Will Mullen refuse to hire a new OC?

[Infidel]

Why fire Koenning? He does the job he's asked to do pretty well, so far as I'm concerned. Mullen would just hire another retread like him and nothing would change. The only hope is for Mullen to give up Special Teams, focus solely on offense, and hope he'd be willing to hire an up-and-coming OC who wants to learn the Spread from him.

Why would you say that? Do you consider Collins and Townsend retreads? Do you think Turner and Gonzales were bad hires?

[War Machine Dawg]

Why would you say that? Do you consider Collins and Townsend retreads? Do you think Turner and Gonzales were bad hires?

Apples to oranges. 3 of those coaches are on defense, where Mullen gives free reign to his DC.

Gonzo was an outstanding hire. Couldn't have done much better, honestly. But Mullen wants the offensive staff to function a certain way, and Koenning makes that happen. What Mullen wants is an experienced OC to handle the day-to-day administrative stuff, have gameplan input, and recruit. Koenning does all of those things really well. He's supposedly one of our best recruiters. Mullen himself handles the gameday play calling, other than last season. But if you've payed much attention at all this year, it's been pretty clear that Dan is running the show on O this season.

The problem is that he's also trying to coach STs, meaning he has to split his focus. My argument is he should give STs to someone else, potentially Gonzo who has experience coaching STs, and put all his focus on offense. I think that would help the offense tremendously, because it frees Mullen to do what he's passionate about as a coach - coach offense.