First let me just say I rarely post. I've been on this board since it was available in the early 2000s, but I just don't have the time to post. Also let me state I really like Coach Brown and I am 100% behind him. I believe he will get this program to where it needs to be just like Frank Beamer did at Va Tech (after he had rough start) and other successful coaches that the school had patience to work with. What's the other option...try to run him off like we did Bowden in 1974 or Nehlen a few times in his tenure with planes flying over with banners?
With that said, I cannot discount a problem I see with not only our offense, but the players leaving in the portal that have played in this offense. Gerard Parker is the OC and seems like a pretty smart guys that knows his stuff. However, despite the many excuses (many valid like FR on the line), our offense at times has looked horrible. You cannot blame all of that on Doege. He has had no consistent run game or pass protection for 3 years. As far as play calling, knowing the limitations we have, I scratch my head knowing why we have tried to do things that puts our offense in a bad position. Case in point, during the bowl game we have two back to back runs by Mathis that gained great yardage and got our first first dowms of the game. So what did we do on the next play. Doege drops back...sacked. Next play.....sacked in an ugly fashion. 3rd and long and again ugly. Why could we not have tried another damn Mathis run Nehlen converstative style. Maybe try another one after that and at least have a manageable 3rd down. I am not talking about going back to Woody Hayes and a cloud of dust offense, but I don't think the OC (or Brown) always put us in the right postion to be successful.
All of this leads me to the wide receivers leaving. Parker is not only the OC but the receivers coach. Ryan just announced portal. This follows Wright our leading receiver and Edsale that I guess wanted to be with his gf. We also had Sam Brown earlier in the year and some grumblings as I understand on twitter by some that may be viewed as future stars. I don't know what the issue is but I hope Brown is trying to get to the bottom of this. For all I know it could be a bunch of kids that are snow flaking their way to some other school that may cuddle them. I don't know because I am not in the Puskar building. I just know this is frustrating as a fan. I do believe the new crop of recruits coming in are going to have a different perspective as the relationships are going to be different with the current coaches because they have been built for a while. Sorry for rambling.
With that said, I cannot discount a problem I see with not only our offense, but the players leaving in the portal that have played in this offense. Gerard Parker is the OC and seems like a pretty smart guys that knows his stuff. However, despite the many excuses (many valid like FR on the line), our offense at times has looked horrible. You cannot blame all of that on Doege. He has had no consistent run game or pass protection for 3 years. As far as play calling, knowing the limitations we have, I scratch my head knowing why we have tried to do things that puts our offense in a bad position. Case in point, during the bowl game we have two back to back runs by Mathis that gained great yardage and got our first first dowms of the game. So what did we do on the next play. Doege drops back...sacked. Next play.....sacked in an ugly fashion. 3rd and long and again ugly. Why could we not have tried another damn Mathis run Nehlen converstative style. Maybe try another one after that and at least have a manageable 3rd down. I am not talking about going back to Woody Hayes and a cloud of dust offense, but I don't think the OC (or Brown) always put us in the right postion to be successful.
All of this leads me to the wide receivers leaving. Parker is not only the OC but the receivers coach. Ryan just announced portal. This follows Wright our leading receiver and Edsale that I guess wanted to be with his gf. We also had Sam Brown earlier in the year and some grumblings as I understand on twitter by some that may be viewed as future stars. I don't know what the issue is but I hope Brown is trying to get to the bottom of this. For all I know it could be a bunch of kids that are snow flaking their way to some other school that may cuddle them. I don't know because I am not in the Puskar building. I just know this is frustrating as a fan. I do believe the new crop of recruits coming in are going to have a different perspective as the relationships are going to be different with the current coaches because they have been built for a while. Sorry for rambling.