100% agree. BUT, imo PR can't wait to lose to UI & TU. The change should be announced on Tuesday morning.
I agree with this. Gives them a week to make adjustments, and prepare a game plan for Iowa. But it won't happen.
100% agree. BUT, imo PR can't wait to lose to UI & TU. The change should be announced on Tuesday morning.
I've seen nothing out of Messingham to indicate he has any ability as a coordinator. My question would be, is there anyone else on staff qualified to call plays? I'm not sure I'd want CPR to take over since his background is on the defensive side of the ball.
At this point I'd rather just hire some random guy off Welch to come in and call the plays.
I can't really think of one, and I'm a glass always full guy. It's either believe that we have wrong OC, or believe that we don't have talent, and I've seen enough of our skill players to know that they can do well when given the opportunity.
To be honest? There's not really one.
The only reason I can see, and it's probably the one that Coach Rhoads is using to justify is this: Firing a coordinator midseason and installing a new one will absolutely make the offense more inept. You can't learn an entire new system in a week. Say we fire him after the Iowa game. We have 2 weeks to prepare for Tulsa. We can install a playbook--at least part of one-- and it will work against Tulsa, because they haven't seen any it.
But when Texas watches the film from the Tulsa game, they're going to see that we only had 20 plays to call that the offense could run effectively. So they prepare for those 20 plays. Say we get another 10 installed and working well before the Texas game, great. So Texas can effectively stop 2/3rd of our playbook with no trouble.
I mean, it's a start. And by the end of the year, the offense should be functional, but it just would not be a smooth transition in season, IMO. Even though we have other coaches on staff with experience, hiring them to run the same system as Mess doesn't solve a damn thing--the offense would be just as inept. They would have to run a different system. And sure, maybe we put in "elements" of the Pistol this season, but to completely change from to it mid season would not have any better results.
I'm still of the opinion that we should fire Mess. Just bite the bullet and say **** it. We are young this season. Get a new coordinator and go through the necessary growing pains, and be tougher next year. But even if we fire Mess, the offense won't be better this year.
Outside of continuity I see little reason Bliel and Mess can't be shown the door. Nothing personal, they just aren't Big 12 level assistants.
Bleil should have been gone already. Messingham.... I dont know, but Im definitely leaning towards firing him.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. There's no downside to making the change. Can't get much worse than last night. Charlie Strong at Louisville fired his OC in October of 2011. They were 2-2 and averaging 18 points per game in non conference (against weak competition). Based on Louisville's trajectory since then, I would say it worked out OK.
Sage Rosenfels for OC please.
Reason: Oline did not cut it last night, poor rushing stats, lots of sacks. Farniok going out is the root cause. Fundamental FB concept: Without good oline play your offense is severely limited (you can't play call yourself out of that).
Klenakis better earn his paycheck the next two weeks. Fix this issue and you'll see SR do better, and our we have enough RB's to find a hot one each night.