USA Today: Keith Williams - Most Motivational Coach in College Football

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Keith Williams, the wideouts coach at the University of Nebraska, promised that Friday night’s football camp would be epic:

He lived up to it with some impressive motivational speeches at the school’s “Friday Night Lights” camp late last week. According to Omaha.com, it was the third and final “Friday Night Lights” camp this season and attracted a number of impressive prospects. It also gave Williams a chance to show off his motivational speaking skills.
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I wonder if Williams has ever considered head coaching. Right now I would peg him as the perfect mold of a position coach: Aggressive recruiter, passionate and knowledgeable about the position he coaches.

If he continues to make waves in recruiting and molding NFL talent, I could see people start to mention him as a HC candidate. I just wonder if that is an aspiration of his.

 
Meanwhile, the twitter account of a certain position coach in Columbus, OH

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IA State Husker said:
I wonder if Williams has ever considered head coaching. Right now I would peg him as the perfect mold of a position coach: Aggressive recruiter, passionate and knowledgeable about the position he coaches.

If he continues to make waves in recruiting and molding NFL talent, I could see people start to mention him as a HC candidate. I just wonder if that is an aspiration of his.
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Well, unless I'm mistaken, he was an offensive coordinator/wide receiver coach from 2005 to 2008 at San Jose State, but has been a position coach since. So, I think he would have to bolster his coordinating experience before he was a legitimate head coaching candidate.

But, he could be heading that direction. He's still pretty young.

 
HuskerJax said:
Whatever it takes to keep him here
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Agree with you on this. I'm pretty sure Riley has this same thought.

Looking at last year's Assistant Coach Salaries, The only Big Ten position coaches that made more than 400K were Greg Mattison (DL Michigan) at 450K, and Larry Johnson (DL/AHC Ohio State) at 420K.

I didn't consider Coordinators, but it looks like there are a few "co-coordinators and /Assistant Head Coach"-type positions out there. I think both titles are a way to justify a higher salary for a great recruiter. I could see us doing this with Williams if we were in danger of losing him.

(SMH at Bruce Read's 450K salary BTW)

 
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IA State Husker said:
HuskerJax said:
Whatever it takes to keep him here
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Agree with you on this. I'm pretty sure Riley has this same thought.

Looking at last year's Assistant Coach Salaries, The only Big Ten position coaches that made more than 400K were Greg Mattison (DL Michigan) at 450K, and Larry Johnson (DL/AHC Ohio State) at 420K.

I didn't consider Coordinators, but it looks like there are a few "co-coordinators and /Assistant Head Coach"-type positions out there. I think both titles are a way to justify a higher salary for a great recruiter. I could see us doing this with Williams if we were in danger of losing him.

(SMH at Bruce Read's 450K salary BTW)
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Aren't the SEC assistants insanely over paid???

Maybe part of the huge bump in Big Ten payouts next year will go to the assistant coaches. I remember TO passing on his pay raises to the assistants.

 
Aren't the SEC assistants insanely over paid???
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Out of the 9 assistants that made over 1 Million in salary last year, 6 were from SEC schools. So I would say yes.

 
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