The talent is not the problem. Roy Hall is a pretty great jump ball WR, and the others are dynamic speedsters (and there are 3 of them). The problem is the QB. Boeckman may be good due to years in the system, but I like Robbie's pure talent a lot better. He impressed me live at the N/S game, and blew me away at the Big33. That is not a guarantee of success, but I like his arm better than Boeckman's.
Coaching is a huge problem here. Troy was a lot more effective pre-UM last year. He was inconsistent, but he was very good at turning good coverage into a 7 yard gain on the ground. Now, he is terrified to run b/c of all of the coaching. While this is good, last game we saw that he is not the best QB at going thru his progressions. It might be a lot more realistic to have him look for two options and then have freedom to take off.
He throws an outstanding ball on the run... sometimes better than in the pocket. We have not designed enough plays around him rolling out threatening to run or pass.
We desperately need an OC, if only so we can get the play to the line of scrimmage. We won games, so I could look past the horrendously stupid method of running the QB to the sidelines every game, but saturday was a prime example. Our last drive, he got there with few seconds, and in front of a hostile student section, he ended up having to take a timeout. That timeout would have given us the ball back. I like the BG OC idea, I'm gonna agree with you. We have obviously recruited for a spread offense, now we need to execute.
We do not need an OC to put up huge numbers. We need one that gets us to the line with 20 seconds left on the playclock. That can run a conservative offense that isn't predictable all of the time. We need one that any other major university in america would be interested in hiring (we don't have that).
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Originally Posted by vrbryant
it would be fantastic if we still had a field marshal like Krenzel who can simply get the job done without trying to (or needing to) be the star of the game. In terms of 'fixing' things, I simply hope that in two years, when (presumably) they hand the reins to Boeckman, that somehow Ginn has decided to stick around and the defense reloads.
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IMO people have a very idealized memory of Krenzel. He would get it done with this offense, and we would probably win both close games this year. But he struggled a lot with his passing too. He just didn't make mistakes, or take big sacks, like TS. He wasn't that great of a passer either (McMullen fits that bill). Also, there's no way Ginn's going anywhere until he starts getting the ball with space to run.