10-30-2016, 12:08 PM
The curious thing about our coaching staff is the difference between the defense/special teams and offense:
1) On defense and special teams, the coaches are generally very experienced. The only exception is Peter Hansen, who's on the earlier part of his career. When there are openings, Shaw pursues Oklahoma's DL coach or one of the best DB coaches in the country.
2) Offensively, it's ... basically universally younger coaches. There's no dedicated wide receiver coach. It's odd.
Now, I'll resist psychoanalyzing or breaking things down -- and I'll note, as before, when the pieces arrange it seems to be an effective approach -- but I do wonder if injecting more experience might help even out the wide swings in effectiveness we witness from the offense.
At any rate, critiquing the QB coaching seems fair... until you wonder, if it's so deficient, why did Hogan develop so well? And while I'll concede Burns isn't at a *high* level he certainly leveled up during the course of his career.
I don't think it's necessarily a big black mark to have two ineffective highly-rated QBs. (Indeed, 2012 saw more-or-less the same phenomenon; I've observed the same thing at Alabama.) Three is the problem... but that goes back to the basic question of why-didn't-Stanford-recruit-a-QB-in-2015. Sam Darnold or Brandon Wimbush or Josh Rosen should've been the Kevin Hogan to Ryan Burns's Josh Nunes.
1) On defense and special teams, the coaches are generally very experienced. The only exception is Peter Hansen, who's on the earlier part of his career. When there are openings, Shaw pursues Oklahoma's DL coach or one of the best DB coaches in the country.
2) Offensively, it's ... basically universally younger coaches. There's no dedicated wide receiver coach. It's odd.
Now, I'll resist psychoanalyzing or breaking things down -- and I'll note, as before, when the pieces arrange it seems to be an effective approach -- but I do wonder if injecting more experience might help even out the wide swings in effectiveness we witness from the offense.
At any rate, critiquing the QB coaching seems fair... until you wonder, if it's so deficient, why did Hogan develop so well? And while I'll concede Burns isn't at a *high* level he certainly leveled up during the course of his career.
I don't think it's necessarily a big black mark to have two ineffective highly-rated QBs. (Indeed, 2012 saw more-or-less the same phenomenon; I've observed the same thing at Alabama.) Three is the problem... but that goes back to the basic question of why-didn't-Stanford-recruit-a-QB-in-2015. Sam Darnold or Brandon Wimbush or Josh Rosen should've been the Kevin Hogan to Ryan Burns's Josh Nunes.