{"id":1435,"date":"2012-06-11T08:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyonation.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2012-06-11T08:39:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:39:55","slug":"football-staff-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/football-staff-shuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Staff Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyomingathletics.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/spec-rel\/060612aad.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">hiring of assistant coach Derrick LeBlanc<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>from LSU\u00a0was announced last week along with a few other bits of information that flew under the radar. LeBlanc\u00a0who has experience as a defensive line and as a\u00a0strength and conditioning coach will\u00a0watch over the Wyoming defensive line this season taking over for Danilo Robinson\u00a0who has been moved into an administrative role. It will be interesting to see what dynamic LeBlanc\u00a0adds to the staff and I am especially excited about his ties\u00a0to southern states rich with football talent. Can Wyoming expand their\u00a0recruiting footprint to Arkansas and Louisiana where LeBlanc\u00a0is sure to have many contacts?\u00a0I would hope that this is one of the main reasons he was brought on staff.<\/p>\n<p>The other football staff news is interesting as well. Pete Kaligis\u00a0who was one of two offensive line coaches will continue to work some with the O-Line but\u00a0will now mainly coach running backs. Jason Ray who was the running backs coach will now coach wide receivers with Derek Sage, a position Ray played at Missouri from 2003-2007. Matt Rahl\u00a0will continue to coach the defensive\u00a0line with\u00a0the newly hired LeBlanc\u00a0but has\u00a0added recruiting coordinator to his duties for the up coming season. All these moves are in addition to the hiring of Chris Tormey\u00a0as defensive coordinator\u00a0over the winter who took over for the departed Marty English. This is important to note because this is the first time in Dave Christensen&#8217;s tenure that his staff has all been hand-picked by him. Let&#8217;s hope they all get on well and move the program forward as Christensen expects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official hiring of assistant coach Derrick LeBlanc\u00a0from LSU\u00a0was announced last week along with a few other bits of information that flew under the radar. LeBlanc\u00a0who has experience as a defensive line and as a\u00a0strength and conditioning coach will\u00a0watch over the Wyoming defensive line this season taking over for Danilo Robinson\u00a0who has been moved into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[164,282,92,84,283,284,285,286,82,287,155],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy-tough","tag-chris-tormey","tag-coaching-staff","tag-danilo-robinson","tag-dave-christensen","tag-derek-sage","tag-derrick-leblanc","tag-jason-ray","tag-marty-english","tag-matt-rahl","tag-pete-kaligis","tag-wyoming-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}