Topic: Rod Smith

[herdorbust2]

Your next offensive coordinator.

[Buffalo Bop]

Boom!

[gochneaur645]

Guess we're getting the full Rich Rod offense. They ran 646 times and threw 315 passes this year

[Buffalo Bop]

I think I saw somewhere that he was RR's QB at Glenville State.

[mu1995]

And this year we had 333 pass attempts and 509 rush attempts.

[miltonherdfan]

Guess we're getting the full Rich Rod offense. They ran 646 times and threw 315 passes this year

he woulda been a fool to have done anything different.  their RB was like a 1600-yard rusher @ 6 yards/carry.  any coach with any sense at all is gonna give it to that kid all day long.

[jpdusa]

Your next offensive coordinator.
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https://footballscoop.com/news/sources-marshall-hiring-veteran-offensive-coordinator-rod-smith-gunter-brewer

[herdfifteen]

Solid hires.

[mu1995]

It is also being reported that Smith requested more control over the offense and there are reports that he was offered the WVU job. 

[gochneaur645]

he woulda been a fool to have done anything different.  their RB was like a 1600-yard rusher @ 6 yards/carry.  any coach with any sense at all is gonna give it to that kid all day long.

Didn't mean to make it sound like a criticism. I don't really care what offense we run as long as it's effective.

[Buffalo Bop]

It is also being reoorted that Smith requested more control over the offense and there are reports that he was offered the WVU job.

https://x.com/ThunderCast_Pod/status/1870491649903833435

[Johns1124]

Solid Hires.

[Always THE HERD]

I certainly do NOT know; but why is Brewer supposedly a great hire. He did "supposedly" coach Moss, but how hard could that have been? I hope he has great success at MU again.

[mu1995]

Statistically we attempted passing plays 37% of the plays and Jacksonville attempted passes at 33%.  I looked back at the Offense play selection while they were at Arizona:

2012 :  508 runs, 579 passes
2013 :  647 runs, 383 passes
2014:   575 runs, 564 passes
2015:   527 runs, 466 passes
2016:   509 runs, 306 passes
2017:   613 runs, 295 passes

[IM4DHERD]

Rod Smith Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Smith_(American_football_coach)

[herdfan129]

Not going to lie, this is an awesome hire. Pretty excited to see this

[Scottyo614]

I want people who want to be here. I love that he picked us when he had the other option. Should be able to snag a qb or develop Long.

[herdfan129]

Is the Jax St QB in the portal? Wonder if we have a shot at getting him or some of their other players?

[ThunderingHerdFan]

I certainly do NOT know; but why is Brewer supposedly a great hire. He did "supposedly" coach Moss, but how hard could that have been? I hope he has great success at MU again.

Brewer was at Marshall from 96-99, literally the most successful run in the history of our and frankly many other's programs.

He was WR/co-OC at Marshall. I don't believe he was co-OC all four seasons. I think that came later.

So that means he coached Randy Moss, James Williams, Nate Poole, LaVorn Colclough,Jerald Long, Lanier Washington, David Foye, Tim Martin (1 year).  All of those guys did very well here and yes, Pennington/Kresser had a lot to do with that, too, but it takes everyone to be great, and they were great.

[jdonaccbus]

Rod Smith is an excellent hire.

Brewer did great things with the receiving corp at Maryland. Jones, Felton and Prather developed much better under Brewer's guidance. I thought Baker did a tremendous job with the secondary here. We were much improved and better coached. I like bringing in a guy from one of the top conferences. I wish we could have kept Baker as well. He didn't appear to leave with any disdain on his way to Temple.

These are two good hires. I am anxious to hear the rest of the staff.

[herdfan129]

Still super excited about this. Can?t wait to see who he brings in at QB.

[MarshallSteve]

Still super excited about this. Can?t wait to see who he brings in at QB.

Agree. Rod Smith has developed some great QB's through thr years. A lot of QB's will want to play in his system. He runs that Up-Tempo style that we all like to watch too.

Great hire IMO.

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[jdherd]

This is a great hire for the football program.

[herdfan129]

Jax St QB Zion Turner is officially in the portal. Be interested to see if we could get him here seeing as how he already knows the system.

[Buffalo Bop]

Jax St QB Zion Turner is officially in the portal. Be interested to see if we could get him here seeing as how he already knows the system.

I saw on his Twitter page that he's being followed by Charles Huff.