Rick was a pretty athletic qb

Rick was a pretty athletic qb
by jt (2019-06-09 11:55:30)

In reply to: Mirer was a square peg in a round hole. posted by domer4

i thought that he was fine in the offense; I don't know that the option was as much of an issue as the lack of sophistication in the passing game. When they brought Powlus in, the plan was to start to incorporate more advanced concepts and I believe that was Skip's role, but the problem was that everyone else on the team was recruited for a different system. I think that the other problem was that Ron (God bless him) was never really the same after his injury and definitely wasn't as athletic in his later years.

That said, I don't recall too many issues with Rick running the offense. I might be wrong.

Rick perhaps wasn't capable of running a more sophisticated

passing scheme? That seemed to be the complaint about him in the pros. Holtz probably would have run the same offense either way since he generally stuck with the "if it's not broken, don't fix it" methodology -- but perhaps Holtz knew Rick's limitations better than people think he did.

I think that he (and Powlus as well) could have

I don't think that we needed them to.

Oddly, Ron's passing numbers were better under 96 than 97 *

not odd at all, unfortunately

he had a much better offensive coach in 96.