re: When the Topic of an OC is Brought Up.....

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well, he did get a new OC. The poor guy just got a terrible disease shortly into his hiring, and we were forced into a hasty bit of shuffling. That shuffling resulted in a 13-1 season, with perhaps the most dominant regular season in school history (BCS rematch notwithstanding). Pretty tough to find a lot of fault in that, and very tough to justify firing someone to go hiring a replacement. That's first off. Secondly, it's not like there are teeming pools of OCs that mesh with the current staff, personally and in philosophy, to pick and choose from. Miles has a winning percentage of about 80%, you gotta be careful not to disrupt things. Some offensive coordinators will want to bring in their own people, and that might mean replacing a valuable recruiter; the guy has to fit into Miles' plans. Next, you have to be careful not to change too much scheme, or the experienced players are just as lost as new recruits. You would like freshmen starting if they are great players, but you don't want to lose upperclassmen because they no longer fit what the team does. If things keep being such a struggle this entire season, Miles in the offseason will have to decide if the problem (passing game, as of now) is due to a schematic failure, growing pains going away from the read option we just dropped last season, a lot of new players (some due to injuries), etc, and then make a call. My guess is the biggest problem is the "new players" issue; Beckham for example showed last season he could do well in this scheme (which was what Lee ran). Now he's having a classic sophomore slump, with a new QB playing behind a makeshift O Line. Get our line healthy and intact, and return Mett and most of the skill players with a year's experience together, and I think we'll be fine.

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