If our coaches are serious, they should go out and hire a secondary coach like Aaron Glenn.

Glenn is the current secondary coach for the Saints. He took a ravaged SECondary in the NFL and made it an above average NFL secondary in just two years. The players love him.

As an A&M alumnae and former player, I think he'd love to coach in Aggieland. We just have to ask. Alert the people with the stars next to their name as well!

Glenn has been with the Saints for one season and they gave up 4,380 passing yards this year, which was the most in the NFL. Opponents attempted 582 passes against their defense, which was tied for 11th most in the league, so it's not like they gave up the most yards because they allowed the most attempts.

27 pass TDs allowed (tied for 12th most, so not great) to 9 interceptions (tied for 27th most, so well below-average)

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2016/opp.htm

NFL... College... NFL... One of these is not like the other.

Thanks for bringing stats. Glenn has improved the secondary in the year he's been there. The three Aggie coaches with the saints all survived the mass assistant firing this year. The players love him so far. They dealt with run well. He is still a fairly young coach so it would be nice to snag him before he becomes a defensive coordinatior. He has only been a secondary coach for two or three years now.

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So their stats weren't in the best 25% or worst 25% of the NFL. Is that good or bad considering the Saints pass rush and talent in the secondary?

I believe Aaron Glenn would be a huge upgrade to Terry Joseph. Terry Joseph was) in my opinion) one of the weakest links of our staff. I am glad that he chose to be with us, however. I wish him much sucsess at UNC. Thanks and Gig'em coach Joseph.

The family approach works well. Dabo Swinney at Clemson preaches it. They hire almost entirely Clemson alum. Aggies would not leave A&M for lateral jobs, leaving a stable and therefore better coaching staff, especially considering the fact that we a lot of grads in coaching.

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That is why I think he would be more effective in college. Glenn's secondary at A&M would not be facing receivers as scary as the Saints do.

I really know very little about the DB coach landscape, but the polar opposite of hiring Glenn might be:

Try to steal Duane Akina from Stanford. When Akina left tu for Arizona in 2011, he came back for family reasons. Strong didn't keep him and he went to coach DBs at Stanford, but maybe he still has reasons to want to get back to the State of Texas. Stanford's been pretty decent on D and as I recall tu was pretty good for DBs when he was in Austin.

If my memory serves me correctly Akina is a real high energy type of guy. I like to see that from coaches. Wouldn't mind seeing him on staff.

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I believe Aaron Glenn would be a huge upgrade to Terry Joseph. Terry Joseph was) in my opinion) one of the weakest links of our staff. I am glad that he chose to be with us, however. I wish him much sucsess at UNC. Thanks and Gig'em coach Joseph.

The family approach works well. Dabo Swinney at Clemson preaches it. They hire almost entirely Clemson alum. Aggies would not leave A&M for lateral jobs, leaving a stable and therefore better coaching staff, especially considering the fact that we a lot of grads in coaching.

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Aaron Glenn is an excellent coach, no doubt. Would be a home run hire IMO. He just isn't a realistic option for us. And he has no logical reason to leave his situation in the NFL. And likewise, successful NFL coaches don't make moves down to college ball unless it's a huge increase in money & coaching autonomy.

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rudder2020 said:

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I believe Aaron Glenn would be a huge upgrade to Terry Joseph. Terry Joseph was) in my opinion) one of the weakest links of our staff. I am glad that he chose to be with us, however. I wish him much sucsess at UNC. Thanks and Gig'em coach Joseph.

The family approach works well. Dabo Swinney at Clemson preaches it. They hire almost entirely Clemson alum. Aggies would not leave A&M for lateral jobs, leaving a stable and therefore better coaching staff, especially considering the fact that we a lot of grads in coaching.

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Aaron Glenn is an excellent coach, no doubt. Would be a home run hire IMO. He just isn't a realistic option for us. And he has no logical reason to leave his situation in the NFL. And likewise, successful NFL coaches don't make moves down to college ball unless it's a huge increase in money & coaching autonomy.

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This is what I was getting at with my post. NFL coaches don't ordinarily go down to the college level; the NFL is perceived to be the highest level, so they don't have an incentive to drop down unless the money is exceedingly too good to ignore. NFL coaches also typically get paid substantially more at the same positions than their college counterparts.

Alumnist

I don't think Glenn would be interested in coaching college ball.

I suspect he'd rather coach and not mess with recruiting.

I was too young to see Lester Hays in college, but Kevin Smith and Aaron Glenn were the 2 best I ever saw at CB. Glenn could still cover guys better than our current secondary.

Will be interesting to see WHO actually makes this hire.

"...alumnist..."


Please tell me you are not in school now. wtf?

I'd like to see Chavis bring in some DB coach that he has worked with in the past and was very successful.

As long as the most important question is not "can he coach" but "is he an aggie" then I'm good with it.

I'll be glad to have Glenn, but I also want to say that our DB play needs HUGE improvement, so I am pleased to see a change in our DB coach.

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Not a bad hire. Of course I'm still gonna roll my eyes because cliche TexAgs- always wanting to hire Aggies at every job opening, for every position, just they're Aggies. No matter how far fetched or how much of a downgrade it could be. Would be nice for someone on this site to get out of their maroon fantasyland and discuss realistic hires for once though.

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So much this. I get the whole Aggie Network thing, but geeze people. It's better to have a winning program (or business) than a 100% all Aggie program (or business).

what we need are players like Aaron Glenn...

AG wants to be an NFL GM one day not sure he'd come to college to coach/recruit but you never know

Why on Earth would anyone leave a NFL assistant coach gig to do the same in college? Retraded...

He would not even consider an offer to come back here as a position coach.

And seriously if you remove the "former Aggie" from his list of qualifications does this thread even exist? I think not

Dabo Swinney did not attend Clemson. /some TexAgs minds blown

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what we need are players like Aaron Glenn...

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Indeed, we need a recruiting beast along with x&o guy.

New Orleans defense has steadily lost players in the last 5 year without solid replacements. I wouldn't blame this year's pass d. woes on Glenn.

Well, if you would consider Glenn why not Patrick Thomas. He has the credentials.