Is Blake Gideon really a ST/LB coach at South Carolina now? If so, I can tell you ... some stuff.
Blake Gideon
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Apparently Gideon was just hired by South Carolina.
He played safety at Texas under Muschamp. After he graduated he followed Muschamp to UF and worked as a defensive quality control staff member. Then he followed Muschamp to Auburn and worked as a secondary assistant coach.
Not a lot of experience, but I don't see anything negative about him.
He played safety at Texas under Muschamp. After he graduated he followed Muschamp to UF and worked as a defensive quality control staff member. Then he followed Muschamp to Auburn and worked as a secondary assistant coach.
Not a lot of experience, but I don't see anything negative about him.
Everyone has to start somewhere, this shows you the confidence Muschamp has in Gideon. Gideon's dad was a football HC at a big Texas high school (Leander). When Blake played safety at Texas, he had some physical limitations (speed), but was considered a coach on the field. Even when an underclassman. He had 52 consecutive starts for Texas at safety. Camped with the Broncos and Cardinals. We all assumed he would be a defensive coach some day, this is just sooner than you would expect. The guy is only 26 years old and position coaching in the SEC? Wow. I think he will be great as a coach. Respected by all his teammates and a hard worker, so don't be surprised if he turns out to be a great recruiter too.
I misunderstood your original post. The way that first post is stated I thought you were implying that there was something negative about him in some way.
Obviously he has impressed Muschamp.
I thought you were going to tell us we had another woman chaser on our hands. I thought "oh wonderful, we should rename our mascot the Jerry Springers".
Well there is a negative. A huge negative. Mention his name to a Longhorn fan and you can expect to hear an exasperated groan. One of those names you just don't want to hear again. Don't worry, it won't make him a bad coach, he may use it to be even better.
Why? We think he cost us a national championship. Think back to the 2008 season. Texas had a really good team quarterbacked by Colt McCoy, with a bunch of future NFLers like Brian Orapko. Wound up No. 4 in the nation at 12-1. Beat A&M 49-9, Arkansas 52-10, Oklahoma 45-35, Missouri 56-31, and finished beating Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. The sole loss was to Mike Leach's Texas Tech in Lubbock. Texas Tech has always been a wimp on the road, but Lubbock is a hard place to win. Texas manged to go ahead with a TD with 30 seconds to play. Tech got the ball and moved to mid field with 15 seconds left. Tech overthrows a WR and it hits the safety, Blake Gideon, right in his stomach. I mean it was drilled down the field right at a freshman safety. It hits him in the stomach and he drops it. With .02 seconds left Mike Crabtree, later a SF No.1 pick, despite tight double coverage, catches a TD to upset the Longhorns. So many, many Longhorns think he cost us a national championship game at the very least, likely more. Florida didn't look very impressive beating Oklahoma and had lost to Ole Miss, Texas played the Sooners at least as well as Florida did.
No, Blake is a pretty conservative guy. Here he is with his mom. Not a woman chaser.
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Crabtree caught the ball with 2 seconds left, not .02. Football clocks don't work that way.
Regardless, if a freshman mistake makes Longhorns fan hate the kid forever, then I think the only true "negative" is those Longhorn fans. Because, seriously, missing an INT, one which bounced off a helmet and hit Gideon in the chest WHILE HE WAS DIVING wasn't the reason that you lost that game. Allowing a 40 yard kick return, soft coverage, and poor tackling lost that game. Any Texas fan who holds a grudge against him is human garbage.
Is this the "stuff" you were referring to? Pretty dang weak, Longhorn.
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So what your basically saying is we don't have to worry about him going back to Texas in any capacity any time soon? GOOD, I like it
Funny I recall Rashard Faison dropping a sure pick 6 that would have given us a 28 point lead in the Swamp back in a Lou year. Stone hands gets you put on defense in some cases. I guess that was so with Gideon.
He was a 2 star recruit (per rivals) and played as a true frosh. If he had so many limitations, how the heck was he playing on a National Championship caliber team as a Freshman... Surely it couldn't have been something to the effect that either they lacked depth at that position or he was better than is being made and beat out others...
Sorry, BST, but this sounds like sour grapes over a dropped int and to pin missing a national championship on a 2 star frosh who dropped it is pretty crappy. Not saying you are doing it, but it sounds like some of your UT brethren are.
Sorry, BST, but this sounds like sour grapes over a dropped int and to pin missing a national championship on a 2 star frosh who dropped it is pretty crappy. Not saying you are doing it, but it sounds like some of your UT brethren are.
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Look, Battleship was asked and he gave the reasons why there was a negative tone to his thread regarding Gideon. He told us what the deal was and now he is getting hammered. You guys are overreacting.
It's like Cubs fans toward Bill Buckner. To us it seems unfair and ridiculous. To Cubs fans, it can't be denied. The heart reacts in certain ways that can't always be justified.
I was not hammering him...
I was just pointing out that it seemed pretty crappy to blame a 2 star frosh for losing a national championship, if that is hammering then we have gotten really sensitive...
I will now hold hands with you and BST and sing kumbaya.
Did I miss something on the Bill Buckner / Cubs ref or should that read BoSox fans?
Also, isn't Gideon a GA working with the Secondary and not a position coach?
I was just pointing out that it seemed pretty crappy to blame a 2 star frosh for losing a national championship, if that is hammering then we have gotten really sensitive...
I will now hold hands with you and BST and sing kumbaya.
Did I miss something on the Bill Buckner / Cubs ref or should that read BoSox fans?
Also, isn't Gideon a GA working with the Secondary and not a position coach?
I sat right there and watched it, and after that play, Florida "swamped us". We could have won the East that day. Oh, how the Holtz era might have been transformed had that interception been caught.
Not sure, but Buckner had a solid stent with the Cubs before he was a Red Sock. Leo Duhram was the Cub in '84 who let the ball go between his legs.
Thanks Battleship TX. Always appreciate a little insight on coaches or players. Too bad about the missed INT. Sounds like UTSr. could have added another Natty had he come up with the play. Anyway, most importantly, it sounds like we got a great young coach with a coaching pedigree, a leader and coach from his days on the field, and a great young man to represent our university. All great things to hear. Hope to see UT back to great soon. Went to a couple of Red River showdowns while living in Dallas and loved it. Always wish the best for Charlie Strong too! Good luck in 2016 and thanks again for the insight.
I don't know that you can even say he had bad hands, Gideon intercepted 10 passes in his career. First he was a freshman at the time and second, sometimes that just happens. Ask Jackie Smith. He was one of the greatest TEs in NFL history, but drops an easy TD pass from Staubach in the Super Bowl. As a Dallas Cowboy fan, that one play is what I remember when I hear Jackie's name. Not the 5 straight pro bowls, the 480 receptions or 7900+ receiving yards. Totally unfair, of course. But it can't be helped. Same for Gideon. He started 50+ games, tackled well, did many great things. But when you hear his name, a Longhorn immediately thinks of that one play.
I would think a defensive coach could actually use it to his advantage. Every DB gives up a TD pass at some point and has to shake that off and forget it. Blake could use that experience as a teaching lesson.
That's it, that's your negative? Damn, you set this post up like breaking news. He!!, I saw the Bronco receivers drop tons of balls last week. I see DB's drop sure INT's each and every game of every week in college and pros. Big wow on that one. I mean, it's not like he missed a game winning chip shot FG. Then you could groan. You need to blame the rest of the team for letting Tech get close enough to score to begin with. BTW, most G'cock fans were probably pulling for TTech that day............I'm just sayin
Oh, bull.
He started this thread with the ominous message:
Ooh, what skeletons does Gideon have in his closet? Was he caught with a live boy or a dead girl? Does he have a crippling addiction? Did he run a ponzi scheme? Is he wanted by the FBI? Does he hypnotize recruits to get them to sign?!
The truth is... Oh, NO! The truth is far, far more terrible than we could have imagined! In the fourth quarter of a game in his freshman year he dove for a deflected ball and was unable to make the catch. Oh, the horror! THE HORROR!
Seriously, what "stuff" did he tell us? What was the point at all? There was negative about him in the thread - you know, the thread that he started. It was the FIRST mention of Gideon on this board, and there was the implication that he had done something bad in his life or a serious problem with his character. And now it appears that he's full of crap.
I have NO problem calling him out on that, and neither should any of us.
Man I still remember watching that game on tv. I was living in San Antonio at the time. Great game, but a heartbreaking loss.
Uh, no. Texas wasn't beating this guy in 98.
Remember that Bama's undefeated 98 team couldn't beat Florida minus Percy Harvin in the SECCG.
Psst. Wrong decade
Yeah, yeah...they weren't beating him in 2008.
Ole Miss beat them. Colt McCoy was a lot better qb than Tebow, both in college and the pros. But whether they beat Florida or not, Blake is still blamed for missing a national championship game in many Longhorns minds, no matter how unfair that is to him. He had a great overall career at Texas.
Wow, you are a pretty negative thinker. I thought I was extremely complimentary about Gideon.
Maybe so. You started with the ominous message, "If so ... I can tell you some stuff." Punctuation has meaning, bud, and ellipsis in this usage literally mean that you are leaving something out or that you have more to say that you normally wouldn't. Then you follow that up with ridicule for us for not knowing right away that we're getting a graduate assistant in the middle of the night. Mind you, you thought he was our LB/ST coach when we knew we recently hired one.
It's like when you hired Charlie Strong. If I came onto your board in the middle of the night and wrote, "I hear you hired Charlie Strong. If so.... I can tell you some stuff." Maybe it was the first time you heard of it, so I wrote back, "You mean a Gamecock hears about your coaches being hired before you do?" What would you think of me? Almost definitely that I have negative things to say and that I'm bit of a pompous jerk." But that's just me, ol' negative nellie.
Thanks for the insights, though. Honestly. I think Gideon will be a good fit and will probably move up the ranks in the next year.
Gideon certainly has a bright future as a coach ahead of him. A tot of people were saying that years ago as a freshman when he started and was telling upper classmen what their defensive assignments were.
lolz. I was reading the Bama boards during the week leading up to the national championship game and they were constantly making fun of Texas fans for "if we only Colt had not been injured, we would have beaten Bama."
Yes. Some do. They went for the ball instead of the tackle. Bad mistake. Some blame Colt for scoring our last TD too quickly. We were on the one yard line and could have burned extra time before scoring. Even an extra 10 - 15 seconds would have made the comeback fail. But that is what happens when you lose a close & important game, you remember every minor miscue.
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