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Who knows. Urban Meyer I think still provides behind the scenes advice and counsel to Day and OSU. He may have also recommended Bowen since he hired him in Jacksonville. If nothing like that, then yeah the Bowen hire is very weird for OSU.
Maybe, but you should hire the OC first and if he wants Bowen as OL, then Bowen gets hired.
And it's becoming more common that the OC doesn't bring anyone with him, he just does the coordinating. You hire each position individually with the plan to hire the individual that best fits that position. And that's why the Bowen hire as OL coach is so weird to me. He just isn't an OL coach. He never has been. He has been TE coach at various stops, and while adjacent, the OL coach generally teaches the TEs blocking technique.
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Brent Davis?
I'm glad he was ready.
Hear me out. We hire Ken Dorsey. NFL experience. No recruiting experience but being a Miami alumni he knows how to pay players. More importantly ESPN can give us great publicity because the U will be back! Boom!
/s
What's that Fuente guy up to nowadays...?
And replace it with a list of all the WR coaches in the NFL. Circle any WR coaches with OC experience at FCS or lower level.
Sure, but they got to big dog VT.
Or is it raw dog?
Hard to say.
John David Baker ECU OC/QB Coach
Co-OC and Tight Ends Coach at Ole Miss before the move.
I wonder if Moorhead is potentially being targeted for OC at OSU. Would explain the Bowen move perhaps.
With Moore as OL coach, I could see this working. But 2025 would be a major rebuilding year. And Pry is going to have to somehow sell he and the new coaches deserve more time.
Saving for a new AD and HC?
Right! If I'm a OSU fan I'm not happy with the hire.
I love Pry, but the end of every half of football is a surprise to him. I bet this was as well.
Isn't this a really bad hire for OSU? To bring in a coach that has NEVER coached O-line and was an OC that had to scheme around one of the worst OLs in the P4. It's like they just saw the run stats and didn't look at how VT got there. The most broken tackles by an RB in the P4 and a smoke-and-mirrors scheme.
Bowen is going to give up his strength as a coach (i.e., scheming around an atrocious line) and become a coach of his greatest weakness (i.e., blocking technique). Although the OC isn't on the day-to-day of the OL, if he sees technique is wrong and bad, he is responsible to fix it by "coaching the OL coach" and doing film sessions in the OL film room. He clearly didn't do that at VT.
I would be very wary of such a hire.
VT clearly has the better OL coach, who is Broyles award finalist, good at recruiting top OL talent, and developing that OL talent in AAs and NFL draft picks. It seems like OSU hired the wrong VT coach.
He seems like he knows how to exploit a team's weakness and his teams always seem to play 4 quarters of football, so that would at least be an improvement.
If the coaching staff is so bad, why is there so much demand from other teams?
Clearly Ohio State saw something in Bowen.
I'm starting with people named Stinespring and moving forward from there as my line in the sand. No idea what Bustle is doing. Not sure he is alive or not.
Edit: he is a high school coach now, and age 71. And has been > 20 years since at Tech.
"Rickey Norman Bustle[1] (born August 23, 1953) is an American football coach and former player. He is the Head football coach at Athens Christian School in Athens, Georgia, a position he had held since 2021."
Both Drones and Watson noted their relationship with Bowen a major reason in coming to VT. So yea, I don't know if VT will have a QB next year...
And Drones could make for a good TE in the OSU system....
Ok, I know seems far fetched, but saw Sons of Saturday floating it around. Neal Brown could be a really good idea and seamless scheme fit with Matt Moore as our new OL coach. And probably has a buyout from WVU so could sink even more into assistants.
How do you do this at this point in the year? This is just a grimey thing to do. Then again if he does it two months ago we probably lose most of our offense.
Pretty shit thing to do to the kids that probably stayed here for you
You know what?
Put in a call to norfolk state.
It is an odd hire from OSU's standpoint.
He has exactly 2 years of OL coaching experience, one at Fordham in 2015 and one at UMD in 2017.
He has a few years experience as OC at Fordham and MD, a few years experience as TE, played OL.