That's kinda my point. He's not it. Or, as I said before, we're going to have co-oc. My concern is losing players if this doesn't go right. We sure seem bent on a more run heavy offense and that's going to cost us big time if true.
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By play count (not yardage), Tulane was 60-40 run this year. I don't think we should try that here, basically ever, but especially not with our current personnel.
Nahhhh I'm good
2 teams that we compare to favorably in the sec talent-wise, OM and ark both run the ball at 60%. Both finished in top
5 of sec in total offense, both finished top 6 in conf only games, and both finished top 15 nationally. Here's our ranks...
Sec all games - 8th
Conf only - 11th
Nationally - 62nd
Was that because of their offense or defense though? And I'm more in line with being closer to 50/50 with what we have coming back and an OC that's adaptable to his personnel. But their records are more indicative of poor defenses than offenses. Ark was 13th in the league and OM 9th
Exactly.
Too many are getting hung up on keeping a pass happy offense the longer this OC hire takes. People forget that the offense didn't win us many, if any, games this year. They were the reason we didn't win more. I'm personally not too worried yet, and won't be until I see the hire...because there is little room to go but up on that side of the ball. Arnett is probably thinking, "even if we aren't good on offense, if we can at least be a little more balanced maybe my defense won't be exhausted while trying to win us the game". Hard to blame him after watching how putrid the offense has been the last few years.
I'm still quietly hoping we may get Johns from Duke, though at this point I doubt it or he would have already been hired.
Because they had 2 of the worst defenses in the conference. Anyone that watched our offense this year and wanted to keep doing that stupid shit is a glutton for punishment. Arnett’s defense saved our team’s ass all year. Our offense against anyone with a pulse was horrible.
I don't think "I don't think we should shift to a 60% run offense" is an equivalent argument to "I want to keep this exact offense we had in 2022 with Rogers," even as some of you are trying to spin it that way.
At this point, MSU football will take anyone they can get....run or pass philosophy.
We are talking about a guy that has been a career position coach at a G5 and lesser.