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Buzz on LB coach - Geoff Collins, DC at FIU - anyone got any scoop?

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mstatefan88

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Director of player personnel at Bama before he left. Then took over some ****** defenses and did a good job with them. Now he's going to have some talent to play with. Maybe he can take our young LB's and get them ready for SEC competition. Seems like a good hire if so.
 
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Baron Von Raschke

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<div id="divArticleHeader"><div class="arttitle"><b style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66; COLOR: black">Geoff[/b] <b style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff; COLOR: black">Collins[/b] Named Defensive Coordinator
<table class="artReleaseIcons" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="left"><table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="articlecopy" valign="top" align="left">Courtesy: FIUSports.com
</td><td class="articlecopy" valign="top" align="left"> </td><td class="articlecopy" valign="top" align="middle">Release: 01/11/2010
</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><table class="ArticleOtherLinks" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="B" valign="top"></td><td class="B" valign="top"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="divArticleContainer"><div id="ArticleBody" class="column"><div class="sm"></div><div></div><div style="FONT-SIZE: 11px"><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff66; COLOR: black">Geoff[/b] <b style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff; COLOR: black">Collins[/b] has been hired as FIU's new defensive coordinator, Panthers' head coach Mario Cristobal announced Thursday. <b style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff; COLOR: black">Collins[/b] comes to <b style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99; COLOR: black">FIU[/b] after spending two seasons as UCF's linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator.</font></p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></div><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In his two seasons with the Knights, <b style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff; COLOR: black">Collins[/b] helped UCF's defense rank second in Conference USA in scoring defense both years and first in total defense last season. </font></p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></div><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Before joining the Knights' staff, <b style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff; COLOR: black">Collins[/b] spent a year as the director of player personnel at Alabama. While at Alabama, Collins' was responsible for bringing in the best recruiting class in the history of the school along with being ranked the SEC's and nation's consensus No. 1 recruiting class. The previous year at Georgia Tech, <b style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff; COLOR: black">Collins[/b]' efforts led to the Yellow Jackets best recruiting class in their storied history. The class finished as the nation's 11th-ranked class overall and first in the ACC. </font></p></div></div></div>
 
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SyonaraStanz

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We're hearing there's a strong chance that FIU defensive coordinator Geoff Collins will accept a job offer from the Mississippi State -- perhaps as early as today.
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We are THE Mississippi State University.
 
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seattle slim

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Sign this guy up right now! That is a fantastic resume. Recruits, pay attention to the hires that Dan Mullen makes. We sure could use a 'best recruiting class in school history' type of guy that is equally as qualified with the x's and o's. If this holds up, it continues a trend of bringing in young, hungry, and innovative people. Nutt's hires aren't even close in my opinion. I seriously think that David Lee was living in Miami because of its reputation as a great retirement community. He certainly wasn't doing much work with the Dolphin qb's. Heck, the best hire Nutt ever made was with Gus Malzahn and he eventually was run off. If you want to be surrounded by high-energy, creativecoaches,MSU is the place to be.
 
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EAVdog

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has some additional stats:<div>
</div><div>improved Sacks from 80th to 20th in the nation,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 16px; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 16px; ">improved our 3rd DOWN DEFENSE to 23rd in the COUNTRY from 91st,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 16px; ">FIU PASS DEFENSE improved to 33rd NATIONALLY in '10 from 108th in '09.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 16px; ">
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 16px; ">I'm really liking this hire.</span></div>
 
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