How is it we finally get a good d coordinator and he's going to leave and granted cockeyes d coordinator is about 500 years old but he's been there for a long time.
To be fair, Phil Parker's defenses at Cockeye from 2012 to 2017 were average to below average in the Big Ten. They never started playing shut down defense until these players showed up, starting in 2018:
AJ Epenesa - from Cockeye
Anthony Nelson - from Cockeye
Parker Hesse - from Cockeye
Riley Moss - from Cockeye
Kristian Welch - from Cockeye
Nick Nieman - from Cockeye
Daviyon Nixon - 20 minutes from Cockeye in Wisconsin
Seth Benson - 10 minutes from Cockeye in South Dakota
Jack Campbell - from Cockeye
Logan Lee - 12 minutes from Cockeye in Illinois
Joe Evans - from Cockeye
Lukas Van Ness - furthest away from Cockeye, in Chicago
Cooper DeJean - from Cockeye
13 Draft picks, 9 of them from Cockeye, 3 of them from minutes away from Cockeye, and the furthest dude 3 hours from Cockeye. They all signed and played defense with the Hawks since 2018. Phil Parker never changed his defense prior to the 2018 season. They've been doing the same thing they've always done. His talent just got better.
No other program wanted to hire a 50 year-old head coach who had the 45th to 60th ranked defense from 2012 to 2017.
White is much younger and is seeing instant results with a lot less NFL talent.