I hope you don't mind, but I added some code and changed the title for the bump.

I caught some of the conference call, but not the who thing.  It's family time in the M household, but hopeful someone will post the appropriate link to the 570 website when the podcast is available.  They should have both the call and an interview.

is the RN evaluated them as individuals.  He said in the conference call thats linked above that he met with each individually to see where they were at.  Im glad that he is taking his time and not accepting them as a package deal

With his silence and his advocates' unflagging promotion over these weeks, the real person was starting to take on a mysterious, even sinister personna.

It was great to hear DW utter words like "we" and "championship" and "unfinished business" and "I'm just happy to be back a Bruin."

Go Bruins.

Good.

Now it's time to GET TO WORK.
I hope DW will show us that he can stop the spread and develop some shutdown DBs.

and don't think for a second DW will rock the boat because if there was any sign he might, RN wouldn't have kept him. RN knows what it takes to be a head coach and a staff working as one is part of what it takes. I'm glad RN got it done and the fact that he beat out Washington and Texas (I'm not 100% sure I believed they were that interested) for DW shows he has what it takes to sell the program. He'll be beating out places like that and every other program for recruits in the near future too.

RN has been out of the game for 5 years and DW has made some good recruiting connections so RN will be introduced to these people and be able to maintain the relationships long after DW leaves. While I was never under the impression our recruiting would collapse without DW, you cannot ignore the fact that DW has done a good job in that area and will help. With DW's connections and RN's personality finishing the job, I can't wait to see the talent we bring in.

It will be interesting to see what DW does this season on defense considering the amount of talent leaving. He will have to be creative defensively to hide some of our weak spots and really emphasize the fundamentals because I feel our fundamentals (especially our footwork tackling) has been poor.

I think we need to remember DW only has 2 years of DC experience. He's going to keep learning and get better so I think we're only going to see our defense improve with the recruits we bring in and DW's growth. This is why DW wasn't ready to be a HC. He hasn't even mastered being a DC yet, but I'm excited to see him grow with RN's direction (Yes I'm saying "grow," but there's nothing wrong with growth if they actually are growing unlike we were under the previous regime).

Yes some of this I also said on the other thread, but this seems to be the main one for this topic.

"...DW only has 2 years of DC experience. ....He hasn't even mastered being a DC yet..."

And, that's why many of us did not want him to stay.

But, weeks ago, I put up a post that said if a new, experienced HC, wanted to keep DW that would be fine with me.

Much of DW's development will be determined by who we bring in to run the O and the O system we employ.

I wrote that Walker's development has been held back by practicing against an anemic O. His D could dominate in practices and still not be ready for real teams -- and that was not all his fault.

Although I would have preferred another choice, an experienced DC -- we've had enough learning on the job during the last 5 years -- I trust RN.

If RN wants Walker, I want Walker.