Rushinbear said:
Bobodeluxe said:
Rushinbear said:
All new everything on O. I expect that they will keep it simple and try to run relatively few plays well.
If they had kept last year's offense, it would be "all new" to the present team members.
but, last year's offensive design and plays were lousy. Hopefully, the new coaches, with their own system (we hope) will have had a chance to recruit players better suited to it than the holdovers would have.
If the new system is more straight ahead power on the ground, the old group would not have been able to execute it, anyway. If the new system has WRs blocking more, the same can be said for the old WR group. Can the new group do it? Can't be much worse. 'Course, the new system may not have as many swing passes as the old.
People were clamoring for more passes to Ott, but I don't think that Ott recovered from his injury last year. Has he yet? His game depends on elusiveness, but we'll see if he has been able to recapture it. Maybe the UCLA OL and WRs can block for him.
I'm truly not understanding why the new coaching hires are seen as saviors by some that can overcome a mass exodus, beyond "Hey! I've heard of that guy!"
Harsin had an excellent record at Boise, taking over a team that finished no worse than second place, and usually first, for 15 straight years. He finished first 5 times out of 7 and second place the other two times.
He got a job at power conference team where he crashed and burned, got a reputation as a total hard ass, saw a mass exodus of players, was fired and was home eating cheese burgers when Cal called.
He came, and after Spring practice most of the key players on offense left.
Record seems very similar to a guy who took over a Nevada basketball team that finished first the year before, and proceeded to put up an excellent record there, finishing first 4 of 5 years and second the fifth, before moving on to a power conference team where he slowly proved mediocre, got a reputation as a hard ass, got fired after many years, and was home eating cheeseburgers when Cal called. Came in, talked to the players and suffered key personnel defections.
And I'm really not understanding why 28-27/15-17 at Hawaii and 5-6/4-3 at WSU is moving the needle
There are reasons to think Harsin could turn out really good and there are reasons to think it could be a disaster, and everything in between. I would feel better if Spring didn't happen, but it did.
Rolovich is just a special assistant, and his record doesn't indicate greatness in any case.
