Meet the Coaches: Charles London

Only time will tell. I really liked his background. Young, nice looking, good education. Still limited football experience, but I think you need a mixture of very experienced guys (LJ, Vandy), some middle experienced guys and some younger guys on a staff.

Beyond his football experience, I like he won several academic/athletic awards while at Duke and a best teammate award. I also like the fact, he has a few years of non-football experience. Working for Disney (unless he played the character Dopey!) can’t be all bad. Maybe that will give him some different credibility when recruiting as opposed to an all-football type guy. Don’t know. Kind of like professors. Those that never worked in business or industry never had as much credibility with me as those who worked outside academia for awhile.

If he is motivated, I just look at him as potentially a goood teacher and good recruiter. I liked that he was O’Briens first hire. We’ll have to wait and see.

London is the point man for one of our top remaining targets, NY RB Akeel Lynch. So there’s that.

Except for LJ, Vandy, and maybe the WR coach, since he’s shown he can produce talent. Otherwise, we have no clue as to what most of these assistant coaches can really do.

but he is still a step down from Galen Hall in terms of coaching RB’s. Galen had quite a resume in terms of RB’s produced (Emmit Smith, LJ jr, Royster, Hunt, etc.)

(unlike a certain other critical offensive position)

But as a Bears fan I can tell you he had very little to do with Matt Forte. Tim Spencer has been RB coach in Chicago since before this guy even became a coach. On the upside, he was let go by the Bears at the same time they cleaned house of Ron Turner and like 4 other offensive coaches. And he definitely wasnt let go cause he was a bad coach, just not one Mike Martz wanted. I mean Luke Butkus was the other QC Assistant, and he was let go. And a Butkus cannot be fired by the Bears… I believe it is a felony.

gets the honor part of success with honor, if not the success part.

I could be wrong, but it seems like RB coach is a good place to groom a young coach. There’s plenty to teach, but that’s a position that can rely on natural ability in many ways. I imagine he’s going to be a good recruiter if he’s as excited as people say he is.

(as displayed in the “meet the coaches” video on gopsu) – He seems like a good salesman – which is basically what a recruiter is

plus, I’ll bet his meetings will have the BEST snacks and sandwiches

That London Charles has what appears to be a very solid low center of gravity.

My logic puts somebody we don’t really know much about, good or bad, at a C, if they’re in a low-level position at least (I wouldn’t accept that in a more major role).

but FOS has an interview with BOB about recruiting, and in it BOB says that Charles London will be the recruiting coordinator