Chris Thomsen is leaving for FSU

[BedfordFrog68]

Jeremy Clark has stated that the coaches notified the recruits that they were leaving before they signed and the recruits handled it well.

Portal was just made for this sort of thing....

 

[CryptoMiner]

 

[TCU_backer]

Looking forward to Anderson taking back over the OL. /sarcasm

 

[researchfrog]

I'd hope they hire a real OL coach and Anderson gets moved back to RB coach, which was his best coaching job.

 

[wilson912]

Sadly it is being reported by the media

2 good coaches lost today

They were highly regarded as recruiters but did their units perform well of late? After the scrimmage with Pine Bluff and the demolition of KU, we struggled to consistently run the ball, except for Duggan. Thomsen’s personality seems very different from Gary’s, maybe not a good fit. Not sure on Luper but he’s been flirting with leaving for a long time. Hopefully they do well.

 

[wilson912]

Seriously? Call around to anybody in the college football world and they will tell you Coach Thomsen is easily one of the best OL coaches in the business right now. I love Luper, but coaching RB's isn't a very hard position to coach compared to coaching OL. Thomsen was the one coach on that staff that GP should've done everything possible to keep. Luper was definitely a huge loss for us in recruiting but as far as football knowledge and coaching ability we won't be able to find a hire that is near as good as Coach Thomsen.

i doubt he liked seeing Gary screaming at Sonny all the time

 

[Moose Stuff]

i doubt he liked seeing Gary screaming at Sonny all the time

I can’t imagine that impacted his decision at all.

 

[GenXFrog]

i doubt he liked seeing Gary screaming at Sonny all the time

That ain't happening if you're doing your [ Finebaum ] right...

 

[asleep003]

Have not read the whole thread ... but wonder if CGP is considering bringing Oliver back on staff as OL coach, where prviously an assistant under Anderson.

 

[Moose Stuff]

Have not read the whole thread ... but wonder if CGP is considering bringing Oliver back on staff as OL coach, where prviously an assistant under Anderson.

Read somewhere yesterday that he’s not even a football coach anymore.

 

[PO Frog]

Have not read the whole thread ... but wonder if CGP is considering bringing Oliver back on staff as OL coach, where prviously an assistant under Anderson.

He’s in sales now. Out of football all together.

 

[Froggish]

 

[TooColdU]

Thomsen is going to be FSU’s deputy head coach and an offensive assistant. Whatever that means.

 

[wilson912]

 

[wilson912]

 

[wilson912]

Thomsen is going to be FSU’s deputy head coach and an offensive assistant. Whatever that means.

More money!

 

[Eight]

Thomsen is going to be FSU’s deputy head coach and an offensive assistant. Whatever that means.

he does look a bit like don knotts

 

[y2kFrog]

Seriously? Call around to anybody in the college football world and they will tell you Coach Thomsen is easily one of the best OL coaches in the business right now. I love Luper, but coaching RB's isn't a very hard position to coach compared to coaching OL. Thomsen was the one coach on that staff that GP should've done everything possible to keep. Luper was definitely a huge loss for us in recruiting but as far as football knowledge and coaching ability we won't be able to find a hire that is near as good as Coach Thomsen.

Our line play sure wasn’t that great for him to be one of the best of the business. We never seemed to improve from year to year, and towards the end of this year even seem to regress.

 

[asleep003]

He’s in sales now. Out of football all together.

Did a very admirable job for us.

 

[Wexahu]

Our line play sure wasn’t that great for him to be one of the best of the business. We never seemed to improve from year to year, and towards the end of this year even seem to regress.

I had thought when he came here that he had mainly worked in passing oriented offenses, it could be that his strengths as a coach and offensive philosophy doesn’t really align with the direction GP wants to go. I think GP wants a more physical team, not a bunch of finesse blockers. Doesn’t really explain the retention of Cumbie as the OC though because his background doesn’t fit that either, that’s the hard one to figure out.