More and more, it seems like all coaching roads lead to Kirbs.
FootballScoop reports Georgia is looking at a former teammate of Smart’s to fill the open staff position.
Ford founded the academy in 2006 which, according to its website, has placed over 400 clients with college programs, earning $40 million in scholarship money. iDareU lists 24 NFL players as former clients, including former Alabama safety Minkah Fitzpatrick and former Clemson cornerback AJ Terrell…
… Ford played defensive back at Georgia alongside Kirby Smart and spent 2019 as a Bill Walsh Minority Fellow with the Cleveland Browns.
Ford has interviewed with multiple members of the Georgia staff including Dan Lanning and Kirby sources share. An interesting note, we are also told Will Muschamp sat in on one of the Zoom calls.
Meanwhile, FootballScoop also says the Portal Master™ has filled Florida’s need for a defensive backs coach. Again, there’s a Smart connection.
Sources on Friday told FootballScoop that Mullen has moved to pluck Jules Montinar away from the University of South Florida staff to work with the Gators’ defensive backs…
In Montinar, an Eastern Kentucky graduate who began his career at West Virginia, the Gators are getting a coach who has worked under both Nick Saban and Kirby Smart at Alabama as a graduate assistant, as well as an up-and-coming young coach who also worked at Purdue, Texas State and was a defensive analyst for Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs in 2019 before he joined Scott’s debut staff at USF.
I presume his first assignment will be to teach the defensive backs not to throw opponents’ shoes.
I’ll take “shoe toss” for the win.
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Montinar was a shoe-in for the position
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Glenn went to the Kevin Ramsay school of how not to coach defense.
Honestly tho, I think a lot of these 1990’s era Georgia player’s coaching careers have been helped by seeing their own coaches errors.
Glenn going from Kines, to Ramsay to Gibbs had to help give him some perspective. Likewise, I would imagine Will still has Swamp Fox nightmares.
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Glenn Ford had one hell of a career in film before playing football too!
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Maybe he can bring along his adopted son from one of his later roles to play RB/LB .
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Tie the laces together in the pile. Don`t actually remove a shoe.
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It’s hard to get excited about coaching moves today.
Hank Aaron has passed away and I just can’t believe his light is gone from the world.
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He was truly the G.O.A.T. fond memories of listening to WSB with my Dad
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The REAL Homerun King. I still remember being at my grandmother’s old farm house in West Georgia listing to the game on the radio when he hit #715
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The world has lost a great human being, not just a father, husband….man….
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I watched this today, and it’s timeless. Vin Scully’s call gave me chills. RIP, King.
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If you can watch that with dry eyes and no lump in your throat you ain’t wired right!
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Even “Nockahoma” got in on the action…oh wait, who is that….I mean the “Land of Lakes” guy…oh wait😂😂
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Anyone remember how caught that famous ball? Tommy House may be more famous for that one catch than anything else he did in his entire career.
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You listen here to the consumate professional and it is the version being played in rememberance rather than that contrived statement by Milo Hamilton.
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Hamilton knew it was going to happen sometime. Scully had no idea if it would happen while the Dodgers were in Atlanta. I’m sure he thought about what he would say if it did, but he just described the scene and sprinkled in his thoughts for his listeners in Southern California.
Scully = 🐐 of baseball announcers.
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Everytime they have shown him on tv for the past year or two he has not looked very good.
Maybe the best thing about the Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony is them introducing all the old guys, it is always good to see them up there. Sad to think about how many aren’t going to make the next one…
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Knucksie, Don, and Hank.
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As a Reds fan back in the day (Pete Rose still my favorite player … I was in Atlanta Stadium when his hitting streak ended), I couldn’t stand Sutton because he was the hated Dodgers’ ace. As a Braves announcer, I loved hearing him talk about pitching … definitely a legend of 2 franchises.
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Wow. I was there the day Rose’s hitting streak ended. You and I need to meet up for beers one day…
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Absolutely … when we’re down there, I’ll let you know!
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Curt Gowdy’s call that night on NBC – I had forgotten that Scully was on the Dodgers’ call on the radio
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And then George Plimpton gets a chance to call it.
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Saw him hit #500, and played against (got waxed by) his son’s pee wee football team. He is the true home run king. He did it with grace, incredible consistency, and no performance enhancing drugs.
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Barry Bonds may have the record, but Hank Aaron will always be the King.
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A class act in words and deeds. A fine role model and a good MAN.
RIP Hammer.
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Off topic —-but has arik Gilbert retired from football?
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Will hasn’t been hired, but he’s hanging around and offering his expertise. I wonder how they feel about that in Columbia? Nah, I don’t really care, I just think it’s funny.
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About 30 years ago, I had the opportunity to have lunch with Hank Aaron on 2 separate occasions. Once was at the stadium club at old Fulton Stadium and the other was at Hank’s home. All another story. But one time while eating with him, I asked him what made him so successful. He looked at me and said that a lot of players have great skills, many even better than me. But whenever, I get knocked down, I always get right back up!
He was really a great man and that’s good advice for any young man going into the world.
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