Rock Star: Ex-NFL coaches help Jints' scouting
Very interesting piece in today's newspaper from Tommy Rock Star, who got in touch with Butch Davis of North Carolina and Al Groh of Virginia and asked them to discuss why it's so advantageous for NFL teams to deal with former pro head coaches.
Davis coached Hakeem Nicks, who went to the Giants in the first round, and Groh coached second-round linebacker Clint Sintim.
"When scouts come through here, the feedback we always get is that they are thankful to come in and watch an offense that looks like an NFL offense," said Davis, the former head coach of Boland's Beloved Brownies, who now employs a pro-style offense in college. "They saw Hakeem [Nicks] run every single route that any NFL coordinator could ask him to run."
Said Groh, the former Jets head coach who is now at Virginia:
"We've had a lot of players come back after they've been in the league and tell us that what they were exposed to here was a benefit to them in terms of making the transition."
Groh also knows what it's like to be on the other side of the evaluation process.
"When we talk to the NFL personnel people who come in, I always try to picture what our current player would have been like on the teams I was associated with [in the NFL]," Groh said. "Not just was he a good player for us, but is he going to do the jobs that are required in the National Football League."
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