Would Mark Richt be a good OC hire

[Son of Wasatch]

He has expressed the desire to go back to being a OC/QB coach, well I hear we have an opening in that department.

I'd take Richt and Mike Sherman as our oline coach, if we can't right the ship with those guys then it isn't going to ever go right.

 

[outhereincali]

He has expressed the desire to go back to being a OC/QB coach, well I hear we have an opening in that department.

I'd take Richt and Mike Sherman as our oline coach, if we can't right the ship with those guys then it isn't going to ever go right.[/QUOTE

Seriously?
You've got be kidding.

 

[BringBackRoyal]

No.

 

[ryan_sublett]

If he'd take the job sure. Have a hard time believing he couldn't get an HC job with all the openings out there.

 

[Scholz]

I'm open to a whole host of choices *

* excludes those who condone rape or beating up girls

 

[bubba2023]

I don't know how he would mesh as an OC because he can easily get another HC job. Curious of the reasons for the quick nos? I don't know enough about his coaching background.

 

[clob94]

I just don't see Mark taking a step down from being a head coach. There's a ton of jobs out there and places that would take him now. Maryland anyone?

 

[BringBackRoyal]

Texas high schools run spread variants. The last thing we need is someone whose bread and butter is a pro-style offense from the late 1990s. We also need someone who can install an offense that doesn't require an experienced QB to be run semi-effectively.

 

[bubba2023]

Texas high schools run spread variants. The last thing we need is someone who knows pro-style offenses

I think this argument get's overplayed a bit. Spread variants are pretty much ran at the high school level across the nation, not just Texas, and it's not as if your high school offense predetermines your ability at the college level. Watson was a failure not because he is a west coast offense guy, but because he is a terrible west coast offense guy.

 

[BringBackRoyal]

I accidentally hit submit before finishing my post, so you should read the rest of it.

Richt's offense has a steep learning curve. So does Watson's. It's much easier to plug a less experienced QB into a wide variety of spread-concept offenses and get good results than it is to get the same from an offense like Richt's (or Watson's). Watson was terrible above all because his offense is ill-suited to a game played by relatively inexperienced non-professionals under strict limits on practice time.

There are other reasons we should run a spread variant. One is recruiting. When all of your conference competition runs a spread of some sort, you needlessly handicap yourself by being the one program that runs something unfamiliar to recruits. And the fact that recruits will enter all of your competitors' programs more familiar with the offensive concepts than your recruits will be with your offense means your competitors' offensive recruits will on average be ready to contribute more quickly than yours will.

It's not that players from spread backgrounds can't be trained to play in other offensive schemes effectively. It's that insisting on doing so in our particular situation creates needless disadvantages.

 

[ryan_sublett]

I think one of the problems in football in general is that we are turning college in to a faster high school game and kids are t developing. I know part of it is because we demand immediate results as fans. I personally don't think there is anything wrong with kids having to come to school and learn no concepts. This trend of making it as close to high school as possible I'm not sure that's good long term. Just my opinion.

 

[madcow12]

I highly doubt our QB's can get it figured out with crayons and bottle caps.....so god no...no learning curve OC's

 

[oldhorn2]

I highly doubt our QB's can get it figured out with crayons and bottle caps.....so god no...no learning curve OC's

Now that made me laugh

 

[madcow12]

Now that made me laugh

its kind of a painful laugh though... I think heard has some potential but for some reason heard or swoopes have forgotten the simple mechanics of playing QB. I am sure it is a combination of a bad O-line and just poor decision making but how hard is it to teach the QB's to throw the dam ball away when outside of the pocket. I think the biggest disappointment is wickline. I thought he was a genius O-Line guy....it seems he is more Forrest Gump Genius than Einstein

 

[oldhorn2]

you see madcow....we can agree on lots of things. ...but I dont think Heard is ever gonna get it. At this point I think Swoopes has a better chance of developing than Heard. If all he can ever be is a running QB then I dont know what system would "fit his talents" Even a wishbone QB has to pass sometimes. Maybe he could handle the single wing.

 

[madcow12]

you see madcow....we can agree on lots of things. ...but I dont think Heard is ever gonna get it. At this point I think Swoopes has a better chance of developing than Heard. If all he can ever be is a running QB then I dont know what system would "fit his talents" Even a wishbone QB has to pass sometimes. Maybe he could handle the single wing.

don't get "some potential" confused with "he will get it" I still do not think our QB is on campus yet.

 

[clob94]

Just roll this around your head for a bit..... when Watson was calling the plays, (or Wickline if you believe the lawsuit) during practice, who's in the QB's ear? Is it the guy calling the plays? Is the QB being told to do one thing in practice and another on the field? I know that may seem silly and not possible but coaches can have varying methods of teaching (especially when it comes to the minutiae) and maybe theses kids are getting mixed signals sometimes....

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt because I don't want to have to slap a kid with the label of "well he's just too stupid to get it" because that's either really mean, or really sad if true.

 

[BringBackRoyal]

I think one of the problems in football in general is that we are turning college in to a faster high school game and kids are t developing. I know part of it is because we demand immediate results as fans. I personally don't think there is anything wrong with kids having to come to school and learn no concepts. This trend of making it as close to high school as possible I'm not sure that's good long term. Just my opinion.

I'm not sure I totally understand the objection.

Today's highest scoring offenses (all spread variants) are all easier to implement than something like Richt's or Watson's offense. Why would you want to use a system that's harder to learn and less effective? Sure, you want to develop your players, but you also need to be cognizant of practical constraints, like limited practice time. Why adopt a complicated system with a steep learning curve when your opposition is outscoring you with offenses that their QBs can run effectively in their first year as starters? This is to say nothing of the fact that spread offenses are much better at minimizing the importance of a college QB's weaknesses (arm strength, for instance) than some of these other systems.

 

[SCZHorn]

The one attractive thing about Richt would be Jacob Eason, the 5 star QB who is committed to Georgia but apparently thinking twice about it now that Richt is gone.

Now I do like Buechele, and I actually don´t think there is much difference between him and the 2 or 3 5 star kids out there.