This makes me wonder if we made the right choice...
Let’s get a head start on this restart.
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I've wondered about that too. When he was first hired, I did a lot of googling, and there have been a number of articles like that over the last year or two. In October of last year, he was really under the gun, but they snapped a really ugly losing streak just in time and the noise died down. But the bottom line is, their defense was very, very disappointing for most of his tenure there, and that's a concerning thing for a coach who's supposed to be our defensive messiah. Even if he is not directly responsible for the defense, you'd kind of hope he'd maybe hand down some of his wisdom and philosophy to the staff.
But the way I look at it, a head coach position at the college level today is a 100-hour a week job, and maybe he just did not have the time and energy to work very closely with the defensive coaches. With this transfer portal ********, and the fact that BC is a really low priority option for premium recruits in the first place, it's probably very difficult to maintain any kind of talent level.
He lost a number of good players through the portal last year, and while he got some transfers back, the talent level does not appear to be the same. It looks as though the players leaving the team were just using BC as a means of improving their chances of catching on with a higher-tier D1 team, while the players coming in were transferring to BC because they weren't getting enough playing time at stronger schools. If that really was the trend, Hafley was always going to struggle to compete in a tough conference.
And, last but not least, maybe jumping up to a head coach gig was just a rung too high on the peter principle ladder. There's no shame in that. There are a lot of excellent coordinators who just never succeed as a head coach, and terrific position coaches who shouldn't have become coordinators. Which is why there was even an open position for Hafley here in Green Bay.
I'm really excited about Hafley. I've found a lot of stuff about him, listened to him on Youtube and podcasts, and everything I've heard from him and read about him tells me he's going to play an aggressive, hard-hitting, harrassing defense, an intelligent defense, similar to what we see in the Niners and the Seattle "Legion of Boom" defense. If Gute can get a couple of the right linebackers to make it work, and strengthen the safety and CB corps a little, I think we're going to see some good things over the next year or two.
