(11-25-2017 07:58 PM)Old Dominion Wrote: Pretty fair analysis. Nagy and Scott have reached their expiration dates. I simply don't trust them to lead this team to any significant progress. They have totally failed to show any real creativity or thinking outside the box. Good FCS coaches, not good enough for FBS. We need new blood and fresh ideas.
There were likely good reasons for Nagy's soft cover "philosophy"; not the least of which was the lack of experience at LB. However, there were few adjustments, and the only time we really deviated to "fit the offense" was in the Charlotte game.
Nevertheless, our defense was still at least decent, if not stellar.
I am not sure what to make of Brian Scott. I have spoken to him one-on-one a number of times. This is not out of school as it was in public in front of other people.
He knows personnel.
His first insight to me was a warning of sorts; telling me that David born, and to a lesser extent DJ Morrell were special players, Born almost a once-in-a-lifetime talent. He said that the fans needed to be aware that our OL was not likely going to be at that level in the foreseeable future.
He was correct.
He also was very, very high on David Washington and was confident that DW would be able to maintain a high level at QB.
He was correct.
Although he never said so, I don't for a minute think that replacing DW with SB was his decision.
At other times he was confident in our RBs but, like at OL, worried about the WR position.
He was correct.
I never discussed tactics or gameplans with him.
Some of you for years have remembered me as someone who was not happy with our offensive scheme, even when we had Heinicke. When some defenses "solved for TH" we seemed to have no fallback, made no adjustments. We ran multiple sets leading to the same outcome, the inside handoff, and the passing game was often most successful when the play was broken, and TH and some extraordinary receivers were able to improvise. In other words, almost a sandlot offense.
Early on, ODU benefited from the elimination of Hofstra football
More recently, our recruiting, IMHO and by the ranking services as well, has been sub par for the last few years.
Part of that has certainly been about facilities. however, the loss of Zohn Burden cannot be minimized.
The offense seemed vanilla again this season and I am not sure whether it was the lack of creativity from the OC, or simply just doing the best we could with what we had.
First and foremost we need to improve recruiting.