Southern is hiring Clay Helton

My sources tell me they did call PJ. He passed. (make your own jokes here)
They also called Bohannon. But apparently didn't offer.

From what I heard tonight from someone else who has pretty good connections in Statesboro, Helton is going to be there this weekend and will start evaluating everything.
 
thegtstunner08 said:
But will he bring in someone to run the option? That's their offense and in the past, coaches who don't run it are run out of town. Just ask Uncle Rico.
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They haven’t run a true wing T since Johnson, but they’ve kindle gone towards the Coastal Carolina route in running a ton of spread option
 
CarsonNewmanJacket said:
They haven’t run a true wing T since Johnson, but they’ve kindle gone towards the Coastal Carolina route in running a ton of spread option
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Monken ran the under center spread option, with his own wrinkles. So did Sewak.
Hatcher, a passing guru guy, put in an option style offense his first year to take advantage of Jayson Foster, who was named the I-AA player of the year (BVG didn't know what to do with him the previous year and didn't think he could play).
Hatcher later said he wished he hadn't done that, but it did give that team the best chance of winning. If not for a late missed field goal against Furman, they would have gone to the playoffs that year, a year after VanGorder came in, shat on everything and then did everything he could to find a bus out of town.

They've been more of a pistol and shotgun team the last few years and really struggled to develop any kind of identity on offense. Even my friends who have watched the program a lot more closely than I have the last few years tell me, "I don't know what the hell we are."


It will be interesting to see who Helton brings in as assistants.
 
RussianOffense said:
For him, probably why jeopardize the legacy there. Among other reasons not to do it.
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Everything I hear, he's pretty content in retirement. A lot of golf, a lot of day trading and no more dipping (he was a Copenhagen man back in the day.)
 
thegtstunner08 said:
But will he bring in someone to run the option? That's their offense and in the past, coaches who don't run it are run out of town. Just ask Uncle Rico.
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Going to be the greatest transition in the history of college football.
 
RussianOffense said:
For him, probably why jeopardize the legacy there. Among other reasons not to do it.
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CPJ knows that the NCAA has changed the blocking rules, and he knows that his gimmicky one-trick pony Offense won't be nearly as effective, that's the same reason he slithered out of Town on us, rather than just adapt and keep Coaching, amazing that so many among us worship a guy that refused to adapt to simple changes in the rules.

All those years Nebraska ran the option they used an I-formation and TEs and they drove block with physical OLs(C-G-C) that were sought after by NFL Teams, they found a way to play option FB and not be addicted to cut-blocking, I wonder why our Genius couldn't scheme up the same thing here at GT? (maybe he was never a genius to begin with?)

This ain't about his legacy, it's about his lack of flexibility and talent to adapt his coaching to CFB in 2021
 
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