Rutgers Football CBs Coach Mark Orphey Set To Join Texas Coaching Staff
Rutgers Football has lost an assistant as Cornerbacks coach Mark Orphey is headed down south to join Texas staff.
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Football Rutgers Football CBs coach Mark Orphey to Texas
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He is from Texas so he gets to go home and probably make more money in a state that’s cheaper to live in. No brainer and it’s Texas a Blue blood and a half.
Come on. That’s not fair. When he had talent in 2012, Robb Smith did an incredible job, and brought the team within an illegal man downfield penalty of playing in the Orange Bowl. The defense carried that team while the offense struggled. This year, he’ll have talent, unlike his previous stint. And what I like about his defense is that he is far more aggressive, unlike the bend don’t break schemes we saw the past few years.
A game in which he let a one legged Bridgewater sit back and pick us apart instead of blitzing and making him try to hobble away to avoid pressure. Yeah that Robb Smith.
Yes, that was a mistake. But the defense still held Louisville well below their seasonal average that year. And the game turned on an illegal man downfield penalty and our receiver unable to catch a ball, which ricocheted off his hands into a Louisville defenders hands. Rutgers won 9 games that year, largely due to the Defense
Am I the only one hearing his name for the first time? Didn’t even know he was a coach.
Best of luck in your next role! The life of a coach in order to keep moving up.
Best of luck in your next role! The life of a coach in order to keep moving up.
Not worried. Coaching DBs is a strength of Schiano and young coaches line up to learn from him on that.
Tell me what you know. I know he’s going back home and to one of the elite programs. I know if given the DC title he would have stayed. All I am saying is I knew he was gone as soon as Zach was announced as CoDC. It was obvious.
Not upset with Sparber but wha I have heard over the years was Orphey was a rising star and needed to be protected.
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Texas was going out outbid for someone they really want. He's from Houston, an area Texas has been trying to recruit hard. He beat out other "known" coaches for the job.
There's no one to blame here try as you may.
Or maybe Schiano knew Orphey wanted to get back to Texas and he wasn't a candidate for promotion. I don't know. Do you?
We wasted a guy being a spy on Bridgewater instead of rushing him even though he was physically incapable of scrambling, and then on 4-5 key third/fourth down short yardage plays when they took Bridgewater out we didn’t sell out against the run even though it was obvious they weren’t going to let the backup QB pass.
This was never intended to be a negative post. Maybe "Bypassed" was too harsh of a word. All I was saying, as I did in the Sparber announcement, as soon as Schiano named a candidate outside of staff (especially one with a similar resume)the writing was on the wall that Orphey was gone. This is a good move by Orphey. Gets him back home and on staff of an elite program.
this has been in the works . i don’t agree that he went back home only because he did not get DC position
Thats not what I said. I agree it's been in the works. The fact that he wasn't named co-dc made it very apparent he was leaving. That's all I meant. There are only 34 power 2 coordinator positions (not including co's). You tell me that a coordinator role at this stage in his career, in the B1G or SEC doesn't rank above a position coach role?
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