You know, for a team that finished 5-7, Pitt’s coaches seem to be in demand. Ball, Rhoads (obligatory, awkward self-high five) and now WR Coach Aubrey Hill. He is taking the WR Coach spot at Miami.
A Miami native, Hill played at the University of Florida and was a graduate assistant there from 1996-98 and an intern with the Miami Dolphins under Wannstedt in 2002.
“The personal reasons for him going back to Miami make sense,” Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt said today. “He went to high school there in Miami. It’s a great opportunity to come back home and personal reasons were a major factor in him returning home.”
Hill did a very good job at Pitt, and will be working with probably the worst position on the Hurricanes (okay, QB was rather shaky as well). If he can help that group, he will be moving up the coaching ladder.
Coach Wannstedt said in the statement that he has no specific timetable or rush for hiring a new WR Coach. Clearly he doesn’t think it is a major issue with the recruiting class for that spot.
Baldwin’s pretty much been a shoo-in at Pitt for the better part of the last year anyway,.
If you notice, HS players are usually recruited by person other then their position coach – and I think that is so the staff’s bets are hedged in these situations. No matter what staff changes you have (usually) at least one coach the kid deals with is staying.
But HbgFrank is dead on when he said these kids are coming to play for Coach Wannstedt anyway.
