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Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports
LSU defensive line analyst Patrick Hill is expected to join Colorado's staff as defensive tackles coach under new head coach Deion Sanders.

Hill is the second LSU staffer to move on to Colorado as former Director of Player Personnel Corey Phillips just recently took the same position on Sanders' staff in December. Per On3:
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Before LSU, Hill was the defensive line coach at Division III Birmingham Southern in 2021.

Hill had been set to be the defensive line coach at Nicholls State last offseason but instead took the analyst position at LSU, where he worked under rising star defensive line coach Jamar Cain and helped the Tigers improve from 10th in the SEC in scoring defense last year to fifth this season.
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RazzleDazzle36 months
He will be unemployed in 2 years
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rd280z36 months
He is going to need all the help he can get, I'm afraid.
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panzer36 months
Huge promotion
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LSU82Cajun36 months
Diversity, Equity & Inclusive hires ?
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southsidedell36 months
Promotions.
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king4735 months
In not diversity if only black coaches are hired.
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Bjorn Cyborg36 months
As far as I have seen, unless I've missed someone, Deion has only hired 1 on-field assistant from a P5 program.

He hired Charles Kelley from Alabama to be defensive coordinator. Every other coach has come from G5, FCS or an off-field analyst.

This is a big red flag, and one of the major problems with hiring coaches with little to no history in coaching -- they don't have a network of coaches to pull from.

I like Sean Lewis. I think he's got potential at OC. Perhaps some other coaches are better than their resumes appear.

But he didn't hire a single coach from the Pac 12. His entire staff is coming into a conference without knowing anything about the league, the coaches and the players.

This is bad.
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Mouche33736 months
This is literally an article about him hiring a coach from a power 5 school (LSU) as his defensive tackles coach.????
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tygersgm36 months
@337 but he wasn’t an on field coach/assistant he was an off field analyst
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panzer36 months
It's not bad. He's getting people that are desperate for an on the field coaching role. They'll work themselves to death to succeed. You don't need anyone with Pac 12 experience. It's a shite league. You need drive, dedication, determination, and the will go fight. He's getting that. In Spades.
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BigTigerJoe36 months
Deion, take Brian Polian, please.
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tiger10936 months
So, good luck to him. He will need it. Dion done well picking up a few prize recruits to beat Southern and Mississippi Valley State. That won't work where he is now, especially with a team with shallow pockets.
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BiggDogg5336 months
A team with shallow pockets? are you really that stupid? GO TO BED...
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weeble36 months
BiggDogg53 The president said they do not have the money to pay Deon yet. They hoped that by hiring him that the boosters would open their wallets. That sounds like right now they have shallow pockets.
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tjohn deaux36 months
Man the press is all over Deion. I sure hope he don't let them down.
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S36 months
Thought it was the former Fresno st coach for a minute lol
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jafari rastaman36 months
Deon, do you have any interest in Polian?
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Skillet36 months
Some of you are obviously not aware of how good a recruiter Polian is. Special teams will probably be much better as well next season.
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rob6236 months
Deion Sanders is an unproven Head Coach who has 3 years total of SWAC coaching experience. This staff he is hiring is laughable. He is hiring the staff he is hiring because Colorado can barely pay Prime’s 6 million dollar salary. The AD admitted they didn’t have the money to pay Sanders (yet). So why do geniuses think he is hiring all these low level coaches and analysts? This is a disaster in the making.
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CP3LSU2536 months
They will do better than Colorado has the last 20 years
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jrobic436 months
They literally could not be worse than they were
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saturncube2136 months
Prime is Coming
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bayoucook36 months
Is Deion looking at our WR coach also? wink, wink..
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chicageaux_tiger36 months
Package deal with a recently unemployed recruit hospitality coordinator?
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Robber DeNiro36 months
When he fails, then what?
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Shiftyplus136 months
Call everyone racist?
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denvertiger36 months
What if he succeeds? Then what?
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BiggDogg5336 months
And what makes you so sure he will fail?
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cajunmud36 months
Just the Tackles? How many coaches is Deion gonna pay for?
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Shooter36 months
He experimenting with his hires like coach O…We all know how that turned out!
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TigerFlash36 months
Yes we do. It turned out the greatest season in LSU and college football history in 2019!
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Geaux Guy36 months
Great moves for these guys. Analyst to Coach is a big jump. Smart Smart hires by Deion.
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emanresu36 months
How do you know that these are "smart smart" hires? Do you have anything at all to support that?
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rob6236 months
Hiring “analysts” to be position coaches and hiring 5 coaches from the SWAC/MEAC is a sign of
poor hiring. 1 or 2 but byBen
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TooSober36 months
These are smart hires because he is establishing a staff to recruit Louisiana with.... He has to recruit where there are good players... and as we all know, La has good players.
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YMCA36 months
Can’t hate. It’s all about improving their position in the coaching ranks and that’s what they did with this move.
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CanebreakCajun36 months
They have both been promotions. That is how life works.
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Fonzarelli36 months
So he is no longer on the train?
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