Quarterbacks talk about playing for Osovet

#26
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1TheCoach1 said:
I can see an Osovet hire blowing up in Pruitt's face and fast. After saying the hire would not come from the current staff and then promoting from within the staff. The fanbase would lose it.
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Technically not a current “coach” I don’t believe... could be wrong... I for one would be more or just as much on board with Osovet as I would Briles or Sark, both guys with questionable past and no greater success IMO. Osovet is a great offensive mind
 
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DonDiego said:
So, if it were Osovet, why would there have been a delay in announcing? I don't see that happening. Too risky for a guy in Pruitt's shoes right now. He'll go safe with this hire probably.
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Do you really think that there is anything such as a safe hire for Pruitt?
 
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1TheCoach1 said:
I can see an Osovet hire blowing up in Pruitt's face and fast. After saying the hire would not come from the current staff and then promoting from within the staff. The fanbase would lose it.
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Yeah, he'd better be the right guy if he's it. No grace for bad decisions of first time coach. Too much down side. A well thought of hire can buy you a mediocre first year to get to the next year. A "rationalized" hire will blow up after year 1 if things don't go well.

Nothing I know or even educated guess, but there's not been any chatter on new guys being interviewed, so I do think they know who they're hiring. I'm going with ND OC because they're in playoffs and I could see an agreement not to announce until after playoffs. Probably plenty flawed thought process, but that's what I'm going with.
 
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hmhawk said:
This is about QBs' take on Osevet not previous articles on the OC search. Read and the post about the article. :D
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It was a tongue and cheek comment about the writer of the article, no different than when people bitch and moan about John Adam's articles.
 
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goooooovols said:
I think it would go back to what many have said or theorized... we struck out on many of our first interviews, Freeze was the wanted hire by Pruitt but was indeed nixed by Fulmer/sec... we reset after and interview our next choices none of which interviewed better than Osovet. For fear it could have a negative effect on ESD the announcement will come after a ESD after several articles get leaked by our AD touting Osovet as a responsible choice that will revolutionize our Offense.
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This Osovet thing is growing on me. I saw an article where Pruett said he hired him as an off-field coach just to get him off the market and keep anyone else from getting him. The dude is known as an offensive genius. It makes sense for Pruett to hire him, get him SEC exposure, and let him wait for the OC to come open.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
This Osovet thing is growing on me. I saw an article where Pruett said he hired him as an off-field coach just to get him off the market and keep anyone else from getting him. The dude is known as an offensive genius. It makes sense for Pruett to hire him, get him SEC exposure, and let him wait for the OC to come open.
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Honestly unless the intention wasn’t to have him at some point be an OC here why even bring on a guy this knowledgeable, I agree with you... might as well get this going now
 
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We are gonna hire who we hire, so we can just wait for it. But here's the thing... You can't make every hire look bad, but you can damn sure make every hire look good.

I could come up with great testimony and schematic analysis that shows our local middle school coach has what it takes to be the OC at Tennessee. The fact that the dude wasn't even coaching on the field this year isn't a great bit of information.

Then again, Butch went and hired the damn swim coach from the backards of nowhere, and it was the best hire he made while he was here. So what do I know.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
This Osovet thing is growing on me. I saw an article where Pruett said he hired him as an off-field coach just to get him off the market and keep anyone else from getting him. The dude is known as an offensive genius. It makes sense for Pruett to hire him, get him SEC exposure, and let him wait for the OC to come open.
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Yeah my company hired me as a janitor so another engineering company wouldn't scoop me up as an engineer and pay in money instead of uneaten garbage.

That explanation doesn't make a damn bit of sense.
 
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goooooovols said:
Hopefully these are the slow leaks conditioning is for the hire to follow! Also saw a Twitter post yesterday from him saying he was excited to welcome our ESD offensive signers. I think he’d be a great OC for us.
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Well heckfire, didnt know the man had actually posted an actual Tweet actually...must be a done deal.
 
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goooooovols said:
I think it would go back to what many have said or theorized... we struck out on many of our first interviews, Freeze was the wanted hire by Pruitt but was indeed nixed by Fulmer/sec... we reset after and interview our next choices none of which interviewed better than Osovet. For fear it could have a negative effect on ESD the announcement will come after a ESD after several articles get leaked by our AD touting Osovet as a responsible choice that will revolutionize our Offense.
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Smells too true to be poopoo'd. If folks will read up on him, doesn't seem like a bad hire. JMO.
 
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Wezel said:
Coach Osovet would be a solid hire at the OC. Great offensive mind that could get the offensive jump started. If not OC bring him up as QB coach he could really teach our QBs to read the defense.
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He's already at UT now. He's had a year to experience SEC level football. He already knows our players' strengths and weaknesses.

He said that he'd gotten loads of D1 offensive off-field coaching job offers, but Pruett was the only one that made it enough of a job upgrade from D2 head coach to make the transition (which speaks to the supposed janitor criticism).

It would make a lot of sense.
 
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Osovet is not qualified.

It seems people think Osovet invented RPO, that it is a superior weapon that only we would have if he hire Osovet. This is not the case RPO has been around a long time. Even the down field approach. RPO is just part of the offense. You still need a good offense.

No decent program hires a cc HC as OC. Botch hired people with more experience and got his clock cleaned. If Pruitt hires Osovet I will loose faith in him.

I like Osovet but he needs more experience. A year or two coaching each of the offensive positions. Receiver, oline, backs etc. during that time he learns what is important at top level. He learns to recruit the SE.

A year ago we wouldn’t hire him as receivers coach. Now OC?

I will say Osovet is an under whelming hire. So the delayed announcement fits. And, there seems to be a series of coordinated leaks/information try to convince everyone he is a guru. Then there is Doug M. Saying is 95% done. Doug then has a follow up show with a guest talking about all the successful coaches coming out of nowhere. I wold not be surprised if it is Osovet.
Huge risk for Pruitt and our program.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
Former golden boy D2 head coach that pioneered rpo offense before it was called that. He's had many D1 name coaches ask him to come clinic their staffs on offensive principles. On staff at ut as a non-field offensive analyst coach.
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JUCO...not DII
 
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I was the 1st to mention Osovet as our next OC and I put his name in on the $25. gift card thread so I'd be OK with it if that turns out to be Pruitts choice.

I could be totally wrong and Pruitt picks somebody else.

Pruitt is a smart guy and I think I know what some of his plans were so THINK on these things and see if you think I'm correct or not.

Back in 98 our OC left to start his new HC job before we had to play our National Championship game against FSU and we were lucky that we had a good backup plan and WON the National Championship.

Pruitt was prepared for just such a emergency too with Helton, Friend and Osovet who all have OC experience and knowledge.

I think Pruitt believed that Helton would be here at least 3 years, based on our player roster, before Helton was offered a good HC job and during that time Osovet would help teach and groom our O coaches more about the spread/RPO and Osovet would get lots of knowledge and experience about the SEC and top teams we play.

Pruitts plan exploded when Helton got offered the HC job at WKU where he'd been before as the WKU OC so for Helton the pieces fell right into place for him.

For Pruitt his plan of at least 2 or 3 years here with Helton and Osovet learning more went right down the drain and suddenly the Pruitt plan sped up a year or 2 faster than he could have imagined.

Now Pruitt can hire somebody else as OC and risk losing Osovet, maybe even to a SEC Team, or Pruitt can move Osovet to our OC position a year or 2 faster than he'd planned.

If I were Pruitt that would be a VERY tough decision to be forced to make!

If Pruitt doesn't choose Osovet as our OC then I sure hope he finds a way to keep Osovet on his staff and doesn't lose him.

VFL...GBO!!!
 
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