Coaching replacement thread

HoustonHusky said:

whuggy said:

On reflection I'm not liking my suggestion of looking into the staffs of LSU and Oklahoma for a possible Bush replacement. Your offense has to fit the skills of your QB. All the good college offenses have QB's with some degree of mobility. Hurts, Herbert, Tua, Burrow while not run first can escape the pocket and get a few positive yards. Eason and our next likely, Sirmon, are both essentially statues so building an offense similar to those other programs is unlikely to work. I can't really think of any good college offenses that have statue QB's. Ironically Oregon State is probably the first to come to mind. I'm one of the few who wants to give Bush another year. If so I'd have him take a look at what OSU is doing. I'll tell you they don't do any of that stupid WR screen shit. The only other idea I have is look at what has been a pretty successful offense over the years in the NFL with a statue QB in Brady. That's a pretty wide divergence admittedly in the Beavers and the Patriots but they both move the ball with immobile QB's. Of course this is all based on the assumption that Pete loosens the death grip on the offense.

Agree on matching the system to your current and likely future qbs, but a big WTF on keeping Bush for another year. He literally called a game where he called run plays into run blitzes for 3 1/2 quarters. That is a special kind of stupid we don’t need for another year.

I just don't want to see us make the same mistake with Hamdan that we did with Smith. They have both been hamstrung with this being Pete's offense. Bush has not shown much ability to adjust in game but let's remember
he is operating with an OL that is not living up to expectation and a group of receivers that Millen has essentially called awful. Everyone on here agrees that Pete has to let go. If you are not going to give Hamdan a chance to run an offense, then give me your list of who you would hire. And won't those hires be just as useless if Pete still controls them? I'm all for looking at a new OC if Hamdan fails, but is it Hamdan failing or Pete failing Hamdan?

Edit: And by the way I think we also have big problems on the other side of the ball.

whuggy said:

HoustonHusky said:

whuggy said:

On reflection I'm not liking my suggestion of looking into the staffs of LSU and Oklahoma for a possible Bush replacement. Your offense has to fit the skills of your QB. All the good college offenses have QB's with some degree of mobility. Hurts, Herbert, Tua, Burrow while not run first can escape the pocket and get a few positive yards. Eason and our next likely, Sirmon, are both essentially statues so building an offense similar to those other programs is unlikely to work. I can't really think of any good college offenses that have statue QB's. Ironically Oregon State is probably the first to come to mind. I'm one of the few who wants to give Bush another year. If so I'd have him take a look at what OSU is doing. I'll tell you they don't do any of that stupid WR screen shit. The only other idea I have is look at what has been a pretty successful offense over the years in the NFL with a statue QB in Brady. That's a pretty wide divergence admittedly in the Beavers and the Patriots but they both move the ball with immobile QB's. Of course this is all based on the assumption that Pete loosens the death grip on the offense.

Agree on matching the system to your current and likely future qbs, but a big WTF on keeping Bush for another year. He literally called a game where he called run plays into run blitzes for 3 1/2 quarters. That is a special kind of stupid we don’t need for another year.

I just don't want to see us make the same mistake with Hamdan that we did with Smith. They have both been hamstrung with this being Pete's offense. Bush has not shown much ability to adjust in game but let's remember
he is operating with an OL that is not living up to expectation and a group of receivers that Millen has essentially called awful. Everyone on here agrees that Pete has to let go. If you are not going to give Hamdan a chance to run an offense, then give me your list of who you would hire. And won't those hires be just as useless if Pete still controls them? I'm all for looking at a new OC if Hamdan fails, but is it Hamdan failing or Pete failing Hamdan?

Edit: And by the way I think we also have big problems on the other side of the ball.

They are both hamstrung, but smurf did a lot more with this offense then Hamden is doing. Another year won’t fix it...you either have it or you don’t and Hamden doesn’t. Even if it’s something you can learn he’s not going to learn it under Pete.

And I give more props now than I did at the time to Brownsocks...he may not have an arm which caused problems with good defenses (Cal), but at least he said FU to the dumbest playcalls of Bush’s and audibled out. Eason doesn’t seem to have the confidence or foresight or whatever it is to audible out of the plays and tell Bush to pound sand.

GayThoughts said:

I’m hearing offensive genius Willie Taggart is available.

But, actual possible offensive genius Kendal Briles might be available. @dirtysouwfdawg got his home address to send him a cake?

Jake Browning OC

AEB said:

Kellen Moore for HC. OC for Cowboys, young, and will run a similar player development program. Will keep D staff ex Lake/Gregory.

Moore is on the fast track to nfl hc and he’s going to come back to college to learn recruiting, comical. The entire point of where Pete goes wrong is he brings in green coaches who he can boss around and they get rail roaded into decisions. They need an experienced offensive mind who is either been in the game a while or has been fcs and has enough balls to have an opinion. Bush was comically under experienced coming in here.

A few guys that we “could” get(the lists of guys we don’t have a shot at are dmc FS)

Lindgren at OSU. Been OC at two colleges in the pac12 and is making osu look good.

Zak hill - yes it’s annoying hes from bsu but he’s not a Peterson Guy. He’s coached at fcs and now is oc and doing well with all kinds of different players.

Baldwin - not my fav choice but possible and has experience. Let’s remember it’s still cal. Jesus could coach the offense and it’s still cal.

Sanford - bsu guy but did well at Norte dame before getting some crust on his star. Doing well at Utah state but nothing sexy about this hire.

Harrell - will need a job in 2 weeks. USC has looked decent with his offense. Their team is just a mess. He’s young and doesn’t have experience so he’s more a roll of the dice. But him or lindgren are probably my favorites that I’ve seen.

Basically there isn’t a lot of sexy names. And they have to want to work for a coach that may not let them, coach.

Art Briles has learned his lesson and is a reformed man.

Emoterman said:

GayThoughts said:

I’m hearing offensive genius Willie Taggart is available.

But, actual possible offensive genius Kendal Briles might be available. @dirtysouwfdawg got his home address to send him a cake?

I’m in Texas now... I know dads coaching at mount Vernon high school in no where Texas if that helps. He already has two ineligible players for being a cheater.

I don't need a coach I believe can win multiple national championships. I need a coach who can show he has the ability to win one. What I don't want is a coach who has proven time and time again that that isn't a possibility under his regime. Chris Petersen has shown us that in multiple ways, multiple times.