I just don't think that's practical. The QB room, at least, will know immediately. Word will get out to players quickly.
Boom: "In 2017, he was the Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at Northern Arizona and... he mentored quarterback Case Cookus..."
You're correct. There's plenty of blame to go around. However if you're in line to be promoted why goes out of your way to save your incompetent boss. Sometimes smart people let things run its due course. Do you think Rossi was so dumb when Robb Smith was here? That's what I like about Rossi. He let it play out and was ready when his name was called. We don't need nice choir boys to have successful organizations. Competent ones. They are getting paid big boy money to do the work. It is business end of the day. What makes you believe that Sanford is receptive to Simon's ideas?
Agree. Too much ahead to go that dramatic. Could be far too great of a distraction. Now if the OP is talking behind the scenes with Simon being "Co-OC" then maybe?
On the surface, in the majority of games the total points scored hasn't been the issue. I would argue it's HOW they score the points that needs to be examined. They have a very experienced OL, and even down to RB5 and RB6, our RB's are honestly still on par or better than a good chunk of the B1G. Lining up and continually running into 8+ man boxes doesn't scream smart OC to me. This is essentially how they've been successful - they've imposed their will against weaker teams, no matter how much they sell out to stop the run. In the instances where our experienced OL has a garbage game (BGSU, ILL), our battleship is sunk because we have no ability to pivot in-game.
Your assumption is college football coaches are always competent and/or not stubborn. Is that a safe assumption? I don’t think it is.Right.
What I just can't fathom is: why didn't Purdue, Nebraska, Maryland, and Northwestern just do exactly the same thing????
What was Bert able to see, that none of those four could figure out?? Bert!!!
Quarterback coaching is developmental work in spring and fall camps. Nothing going on now except with Athan. Doubt Sanford has any time for it during week of game prep.
Yeah. He has called two really bad games.
Everyone always says Simon yet he has no OC job when he undoubtedly could’ve had one outside the program if he wanted one. So my question is, does Simon want an OC job right now?
What young coach doesn't want promotion. They are all trying to climb the ladder.
My sources say Simon wanted the OC job last time around.
Then why is he still here?
I’m assuming Sanford has turned down OC jobs outside the program OR hasn’t sought them out
Yes, the play calling frustrated me and pissed me off; but you've also got to look at the players, especially the offensive line. Both for the Bowling Green game and for Illinois the whole team came out flat. After the first quarter of both games, you could sense trouble. The defense finally got aggressive and Gibbens had that great series where he stopped the play three times in a row. That lit a fire for the defense against Illinois. Nothing like that happened for the offense.
Older ones maybe if they were not promoted much. But young guys mostly aspire to be head coaches some day and coordinator gives them their best shot.
Bucky doesn't seem to like a small crease..he'd rather bounce it outside and use his speed. Ky is the No. 1 back. He will run the play and fight for yards. Good to have both.
Venables has been turning down head coaching opportunities for 20 years. Since he was a 30 year old DC for national champ Oklahoma.
This is a good take:
The argument I'd make against this is that you now have home losses in year 5 to both Bowling Green (3-6 MAC team) and Illinois (Under a 1st year head coach, 3-6). The losses are due to an inability to score points.
Locksley wouldn't have been able to figure it out, but the other three, I was surprised.
it can happen to anyone, though.
"No" to both questions I take it.
I think you are being a little too generous here in the comparisons. It’s more than a one game tilt. We have the Covid season and this season so far and there are definitely flaws in his game calling and passing scheme. Now can he fix it? That’s the question. Examples above definitely show they can.
