Losing Ciarrocca for the Bowl Game - Better, Worse or No Change?

Ciarrocca gone for Bowl Game. How will the Offense do?

  • Better - Play calling will be different and give Auburn problems.

    Votes: 29 25.0%

  • Same - Culture keeps everything the same

    Votes: 36 31.0%

  • Worse - No one can replace Ciarrocca this late.

    Votes: 48 41.4%

  • I am from a neighboring state so I have no opinion

    Votes: 3 2.6%
  • Total voters
    116
  • Poll closed .
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Did PJ announce who will be calling the plays for the bowl game? If not how can you say if they're gonna be better or worse?
 

The playbook is set, the players are trained. The coordinators try to outguess each other, hopefuly game plan for advantageous mismatches or struggling players, sure, but ultimately a lot of success or failure comes down to one or two people either not executing or beating their counterpart player/blocker.

The table is already set. I’d like to think the interim OC (soon to be full time) can evaluate what defenses are trying to do, recognize weaknesses, and outguess the DC as well as Ciarrocca. They may even be more willing to take a few more chances vs a more talented team which can either work out wonderfully or backfire.

I’m actually really stoked to see what they cook up for this one now.
 

I think it has a chance to be better. Not many on here were happy with the play calling at Iowa or against Wisconsin.
Yes, it is the same offense but a different play caller can have a dramatic positive effect. KC had strengths but I didn’t feel one was play calling the majority of the time.

Like Walrus said, there is so much more to get out of Green and the wildcat. KC didn’t like to use it and when he did it was often what are we doing? Why now? It can absolutely be a strength for our offense.

Passing to a TE who leaks out unexpectedly.
Passing to Rodney out the backfield...he’s good in space or was earlier in his career with opportunities.
Recognizing the rhythm of the offense and ability to know just the right play at the right moment to take advantage of the situation. Some guys are magical. Some guys call plays from a script like a robot. There is an art to being a great play caller.
Lots of guys can install an offense. How it runs we won’t know until game day.
 


It is disconcerting to have the DC and OC leave within a week or so.
But both had very sick parents, they grew up next door to the stadium to which they are going, PJ is happy for them, no real loss PJ will find better replacements ,etc etc. as the Kool Aid is slurped down.
 

Plato said:
It is disconcerting to have the DC and OC leave within a week or so.
But both had very sick parents, they grew up next door to the stadium to which they are going, PJ is happy for them, no real loss PJ will find better replacements ,etc etc. as the Kool Aid is slurped down.
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Wait...Rossi left too? Damn, we’re really screwed now.
 


Plato said:
It is disconcerting to have the DC and OC leave within a week or so.
But both had very sick parents, they grew up next door to the stadium to which they are going, PJ is happy for them, no real loss PJ will find better replacements ,etc etc. as the Kool Aid is slurped down.
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C- attempt. Keep working on it.
 



My guess is that most of the gameplan was already in place before KC left so no huge impact there in terms of the bowl game prep. As to the game itself, might go against tendencies some with someone different calling the plays which could work in our favor a little. Of course the flip side is there may also be some communication issues with different people running the show.

Guess we will find out in a few days.
 

Plato said:
It is disconcerting to have the DC and OC leave within a week or so.
But both had very sick parents, they grew up next door to the stadium to which they are going, PJ is happy for them, no real loss PJ will find better replacements ,etc etc. as the Kool Aid is slurped down.
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You waste your time and everyone else's by pathetically trolling this site, and this is the best you can come up with? Good God man, at least put in a modicum of effort.
 

Hard to see this as a positive, considering our offense was generally exceptional under Ciarrocca (what an unusual name ?). On the other hand our wide receivers under Simon were even more exceptional, so he might turn out to be a good OC as well.
 

Dangerous opportunity to be better.
 




Always interesting to me when a player decides to skip a bowl game or a coach jumps ship a week before a bowl game. I can understand it a bit from the players point of view of not risking an injury but not sure why a coach could not wait until after the game to announce he is leaving.
 

jblass said:
Always interesting to me when a player decides to skip a bowl game or a coach jumps ship a week before a bowl game. I can understand it a bit from the players point of view of not risking an injury but not sure why a coach could not wait until after the game to announce he is leaving.
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I understand what you're saying. My guess is it helps acclimate to the new job and it helps with recruiting. So I'm sure they're thinking, the earlier the better so recruits know what to expect. A few days wouldn't hurt, but it would be embarrassing and disastrous if it leaked out.
 
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