[NU Sports] Questions

[John A. DeGroat]

Walker or no Walker, they knew the  pantry was empty and they could go 
to ranked programs rather than live through what is going on now..

John DeGroat

cherron604 at aol.com wrote:

>1 - Quarterbacks
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>Everybody involved in the program has known for 2 or three years that BB was not going to be around in 2006.  If the expectation was to continue to play a very quarterback-centric offense, shouldn't the expectation have been that the pipeline would contain as many strong QB candidates (with real solid credentials) as possible ?  Yet all we had in the pipeline for 2006 was Bacher, Kafka and Brewer.  Should we have made the calculation a few years ago that, since this offense requires such a high-level of QB skill, if we could not maintain that skill level in the recruiting pipeline, we should move to a more typical Big-Ten type offense that was less dependent on highly-skilled (hard to find) quarterbacks...?  Is it as simple as saying spread offense=lots of QB talent=lots of talented QB recruits, or, if you can't bring those recruits in, migrate toward a more typical offense ?
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>2 - Offensive Coordinators
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>Kevin Wilson took over as OC in 1999 with 9 years head coach or OC experience.  He had great success for 3 years, then left, not for a head coaching job, but to be OC at Oklahoma (where he remains).  In 2002 Mike Dunbar took over as OC with 17 years head coach or OC experience.  He had a great run for 4 years before leaving for another lateral move (OC at Cal).  Now we have promoted an OC with no head coaching or OC experience.  This raises a couple of questions:
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>a) Why have 2 very accomplished OC's left the program, since they were not leaving to become head coaches ?  Was it money ?  If it was purely money, does the university need to review the pay for the assistant coaches ?  Or did they leave for some other reason ?  If we are not going to pay adequately to retain good OC talent, do we have to reconsider our commitment to playing football at the Big Ten level ?
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>b) Isn't it safe to assume that the offense we have been using requires exceptional OC talent as well as exceptional QB talent ?  We might further assume that exceptional OC talent is at least as hard to find as (if not harder to find than) excepional QB talent.  Given both of these, should a calculation have been made that unless the supply of exceptional OC talent could be maintained and guaranteed, we might need to transition to a more standard offense, not requiring such exceptional OC talent to implement ?
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>c) Is it reasonable to assume that you could replace two OC's with a combined 26 years of head coach or OC experience prior to their arrival with an OC with no head coach or OC experience ?  Why exactly did we think we needed to be an OC training ground when for the last seven years we had been more of a finishing school for highly-experienced, highly-talented OC's ?  Did we even consider hiring anybody with HC or OC experience when Dunbar left ?  
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>Garrick McGee is probably a great guy, and he might be a good OC someday, but why exactly did we determine that he should get his on-the-job training here ?  Shouldn't that training happen at some place like Toledo or Western Illinois ? 
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>Greg Colby is another issue entirely, to be discussed separately.
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>Chuck Herron   Tech '85
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