Our former RB Coach, Jim Chapin, has been hired as the University of Sioux Falls Offensive Coordinator. Congratulations Coach!

Good find, I'll put it up.

We still have a LS in Grant Hilton. Came in the same year as Garza and has been the starter I believe.

For those who don't want to go to different pages to see the info, the finalized coaching staff is...

Head Coach - Dan Hawkins
Assistant Head Coach and Running Backs - Mark Speckman
Defensive Coordinator - Robert Tucker
Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks - Tim Plough
Defensive Line - David Braun
Outside Linebackers - Jerry Brady
Inside Linebackers - Isaiah Jackson
Defensive Backs - Cha'pelle Brown
Offensive Line - Time Keane
Wide Receivers - Burl Toler III
Tight Ends and Recruiting Coordinator - Paul Creighton

I'm liking the staff that Hawkins has put together. Good mix of youth and experience. This all has me excited for Aggie football again!

Ags struggle in the 3rd quarter, only up by 1 now.

Aggies storm back in the 2nd and lead 38-25 at halftime! GO AGS! Helps that Aggies are shooting 62% to Jacksonville's 28%

Ravontae Holt has committed to Wyoming.

Absolutely. I really am crossing my fingers that he chooses to stay and play for Hawkins.

Way to go Aggies!!

Yep, I wonder why it took so long to get the OC taken care of too. I mean, we don't know all of the details but there may have be contract details to work out. I don't think our recruiting has taken too much of a hit though. We still have, at a minimum, 14 committed right now and we haven't lost any guys that were already committed to the best of my knowledge. We still have a month before signing day and a lot of recruits make up there minds during January official visits. I do wonder what kind of recruiting setup we will have under Hawkins though. Under Gould we expanded to recruiting AZ and the PNW, will we expand even further?

Not surprised McCann was let go, but still disappointing. I agree with you that he was actually doing a very good job on a staff that never quite got it going. Does this mean the 3 coaches that are staying are Braun, Creighton, and Keane? Or does Nurse, supposedly being moved to an office job, count as one of the 3 and one of the previously mentioned coaches is still being let go?

I'm fairly certain Coach McCann has been let go. He has updated his twitter profile and in his description it no longer says "Wide Receiver Coach at UC Davis" now it just says "Wide Receiver Coach". He has also updated his banner picture to basically what is his resume. This is also his latest tweet...

I think it's safe to say he won't be back next season. Shame, he seemed like a really nice guy.

Mason Hurst has committed to Cal Poly. Thats another big get for the Mustangs.

WR Andrew Boston has committed to Eastern Washington

Plough has updated his Twitter account. Looks like he will be coaching the QBs in addition to being OC.

Actually... something weird on Berggren. He actually graduated in 2015 so he has been at a JC? But I haven't been able to find anything about that either... now I'm confused on this one. I'll leave it up on the list for now, but I'm not sure of the backstory here.

At the time everyone was pretty "meh" about Jon Grant because we were starting to have 6-5 seasons after being dominant for so long. I would absolutely take another Jon Grant now.

Maybe Plough can get Cookus to transfer...

I'm not sure what the rules are. He also could have bought the hat at the bookstore or something.

Release on the hiring of Cha'pelle Brown.

http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/122316aab.html

Offer that I must have missed somewhere along the line. We have offered RB Dante Berggren. He has offers from UC Davis, Fresno, and New Mexico. He has since posted a picture of himself on twitter wearing an Aggie hat. Looks like we have a chance of landing him.