[teejers1]

If Tavita is a hotshot OC waiting to break out, he'd be interviewing and getting jobs at other places.  I can't imagine him not wanting to get experience elsewhere and making a real name for himself if he were that good.  If a better position than Stanford OC/QB coach opens up at Stanford, it's not as if he wouldn't be near the top of the list for consideration if he wanted to come back.

I could be wrong, but I feel like the results on the field bear out my opinions.

I think the results on the field - i.e., the O under Shaw while Tavita is the titular OC - preclude Tavita from getting any interest from a P5 program.  If you're arguing that Tavita should go to a lower division team and shine there . . . okay.  But it's tough to expect a P5 coordinator to voluntarily take on a similar job at a lower level.  That would be a big roll of the dice professionally to have to rationalize (and the roll only comes up box cars if Tavita turns the lower division O into a powerhouse).  So yeah, in theory, that's a possibly circuitous career move for Tavita.  Just think it's one few coaches would voluntarily take, regardless of how confident they were in their abilities.

The bottom line is that it's impossible to tell how good (or bad) an OC Tavita is because Shaw calls all the shots.

[teejers1]

If Tavita is a hotshot OC waiting to break out, he'd be interviewing and getting jobs at other places.  I can't imagine him not wanting to get experience elsewhere and making a real name for himself if he were that good.  If a better position than Stanford OC/QB coach opens up at Stanford, it's not as if he wouldn't be near the top of the list for consideration if he wanted to come back.

I could be wrong, but I feel like the results on the field bear out my opinions.

I think the results on the field - i.e., the O under Shaw while Tavita is the titular OC - preclude Tavita from getting any interest from a P5 program.  If you're arguing that Tavita should go to a lower division team and shine there . . . okay.  But it's tough to expect a P5 coordinator to voluntarily take on a similar job at a lower level.  That would be a big roll of the dice professionally to have to rationalize (and the roll only comes up box cars if Tavita turns the lower division O into a powerhouse).  So yeah, in theory, that's a possibly circuitous career move for Tavita.  Just think it's one few coaches would voluntarily take, regardless of how confident they were in their abilities.

The bottom line is that it's impossible to tell how good (or bad) an OC Tavita is because Shaw calls all the shots.