Imagine someone paying you $3 million
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NeGgaPlEaSe
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His own... Metrics show no coordinator to head coach who fires his coordinators is successful during his first stent. Let Lake go to Bama... Why is UW him to learn on the job?
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Psychologically it’s fascinating.
Coaches are leaders who must project certainty and faith in their decisions to motivate their team. Especially when belief is a major factor for a win. Nothing in that scenario allows for mistakes.
But a coach must also adapt to win. Which means acknowledging mistakes, and to do that effectively you have to do that quickly. Hard job, really.
Coaches are leaders who must project certainty and faith in their decisions to motivate their team. Especially when belief is a major factor for a win. Nothing in that scenario allows for mistakes.
But a coach must also adapt to win. Which means acknowledging mistakes, and to do that effectively you have to do that quickly. Hard job, really.
insinceredawg
New Fish
Imagine having a blank check (supposedly) to hire any OC you want and then go dumpster diving through the coaching staff of the worse franchise in the NFL and settling on the fucking assistant to the RB coach to run your offense. This will forever be the most WTF assistant hire in the history of the program and a real AD would have vetoed it on the spot.
Perfectly put
I don’t know how even the idea of hiring a guy that was quite possibly the worst OC in the country at Penn State was considered.
Somehow I thought we would be decent this year. At least a notch above last year.
black coaches always take over downtrodden teams
It really is that easy. I don’t you have to necessarily have the QB guru coordinate the offense, but you need a guy that has a history of developing QB’s. Donovan has never developed a QB. Christian Hackenberg went from having a good freshman year to being utter dogshit under Donovan. He was probably overrated all along, but Donovan did a terrible job. It’s the most important position in football.
Btw, I would love UW to hire Brian Hartline from Ohio State as OC and bring Urban’s son in law in as the QB coach. Maybe he would bring a different QB coach in. Hartline is an Ohio State guy, but the UW OC job would be a jump starter to a head coaching job if the coordinator came in and made the offense legit. He might not come, but for around a million I think he would at least strongly consider it. He only makes $550,000 now. The guy is charismatic, commands respect from his playing and coaching days and is a beast recruiter.
Hartline and Corey Dennis would help recruiting (Ohio State recruits nationally and Hartline pulled in Gee and Egbuka), they are young and hip, and they know what a good offense looks like because they are actually part of a coaching staff that has a great offense every year. Hartline would very likely make it so the talented young WR’s stay. I think it’s over 50% that McMilland and/or Odunze bolt if we botch the OC hire. Just a name that wouldn’t piss me off if we made it happen.
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AtomicDawg
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I like this idea. But it still is a crapshoot. Troy Taylor sucked at Utah and beau baldwin sucked at cal. That said hiring a known crappy oc that had given up on his career to the point where he was an asst to the running backs coach is beyond embarrassing.
AtomicDawg
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Solid logic behind this but I don’t see any way an up and comer like Hartline goes to a coach like lake who is likely in a make it or break it type season. Maybe if lake has a dominant defense and things were trending up. That’s not the case though.
Ohio State is not going to let Hartline make a lateral move to a soft Pac-12 team without offering to match the salary. But I do like your line of thinking.