UM recruiting director to Bama maybe

[FISHDAWG]

could be German but I haven't seen this yet ... gonna have to build another Library juke joint in Tuscaloosa

Alabama poised to hire away Ole Miss' coordinator of recruiting development, Tyler Siskey
By Andrew Gribble | [email protected]
on March 13, 2013 at 8:01 PM, updated March 13, 2013 at 8:45 PM Print



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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- Ole Miss' coordinator of recruiting development Tyler Siskey -- who was AJ McCarron's quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator during his four-year stint at Mobile's St. Paul's Episcopal School -- is set to take a position on Nick Saban's support staff at Alabama, a source confirmed to AL.com.
It's unknown what title Siskey, a 35-year-old Anniston native, will hold with the Crimson Tide.

Alabama recently lost its associate director of football operations, Patrick Suddes, who was hired as Texas' new director of player personnel.

The Ole Miss Spirit, a Scout.com affiliate website that covers the Rebels, first reported the news.

Before joining Ole Miss' staff in 2012, Siskey spent the previous four seasons at Arkansas State, serving as the wide receivers coach for two different head coaches. He accompanied Hugh Freeze to Ole Miss.

Ole Miss' 2013 recruiting class was considered one of the best in the nation, as the Rebels landed an uncharacteristic five, 5-star recruits.

Siskey graduated from Troy in 2000 and earned his master's in education from Northwestern State in 2003. He was an offensive graduate assistant at Arkansas State for two seasons before joining the staff at St. Paul's in 2004.

After one season as the Saints' defensive coordinator/secondary coach, Siskey shifted to offense for his final three seasons. The Saints were AHSAA 5A state champions in Siskey's final year with the program.

The Anniston Star caught up with Siskey in February. According to the column, Siskey helps evaluate prospects on film and on campus whenever they made it to Ole Miss' campus.

"There are no off days. There are no off months," Siskey told The Star. "It’s like a doctor being on call all the time."

 

[Negative Waves]

All the Ole Miss fans at the office are freaking out over this. They're acting

like he's already gone. Is he that big a part of their recruiting?

 

[chew1095]

ITS THE 7TH SIGN!!!!!!!****************

 

[jacksonreb]

he is gone and i sit in wonderment at the dumbassery that

is football fandom. thankfully its not just ole miss fans but i am just amazed at the idiocy being spread about....although as a long time internet sports board follower i guess i shouldn't be.

yes he is a loss cause he's a smart energetic effective employee. heck if he wasn't saban wouldn't want him. but geez its not like freeze and ole miss have any real "secret" recruiting methods. and its sure not like saban needs our advice. he seems to recruit ok without stealing our "secret code". the two issues for us are, now we have to replace a very good and effective member of the recruiting staff and second saban will get info on some recruits we've evaluated highly who may be under the radar right now, but i'd say saban would probably figure them out on his own before the dust settled. neither of those are world shattering problems.

there are a lot of places where sisky could make a bigger difference than bama. he just made a solid career move. working for saban cannot hurt a guys career....unless of course saban fires him later.

ETA...i don't mean to act like the guy is nohing. he's by all accounts a terrific asset to our staff and efforts, again if he wasn't sharp saban wouldn't want him. but to act like our recruiting is suddenly going down the tubes due to his leaving is nonsense.

 

[chew1095]

Freeze has tons of "secrets" and we know all of them now. We stole your recruiting playbook this year.

 

[starkvegasdawg]

Just don't lose Scruggs, right? That would be the blow to UM recruiting.

 

[maroonmania]

is football fandom. thankfully its not just ole miss fans but i am just amazed at the idiocy being spread about....although as a long time internet sports board follower i guess i shouldn't be.

yes he is a loss cause he's a smart energetic effective employee. heck if he wasn't saban wouldn't want him. but geez its not like freeze and ole miss have any real "secret" recruiting methods. and its sure not like saban needs our advice. he seems to recruit ok without stealing our "secret code". the two issues for us are, now we have to replace a very good and effective member of the recruiting staff and second saban will get info on some recruits we've evaluated highly who may be under the radar right now, but i'd say saban would probably figure them out on his own before the dust settled. neither of those are world shattering problems.

there are a lot of places where sisky could make a bigger difference than bama. he just made a solid career move. working for saban cannot hurt a guys career....unless of course saban fires him later.

ETA...i don't mean to act like the guy is nohing. he's by all accounts a terrific asset to our staff and efforts, again if he wasn't sharp saban wouldn't want him. but to act like our recruiting is suddenly going down the tubes due to his leaving is nonsense.

Nah, Hugh don't need none of them there "secrets". National recruits love to flock to play their ol' college ball in the great state of MS for a program that ain't won a conference championship in football in 'bout 50 years. Ole Missy recruits itself, anybody with half a brain knows that. Heck, its got a Grove, what else do you need?