This is the indication I think would be bizarre. If Tommy (or MF) just wants to incorporate some Air Raid concepts go visit Mumme or someone in the off-season I’m confident Tommy can pick up on it. But fully leaning into Air Raid would kind of fly in the face of TE and OL tradition. Gonna ask Harry to start recruiting certain OL and widen out his splits? Unlikely.
I think a staff could bring a TE coach with an Air Raid Offense background and it also not mean they are switching to an Air Raid Offense theirselves. A HC that prefers to run a 4-3 defense could hire a DL coach from a 3-4 system and it not mean they are changing their entire defensive philosophy.
It also seems to me that the air raid shares a weakness with the triple option in that once opposing defenses focus in it loses effectiveness. Washington dominated Mike Leach's WSU teams and Jimmy Lake bragged about how they cracked the formula and WSU couldn't adjust.
True but what’s Parker’s advantage then? He’s not known as any huge plus developer or recruiter.
1) I didn't criticize Booker. I merely pointed out your snarkiness for insinuating that he's clearly a good coach, ya know, because he's in the NFL. Even though his current position is entirely different than the one he had at ND.
1. Never said he's a good coach because he's in the NFL. I'm not saying he's a bad coach, though. He's coaching at the highest level after getting a start at ND where he was a young guy beginning his career.
His head coaching arc is one we've all seen before. 1-11 year one, then 7-6, 6-7 and fired at 1-6 in year four. That Year One to Year Two jump is pretty significant. I don't think those tend to happen by accident. Minnesota, at the time, was a hard place to win, but if you look at who followed him there you'll see things went pretty well. Jerry Kill won there and now PJ Fleck is winning there. Things didn't go well for Brewster at Minnesota, but he certainly left some kind of foundation for what came after.
I assume it's more focused on adding to the offensive staff as a whole than worrying about positional development, specifically.
Eh, he also was just demoted and it seems fans wanted him gone. Just from tweets it also seems like Penn State fans were happy to see him go when he left PSU for WVU.
Seems crazy to give full autonomy to any of your coordinators regarding hiring. Maybe that seemed like a good idea to MF when he was a DC. He probably realized quickly that he’s the HC and these hirings will ultimately dictate his success/failure. That’s how I would feel anyway.
Yeah, that all kinda sounds like a worse version of Brewster.
