Willy Korn for OC

"From what I know, coach Napier will 100% call the plays,"

Build the wall.

 

Out of respect for Liberty's players.

 

Not ideal. I am not that upset with his job as an OC outside of taking the foot off the gas too frequently and when up a few points, calling it like we are up 21. I just felt he was way too distracted and not as sharp as he should be overseeing the whole team operations on game days as the OC. Hopefully the other staff changes gets the right people in place to offset that.

 

McElwain refused to fire Nussmeier. Lost his job.
Mullen refused to fire Grantham. Lost his job.
If Billy refuses to fire himself as OC, he’ll have something in common with those two coaches.

 

Yep. It is hard not to look history and compare him to the failed head coaches. I really like him and want him to succeed, but I cannot imagine what analytics he is looking at that justifies having two OL coaches and no OC—or at the very least not promoting Callaway and/or Gonzalez as passing game coordinator or co-OC. There is no need to keep Rob Sales’ co-OC title to justify his salary. Napier should pay Sales whatever he wants but figure out the best way to manage the clock and situational football. I doubt that having two OL coaches and zero OCs is that winning formula but if that is the decision then it better be executed much better next year.

 

The whiners are coming!

 

Who says that's what we're doing? HC calls the plays at Liberty, maybe we dump an OL guy and bring Korn into a similar role. Or maybe Billy told Lagway to say this to rev up the haters and he's hiring a guy to be the playcaller. Lots of possibilities that aren't status quo ante.

 

it’s called pride. Coaches like Eli Drinkwitz realized he wasn’t a sufficient play caller so he puts his own desires aside and hire a dang good OC.

it’s about not trying to be the smartest man in the room. It’s about what is gonna make the team better.

 

I don't buy it. Coaches leave teams all the time during bowl season to take other jobs. If it happens , I believe it is more contractual.

 

There is resolute, there is stubborn and there is oblivious.


Until further notice, I am going to mark him down in the "oblivious" category. But if I am wrong, what I am NOT wrong in is that he has burned completely through his political capital and he is cutting things REAL close. The best analogy IMO is the last year of Mike White. I do not doubt that he was "encouraged" to get help on offense coaching and he decided to do it his way one last time and if it did not work out then he would leave.


Napier is playing with fire.

 

Unfortunately Dan Mullen was always trying to be the smartest man in the room.

 

Actually, Eli was forced to get a OC. He did not make that decision himself.

 

We will have a better picture soon about Napier.

 

IMO, the first 4 games will be his bellwether. And then comes the watch...for when Stricklin gets canned.

 

Maybe our new OC has more personal integrity than that. In addition, if he were a new HC somewhere he would probably be forced to leave to get ready for the coming year.

An OC is not as crucial to the present scheme as a new HC. A new OC can catch up pretty quickly. A HC has to get there as soon as possible. He is the point man for everything.

 

I do not think that is true but we will have to wait and see. What usually happens is the OC makes the call and the HC has the right to overrule him or they discuss it quickly or call time out if it is a crucial play.

 

Wise men know what they know, and know what they don’t know. They don’t spend their hours trying to prove they know more than others.