I thought Limegrover had done better since Kill stepped down, but doing double duty as both coordinator and position coach had to be grueling. Someone posted Zebrowski's pupils and if they graded him the way they want to grade teachers throughout Minnesota on their pupils' test scores, Zebrowski would be undergoing extensive staff development.
As MikeAZ posted, with all the coaching changes taking place throughout the country, there's a ton of guys looking for work. I don't know if I necessarily want to go back to as extreme a zone-blocking scheme as Mason used. Everyone zone blocks to some extent and one of the problems I saw in the Mason era is that we had guys running all over the place between the 10 yard lines, but when it came to straight-on power football, we often got manhandled. I think we just have to get stronger across the line and that means developing guys both in terms of size and technique. I'm surprised that Eric Klein hasn't come under greater scrutiny because I just don't see this team as that physically imposing.
If you're going to run the read option, the QB has to be more of a home run threat than Leidner is. Leidner is a really tough kid with inconsistent passing mechanics, but he's not exactly what I'd call nimble. When he gets up a head of steam you can almost see the opposing DBs wonder if they should get in his way, but he doesn't work that well in tight spaces (that footwork thing again) and I think to be consistently successful in the read option, that has to be there.
Really curious to see where this goes.
