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he was a QB at Maryland. I think a lot of people would agree that Allar has not advanced as much as he should/could have over 4 years
He had quite a stellar collegiate and professional career /s
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So you're saying he played more professional games than Joe Paterno, Nick Saban, Bill Belichick, Bobby Bowden, Dabo Swinney, etc combined, right?He had quite a stellar collegiate and professional career /s
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I'll never understand the logic that one's success on the field has any impact to their potential success as a coach.
Biggest "administrative" FUBAR of HCJF career to date:
After restructuring the staff after 2022, NOT having a QB coach on staff. That was coaching malpractice - and that keeps paying dividends today. I said it when it happened, and it didn't take a savant.
Whatever one thinks of Kotelnicki as an OC, Kotelnicki is NOT a QB coach.
And placing Allar's development into the hands of Danny O'Brien was malpractice. (I expect OBrien might have been a wonderful young guy to have as a GA-type developmental staff member, so nothing against OBrien per se. Who knows, somewhere down the line he may have a perfectly capable career).
If given the choice of who to pilfer from the Kansas staff:
1) Hiring Kotelnicki to be the new OC
or
2) Hiring Zebrowski (he is a long-time QB coach who spent much of his career with Kansas coach Leopold) to be a QB Coach
The better option - by far - would have been to hire away Zebrowski (not that Zebrowski would be my #1 choice for the job, but between those two options, B is clearly the best). I said that the day he (HCJF) made that move - it was easy enough to see at the time, and has only proven to be obvious every day since then.
To leave Allar "naked" - when HCJF had, and has, a blank check to hire anyone in the country - was, and is, almost unbelievable.
After restructuring the staff after 2022, NOT having a QB coach on staff. That was coaching malpractice - and that keeps paying dividends today. I said it when it happened, and it didn't take a savant.
Whatever one thinks of Kotelnicki as an OC, Kotelnicki is NOT a QB coach.
And placing Allar's development into the hands of Danny O'Brien was malpractice. (I expect OBrien might have been a wonderful young guy to have as a GA-type developmental staff member, so nothing against OBrien per se. Who knows, somewhere down the line he may have a perfectly capable career).
If given the choice of who to pilfer from the Kansas staff:
1) Hiring Kotelnicki to be the new OC
or
2) Hiring Zebrowski (he is a long-time QB coach who spent much of his career with Kansas coach Leopold) to be a QB Coach
The better option - by far - would have been to hire away Zebrowski (not that Zebrowski would be my #1 choice for the job, but between those two options, B is clearly the best). I said that the day he (HCJF) made that move - it was easy enough to see at the time, and has only proven to be obvious every day since then.
To leave Allar "naked" - when HCJF had, and has, a blank check to hire anyone in the country - was, and is, almost unbelievable.
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Nothing new here really, but why would any top flight high school QB ever come to PSU if they have NFL aspirations?
Good post and if I may add.....CJF was a College quarterback and a NFL and College wide receiver coach...which seems to make me wonder why he never had a QB coach till 2022 and hasn't had a quality WR room since Gattis left?