[SamuelMcF]

There is no way an obviously "bad" S&C situation would not be addressed. 

Well, obviously "bad" situations at OC, QB, OL, and DL haven't been addressed. . . .

The obviously bad OL issue has been addressed. Shaw has gone through three OL coaches addressing it. It has been addressed, not solved. The DL recruiting has certainly changed focus, becoming much more front and center. No question that has been addressed. Whether it has been "solved" is at least a year away and TBD.

I am unsure why you believe we have an obviously "bad" situation at QB. As far as I can tell, McKee appears to have a lot of potential and upside. He also played pretty well given the teams other limitations. Patu also looks promising. We are in a lot better place than we were back in the days of Burns and Chryst IMHO. I get it that you most probably don't like Tavita as the OC, but IMHO the problems on OL and DL are not a matter of opinion. They exist without question. Nobody I know of, including Shaw, would argue otherwise. The OC issue is not in that category.

How can anyone have an informed opinion on Tavita as Offensive Coordinator when it is so obvious that headset-wearing-Denny's-Menu-Staring David Shaw calls all the plays and runs the offense?  

Tavita could be a GREAT OC, or he could SUCK - but there is no way any of us can know one way or the other given Shaw's control over the O.

This is troubling. Can he really be all that good? Evidently, he's not brimming with ambition. Yes, I know it's cu$hy gig, but a guy with fire in his belly would want get into the arena and grow, right?

I don't necessarily correlate being good at your current role with having ambition. Seriously, Pritchard could be an offensive genius and we'd have no idea. I do think we see glimpses of it in non-3rd down, non-RZ situations before it's blatantly Shaw making the calls. I've been seeing a lot more slants lately.

- Bud Foster, VT's DC for over 20 years before retiring in 2019, was fantastic and fielded HC calls yearly. (He didn't attend VT, nor was he from Virginia.)
- Our very own former DL coach Randy Hart was a college DL coach for 42 years. Only 4 of those were spent as a DC in the late 90's, where he still coached the DL.
- Bobby Kennedy, probably our best assistant coach at the moment, has coached WRs in college since 1993 and never been an OC.

On the flip side, Peter Hansen had ambition. So far, both UNLV defenses he has coached ranked #100 or worse in nearly every single metric there is. The Peter Principle is real and we see it all the time.

[SamuelMcF]

There is no way an obviously "bad" S&C situation would not be addressed. 

Well, obviously "bad" situations at OC, QB, OL, and DL haven't been addressed. . . .

The obviously bad OL issue has been addressed. Shaw has gone through three OL coaches addressing it. It has been addressed, not solved. The DL recruiting has certainly changed focus, becoming much more front and center. No question that has been addressed. Whether it has been "solved" is at least a year away and TBD.

I am unsure why you believe we have an obviously "bad" situation at QB. As far as I can tell, McKee appears to have a lot of potential and upside. He also played pretty well given the teams other limitations. Patu also looks promising. We are in a lot better place than we were back in the days of Burns and Chryst IMHO. I get it that you most probably don't like Tavita as the OC, but IMHO the problems on OL and DL are not a matter of opinion. They exist without question. Nobody I know of, including Shaw, would argue otherwise. The OC issue is not in that category.

How can anyone have an informed opinion on Tavita as Offensive Coordinator when it is so obvious that headset-wearing-Denny's-Menu-Staring David Shaw calls all the plays and runs the offense?  

Tavita could be a GREAT OC, or he could SUCK - but there is no way any of us can know one way or the other given Shaw's control over the O.

This is troubling. Can he really be all that good? Evidently, he's not brimming with ambition. Yes, I know it's cu$hy gig, but a guy with fire in his belly would want get into the arena and grow, right?

I don't necessarily correlate being good at your current role with having ambition. Seriously, Pritchard could be an offensive genius and we'd have no idea. I do think we see glimpses of it in non-3rd down, non-RZ situations before it's blatantly Shaw making the calls. I've been seeing a lot more slants lately.

- Bud Foster, VT's DC for over 20 years before retiring in 2019, was fantastic and fielded HC calls yearly. (He didn't attend VT, nor was he from Virginia.)
- Our very own former DL coach Randy Hart was a college DL coach for 42 years. Only 4 of those were spent as a DC in the late 90's, where he still coached the DL.
- Bobby Kennedy, probably our best assistant coach at the moment, has coached WRs in college since 1993 and never been an OC.

On the flip side, Peter Hansen had ambition. So far, both UNLV defenses he has coached ranked #100 or worse in nearly every single metric there is. The Peter Principle is real and we see it all the time.