Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
Greg Davis- former OC at Iowa.

Not sure that we had a lot of options at OC honestly. We whiffed on several- including some Air Raid guys. The reality is Arnett is an unknown as a head coach at this time. Hard to land anyone just like Dan had a hard time finding DC's for awhile when he was starting out.

I think Arnett wants us to be pro style ultimately though. If Barbay doesn't work out or gets hired away I imagine that Ryan Lindley at San Diego State will be on the short list. Hopefully he could be a hybrid pro style/Air Raid guy.

To your point the run sets up the pass thought is going away in the NFL because of analytics. It's only a matter of time before that trickles down to the college game. Not there yet as that data is still relatively new.
In my observation, in the last 20 years offenses have trickled up to the pro game from college. Numerous examples: wildcat, zone read run plays with qb, some option, jet sweeps, air raid passing concepts. The nfl was extremely inbred for a long time. There were a handful of exceptions, but not many.

Then nfl copied shit that malzahn, mullen /Meyer/richrod, Leach etc we?re doing. Not the other way around.

Defenses on the other hand seemed to pull concepts down from the pro game.