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Akina to Stanford - washingtonismoney - 03-09-2014

Per Twitter: https://twitter.com/BobbyBurton247/status/442799895859048448

Re: Akina to Stanford - Treefence - 03-09-2014

This is a wonderful hire for Stanford! Also he was linked to the same job at Cal, so that makes it even better...

Re: Akina to Stanford - PrinceLightfoot - 03-09-2014

This should help with several highly-rated DB recruits who began to waver slightly after Mason left to Vandy. Very nice addition!

Re: Akina to Stanford - washingtonismoney - 03-09-2014

(03-09-2014, 04:24 PM)PrinceLightfoot link Wrote:This should help with several highly-rated DB recruits who began to waver slightly after Mason left to Vandy. Very nice addition!

Akina also is from Hawai'i, so he may help in assembling our Hawaiian Defensive Line Voltron.

Video of Akina - BostonCard - 03-09-2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDWQvCa5vaY&feature=youtu.be

BC

I understand another fan base was expecting him as DB coach - yvonne - 03-09-2014

http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81572
http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81571
http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81492
http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81782

Oh, and for good measure, here's today's thread.
http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82870

Re: Akina to Stanford - yvonne - 03-09-2014

He's got that same toughness mentality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVILDWmFUIM

Re: Akina to Stanford - rudruff - 03-09-2014

More excited about his Texas connections than his Hawaii ones.

He won't have to introduce himself anytime we go looking for Texas HS talent.

Re: I understand another fan base was expecting him as DB coach - BostonCard - 03-09-2014

(03-09-2014, 05:32 PM)Yvonne link Wrote:http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81572
http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81571
http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81492
http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81782

Oh, and for good measure, here's today's thread.
http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82870

What is hilarious is that the bears are utterly blinded to reasons why Akina might have spurned them.  They assume that it is money (it might be), and one poster had the insight to know that we could probably offer him housing.  But did it ever occur to them that Akina might not have wanted to go to Cal because a) they suck, and who wants to be tainted with a stint in that fetid place, while b) Stanford is coming off 4 consecutive BCS bowls and has a proven recent track record, c) who knows how much longer Sonny Dykes, while to the extent that there has been any speculation behind Shaw it has been whether he goes to the NFL c) Stanford has a really good record getting assistant coaches and coordinators moving up the career ladder and d) Cal sucks.

BC

Re: Akina to Stanford - Griffins78 - 03-09-2014

Here's an article when Strong took over at Texas and Akina was let go with comments of love from his former players:

http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/colleges/texas/post/_/id/20993/players-react-to-db-coach-akinas-departure

This is a big coup for Shaw & Co. and will help solidify the upward trajectory we've been on with DBs. With Sherman and now Akina we could become a destination for great DBs.

Re: Akina to Stanford - FarmBoy - 03-10-2014

Don't teams running up tempo offenses have an uphill battle in recruiting defensive coaches and players? I've heard some will spurn a place just because they know it's going to make their career stats look worse (more plays against, more yards against, more points against, etc.)

Re: Akina to Stanford - washingtonismoney - 03-10-2014

Akina speaks...texts:

Quote:"I really appreciated Coach Shaw and the Stanford staff," Akina said in a text message. "Excited to join a university so rich in tradition academically and athletically, much like the one I just left. Looking forward to being part of a great staff and continue to grow in this profession."

And he's changed changed part of Twitter too: https://twitter.com/CoachAkina

Re: Akina to Stanford - yvonne - 03-10-2014

He needs to change his background.

Re: Akina to Stanford - Bruce Wang - 03-10-2014

(03-10-2014, 07:59 AM)Yvonne link Wrote:He needs to change his background.

I wouldn't mind UT in the background, as long as it featured pictures of the DBs he's coached there.

Re: Akina to Stanford - Leftcoast - 03-10-2014

I'm lost. 

Coach Akina has a Stanford helmet as his twitter avatar and an aerial shot of a full to capacity Stanford stadium as his twitter background.  It's hard to get more partisan than that.

A very recent change from Texas perhaps? 

Re: Akina to Stanford - washingtonismoney - 03-10-2014

(03-10-2014, 09:25 AM)Leftcoast link Wrote:I'm lost. 

Coach Akina has a Stanford helmet as his twitter avatar and an aerial shot of a full to capacity Stangord stadium as his twitter background.  It's hard to get more partisan than that.

A very recent change from Texas perhaps?

Check the background surrounding his feed.

Re: Akina to Stanford - yvonne - 03-10-2014

It shows up on the desktop version of the site, but doesn't show up on the tablet version.

Re: Akina to Stanford - FarmBoy - 03-10-2014

LC - look to the left and right of the aerial shot of Stanford stadium. His "wallpaper" is still Texas.

Re: Akina to Stanford - Leftcoast - 03-10-2014

Thanks guys. 

I see the vestigial Longhorn residue on my PC BUT Coach Akina is looking good on my IPhone!  Maybe he's an IOS/new media kind of guy.  He certainly is burning up his twitter feed with call outs.  I guess that 'a what coaches do in the off season these days.

Re: Akina to Stanford - oman - 03-11-2014

Well, you can't take all the Texas out of him, sorry to say. 

You all teased us but suffered us, mostly gladly, as far as I can remember.