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He may be qualified, but is his wife qualified?
put 5 QB's in the pros plus Nick Florence who had 4300 yards passing his Sr year
he and Freeze weren't on the same page and Freeze wanted more input in the play calling...that's fine. he'll have a free hand here and will succeed or fail on his own
don't know if/how he'll recruit but he has a million contacts in Texas
per Xitter, Kelden Ryan is very happy right now...I suspect the whole QB room is.
edit: I'll add that Siefkes' 3 deep is purportedly one of the ways to combat V&S...so he'll be a good test for PM
Lefty had a brilliant offensive mind - just couldn't teach it to 20-year-olds.
Neither Grimes nor Leoffler were/are bad coaches. Both were pretty good hires in retrospect. Lefty did as well as fucking Justin Fuente did with much less talent.
Great points. And his biggest chip is gone.. "We were left out of the ACC"- nope. Good luck
The end of my college years. I remember that pain all too well.
we have a really good OL coach
And still zero experience and minimal depth on the OL
The thing with all of these 'scheme offenses' - the wishbone, the zone read, the air raid, etc - when they're first invented, no one knows how to defend them, so it enables lesser talent to outplay and win against more talented teams/players.
As time goes on and people learn how to stop a given scheme, teams can still use those schemes to great success; the difference is that you can't win consistently with a large talent differential.
RichRod will win 5 games in his first season, 7 in his second, and 8/9 in his third, then rinse and repeat. It will basically be the same as neil brown. WVU has gotten five 4-stars in their last 3 classes. Their ceiling under richrod will be what they can recruit, not what they can scheme.
I remember the last time we hired a guy who got fired after 1 year as the Auburn OC
I like the hire. Plenty of experience and former HC experience is a bonus. If we had gone with Taylor the general consensus would have been too much inexperience, which was the complaint with the last two coordinators. No real excuses now on offense, we have a really good OL coach and proven/experienced OC calling the plays. If the offense still doesn't work, it certainly won't be because of inexperience. Sink or swim time now.
So we can score in chunks - that much is evident. What I want to see is how consistent we are on offense and minimizing the mid to late-game pitching and/or defensive meltdowns.
Kiffin's offense is different. Similar but different. Heupel incorporates more inside zone run than Briles. Shannan? sure I suppose.
Art Briles is the master of the "one read" key offense that nobody has exactly replicated.
Josh Huepel? Lane Kiffin? Ryan Grub? Hell, even Kyle Shanahan is using a lot quick single read plays.
This is why I hold out hope that Rich Rod will be the biggest failure ever in his return to WVU... that would be glorious. Everyone knows how to defend the zone read now, Richie.
One potential problem area I could see, is he usually likes to go fast (and his more successful offenses have gone fast). That can put a real strain on defenses. With a young coordinator like Seifkes in his first year, that's not an optimal situation. Unless of course we're scoring almost every time we get the ball, but unfortunately most of P Mont's recent offenses have gone quick 3 and out punt.
Yup. Same concern.
Art Briles- one of the worst scum on earth, BTW- is like Gordon Ramsay and Myron Mixon... they show their students - most- of what they know, but not ALL of it. Especially the feel for the game/play call aspect. Art Briles is the master of the "one read" key offense that nobody has exactly replicated. Mike Leech was just as good at it- but his varied a bit. Hopefully we can find something that actually works for us.
Yeah they also cycled through coordinators like they were disposable. We've seen how that can destroy promising looking talent (staring directly at the regression of Parker Clements)
The game evolves over time; his stats suggest he isn't evolving with it.
Bingo - this is my primary concern
The fact that he only spent 1yr as OC at Auburn before ostensibly moving down to Birmingham as co-OC doesn't give me the warm fuzzys either.
He was hugh freeze's scape goat/sacrificial lamb, I wouldn't read too much into this.
Personally, I'd rather have gone with Taylor.
Same.
Agree here. Taylor I know is well-regarded in coaching circles, but I would have been pretty disappointed if he was the hire. Just not very experienced. This is a very high caliber hire with a lot of experience and former HC experience with could be a benefit to Pry as well. Super pleased with this one.
if this happens I'm blaming you for speaking it into existence
Auburn hasn't been great on offense since they paid Cam Newton to not go to classes there.
I am happy, and I wasn't asking for too much. I was asking for more than WM's OC though yes- guilty as charged. It reeked of lets find someone from VA- as if that means anything any more. Now at least we have a guy that's done it at the P2 and P4 level. Period.
Would be better to say that it's not en vogue anymore, rather than 'no one runs it' - Dino Babers, Kendall Briles, and Josh Huepel, and Lane Kiffin all run offenses that incorporate a lot of the same principles. But no one (in P4) is running the exact same offense, just like no one in P4 is running a 'pure' air raid (but everyone has their own variation on Mesh, 4 Verts, Y-cross, etc. There's also no one in P4 running the wishbone, but lots of teams running a variation of the triple option.
If Montgomery can bring a modern version of his offense (one that uses tempo strategically, has a good balance, etc), then it can work. But if he comes here and use tempo stubbornly (a la Phil Longo at UNC and Cincy) then it will fail.
I'm also curious how a tempo offense will work with our new DC/Strength Coach... Tempo offense means more snaps/time on field for the defense - will they be fit enough for that? How will that impact Seifkiss's play design and play calls?
Other than a few of the WVU transfers, yeah I agree depth and experience is worrisome. Joe Rudolph leaving when and how he did really screwed our OL immensely.