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ing film and devising ways to keep defenses off balance, working toward his goal of being unpredictable and keeping his offense from being categorized. On Mondays, he expected players to come in and get the game plan and ���talk through stuff,��� Hanson said. He expected what they learned to show up in the meeting room and on the practice field. He expected a lot. ���The stuff that he does in terms of techniques and mechanics is all really helpful, but he just sets the bar really high with how hard he works and his energy level in practice,��� Hanson said. ���Every day when you came into the meeting room or the practice field, you had to match his energy level and his intensity level. That was really tough to do. He set the bar pretty high. ���It just makes you want to get better and work harder.��� It���s a bit easier to put in work when Shoop���s approach gets results. T.J. Yates came to North Carolina as a raw prospect who had played only one year of football in high school. North Carolina Shoop stressed footwork, worked on balance, After rising up through the NFL ranks very quickly at a very and focused on developing a quick release. young age and working a dozen years in the pros, Shoop was He ���hammered away��� about fundamentals. North Carolina���s coordinator and quarterbacks coach prior to his Yates finished his career by completing 67 arrival at Purdue. percent of his passes and throwing for 3,418 different levels of commitment. There���s never been a coach yards and 19 touchdowns as a senior. He was I���ve been around that had a higher level of commitment than drafted by the Houston Texans. John Shoop,��� Beuerlein said. ���He was truly as hard of a worker as I���ve ever been around. I think that���s what he believed could separate him from other coaches and could get him the opportunities that he knew wouldn���t be easy to come by because he wasn���t a real recognizable name at that point. ���But the word spread quickly and that���s what created the opportunities for him, his work ethic and organizational ability. They want committed assistants, people they know are going to put the time and hours in.��� After two years as the Bears��� quarterbacks coach, he was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2001. He had stints with the Buccaneers and the Raiders before heading back to the college game with Butch Davis at North Carolina in 2007. It didn���t take long for the Tar Heels��� quarterbacks to realize they were learning from someone special. When starter Matt Schaub and backup Matt Leinart suffered season-ending injuries in 2011, Yates took over the starting role as a rookie. He wasn���t shaken. He knew he���d been prepared for the moment. ���Going into college, I really didn���t know much about football, as far as Xs and Os, reading defenses, anything like that,��� said Yates, who won three of six starts in ���11, including a playoff game. ���In high school, I just went out there and played. It���s safe to say he taught me everything I know about the game of football. ���He���ll definitely shape you into an NFL quarterback.��� And keep impressing the ones he���s already coached. ���Purdue is getting a guy that will definitely put the time in and who will be an incredibly sound teacher to those quarterbacks, and I think he���ll do a super job getting the most out of those young quarterbacks and bringing them along,��� Beuerlein said. ���His NFL experience obviously will come into light as well. I think it���s a great decision and a great asset that Purdue has a guy of his quality because he���s going to do a great job.��� j Molding talent All Braden Hanson had to do was have a conversation. Sure, Shoop���s NFL pedigree gave him instant credibility with a teenage quarterback. But it was when Hanson, a North Carolina recruit, first started actually talking to Shoop he knew he would be hard-pressed to find a better fit. Schemes, formations, coverages, reads, motions, shifts, footwork, Shoop could discuss them all in detail. And he did. And loved it. ���You immediately knew this guy knows his football, knows more than I���ll ever know,��� Hanson said. And then Hanson showed up at North Carolina and realized he���d be expected to increase his knowledge, too. Shoop would be in the office at 5:30 every morning, watchGBIprint.com GoldandBlack.com Gold & Black IllustrateD ��� volume 23, issue 4 ������ 39