Ryan Silverfield was looking to replace his recruiting director, but he ended up with something else — a general manager.
The Memphis football coach recently hired Beau Davidson, who had been the director of player personnel at Georgia Tech, to be the Tigers’ general manager. That’s a position popping up more and more in college football — someone still focused on recruitment, but also working on roster retention and competing in the new era of college football.
“He’s still running our recruiting department,” Silverfield said. “I also think in this day and age, with the amount of things that are occurring in college football — transfer portal, roster management, evaluation of current players — continuing to come across a recruiting department’s desk and my desk, I felt like it was great to have a right hand man that could help us.”
Davidson has spent time in the high school ranks and also at Texas Tech, UConn and Georgia Tech. He said he’d visited Memphis before but didn’t know much about the Tigers’ program until he came to the Bluff City and met with Silverfield.
“I didn’t really know what was here until I got here,” Davidson said. “And to say I was surprised in a good way is an understatement. The facilities are absolutely amazing. You can just tell, just talking to coach Silverfield, sitting in staff meetings, the man has a plan. And he’s excited about these kids and excited about this program. And that was one of the main reasons I took this job. You could see it in his face, hear it in his voice: This is a real dude right here. So I was fired up about it.”
The general manager position is probably different at every school, Davidson said. That’s because each school has different recruiting needs and has to decide how much time to spend on transfers and on roster retention. Davidson is replacing Luke…
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Author : The Commercial Appeal
Publish date : 2024-02-14 11:02:25
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