Quote Originally Posted by CoachT14 View Post
Agree to disagree. He?s botching the OC hire. Outside of Briles, the names getting traction are garbage. And we are about to be out of the first portal window with no new offensive players.

I will gladly eat crow. But everything that has happened after the bowl game has been one bad thing after the other.
The issue is some fans thought that we would just throw money and some known OC and that was all there is to it- they would jump.

But when you're paying a coach 3 million it's hard to go above 1.5 even if the money is "there".

And also established OC's aren't going to be totally impressed with who some MSU fans demand to have as assistants in place- see Bumphis and Friend. They may want to bring their own staff in. Right now we have about half a staff filled out- maybe more on that side of the ball including two o-line coaches which is a pretty important hire for coaches.

Add in a unknown as a head coach with Arnett.

So we're probably going to be looking at guys like Casey Woods that are young and up and comers if I had to guess that aren't necessarily household names that have "some question marks" and some risk. But at least we have a veteran QB and a veteran offensive line plus some talent at WR and RB to work with. We just need to be smart with our scheme and find someone that fits them. If we do that we can have a really good year with even an average OC.