Nutts trying to hire Oregon's OC?

[Coach34]

stolen from Tigerdroppings:

Actually, I heard through a Neurologist that I work with, this is a done deal. He is bringing Masoli in as a GA and pulling hard for Oregon's OC to come to Oxford. He is keeping Masoli around because evidently Oregon's OC and Masoli still have a good raport

 

[Jake Wimberly]

nm

 

[FISHDAWG]

I guess crazier things have happened but why would he even consider it ?? I wouldn't think it would be much of a raise

 

[Coach34]

calls the plays or something- I dont know if thats true or not. And to go against SEC defenses.

Thats all I got. I doubt it's true- just passing along a rumor

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

Unless Oregon doesnt pay their OC much and Ole Miss could give him a substantial raise. It is a downward move, big time. Rumors have been circulating that Nutt will go to a spread next year though.

 

[Jake Wimberly]

Mackeys ability.. He is supposedly a winner and a Phenom (sarcasim) - Brent Shcaffer what say ye??

Plus will Nutt really give up the play calling duties?</p>

 

[EClass04]

When you're an OC with an offense that puts up numbers like Oregon's or Malzhan's, the only move that makes sense is becoming a head coach. Besides, I would think that a salary from Nike > salary from TS^N.

 

[ckDOG]

I think Nutt has Colorado connections - so that could be it, if true.

I never pay attention to Colorado - what sort of offense did they run when he was there?

You are right though - the only reason I could see the Oregon OC wanting to go to Ole Miss would be to get away from Kelly calling the shots...

 

[RebelBruiser]

and for that to happen, Nutt is going to have to bring someone in and give up the play-calling duties. He can't do that by himself.

The one credit I give Nutt as an OC is a willingness to try to mold his offense around his playmakers. He can't handle a spread offense though on his own. He needs to let someone else do it with his input if it's going to happen. It doesn't need to be someone else giving input with him still making the final call.

That said, I don't see him giving up that much control of the offense. He's never done that before, and I don't see him changing now, though I think it would be the right thing to do.

As to the Oregon OC, I don't know why he'd leave. That said, Chip Kelly is really the primary OC for that offense, so I would question that move if that's what Nutt does. So I would question that from Nutt's perspective and from the Oregon OC's position. The only thing I could see would be if the Oregon OC wants full control of the offense and Nutt is willing to offer him that. Kelly has a heavy hand in his offense, much like Nutt, but even with that I've said I don't see Nutt giving up that much of the offense, so that wouldn't even make sense to me.

I guess you never know. I do like Oregon's spread though. They have a true hurry up. They don't worry so much about what the defense does as they worry about what they do. I get annoyed with the spreads these days that hurry to the line pretend to snap it, look to the sideline for an audible, and end up using most of the 40 second clock anyway. Either call a play and let the players make the audible or run a true hurry up and send the play in quickly.

 

[patdog]

Normal tempo until they get a 1st down or 2 and then hurry up. Gives your defense at least a little breather if you do go 3 and out.

 

[RebelBruiser]

I hate watching a team line up quick and then look to the sidelines for the audible. Malzahn does a good job mixing it up, huddle and hurry up, though they do still run some hurry up and wait.

Maybe it's just the fact that Tyrone Nix is our DC, and I know that every time we see a hurry up and wait play, we tip our hand and then watch as the opposing OC adjusts, we change nothing, and we get torched.

 

[olemissbydamn]

I've seen this speculated. I'd cut off my Nutt to see us install the Oregon offense and actually let the guy call the plays, but I doubt it ever happens. Nutt's has been reluctant to let anyone else handle the offense thus far (Malzahn & Rader) in his life and I doubt he will quit being stubborn in this case.

Mark Helfrich is the guy's name. And he doesn't call the plays at Oregon. Actually, Oregon is the second straight job where he hasn't called the plays. Hawkins called the plays at Colorado and Helfrich was in a similar situation there. That's the only reason he'd consider leaving. In his last two jobs, he has been more of a QB coach who helps in game planning.

 

[dawgstudent]

will you have

Mackey and The Spread

vs

Stanley and The Pro-Style offense?

 

[RebelBruiser]

I don't know how else we'd do it. I guess it depends on what we do with our staff. If we do go out and get someone to help install a spread, then I could see us forcing Stanley to try to run a spread this spring, in which case he'd probably run more of the passing spread style. I think I would prefer that if that's the route we go.

I really don't know. The last thing we need is more confusion. I think it would be wise for Nutt to go to a spread, but I think a lot of our offensive woes early this year were due to lack of familiarity with what we were doing. We crammed a new package into the offense in a month, and we had two separate packages being run. Half the time players didn't know where to line up. We benefitted greatly when they started pushing just the Masoli sets, and the offense at least started to gel with what we were doing.

I guess the same question could've been asked with Russell/Relf this past year. You obviously ran two different types of offenses with the two different QBs. I know they were under the same umbrella, but they were a good bit different. Your offense seemed to gel a little bit more when Mullen scrapped Russell and spent most of the practice time running just what Relf did best.

I definitely prefer that to having a coach that tries to make Michael Spurlock, Robert Lane, or Brent Schaeffer run a pro style offense, or in your case Omar Conner, but when you have QBs with such different styles, it makes it difficult to have a QB competition. If you have Tim Tebow and Cam Newton, no big deal. If you have John Brantley and Tim Tebow, that's much more difficult.