The National Signing Day festivities were overshadowed Wednesday by the news that coaches Jerry Montgomery and Corey Raymond will be leaving the IU football program.
Montgomery will join Brady Hoke's staff at Michigan and Raymond will join Bo Pelini's staff at Nebraska.
IU coach Kevin Wilson replaced Montgomery with Brett Dierson, who worked with co-defensive coordinator Mike Ekeler at Nebraska. Raymond's spot has yet to be filled, but Wilson said he hoped to have that done by early next week.
Wilson also announced the hiring of running backs coach Jemal Singleton, who joins the Hoosiers after eight years at the Air Force Academy. Singleton has been in town the last several days due to the inclement weather.
The news about Raymond and Montgomery isn't all that surprising because there had been rumors surfacing on several websites. As it turned out, Montgomery never even unpacked his boxes at IU and has known about the move for about three weeks.
But it does worry me a little bit. I don't blame Wilson for letting these guys out of their contracts because you only want people here who want to be here. I worry about the players who, according to sources, weren't even told about these departures.
These are guys who underwent a coaching change only two months ago and they were trying to get acquanited to their new postion coaches. Then they leave, without even a word to the players they were beginning to work with.
Seems a little rude to me.
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this topic.
