Updated OC replacement Thread

Who is the next OC

  • Zach Kittley

    Votes: 38 37.3%

  • Chip Lindsey

    Votes: 7 6.9%

  • Chip Long

    Votes: 10 9.8%

  • Mike Sanford Jr

    Votes: 2 2.0%

  • Choice or Key still??

    Votes: 6 5.9%

  • OTHER

    Votes: 39 38.2%
  • Total voters
    102
  • Poll closed .
That’s not going to fix safeties and cornerbacks that play 20 yards out of position and have no clue how to play zone coverage. But we’re going to keep Andrew Thacker because he “knows the defense”.
Whatever…. Good luck selling season tickets next year.
 
ricejacket said:
If you can poach the OC from a 2-10 team you have to do it
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2 years removed from poaching the OC from a very successful Notre Dame.

Up until then he had a good track record. Anyone know why he was fired in 2019?
 
Walton said:
Up until then he had a good track record. Anyone know why he was fired in 2019?
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This is the question I'm asking because in 2019, Notre Dame averaged 37 points a game, its highest ever in the Brian Kelly era.

I think there was frustration over big-game performance: Particularly the losses against Georgia and Michigan that year.

Tulane's offense seems to have gotten worse from 2020 to 2021, despite having the same QB, so that's concerning.
 
TechAKnee said:
Haven’t researched but I’m not interested in one bad year or one good year. Over the long haul has their been sustained success as an OC? If the answer isn’t a definitive yes, then it would be a bad hire IMO.
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It's hard to tell because he's only had 5 years as OC, and 3 of them were with ND talent. Notre Dame averaged over 30 points each of his 3 seasons. Tulane though, looks like they averaged around 15, and were worse than the prior year. Memphis, he only coached one year, and Memphis was as good on offense the year before Long and better the year after Long.

Overall it's a mixed picture. The Tulane year and the fact that Kelly fired him has me worried.
 
Too perfect. Tulane is 1 spot higher than GT in OFEI rankings for 2021. Moving on up!!

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Tampa Jacket said:
That’s not going to fix safeties and cornerbacks that play 20 yards out of position and have no clue how to play zone coverage. But we’re going to keep Andrew Thacker because he “knows the defense”.
Whatever…. Good luck selling season tickets next year.
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We got rid of the safeties and cornerbacks coaches. Burton was Co-DC as well. To be fair, we don't know if it was Thacker's fault altogether.
 
aeromech said:
Don't we have to climb the ladder up to mediocrity before we can be satisfied with it?
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Much rather be a step down for a coach needing to prove themselves, not a step up

yes I egotistically called tech a step up from Tulane
 
Have has anyone heard (may have missed) that CGC is goin dan quinn and will be HCDC

it would leave a nice chunk to hire close to a 1 MIL oc?
 
RussianOffense said:
This is the question I'm asking because in 2019, Notre Dame averaged 37 points a game, its highest ever in the Brian Kelly era.

I think there was frustration over big-game performance: Particularly the losses against Georgia and Michigan that year.

Tulane's offense seems to have gotten worse from 2020 to 2021, despite having the same QB, so that's concerning.
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It is my understanding that there was a difference in coaching philosophies between Chip and Brian Kelly and the QB coach who was Notre Dame's OC this year. Chip Long had a "no stepping out of bounds" rule in that he wanted his offensive players (including the QB) to get all they could get and he encouraged contact. I think there may have been some other differences of opinion too. Basically, Chip Long was pretty hard and played the "bad cop" to Tommy Rees' "good cop", especially when it came to Ian Book, the QB at the time. I definitely do not hold it against him that he did not get along with Brian Kelly. It was pretty crappy the way he left Notre Dame.
 
ToHellwithUGA said:
So now GA Sou can get a better up and coming OC than us? Great...
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Ellis really isn’t up and coming though. He was the sole OC at WKU in 2019 and 2020, when their offense was fairly bad. WKU brought in Zach Kittley this year as Co-OC and he’s responsible for WKU’s big numbers. Ellis is being given a safe landing spot because WKU’s coach is brothers with the new GS coach.
 
GoldZ said:
A zone-read/option-read approach with a runner like Sims with a lot more accuracy, would suit me just fine. Even Gus himself would be ok.
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With Bailey coming in and Peery in his second year, it is not a given that Sims is our starter next season. We will have one dual-threat QB and two pro style QB's.
Of course our fearless leader has a track record of refusing to replace starters unless they are injured. Competition is not king in Tech football and consequently wins are rare.
 
smokey_wasp said:
We got rid of the safeties and cornerbacks coaches. Burton was Co-DC as well. To be fair, we don't know if it was Thacker's fault altogether.
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We don’t know if our defensive coordinator was in charge of our defense—-one of the worst defenses in all of college football this past year? Who was then? The cheerleading captain or the band director?
 
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