re: Is Brad Davis a good coach? (Bump)

I had my doubts. Still a couple of shreds of doubt remaining that the next couple of weeks could whisk away.

- He's definitely amped up his recruiting

- There's lots of things that either enhance, or degrade, an OLs performance. QB play obviously. TE & RB play. Design, etc. Considering last year none of that was great with an inexperienced AND first year OC the overall performance last year can be discounted. But if you don't want to discount it... he did pretty good with a shitty hand and below par supporting cast.

- If I had to point to one thing, good or bad, could only pick one, to tell me how good Davis is, if I'd choose Dellinger. We're talking about Campbell starting this year (for good reason). Well, last year Davis took Dellinger, whom he didn't recruit, and had him as a true freshman starting in 4 games and playing in 12 with some pretty good results especially considering he was injured for 3, if not 4, of those games. He played RT. He also played at OG. Now, with Davis coaching him he is our starting C. A bad coach doesn't pull that off.

So that covers recruiting and coaching individuals.

What's left is coaching in-scheme, as a unit. I don't really have any doubts remaining he's just as good here. The only remaining doubts I have center around communication and the integration to the offense.

If communication is good and we don't see terrible line calls and regular, terrible blown assignments with a new system than last year and a new OC (again) starting another true freshman and a FCS transfer those doubts will be gone faster than a fairy's fart.