New Auburn DC named......

Ted Roof:
One of THE BEST recruiters in college football.
An ok Defensive Coordinator
Great Motivator.

I'm happy for Coach Roof. Hivered and Refrigeratormover (His teammate) can defend them all they want to, but he was an average at best DC.

He MAY have been handcuffed by O'Leary but way too often when the game was on the line, his swiss cheese defense folded like a biatch. See 1999, when our offense was the best in all of college football and typically we had to score at least 40 points in order for us to win the game. I'll never forget Ted Roof not being able to stop Woody Dantzler on the QB draw and we lost to Clemson in a HUGE game in 1999 at home.

Go see our opponents average score against our defense in 1999 and then tell me Ted Roof was a great DC. Give me a break.

I would LOVE to have Ted Roof on our staff. As a LB coach.
 
BarrelORum said:
Go see our opponents average score against our defense in 1999 and then tell me Ted Roof was a great DC. Give me a break.

I would LOVE to have Ted Roof on our staff. As a LB coach.
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Care to explain why Georgia Tech suddenly employed a completely different defense in the Aloha Bowl against Stanford after O'Leary departed?

also....keep in mind his is older and wiser now.
 
hiveredtech said:
Care to explain why Georgia Tech suddenly employed a completely different defense in the Aloha Bowl against Stanford after O'Leary departed?

also....keep in mind his is older and wiser now.
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So you're defending Roof by pointing to one game? So every game before that he had nothing to do with? He was merely a puppet for O'Leary, a guy who was our DC when we won the National Championship? Seriously, are you really trying to validate your argument by pointing to this one game and ignoring the rest in his GT career?

Sorry, not a fan, won;t ever be a fan. Ted Roof would make one hell of a LB coach. As a DC.... nahh....
 
Ted was one of the grittiest football players to wear the Tech uniform. In the infamous fog game, Uga had a stable of Jonathan Dwyer types and Roof would just stuff them over and over again overcoming pain and exhaustion to seal one of the more dramatic wins I've ever witnessed.

I met him several times and its not hard to understand why he's such a good recruiter.

I hope he is wildly successful at Auburn.
 
hiveredtech said:
also....keep in mind his is older and wiser now.
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Correct. And apparently some people still think highly of his coaching ability. Like the new Auburn coach, among others.

Also, count me among those who really enjoyed watching the Black Watch...Roof especially. IIRC, Tech held mighty Tennessee to a 7 - 7 tie.
 
Well, is John Bond a crappy OC just because he coached alongside Gailey for one year?

I used to bash Roof pretty hard back in the day.

Now I feel bad.

Had no idea he was being handcuffed by O'Leary....but it makes sense.

O'Leary was mostly a defensive minded guy.
 
wesleyd21 said:
Well, is John Bond a crappy OC just because he coached alongside Gailey for one year?

I used to bash Roof pretty hard back in the day.

Now I feel bad.

Had no idea he was being handcuffed by O'Leary....but it makes sense.

O'Leary was mostly a defensive minded guy.
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I don't recall our D ever being very good under O'Leary as head coach. It was surprising to me, because when he was DC under Ross, his D was a major reason we won the NC.
 
BarrelORum said:
So you're defending Roof by pointing to one game? So every game before that he had nothing to do with? He was merely a puppet for O'Leary, a guy who was our DC when we won the National Championship? Seriously, are you really trying to validate your argument by pointing to this one game and ignoring the rest in his GT career?

Sorry, not a fan, won;t ever be a fan. Ted Roof would make one hell of a LB coach. As a DC.... nahh....
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Yeah, he had nothing to do with it. Oleary changed everything Ted brought in and then ripped Ted when George's scheme didn't work.
 
Trade Wommack for Roof?
He had Minnesota much improved on D this year, but I think that ship has sailed. Maybe Ted will make it back one day, but Auburn is a nice job too. I think if we called he would always listen.
I want Wommack for at least next year to fully install the D. I read that he kept it vanilla this year because our Dline was stout and our back 7 were young. I forget sometimes that our D system is new like the O.
After Wommack leaves(2 or 3 years?) we might call Ted, but I would bet Giff gets a shot.
 
I wouldn't bring Ted back to the flats. It has nothing to do with his ability either.

The Bill Curry episode back in 1986 taught me one thing: don't work with friends unless you can evaluate them and treat them as objectively as you would anyone else. Friends invariably get a longer leash which, best case, isn't fair to anyone else and, worse case, can sink the ship.

If we brought Ted back, it would be very difficult to part company if and when it became necessary. Very difficult (for me anyway).

And it would also be nice if we could have at least one thread in this forum about Ted Roof that doesn't degrade into an opportunity for his critics to make sure everyone knows where they stand. I think everyone's position on the matter is well documented. We get it.
 
I think we need to keep wommack as well. I saw some good things on defense, I would like to be a little more aggressive though. That may come out in the spring who knows.
 
refrigeratormover said:
I think we need to keep wommack as well. I saw some good things on defense, I would like to be a little more aggressive though. That may come out in the spring who knows.
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The LBs and DB's did bad enough in coverage without blitzing. Hopefully next year we'll improve enough at those positions to blitz more and allow man-to-man coverage.
 
Essobee said:
Correct. And apparently some people still think highly of his coaching ability. Like the new Auburn coach, among others.
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Not many people think highly of the Auburn's coach's coaching abilities.

I like Ted Roof as he represented GT very well, was a great football player, a great position coach, and one of the best recruiters we've had on the flats.

If he were to coach at GT, he would make an excellent LB and/or DL coach. Not a DC.
 
I used to hate on Roof pretty seriously until I heard this:

refrigeratormover said:
Yeah, he had nothing to do with it. Oleary changed everything Ted brought in and then ripped Ted when George's scheme didn't work.
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...and I consider the source (RM) as reliable as can be.
 
A great Tech athlete and a wonderful person - I hope he enjoys great success at the Loveliest Village.
 
I hope Ted Roof does well. I new his Mother and Father at our Country Club some years ago.

I remember that most were glad to see him leave Tech as DC though. I believe Most Techies thought the D was weak and unmotivated during his years.
 
atlanta jacket said:
Good luck to Ted, i hope he does well. He is better than his record shows and he will prove it with the talent at Auburn.
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It is impossible to be a "better coach than your record shows". Your record is the definition of your coaching ability. It is what it is. Good luck to Roof, but how can you hope Auburn does well? How can you wish Roof is a successful recruiter in our own backyard? It's not the same as hoping Ken Whisenhunt wins the Super Bowl, is it?
 
hiveredtech said:
Ted Roof was the leader of our Black Watch defense that returned GT football back to being competitive in 1985. He played the All-American Bowl against Michigan St that year injured. He was in incredible pain...but whenever he left the game Lorenzo White would rip off a good run. We ultimately held Lorenzo to something like 140 yds on 44 carries. That same game John Dewberry and Gary Lee were suspended for missing curfew...plus the backup FB.

Anyway....he is a good coach and a phenomenal recruiter.

As someone else has said....the biggest problem he had at GT was being the DC under George O'Leary....a know it all on defense. Roof likes to mix things up, show different blitz packages, etc. Once O'Leary was gone....Roof was able to fully coach us in the bowl game and we shut down our opponent and looked completely different defensively.

This is a good pickup for Auburn.
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And everyone seems to forget that when Big Ralph was here, he wanted the majority of the stud athletes to be on the Offensive side of the ball; therefore, our Defense suffered.
 
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