New Coach

[UAalum72]

April Fool (a day early)

Actually Albany has hired Dion Lewis (Albany High, Albany Academy, Pitt and seven NFL teams) as running back coach, as well as retitiling some other coaches

https://ualbanysports.com/news/2023/3/31/football-announces-addition-of-dion-lewis-changes-to-coaching-staff.aspx

[Eli]

You almost had me jumping for joy! Dang you!

[reeder]

IMO, the best news from that release is Bill Nesselt is now the defensive coordinator and Joe Bernard is the special teams coordinator.  I don’t know much about Coach Nesselt but I know we’ve struggled on defense under Coach Bernard and we struggled on offense when he was the OC.

Not sure how I feel about Dion Lewis.  He does bring a lot of experience but Coach Gattuso has a track record of hiring his friends, players he coached or coaches with NFL experience and while it sounds good, it’s yet to help the team win.

[UAalum72]

1 hour ago, reeder said:

Not sure how I feel about Dion Lewis.  He does bring a lot of experience but Coach Gattuso has a track record of hiring his friends, players he coached or coaches with NFL experience and while it sounds good, it’s yet to help the team win.

Seems like RB is the area of the team LEAST in need of help (other than Poff at QB) especially if the OLine improves

[B9j2j6s]

1 hour ago, reeder said:

 

Not sure how I feel about Dion Lewis.  He does bring a lot of experience but Coach Gattuso has a track record of hiring his friends, players he coached or coaches with NFL experience and while it sounds good, it’s yet to help the team win.

IMHO it doesn't hurt to bring in a guy as an assistant who played with TB and coached by BB.  He also played in two superbowls.  Sounds like Dion still wants to be involved in football in some way.  Can't blame him good luck.

[BestDaneSinceHamlet]

Having a guy with Dion's pedigree WITH local ties is probably a very good recruiting move.

[HOF2013]

15 hours ago, UAalum72 said:

Seems like RB is the area of the team LEAST in need of help (other than Poff at QB) especially if the OLine improves

Young guys and new guys with little experience at this level, except for # 25 Jose Lopez-Quinones who did get extensive time last year.   He can only help is my guess.

[HOF2013]

On 3/31/2023 at 11:16 PM, BestDaneSinceHamlet said:

Having a guy with Dion's pedigree WITH local ties is probably a very good recruiting move.

Tlked with him some this spring - pretty easy to talk to.  Pretty small guy.

[B9j2j6s]

I think he was listed as 5'9.