POLL: Your Choice For Next Offensive Coordinator?

[Obliviax]

He was talking about recruiting efforts vs. Michigan I believe, which is fairly close.

got it. sorry, I'll do Mich..

1. 2023 PSU 14 UM 17
2. 6 to 9
3. 21 to 13
4. 15 to 10
5. 8 to 12

Average 13.6 to 12.2

Also, note that UM has beaten tOSU three straight so they are clearly doing more with less at least as far as how 247 has ranked recruits.

 

[Obliviax]

As @Midnighter said, I was referring to recruiting vs Michigan. Our talent is similar and I believe that game was lost due to a poor offensive game plan and play calling.
OSU is clearly recruiting at a higher level as I said in my post. I think they have been beating us on pure talent and not as much coaching.
The bigger point was that I think PSU could have been 11-1 with a better OC and possibly looking at the playoffs.

Got it. Sorry.

UM has clearly done more with less. The way I looked at is that all three defenses looked similar. But on offense, UM had a better QB and running back. This is probably due to the OL. tOSU had better WRs and their top two RBs were hurt. A lot can be attributed to the fact that UM's OL came back to play for a Natty instead of opting to go pro. In the end, UM simply ran the ball down both tOSU's and PSU's throats.

But I do agree, our offensive game plan was awful for the game with UM.

 

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[Midnighter]

Re

got it. sorry, I'll do Mich..

1. 2023 PSU 14 UM 17
2. 6 to 9
3. 21 to 13
4. 15 to 10
5. 8 to 12

Average 13.6 to 12.2

Also, note that UM has beaten tOSU three straight so they are clearly doing more with less at least as far as how 247 has ranked recruits.

The better metric is the Bluechip Roster Ratio (below); it measures the percentage of bluechip players on a roster. Link under graphic to more information about how it's calculated. The one thing this, and recruiting rankings, do not take into account is *where* the bluechip talent is. It's also sort of speculative when you consider we have 8 4* WR's on our roster.

Blue-Chip Ratio 2023: The 16 teams who can actually win a national title

How much talent does it take to win the national championship in college football? And which of the teams in 2023 are most set to deliver on that promise? Unveiling the 2023 Blue-Chip Ratio.

247sports.com

 

[Bvillebaron]

Why would it? Yurcich was clearly not on the same page as Franklin, but Franklin is still here and he still has his offensive philosophy and game management style. An OC isn’t going to get us over the hump or improve Franklin’s understanding of analytics. Better players can compensate. Let’s hope we get them. We can go 10-2 with Seider as OC; just let him have the job.

Yeh and the offense played much better after Yurcich was fired.

 

[Bvillebaron]

"just don't screw up" is a terrific way to describe the play calling against OSU and UM... I was at the Michigan game and it was like chewing tin foil watching the play calling

Turtling up was also a good way to describe it.

 

[Midnighter]

Yeh and the offense played much better after Yurcich was fired.

Playing Michigan State helped. A lot.

 

[Bvillebaron]

Any head coach who DOESN'T "interfere" - as quickly as possible - with any part of the program that isn't working well is not doing his job.
Whether that be on the practice field, in the staff meeting rooms, during game day prep, during schematic meetings, recruiting processes, or - when needed - with changing the composition of the staff.
That's their job.

Over the last 3 years, PSU's offense has averaged 22 points per game against ranked teams. For comparison, Michigan averaged 33 ppg, OSU 32.5 ppg against ranked teams over that same time (FWIW: Prior to coming to PSU, offenses where MY was the OC averaged 35 ppg against ranked teams).
The concerns certainly did not become obvious just last month. Right?

No they sure didn’t. It was obvious from his comments after the OSU game (we will be having hard conversations with coaches) that he was unhappy with the play calling. I think he gave Yurcich the benefit of the doubt and I thought they turned a corner with the Maryland game but then we saw the SOS with the play calling against Michigan and that was the last straw. In the final analysis OSU and Michigan have better players. The color commentator said that the difference between OSU and PSU was that Harrison played for OSU. I don’t fully subscribe to that but there is some merit to it.

 

[Bvillebaron]

Poindexter.

If Franklin doesn’t promote him, AP will be getting better offers elsewhere. and thus considered outside of the program.

The only reason I don’t think this happens is that Franklin rarely hires people into positions capable of outsmarting him…..admittedly a low threshold

Hence why multiple ex-coordinators are now successfully coaching elsewhere.

They are? I must have missed that.

 

[Bvillebaron]

Paul Chryst or David Shaw would be great. Maybe Jason Garrett.

Someone who realizes it is not against the rules for the QB to take a snap from under center.

Paul Christ? Woody Hayes Jr. This isn’t the 70s any more. No thanks. You also must have missed Allar running the QB sneak several times for first downs this year.

 

[Bvillebaron]

Well gonna be interesting to see what happens at PSU... Kingsbury rumored to be looking at Houston, Sean Lewis is most likely taking a HC position. Seems to be a lot of smoke around KU OC Kotelnicki, Brady would interest me but I being OC for the buffalo bills I don't think he would step back to OC in college especially when he can get a look as HC in the NFL. Starting to look like Marion or Kotelnicki but who knows JF sometimes pulls people out of nowhere. We also don't know who has contacted JF.

Yeah I would have loved Brady too. However, given how much better the Bills offense has been since he became interim OC I don’t think he will be interim much longer.