05_never_again
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Care to explain? With details?
I see this repeated constantly on here like its a fact but all one has to do is look at our offense the last few years to see how ridiculous this thought process is..
Nobody knows for sure. None of us are at practice and in meeting rooms with the coaches/players during the week.
However, it doesn't take incredible insight to look at the OCs Butch has had, look at the offense each of them have run, and conclude that it is Butch's offense. He plugged guys in there who are just going to do what he wants them to do.
The 3 OCs Butch had at Tennessee were all what I call "lazy" or "easy" hires on his part. He brought over Bajakian, who is a personal buddy of Butch and had been with him for years. After Bajakian leaves, Butch brings Mike DeBord, another personal buddy, out of coaching retirement to be his OC. When DeBord leaves, he promotes Larry Scott from within, a guy who has not been an OC or called plays since 2004 at a Florida high school. He supplemented Scott with Mike Canales as QB coach, another guy Butch was familiar with and was previously coaching TEs at powerhouse Utah State. Before that, he was an assistant at North Texas. Call me crazy, but I don't exactly think any of these guys are cream of the crop coaches. They are probably fine coaches at a lower level, but this is big time SEC football we are talking about. Not Central Michigan.
Butch had a chance to bring in someone like Helfrich, Chris Weinke, or a more innovative, capable offensive mind, but I don't think he ever wanted that. A more competent OC would likely challenge Butch or want to do things in a new or different way, and that isn't Butch's style. I think he wants yes men, worker bee-type guys under him on the offensive side of the ball.