Re: Danny Pearman does NOT coach the kickoff team...

Pearlman is the coordinator for special teams, venables and hobby specifically coach the kickoff teams. Regardless whomever coached special teams this year and didn't make any adjustments when we struggled against easy opponents, lost the title Monday. While they can only have 9 coaches on staff, someone different needed to step in with just how many extra points we missed this year let alone coverage collapses. I would think the st coordinators job is to do so if he noticed what caused it, but how can he go and be like hey Brent you suck at kickoffs even though your my boss and all. If someone did step in mid season when this was first highly noticeable, they need to go as far away from st as possible.
Who knows what really happened, it sounds like a cluster f, and the blame is spread all over in a awkward dynamic of who does what(sounds like the issue right there) I think now we need to hire a special teams coach as a priority and have him coach a position on the side. It's been a problem for us long enough that it's getting ridiculous.

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sure, if he was solely responsible he should...

Jan 15, 2016, 1:52 PM

but danny is not and dabo's lay out how it was shared.

brent venables is the end all be all for the defense and is why he, dabo & ScElliot are made available to the media as coordinators with the power the word entails, while assistants are not...including danny pearman.

his title means nothing here, that's not my doing. is that always the case? no, but dabo was clear that special teams was a group effort with platooned responsibilities and dabo answered for them.

dabo has not been shy about taking or placing responsibility and has not stuttered when a change was necessary, including a close friend in billy napier who was shown the door with powell. did dabo fire the position coaches when he and steele parted ways? no, he threw out the bath water and kept the babies... i <3 me some brooks; we're lucky to have him.

honestly, it's not difficult unless you make it so. all that was disseminated to start is what dabo answered earlier in the year. as for marion, he has a title as CO-DC, but it does not carry responsibility for the whole, where the same title in the case of clemson's other CO-Coords does. what's in a title? nothing if it doesn't hold sway, power or responsibility and danny doesn't. it's just a name.

and no one that i'm aware of absolved danny of any wrong doing, he has his share as does any involved in special teams under the way it is currently set up.

...but singling out danny pearman as holding sole responsibility or being the end all be all, nah, now that's no bueno when dabo lay it out otherwise.

i 'magine only our opponents don't want to see it fixed. it's difficult to imagine there won't be a lot of heart-to-hearts or come-to-jesus then changes made, even if they don't appear significant to outsiders.

it will be asked... again, i'm fairly certain of it and honestly, i don't care what it takes, even if that means saying fairwells or moving people into new positions with real & ultimate authority.

every bit of that is on the captain of the ship.

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Danny Pearman does NOT coach the kickoff team...