Higgins will be the new WR coach and will also "work alongside Boilers special-teams coordinator J.B. Gibboney" as well as help with the kicking game, as per ESPN. Higgins was a special teams coordinator (as well as receivers coach) at BYU so perhaps this is a strategic hire to ensure that if and when Gibboney's time is done at Purdue, they have someone set to step in to replace him.
Or perhaps it's partly meant to light a fire under Gibboney so that he feels the urgency and coaches for his job. Or perhaps I'm just making things up.
It's hard to say yet what kind of hire this is, but the good thing is that Higgins has over two decades of coaching experience. However, he's also another old friend of Danny Hope's. We've lamented a few times how overly loyal Coach Hope seems to be to his coaches, arguably to a fault. This could simply be more of the same. Of course, if Keith Smith comes back completely healthy, this could look genius.
Just over seven months to kickoff.
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Sounds like a good hire to me. Looking forward to seeing what he can do with our young corps of WR's, and help on ST's too
You guys are aware of what happened at BYU at the end of the season? Coach Mendenhall basically told everyone on the offensive side that they had to reapply for their jobs. He hired back about half of them. Now, I don't know if Higgins was one of the few that decided it was better to just walk and not go through it all, but there are a handful of coachs coming from BYU now that were not wanted by BYU.
Long story short - I'm not sure how good of a hire this is.
Here's a link to the story Plang is referring to:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700093481/BYU-football-Offensive-staff-could-be-overhauled.html?pg=1
It's hard to make much out of the story, but what stuck out was the fact that BYU's early offensive woes were due to running dual QB's. Rarely does that work. That lies on the head coach. All in all, I think it's a solid hire.
When is the new purdue pete going to be released?
I love this hire...Hopefully this guy brings out maximizes the potential..
http://www.fresh-coaching.es/
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