https://www.on3.com/news/indiana-adds-former-virginia-tech-head-coach-ju...
Took awhile but I kinda figured he'd end up as an analyst before making any other head coaching stops. Comes a week after they fired their OC so in theory could position himself well in that regard but tbh I don't know anything about the landscape of Indiana football.
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It ain't good
And apparently it's not getting any better.
Heyyoo
Must be using IU as a stepping stone to be accepted to the Nick Sabin Rehab Center of Head Coaches that Can't Coach Good
Allen has sort of a minor-league version of Saban @ Indiana.
Fuente is moving into a position that Rod Carey (fired from Temple) is taking from the fired Walt Bell (fired from UMass and part of the "Lethal Simplcity" fiasco under Willie Taggart.
Kinda similar just with much worse resumes...
ah, so it's more like the Tom Allen Last Chance Before You Gotta Find a New Line of Work for Coaches Who Can't Scheme Good and Analyze More Ungooder
Yes, Indiana is now Last Chance U for D1 Offensive Coaches.
Honestly, I hope he learned some hard lessons from his time at Virginia Tech and he gets back on his feet. This is a step in the right direction.
The dude looked beaten down by life at the tail end of his tenure here (self-inflicted but still). Rooting for him to get another chance and be successful somewhere else.
I mean yeah he looked pretty beat down but I'd also let life beat me down for that payout.
He really did. The before and after photos are pretty rough.
Like when a president takes office compared to when they leave
I bet if he gets another head gig, he takes the Brian Kelly approach. If your defense is 50th in the country and Bud Foster and Bill Arnsparger are co-coordinating it- fire them and get someone new. If your QB throws 2 incompletions- bench him. If your OL is not giving your QB time to throw, fire the OL coach. etc. That's how Kelly got the LSU job and the 10 mil salary. He never won a big game at ND, but he fired people until he found coordinators that could win him 10 games per year. That's the model.
I WISH he would get another HC job just to see if he hires Corny again, or not.
Brian Kelly also killed a kid.
Hope they like jet sweeps.
who doesn't!
Corn won't be there with him so i think they're safe
Corn was the OC for winless Sam Houston State Thursday night who had nearly two full sets of downs inside the 10 yard line (and 4 downs inside the 4) to score a TD for the win over unbeaten Liberty U. And despite moving the ball well between the 20s all night, Sam Houston (Corny) could not get it done and posted another L. Sound familiar?
It's worse than that...
SHSU under Corn ranks dead last in FBS in both YPG and PPG.
Imagine that
I mean it's not a bad idea. Whatever he advises you to do, do the opposite
I think it's telling that Kill didn't hire him
I'm curious if he could be successful if he didn't tie himself to Cornelson.
He'd probably just find a new Corn and put himself in the same situation
I don't think he would have been all that great even with someone else. He clearly had some big blinders on, and a GOOD coach has to be aware and able to fire on all cylinders.
Right. I go back and forth on this because he was reportedly an integral piece of the success TCU had when he was coaching the offense there and then he was wildly successful at Memphis before completely destroying VT. I think he probably has a pretty good understanding of the xs and os. I imagine he's pretty sound schematically and is capable as a play caller. But he tried to be a CEO type of coach and he just isn't cut out for it. He's like a nerdy engineer who is really sharp with the technical stuff but would never cut it in sales. Couple that with blind ass cronyism and you have a recipe for disaster. Corny rode Fuente's coattails and ruined his career. But Fuente let that happen, which is why he's doomed to fail. Any coach who wants to be successful has to be willing and able to put business over friendships and he just couldn't do that.
I think he'll probably be a pretty good analyst. He might even catch on as an oc again somewhere. That's probably his ceiling tho.
I read Corny as Crony and that is how I will be referring to him from now on.
He should have hired someone to deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to.
he did, until Galen Scott got himself fired
So you're saying we hired this guy instead:
This is the key - Galen was everything to the players from a personality perspective that Fu couldn't be himself. Corn was a mirror image and without that balance he fails
Great leaders hire other leaders who can do things they cannot - Fu never got this part of it
As a head coach? No. This is the guy that did not have a backup QB that was ready to take snaps in games- as an offensive head coach- , lost control of the teams emotions, alienated families of players watching the disaster unfold, was not a strong enough leader to allow his hall of fame DC get control of the game on defense... all this in ONE game... And I said at the time, he should have been fired for it.
Just curious - do you mean ODU 2018?
indianalyst
Which anagrams to "Dial Nasty In", which is what he says to his offensive line, but he says it too nicely, and they don't take him seriously.
Dammit Gobble.... take your leg
I have a response to that, but it wouldn't be safe for work. Or play.
But play?
fuente.... fünke....
Honestly, I don't hate Fu, and wish him luck elsewhere. I would love to see him as a P5 OC - I'm curious how much of what we saw was the Corny offense vs the Fu offense.
The offense we had with better play calling and actual reads would have done well. We just limited ourselves for no real reason.
right...the structure was there but the logic wasn't.
It's like Fuente gave Cornelsen all the equations but Cornelsen didn't know when to apply the correct equation, or how to do it
This reminds me of my high school physics students, for some reason. ;^)
sounds about right - Side-note: I had a great physics teacher in high school (I think he won the state-wide Teacher of the Year award for science the year or the year after he taught me) and what I learned in his class helped me a lot when I got to VT
I think I remember a few years ago Jerod Evans saying on a podcast that he was obviously being recruited to Memphis by the staff before they got to VT, and when he got here the offense wasn't the same as what they were doing there. Said basically he couldn't make any reads, was used as a battering ram, most of our big explosive plays was him going off script, etc. I honestly wonder if the Memphis offense was more the Darrell Dickey offense and what we got at VT was the CornFu show. Like said below, the concepts weren't bad, but the execution and pointless limiting of the QB's ability to read the defense and make the correct play was baffling.
Meh, this hypothesis has always been floated, but I find it unlikely, given that after leaving Memphis, Dickey went to OC for Jimbo Fisher - a head coach who is notorious for not giving up play calling duties.
Still, could have been that Dickey was Fu's playcaller at Memphis and constructed the scheme in a way that gave the QB the ability to make the read, opened up the passing game a bit more, etc. When Fu made corn the OC here, Corn wanted more control with the reads and the scheme, and Fu was obviously ok with it.
I think you are right. Also, add low emotional iQ's + pressure = overcompensating through control.
Ex telling burmeister where to throw it before a play no matter what. Who wants to play for that?
Just needed to hire the barometer
Heading to Ann Arbor this weekend and can't wait to see Fu and the Hoosiers light it up against the #2 Wolverines!
Lol