blackoutpony wrote:Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:Innovate or die. Jones had two QBs (Willis, Davis) that he could have tailored his offense to fit (or at least attempted to given that Davis came exceptionally late in his tenure), and instead he kept trying to jam square pegs into a round hole, and went about 0-7* in developing QBs while he was at SMU. And now he'll never coach at a respectable level again.
On further reflection, Jones did - and should be credited for - somewhat tailoring his offense to fit Gilbert's abilities. Unknown what impact Mumme had on it given that he was the OC.
Do you remember how totally mediocre GG was year 1? He was borderline awful at times. Year 2 was ALL Hal Mumme. He fixed GG and put him into a position to succeed (what and innovative idea to tailor your offense to your players skill set) and got JJ another year. Jones deserves exactly zero credit for GG.
I know I am going to get shot for saying this, but...
GG was awful year 1 for the first 6 games. It took way too long (6 games) for the coaching staff to adjust, but they finally added a zone read and simplified things, and GG played really well the second half of year 1.
In year two of GG, lots of high hopes. Mumme came in and changed the offense to be horizontal instead of vertical. We got off to a slow start because the Horizontal game failed to open space in the middle of the field for GG and others to run, and we were shut down offensively. After struggling through 4 or 5 games (including Montana State), there was a bye, June took over the playcalling from Mumme and went back to the vertical offense. That opened up space for GG to run and the offense went up a notch and GG performed better.
NOT saying that JJ and staff was flexible, because they weren't and Willis and last year are evidence. They took way, way too long to make the adjustments first year for GG to make him effective. But I wanted to share the other stuff.
