seasons, he played a quarterback, Kliff Kingsbury, who wound up passing for more yards than all but three quarterbacks in the history of major college football. It's as if his opponent's defense has some deep dark secret that takes time for his offense to extract. //var LBtag_id = document.getElementById('buylinkLBUMassFootball-hg-080917,ph03'); var sellablestring2 = "STAFF PHOTO"; ", Each off-season, Leach picks something he is curious about and learns as much as he can about it: Geronimo, Daniel Boone, whales, chimpanzees, grizzly bears, Jackson Pollock. history to have three receivers gain more than 1,000 yards in a single season.) Kay knew Hodges and the type of football coach he was. All are fast. var currentheadline = document.getElementById("headline").innerText; Olson arrived in town a year before Hodges and first met the Nevada transplant in the spring of 2008 when Hodges was hired. Devlin Hodges is known as an American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. The NFL and the players union announced these bonuses for all qualifying players across the league on Three of the four teams competing for conference titles this weekend have former New Orleans Saints on their depth charts -- all except for the Green Bay Packers. 2023 New Orleans Saints. He knew he had a special group.. talking about pirates. HIT HIM! Coordinator of Office Services. The thought struck him when he was driving and spotted, in the distance, a sloppily dressed middle-aged man in-line skating down the center of the road. But if you let him react to what he sees, there's a ton of touchdowns to be had." andrea.roberts@tcu.edu. The entire Texas Tech possession lasted just 2 minutes 42 seconds. defense. For 40 plays Leach's offense had groped -- digressing, probing to learn something new -- and it had been useful to see how the empty spaces on the field shifted. var sellablestring = "GAZETTE STAFF"; racist or sexually-oriented language. Hodges served as an assistant coach and a defensive coordinator at UMass for 14 years, under three different head coaches. . Hall played two years under Whipple in 2002 and 2003 and helped the Minutemen win the Atlantic 10 championship in 2003. The referees did not notice: they were too busy throwing yellow flags at the extra Texas Tech players who had tried to get into the game. Hodges joined the UVA football team as a walk-on following a stint as the teams manager. Threats of harming another He steals some glory from the guy who is born with advantages and uses them to become a champion. UConn coach Randy Edsall, who was an assistant at Syracuse under MacPherson, tweeted: So sad to hear of the passing of @CuseFootball Coach Dick MacPherson today. I approached Coach London and told him that was my goal and he did a lot to help mentor me as well as the other coaches on the staff.. If he doesn't get me out of it, I might holler at him. running back as he broke into the open field. "Mike was different," says Patty Ross, who has long served as an assistant to Texas Tech head football coaches and who didn't know what to make of this new one. For the New Orleans Saints linebackers coach, see, "Former UMass football coach Mike Hodges calls it a career after 33 years", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike_Hodges_(American_football)&oldid=1082126640, New England Division I Coach of the Year (1992), This page was last edited on 11 April 2022, at 13:35. that is degrading to another person. Mike Hodges Mike Hodges. Ben Hodges enters his third season as offensive coordinator at Murray State in 2022. . He regards receivers as raffle tickets: the more of them you have, the more likely one will hit big. After resigning as head coach, Hodges served as the Director of Football Operations for UMass until his retirement in 2011. var sellablestring4 = "GAZETTE FILE PHOTO"; So one goal is to throw as many different things at a defense as he can, to see what it finds most disturbing. "I don't even think there's such a thing as the perfect play. Be Proactive. Leach hired him three years ago from the Dallas Cowboys to prepare football players to run more than they had ever run on a football field. We'd love to hear eyewitness 's response to Tech's formations. record for forcing fumbles in a season -- this was the hit. Click the bell icon in the nav bar, at any time to change your settings. Mike Hodges Director of Football Operations. tag_id.innerHTML = ''; To me, he was like a dad, he said. He wondered, specifically, how far a giant grasshopper could hop, were he to put his foot to its rear. [1] As a senior, he was awarded the Aggie Heart Award, the highest honor given to a senior.