Clawson's comment after firing

#27
#27
Couple of minor points. Crompton should not have started UCLA. He had a bum ankle and a concussion in the first half. A healthy Nick Stephens would have been better. All during fall camp his ankly was gimp and they should have rested him for a game or two.

You have a choice of how much you install in year 1. UT was geared towards a pro-style and didn't have exactly the right fit yet for the clawfense. Fl was the same when meyrer and Mullens came. Instead of them running the spread immedately like michigan did last year, he ran a pro-style with some spread mixed in....Clawson should have started similiar....and worked in west coast....or Fulmer should have told everyone not to expect much this season. You can't end the season by saying year 2 is where everyone gets it...just a couple of minor observations. Will see in year 2 if Bowling Green ends up as winners.
 
#29
#29
If your QB is completing less then 50% of your passes, your offense isn't going to work.

That said, he made mistakes like not running the ball more against a weak defense like UCLA. No reason they should lose to Wyoming, poor execution and poor QB play.
 
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#30
#30
The_Orange_Pearl said:
I agree. Rich Rodriguez couldn't make it work in Michigan his first year either. I think another year or two and the players would have ran it better because they understood the offense. Not to mention recruiting the right players for the system would make a world of difference. Michigan might be rolling shortly with Tate Forcier or Devin Gardner. I hate Michigan so I hope they fail but Michigan will look so much better with the right quarterbacks coming in for the system. Too bad Clawson couldn't have started out with Amanti Edwards at Tennessee. It is what it is though. Sucks it didn't work out but I am happy with the new staff. Had it not failed so miserably we wouldn't have the staff we do so in the end I'm happy. I hate thinking about last season... miserable. Will be forgotten if Tennessee comes out and wins 9 games this year. I think it's achievable.
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What does Armanti Edwards know about running the Clawfense?
 
#31
#31
mkil5 said:
What does Armanti Edwards know about running the Clawfense?
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Appalachian State also runs a spread offense. I was just saying that pretty much any quarterback that was recruited for the spread and fits the system would have done a better job than the quarterbacks Tennessee had. He just came to mind because he wasn't highly recruited yet could have done a better job than Crompton, Stephens and Colemon. Bringing him up was pretty random though, I know :p. Although Richmond lost to Appalachian State in the playoffs and Vanderbilt/Memphis were on his list.
 
#33
#33
gasguy98 said:
All I ever saw was that he said the offense never bought into his plan.

This give me hope for the future. If that is true most of the disaster of last year was due to the offense being confused and demoralized.

Unfortunately this only explains part of the pitiful QB play.
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That explains all of the pitiful QB play
 
#35
#35
I think the reason it didnt work is because he was expecting Gerald Jones to be able to run the offence. And he didnt have a good enought arm to do it so he had to settle with crompdaddy. Plus they didnt have enough speed to get outside of the perimeter. Basically he didnt have the players to run his offence and he didnt try to tweak his system to fix it.JMO
 
#38
#38
codyg10 said:
I think the reason it didnt work is because he was expecting Gerald Jones to be able to run the offence. And he didnt have a good enought arm to do it so he had to settle with crompdaddy. Plus they didnt have enough speed to get outside of the perimeter. Basically he didnt have the players to run his offence and he didnt try to tweak his system to fix it.JMO
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You need to get that brain injury checked out, cody.
 
#39
#39
Cartervol said:
Bad quarterback play and cream puff linemen will make any scheme look bad. Throw in mediocre receivers and you really have a problem.
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Garnering the 115th spot in D1 offense cannot be blamed on personnel., at least when its Tennessee. This was all Clawson, he was pathetic. an earlier post attributed his inability to mold his offense to his people. This was an understatement.
 
#40
#40
I generally disagree with the concept that this was all on Clawson's shoulders. I think he walked into a bad situation, and while he didn't make it any better, I don't know that he made it any worse either. One obvious mistake though was not changing his system at all to the players. Now that he is at BG, he seems to have learned a valuable lesson from his time at UT. He has stated that he will implement some of his own schemes, but that this year will be a mix of the Gregg Brandon (former BG head coach) system and his own. In essence, he seems to have learned that his system can at times be kinda complicated, and so he needs to work it in gradually instead of all at once, and adapt it to the players he has instead of trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
 
#42
#42
Tampavolz said:
Garnering the 115th spot in D1 offense cannot be blamed on personnel., at least when its Tennessee. This was all Clawson, he was pathetic. an earlier post attributed his inability to mold his offense to his people. This was an understatement.
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Oh please...the personnel was fat,lazy,and soft.
 
#43
#43
Tampavolz said:
Garnering the 115th spot in D1 offense cannot be blamed on personnel., at least when its Tennessee. This was all Clawson, he was pathetic. an earlier post attributed his inability to mold his offense to his people. This was an understatement.
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Actually, it was a mixture of personnel, crappy head coaching, shoddy work from the S and C coach, terrible position coaches, and Clawson.
 
#44
#44
Cartervol said:
Bad quarterback play and cream puff linemen will make any scheme look bad. Throw in mediocre receivers and you really have a problem.
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The same cream puff linemen that gave up 5 sacks on the year the previous season ? One of those same cream puff receivers that was a 1000 yard receiver the year before . You forgot to mention the 1000 yard rusher that instantlt turned into a creampuff .

Clearly it cannot all be attributed to personnel given what they accomplished the previous year .
 
#45
#45
I am not a huge Dave Clawson fan ...but several things are telling here . This was not the Clawfence as it was ran at Richmond ...at all . This was the same Al Saunders UT offense ( vintage 1982 ) that has been in place since 1982 with only a small bit of the clawfence factored in . Phil would not let Dave run his offense .

Look at what he did at Richmond . It has 'west coast' roots ...but it was more aggressive ...like Spurriers Fun and Gun . What you saw at UT was not even in the same ball park.

What we saw at UT last season was not even close to Clawson's offense . It was Clawson trying to be aggressive out of Fulmers system ...which provided less opportunity for favorable mach-ups and inadequate blocking for that type of aggression .

Clawson will do fine at BG , now that he is not hamstrung .
 
#46
#46
Tampavolz said:
Garnering the 115th spot in D1 offense cannot be blamed on personnel., at least when its Tennessee. This was all Clawson, he was pathetic. an earlier post attributed his inability to mold his offense to his people. This was an understatement.
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Rich Rodriguez didn't do so hot at Michigan last year either, did he? yet his offenses did ok at the D1 level previous to that. Your theory falls short.
 
#47
#47
SGMVols said:
Maybe, but Clawson has a head coaching job right now and Fulmer doesn't.
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Who is and isn't a head coach right now has no bearing on the fact that as an OC and as a Head Coach, both Clawson and Fulmer failed to get the team ready. That is their primary job and they not only failed, they failed miserably. When one or both of them were quoted that the team never understood the offense, that told me all i needed to know regarding what really happened. They should both apologize to the VOLNATION for this travesty.
 
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