I watched some of the youtube highlights from the OSU games against UCLA & Zona.
OSU is going to eat our ILBs alive... they seem to love attacking that part of the field already, and given how much our ILBs suck... we might be doomed.
I haven't seen the data -- but everything else being equal, I'd tend to think the guy with the competitiveness to win a starting QB job will be a better coach than a guy that didn't have that competitiveness.
I realize there are exceptions -- but I'd bet that the majority of good coaches were...
I was never a fan of Hamdan as OC. If he was never good enough to win the starting QB job as BSU -- what makes anybody think he will be good enough to be a winning P5 OC.
But I doubt Petersen is the kind of HC to fire an assistant before the end of a season.
Petersen's offense seemed okay when Harsin was OC at BSU, which is why Texas lured Harsin away to be their OC -- and Petersen's offense has been mediocre ever since.
Though it was pretty good when Tedford was consulting.
I think it is more complex than just saying "Petersen's offense sucks"...