HJS {l Wrote}:Thornton Melon {l Wrote}:The issue with Daz has been and always will be fundamentally he believes football should be played like it was in the Amos Alonzo Stagg days. Crack the rock, control the lines.
There is no QB development in this program. Every kid comes in and plays basically the same for their time at BC, if not regressing. And I don't see how you win college football games consistently without solid QB play. Even Purdue, I'm convinced we win that game with a good QB. Not great, good. The gameflow went completely haywire on both sides once Brown soiled himself. For all my problems with the Hen and Deep Sea Dana, there was a lot of QB development there - interestingly it was the Handsome one who improved the least, but Ryan, the Hasselbecks, Mutryn, Saint, they all improved significantly under that coaching staff.
Our guys don't get better, and I really believe it's because they get better coaching in high school than at BC. Realistically the only model of QB that could work under Daz would be the PP model, a guy who can improvise and process whats going on in front of him instinctively, because they sure aren't going to coach it or playcall to help him.
Largely agree. But, I don't know how to rectify a lack of QB development with Loeffler's reputation as a stellar QB coach (or HCRD's reputation as the savior of tOSU football). Daz's cracking-the-rock philosophy may hinder a QB's ability to show off his schools. But, the lack of development is not on said philosophy.
I understand this. But I am really thinking this through - has any skill position offensive player under Daz gotten better as he developed? Hilliman went backwards, no WR really has done much. Tommy Sweeney I guess? None of the QB...Im genuinely curious about this - why don't these kids get better as they are presumably coached at a higher level with more access to film, weights, coaching, etc? Is the playcalling so bad that they are getting better but we can't tell?
If you look at every good/decent offensive performer under Daz, their best year was year 1 - Williams, Rettig, Hilliman, Murphy, Towles, K White so far, except Sweeney. He seems to have improved. Everyone else goes backward or at best stays the same. It's weird.