Football coaching changes

NewBearFan

JoshUCA

hmmm..interesting.

[deleted]

The wrong one left

Gready

I hope whatever changes to coaching staff/leadership that might come along benefits both sides of the ball and ESPECIALLY special teams.

Gready

NewBearFan

He was a bright spot. If he's truly gone, I wish him and his family the best. Now we gotta look at who needs to go from the defense side of the ball. Which could include our defensive coordinator. He's way too predictable.

Mulerider

Need to go after Bill Keopple for a coaching position. He retired from SAU and lives in Conway now.

UCABEARS75

Mulerider LOL; uh NO!

JoshUCA

From Johnson

he confirmed in on X (aka Twitter)

Bear nation @UCA_Football I appreciate the way you all welcomed my family & I - will forever be thankful for the experiences & memories!

Players, I love you boys! Stand tall & keep striving for greatness no matter the circumstance - you all have made me a better man & coach 🖤

Mulerider

UCABEARS75

Why not 😅

UCABEARS75

Mulerider he’s retired!! For a reason I would guess.

UCABears19

https://ucasports.com/news/2024/11/26/football-brown-to-restructure-coaching-staff.aspx

Jmb3125

Does Coach Brown really think offense is the only problem?

Typical for a former QB turned head coach. Not one word in the article about a terrible defense that gave up nearly 30 points per game this season…

JoshUCA

UCABears19 You beat me to posting it. This is interesting to me. Does this leave the door open for a potential new head coach? I mean if he’s basically taking over these two coaching positions, when is going to be the head man? Sounds like this is a way to keep him around, but slip someone else in as HC.

UCABears19

"It will be the first time as a head coach that I've assumed these roles."

Makes it seem like he's staying Head Coach and assuming OC and QB roles. Maybe down the road open up for new HC? The news mentions more coaching changes to be made down the road which could also mean on defensive side. Honestly the wording towards the end sounds like a complete wash of everyone and starting over but I highly doubt that is the case. Will be very interesting to see what changes are made and I hope they're made quickly before our talent decides to enter in the portal.

Gready

UCABears19

What's interesting about how the article is written is that it doesn't say what is happening with Coach Collums. Is he staying on board but being downgraded to WRs coach seeing how Coach Johnson won't be with us any longer.

Scott_Bevail_1

So Ken Collums is out? And now Matt Whitting actually thinks that Nathan Brown can do 3 jobs at once? This is a freaking joke

UCABears19

Scott_Bevail_1 Not sure how much Head Coaching was being done anyways as Brown is very hands off

Gready

Scott_Bevail_1

If it means the offense being a little less predictable and scoring even more points with Coach Brown splitting the HC/OC/QB Coach duties, I'm all for it. It's not too uncommon that offensive minded coaches call their own plays. Maybe this is what we need to outscore opponents until we can get things figured out on defense.

SlickNick19

I agree. I don’t think this is a bad thing. Our team was pretty good under Browns OC days and if this gives us the spark that we had back then, then great!! I hope Collums is completely gone. Go back to ACU and make them bad again. But article says that more changes to come. Hopefully that means special teams will get revamped. As for defense. I’m not sure if a change is needed. Toward end of the season there was definitely something wrong but as a whole the defense has been what won us a majority of the games we did get.

JoshUCA

“One thing that you do as a head coach is you're evaluating every piece and aspect of your program, and that's from top to bottom," he said. "From myself, to coordinators, to assistants within your program, as well as your players. So there will be more staff realignment as we move forward, and we're looking forward to putting the right pieces in place, coaches who are going to push our players to take another step in not only our UAC play but to have a chance in November and December to be a playoff-caliber team every single year.

"And that's on both sides of the ball, including special teams, that I feel is necessary to make us better, to make us a contender every single year. There's nothing more precious to me than the University of Central Arkansas football program, and because of that, I don't take any changes lightly. But I do take changes seriously.

"Nothing gives me more joy than watching my alma mater succeed in the sport I was fortunate enough to play here at UCA.
I'm excited about this. It's a new challenge. It will be the first time as a head coach that I've assumed these roles. It's exciting and I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to surround myself with really talented coaches, and coaches that are going to give everything they have for our program."