Tommy Rees - Offensive Coordinator

[ulukinatme]

So everyone agrees the McVay loves Rees narrative is a myth?

No. It's been established. They're frequently in contact and he could have been on his staff. There's also some articles on paid boards, but I can't view 'em.

The most telling aspect was when McVay mentioned Rees, saying “you could see a lot of the things that Tommy Rees and those guys at Notre Dame were asking of him is very translatable to the NFL.” High praise indeed for Williams, Rees and the Irish.

 

[T Town Tommy]

I’ve known Brent for a few years over at RBR and I think he gives a little better insight into the Rees hire than Erik did. We shall see I guess.

Did Nick Saban usher in the end of the Alabama Dynasty by hiring Tommy Rees for Offensive Coordinator?

Opinions are torn, but Alabama has a new offensive coordinator for 2023, for better or for worse.

www.rollbamaroll.com

 

[Irish#1]

I’ve known Brent for a few years over at RBR and I think he gives a little better insight into the Rees hire than Erik did. We shall see I guess.

Did Nick Saban usher in the end of the Alabama Dynasty by hiring Tommy Rees for Offensive Coordinator?

Opinions are torn, but Alabama has a new offensive coordinator for 2023, for better or for worse.

www.rollbamaroll.com

How was the fan reaction with the last 3 or so OC hires?

 

[T Town Tommy]

How was the fan reaction with the last 3 or so OC hires?

All of them had their positives and negatives. I do think the majority of fans are willing to give Rees a shot. But even they are a difficult crowd. Rees better deliver early and often.

 

[dublinirish]

I’ve known Brent for a few years over at RBR and I think he gives a little better insight into the Rees hire than Erik did. We shall see I guess.

Did Nick Saban usher in the end of the Alabama Dynasty by hiring Tommy Rees for Offensive Coordinator?

Opinions are torn, but Alabama has a new offensive coordinator for 2023, for better or for worse.

www.rollbamaroll.com

Tell us, How many radio show appearances have you done in the last two days with all your insider knowledge of TR and ND football?


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[zelezo vlk]

Tell us, How many radio show appearances have you done in the last two days with all your insider knowledge of TR and ND football?


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[Irishdrunk]

You're dodging. First things first. You said the part about my school electing a Jewish girl as homecoming queen was totally made up. That the subject of our first bet. Don't dodge that or try to weasel out of it. It's a simple, direct, easily proven or disproven assertion. Put up $1000 with Whiskey (I'll do the same) and as soon as he has our funds, I'll provide him with unambiguous, irrefutable proof that it's true. No, you don't get to see the evidence first. Only after you put up the money. If you knew what town, you'd never follow through on sending Whiskey the money.

Do that, and I'll gladly accept whatever amount you want to bet on the rest of what I claimed. As I mentioned in a previous post, it's just as true, but more time-consuming and complicated to prove. The Jewish homecoming queen assertion is easy and quick to prove.

Now, you ran your mouth and walked your dumb ass into no-win corner. Back your big mouth up and make the bet and take your punishment, or admit you said something genuinely stupid. I'd recommend the latter as the smart move, but I'll gladly allow you to buy me my next guitar. No need to twist and spin and dodge. Man up one way or the other.

This is so fucking gay. Enough already.

 

[ColinKSU]

All of them had their positives and negatives. I do think the majority of fans are willing to give Rees a shot. But even they are a difficult crowd. Rees better deliver early and often.

Bama doesn’t play Marshall or Stanford, so he’ll be OK.

 

[Calabrese's People]

KEVIN STEELE???

Not Miami Kevin Steele? (after he allowed 5 opponents to put 40 points on him last year, including 45 by Middle Tennessee).

No pressure Tommy, but you might need to score QUICKLY next year...

 

[NDRock]

I don't know what to tell you. If a cake takes 30 minutes to bake do you pull it out at 20 minutes and call it done? Over half our offense was comprised of underclassmen this year because BK and Long dropped the ball in recruiting, especially in the 2020 class. Underclassmen are going to make mistakes, we saw it with Merriweather early on. A missed assignment led to Pyne taking a nasty sack and stalling a drive.

A healthy team is fielding mostly upperclassmen each year because there weren't a bunch of holes in previous recruiting cycles. Tommy's first year as OC his WR starters consisted of McKinley who was a glorified TE, Benny Sko who was a Northwestern transfer, and Avery Davis a converted QB. Lots of heart there, but not exactly a bevy of real 4-5 star talent. They still made the playoffs that year and managed to beat a pretty good Clemson team.

Sorry but you’re just wrong. The fact a player is a sophomore has no bearing on talent. Alt was rated out as our best OL. Would you prefer a worse player who was a senior? Should Tyree have gotten more Carrie’s than our stud sophomore running backs? The talent was there to perform better than they did. The problem with offense was the QB position and he was a Junior who your boy recruited and developed.

The fact that you have no ability to find a single fault with Rees’s coaching shows just how biased you are. First the problems with the offense were the OL then it was the WRs then it was the fact they were young. I’m convinced you and Irishdrunk are the same guy just posting opposite takes. If so, well done.

 

[NDFAN2008]

I think Tommy is a great OC but he also has a lot of learning to do. Most of the headaches early on last year and this past year were do to the OL being bad the first 3-4 games last year and then starting off this year the OL was bad the first 2 games. He did about as good as he could have with a very limited Pyne at QB. I would have loved to see what he could do with more talent on the field at WR, our loaded back field, and Hartman taking the over. I hope it's the Utah OC, it makes a lot of since considering Utah beat USC twice last year and they'll be one of our toughest games going into next year.

 

[Irish#1]

All of them had their positives and negatives. I do think the majority of fans are willing to give Rees a shot. But even they are a difficult crowd. Rees better deliver early and often.

Looks like the Alabama fan base isn't much different from ND's. lol

 

[MacIrish75]

I’ll tell you this much:

The tangents threads have taken in the last 6-8 months have been FANTASTIC. Open the TR thread…get an argument about Bishop, Jews, Homecoming Queens, Racism, and Whiskey moderating a bet for either $1k or $5k.

Also the reason most of you don’t like Bishop is just because you don’t like his politics. Has nothing to do with football allegiance. Sack up and stop projecting it as it being because he’s an Alabama fan.

 

[ThePiombino]

Also the reason most of you don’t like Bishop is just because you don’t like his politics. Has nothing to do with football allegiance. Sack up and stop projecting it as it being because he’s an Alabama fan.

FTR, for me at least, it 100% has to do with his fandom. I don't waste time in the politics thread. Avoid it like the plague as a matter of fact...

 

[IrishSpartan]

Live in NC for a year during second grade. They taught the civil war as the war of northern aggression.

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

So the guy in my avatar was framed for killing black guys means I can’t call out racism? Did you think this out?

Please start a new thread explaining this theory. I’ll pop a gummy and enjoy the read when I get home tonight.

 

[GrangerIrish24]

Please start a new thread explaining this theory. I’ll pop a gummy and enjoy the read when I get home tonight.

Man I missed a lot this weekend.

 

[BeauBenken]

We aren't using this thread as a chance to talk about current and/or past social injustices in the south or anywhere. Knock that shit off.

Our Bama friends (though perhaps on a shorter leash than many of our Irish fans) are welcome on this board. They help add outside viewpoints to our SPORTS discussions which can be appreciated. If you cannot understand that and would rather scream into the empty void of groupthink that you find on most other boards, feel free to look around.

I would like to remind people to keep things civil and stop getting in fights with strangers on the internet, dweebs.

 

[irishog77]

So the guy in my avatar was framed for killing black guys means I can’t call out racism? Did you think this out?

It simply means STFU and slide into his PM's to carry on your crusade.

This thread actually has a chance to be good for ND fans to follow and participate. But your hard on for Bishop is helping to ruin that.

 

[NDohio]

I’ve known Brent for a few years over at RBR and I think he gives a little better insight into the Rees hire than Erik did. We shall see I guess.

Did Nick Saban usher in the end of the Alabama Dynasty by hiring Tommy Rees for Offensive Coordinator?

Opinions are torn, but Alabama has a new offensive coordinator for 2023, for better or for worse.

www.rollbamaroll.com

That was a pretty good breakdown of the Irish offense the last few seasons.

 

[Free Manera]

Looks like Bill Rees is out. Dre Brown promoted to the lead high school scouting role.

 

[FDNYIrish1]

Looks like Bill Rees is out. Dre Brown promoted to the lead high school scouting role.

Your theory of back channeling is looking better now

 

[IrishLion]

That was a pretty good breakdown of the Irish offense the last few seasons.

The guy pretty much nailed it...

Rees has had to adapt to differing styles of QB play and a general lack of skill talent at WR every year, and the results have been pretty good when accounting for those limitations.

ND fans will at this point scream "but those limitations fall on the OC's head! He can't recruit/develop/keep talented QB's, and he didn't do enough with WR recruiting!" Whether that's true or not, he *shouldn't* have those issues at Bama. They will have talent everywhere, regardless of Rees' personal shortcomings in the recruiting department.

A lot of people are happy to see Rees go, and some are indifferent, while a lot of others are bummed and worried about what happens next.

It would be nice to get an established OC with a high-flying offense. Someone who coaches downfield passing better than Rees does... but it could end up being a "grass is greener" thing, as you might end up sacrificing a bunch of creativity in the run game. That Rees got the production he did from Estime/Diggs/Tyree last year, with only Mayer as a legitimately reliable weapon and having Pyne at QB, is pretty astounding.

Saban wants a coach who has shown both the dedication to commit to the run game, and enough creativity to keep defenses guessing, even if they know it's coming. He got that in Rees. And I'd bet he feels like he can work with Rees on developing the lacking part of his OC resume: deep passing concepts besides "fade to the outside receiver."

 

[rtrn2glory]

IMO his lack of recruiting is irrelevant in Bama. Saban recruits every position there and could care less what his position coaches think in regards to reloading the roster with talent. He needs no help recruiting, which allows his coaches to just coach the talent he brings in.

 

[Sea Turtle]

Can we please stick to what's important in this thread and stay off race and religion?

Now, last night I ripped a moster fart so loud that it caused a car alarm to go off and several dogs in the neighborhood barked for several minutes afterward.

But what's really impressive is that it measured on the Richter Scale.

 

[notredomer23]

Can we please stick to what's important in this thread and stay off race and religion?

Now, last night I ripped a moster fart so loud that it caused a car alarm to go off and several dogs in the neighborhood barked for several minutes afterward.

But what's really impressive is that it measured on the Richter Scale.

Do you happen to live in Ankara?

 

[SeekNDestroy]

Can we please stick to what's important in this thread and stay off race and religion?

Now, last night I ripped a moster fart so loud that it caused a car alarm to go off and several dogs in the neighborhood barked for several minutes afterward.

But what's really impressive is that it measured on the Richter Scale.

Too soon, dude.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

The guy pretty much nailed it...

Rees has had to adapt to differing styles of QB play and a general lack of skill talent at WR every year, and the results have been pretty good when accounting for those limitations.

ND fans will at this point scream "but those limitations fall on the OC's head! He can't recruit/develop/keep talented QB's, and he didn't do enough with WR recruiting!" Whether that's true or not, he *shouldn't* have those issues at Bama. They will have talent everywhere, regardless of Rees' personal shortcomings in the recruiting department.

A lot of people are happy to see Rees go, and some are indifferent, while a lot of others are bummed and worried about what happens next.

It would be nice to get an established OC with a high-flying offense. Someone who coaches downfield passing better than Rees does... but it could end up being a "grass is greener" thing, as you might end up sacrificing a bunch of creativity in the run game. That Rees got the production he did from Estime/Diggs/Tyree last year, with only Mayer as a legitimately reliable weapon and having Pyne at QB, is pretty astounding.

Saban wants a coach who has shown both the dedication to commit to the run game, and enough creativity to keep defenses guessing, even if they know it's coming. He got that in Rees. And I'd bet he feels like he can work with Rees on developing the lacking part of his OC resume: deep passing concepts besides "fade to the outside receiver."

I really wanted to see Rees run an offense with a QB like Hartman. The safeties can come up and cheat on Book, Coan, Buchner, Pyne. They can't do that with Hartman now. That is what really bums me out more than anything is that we'll never really get to know what Rees could have done at ND with an elite QB.

The flipside to that is having Hartman and a nice room of toys on offense makes this an attractive job to anyone who wants to come in and get going. Hartman for a year, Buchner, Minchey and Carr waiting in the wings.

 

[Rockin’Irish]

I really wanted to see Rees run an offense with a QB like Hartman. The safeties can come up and cheat on Book, Coan, Buchner, Pyne. They can't do that with Hartman now. That is what really bums me out more than anything is that we'll never really get to know what Rees could have done at ND with an elite QB.

The flipside to that is having Hartman and a nice room of toys on offense makes this an attractive job to anyone who wants to come in and get going. Hartman for a year, Buchner, Minchey and Carr waiting in the wings.

This is exactly where I am……I truly thought we’d see a substantial awakening of the passing offense in 2023 under Rees. It is, of course, still a good possibility under the new OC. Can’t wait to start hearing some solid info on getting someone into the position. I’m kind of torn between getting a young(er) up and comer that would stick around for a bit or a more seasoned vet that might not be around as long. Either way, I guess it’s a dice roll in one way or another.

 

[Giddyup]

Passing awakening was put on hold. We had Drew Pyne at qb. Guy could barely see over our linemen.