I don’t think there’s anyone else on the staff who Frost trust to call plays. If there’s an OC out there that is familiar with the offense I would hope Frost would try to bring that coach here. I’m strongly in favor of Frost giving play calling to an OC so he can focus on being head coach. Losing Lubick will derail the current plans, if he decides to take the Montana HC job.
I like where your heads at, but as @RedSaidTed mentioned, i'm not sure anyone on staff currently could take that over. Beckton and Verduzco absolutely not (even though Verduzco has OC experience). I think there's not enough symmetry between Austin and Frost, so I don't believe that would work. That leaves Held who has struggled with his RB room since being here. I just don't think we can do it.
Wide receiver coach is a position I wish we could fill from the outside. I wish our offensive coordinator was also our QB coach. I’m just not sure Lubbick can do that. I don’t think we need a special teams coordinator but someone needs those full time duties. I don’t think we will see any changes with this staff. I’m fine with that but really wish we had a great WR coach.
I coached high school football for a few years and I can tell you there are so many things that go into coaching special teams it’s easy to have mistakes. A full time special teams coach can be seen as a luxury but it can pay dividends.
Wondering how many of the Top teams have a ST coach as opposed to not? No idea but perhaps someone does.
For sure, there's a reason that when we went from 9 assistant coaches to 10 that nearly every team started having special teams coordinators.
I already looked it up and did a post on it. Are you asking fully dedicated special teams coach? Or just a full time position coach with the special teams title? As opposed to just an analyst like we had?
Thanks and that's extremely troubling imo. WTH is Frost thinking as opposed to most P5 programs in the country? This is the kind of thing that really makes me question if SF really knows what he's doing.
Couldn't we stay exactly where we are?
That's one of my frustrations. I'm not going to go the "he doesn't know what he's doing" route but the blueprint is freaking there. If you read my "quick write up" post, I went through how bad Iowa destroyed us on special teams, they have a full time ST coordinator with no position responsibilities. In a one score game, field position and turnovers created on special teams matters.
Well and to be fair I said that Rutledge was going to look like a hero because "we have nowhere to go but up" since we were 112th in 2019, but here we are.
