WR Coach: Armon Binns
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Report: Northwestern to hire Armon Binns as wide receivers coach
Northwestern is expected to hire former NFL player Armon Binns to replace Dennis Springer as wide receivers coach.
Should have some good recruiting connections in OH & PA.
I remember him When he was at university of Cincinnati. Great wide receiver as well as a great individual. He is definitely a quality addition to the northwestern coaching staff.
Yep. Hopefully California too. Pasadena High School alum.
Seems like on paper to be a great hire. I like his background. A plus that he and Bajakian have a connection. We need to drastically improve talent. WRs do not necessarily need to be NFL bound, if we have people like Austin Carr/Brian Musso types it will definitely be an upgrade.
Interesting hire. Impressive background, good to see NFL chops. Big numbers as a player at Cincy.
However, nothing incredibly impressive last year as WR coach at Youngstown State. Just over 2000 yards passing. Leading receiver, Bryce Oliver, had 821 yards and 10 TDs. Not terrible, but nothing says "wow."
My biggest concern though, is that this appears to be another Buddy Hire. "Northwestern offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian was Binns' offensive coordinator for his final year at Cincinnati." I hope they learned from the JON ordeal. Unfortunately recent history not on his side for this hire.
However, nothing incredibly impressive last year as WR coach at Youngstown State. Just over 2000 yards passing. Leading receiver, Bryce Oliver, had 821 yards and 10 TDs. Not terrible, but nothing says "wow."
My biggest concern though, is that this appears to be another Buddy Hire. "Northwestern offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian was Binns' offensive coordinator for his final year at Cincinnati." I hope they learned from the JON ordeal. Unfortunately recent history not on his side for this hire.
I’ll reply in this thread since the other was negative to start.
Isn’t it a good thing that position coaches played the position they coach or played on the other side of the line directly opposite?
I think this could be a good hire simply that we have someone recruiting and teaching to a position he played and played well during his own career.
Isn’t it a good thing that position coaches played the position they coach or played on the other side of the line directly opposite?
I think this could be a good hire simply that we have someone recruiting and teaching to a position he played and played well during his own career.
A one-year overlap does not a “buddy hire” make. There’s pretty much always some tie to the existing staff in making coaching hires, that’s just how the world works. No different than hiring for most senior positions in any business.
Mixed curbside feelings on this one (full acknowledgement my opinion doesn't matter)...excluding quality/analyst positions, he did one season at Hampton, one at YSU, and now he's a Big Ten coach? Not even, say, one season in the MAC?
Flipside...young guy, person of color, NFL experience at the position he's coaching with at least theoretical ties to talent-rich parts of the country...promising.
Fitz and Jake have more at stake than I do, so if they're taking the chance on the hire then I won't balk at it.
Flipside...young guy, person of color, NFL experience at the position he's coaching with at least theoretical ties to talent-rich parts of the country...promising.
Fitz and Jake have more at stake than I do, so if they're taking the chance on the hire then I won't balk at it.
Why overlook his time on the staffs of Notre Dame and Cincinnati as an analyst/quality control?
The same reason I don't give equal weight to internships on resumes
Equating a quality control position and/or analyst position on a P5 program to an internship is foolish. You obviously have little to no understanding of a college football staff.
I see his time at Cincy and ND in a staff role, albeit not a position coach, under Kelly and Fickell as positives. Hopefully he learned a lot from just being a part of a couple big time programs that played in the CFP and seeing how they did things. Definitely need some of that, Would like to see more experience/success as a position coach but he checks a lot of other boxes, including league experience playing the position. Not a home run hire, but not a complete head scratcher crawling with red flags like the JON hire was.
An upgrade from Springer in any case as the bar was set so low.
An upgrade from Springer in any case as the bar was set so low.
Although, doesn’t an analyst by definition/regulation have no direct coaching contact with the players?
I see every 23 year old with no experience and every fired 62 year old clamoring for the job.
Think again. Saban has utilized the analyst position for years. So has Fitz for they matter…Anderson, Genyk and Gasser have all been in that role.
Interesting. So he may have been doing some “coaching” in practice as an analyst even if this is not supposed to be the case.
You clearly have never been to the wonderful city of Youngstown to watch football.
800 yards receiving and 10 TDs in the type of offense YSU tends to play is 2016 Austin Carr type performance. Remember that Tresselball was born at YSU before he jumped to OSU.
I am excited by this hire and choose to be optimistic.
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True. Hope this works out. Honestly I am surprised that the Johns for Springer trade lasted so long. I’m optimistic that even a middle of the pack WR coach will be a massive upgrade there.
I’m nonetheless struggling to think of a buddy hire that nuked the fortunes of an organization so dramatically and so immediately as JON.
Didn't Iowa go to a bowl game and win this year? I'd take that nuke over what we saw in Evanston.
You obviously never watched Iowa this year. It had an elite defense that got it to a win in a lower tier bowl game despite an epically bad offense. At times, including in the bowl game, the defense outscored the offense. Brian Ferentz had less than zero to do with the bowl victory.
Iowa’s D literally scored more points than its O in the bowl game. So they were even more unbalanced this year than recent NU teams.
