New OC

[HerkyHopeful]

Does he know any WR or QB that would transfer?

I remember claims the new OC would bring a QB with him. Welp.

 

[BuffettHawk]

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

I remember claims the new OC would bring a QB with him. Welp.

Wouldn’t he have recruited college players 2 years ago?

 

[MikeyJoe]

Wins per game as a coordinator. Jesus Christ.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

Wouldn’t he have recruited college players 2 years ago?

You expect a guy coaching in the NFL this past year and then by all accord heading to be the OC at Troy has a QB in his pocket that moves the needle at Iowa?

 

[Alan Lomax]

JFC Kirk.

 

[Hawkstrat]

Did he call plays at WMU at least?

I'm trying to talk myself into this but his resume does seem a little more progressive than Johns who bounced around a lot at the same level.

My concern is how much experience does he have in play calling etc.

Sort of. He called two minute drives or something.

 

[Verbal]

We won’t have to abide this for long. I think Kirk will hate the new look Big Ten, where he’s playing on opposite coasts on either side of a bye week, and will hang it up in December.

 

[Gushawk]

From 2018-2022

A lot of the talk about his Syracuse tenure is pretty overblown too. He didn't take over until mid-October, had pretty shit pieces to work with, and then increased their PPG by 10 full points in his first full season before Babers came in and installed his own staff.

It's a very B-grade hire that has the potential to be affected by whoever comes in as WR coach.

we’re in luck! it’s coach Bud, the heavenly gift

 

[BuffettHawk]

 

[Dr. Zaius]

Sad.

 

[BluesHawk]

Why can't we have nice things?

 

[BluesHawk]

On offense, anyway.

 

[gable_guy]

But also

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

The legacy of Kirk continues its downfall

Lol. Holy shit.

 

[UnKnOwN_SeRb]

I'm ready for Kirk to gtfo.

 

[Gushawk]

Wins per game as a coordinator. Jesus Christ.

at least he ignored it in making this uninspired choice?

 

[Hawkstrat]

But also

Yeah, I am disappointed, but that last season they were hit by the portal pretty hard. His offenses as a head coach were pretty good.

 

[BBK]

3 months for this asshole

 

[Kamala]

IF we implement these concepts, much more on board with this hire.

Well we have:
1 QB who can P but not R.
1 QB who can R but not P
1 QB who can neither R nor P

So an RPO seems unlikely

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

3 months for this asshole

Not good.

 

[Geese]

Wins per game as a coordinator. Jesus Christ.

Wtf does that even mean

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

You expect a guy coaching in the NFL this past year and then by all accord heading to be the OC at Troy has a QB in his pocket that moves the needle at Iowa?

I didn’t expect any OC to have a QB in their pocket.

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

That would be too small of a QB, imho

 

[Soda Popinski]

Wasn't this the guy that went the entire season without changing up the cadence?

 

[snips]

'wins per game' sounds like made up shit

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

Wasn't this the guy that went the entire season without changing up the cadence?

Knock it off.

 

[Gushawk]

I want to talk myself into optimism, but it’s hard. I suppose the case for his poor Syracuse performance is that you take what you can get and he boarded a sinking ship because he needed a job. Hopefully he learned something in Green Bay. Unlike Cletey, I don’t think he does shit for recruiting (at least without significant success on the field), and I think there’s close to zero chance he does anything to address the personnel problem at QB in the near term. C- at best.

 

[rodg12]

Well we have:
1 QB who can P but not R.
1 QB who can R but not P
1 QB who can neither R nor P

So an RPO seems unlikely

You can run RPOs without particularly mobile QBs.

 

[Gushawk]

I hope Tim is not a shotgun in short yardage retard, which is about the only thing that could possibly make our offense even worse

 

[thrawn]

That would be too small of a QB, imho

what if it had just been a very large OC?

 

[Hawkstrat]

Well we have:
1 QB who can P but not R.
1 QB who can R but not P
1 QB who can neither R nor P

So an RPO seems unlikely

RPO doesn't mean the QB passes or runs. He makes a read and gives it to the back.

 

[Kerky]

Sad.

Yet predictable.

 

[HiG 2.0]

Fucking Kirk.

 

[Creed]

I hate you all, but mostly Kirk and his retardedness.

 

[BBK]

This thread fucking sucks

 

[Hawkstrat]

Chryst wants the job badly.

Grubb will get the job.

Eat shit.

 

[gable_guy]

 

[HerkyHopeful]

What an underwhelming hire. I can't get over how shitty this process was

 

[The Full Monte]

It’s absolutely amazing it look over 3 months to muster up this hire.

Perhaps the negative Nellie’s were correct about the national perception of Iowa/Kirk after all

 

[CamelTones]

At least we got the Lacklester and Dudmayr nicknames out of the search.

 

[The Full Monte]

Would have been nice to hire a guy with, you know, a clear history of success instead of a guy we have to talk ourselves into maybe be okay.

This is the point that all the “you were going to complain no matter what” crowd seems to be too dumb to understand. Kirk took all this time to finally hire a guy that wasn’t in the role currently, with a decent history that you can clearly point to.

I think it’s sort of an inexcusable hire given the current “P2” state of college football.

 

[WCFHawkeye]

Kevin Johns will be officially announced as our offensive coordinator tomorrow, likely in the afternoon.

The nightmare is almost over fellas.

My source is top notch.

well at least I haven't been banned yet. I reached out and she told me stalled in HR

Fuck you for getting my hopes up.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

What an underwhelming hire. I can't get over how shitty this process was

It makes it pretty obvious that Kirk had no intention of getting rid of his tremendous failure at OC in the offseason if left to his own decision

 

[gable_guy]

 

[Saul Berkley]

You had a guy in Kevin Johns who had extensive experience designing and calling offenses at a P5 level. And, he was successful at many places that were hard to recruit and lacked resources. Johns also had extensive experience in the Big Ten which would have been nice. Instead, we get this Western Michigan cast-off. Nice.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

Really makes ya think

 

[Dr. Zaius]

JFC

 

[PoopyFaceTomatoNose]

The least surprising Kirk move ever. I very much look forward to his retirement.

 

[gable_guy]

You had a guy in Kevin Johns who had extensive experience designing and calling offenses at a P5 level. And, he was successful at many places that were hard to recruit and lacked resources. Johns also had extensive experience in the Big Ten which would have been nice. Instead, we get this Western Michigan cast-off. Nice.

I imagine the fact Lester hired Johns played a role