I have a feeling that we're all gonna be glad he made this decision. Call it womens intuition...lol According to the article, he used to train with the Tampa Bay Bucs during the offseason...on his own accord...that should tell you alot about his character and the drive to learn more about the game and his job. Welcome to LSU indeed! :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige
Dude...he coached Tampa Bay Vo-Tech! But I heard he was a package deal with Amp Hill... I did think that what Dandy Don said was interesting:
"South Florida ranked in the top five in the nation in quarterback sacks in 2001 and 2002 with Lane’s defensive line getting 65 of the 86 sacks. The 2002 team was also seventh in the nation against the run. The Bulls were 14th in the nation in 2005 in scoring defense (18 points a game) and 17th in total defense (312 yards allowed a game)." This sounds pretty good to me. Especially if he is a good recruiter.
Well, considering that USF was a I-AA school 10 years ago, they pretty much had to build from the bottom up...and Lane has been there since USF's inaguaral I-A season. To put up those numbers--and more importantly--to find the recruits capable of putting up those numbers and convience them to go to USF says a lot about his recruiting abilities. At first, I wasn't sure how I felt about him because mainly, as far as I was concerned, he came out of no where. Not that I'm a guru for knowing college football assistant coaches, but I had never heard of him--but that doesn't really say much because I couldn't name you the D-line coaches on the majority of the teams in the SEC :hihi: ...but after having some of his accomplishments brought to the forefront, Lane seems like a good fit (but working at Tampa Vo-Tech still is funny)...
Naaa. Assistant coaches have to move around a lot and get fired whenever the head coach gets fired. It's easy for them to be out of work for a year between jobs, perhaps several times in a career. Most coaches have alternate sources of income for those times. They grab a high school, rec center, or vo-tech job. Pete Jenkins used to work as a strength coach at Gold's gym between coaching gigs. Curley Hallman was a drywall contractor . . . probably still is. :grin:
He wasn't at Tampa Bay Tech to teach Diesel mechanics, he was the Defensive Coordinator. It sounds funny, but that school has a fairly big athletics program.
