Jim Svoboda Tulane OC
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Me too! I only watched one though.
Very impressive resume a long but solid read with several ties to Midwest and an Iowa native, sign him up!
https://tulanegreenwave.com/staff-directory/jim-svoboda/2700
This part really intrigues me...
What they are saying about Jim Svoboda…
"Jim Svoboda is one of the best coaches I have ever been around. He is masterful in creating situations for offenses to be successful. He is one of the biggest reasons I had the opportunity to play 14 years of professional football. The way he designs plays, the way he thinks, his mentality of attacking teams is just tremendous. I'm so excited for him to be at the Division I level again."
https://tulanegreenwave.com/staff-directory/jim-svoboda/2700
This part really intrigues me...
What they are saying about Jim Svoboda…
"Jim Svoboda is one of the best coaches I have ever been around. He is masterful in creating situations for offenses to be successful. He is one of the biggest reasons I had the opportunity to play 14 years of professional football. The way he designs plays, the way he thinks, his mentality of attacking teams is just tremendous. I'm so excited for him to be at the Division I level again."
I can confirm that my Jim Svoboda will be your new OC. My nephew is cousin’s with him and they are just trying to finalize his contact.
Creatively, keeping defenses of balance, using air attack to soften up the box
WTH does that even mean? ,,,stop repeating old ESPN babble from 15 years ago. Big12 has 10 teams but they are all competetive as hell...both offensively and defensively (if you haven't paid attention lately, no other conference is that way...certainly not the Big10).
After Monday's game I expect a Big12 team to be Champs. Hope so anyway, TCU lead by best QB in country Max Duggan from my Council Bluff Iowa. Oh what might had been had Iowa paid attention and recruited him.
You might be the one not paying attention. Dochterman said in a recent article that Iowa was the first to offer Duggan and was hot after him. Iowa's offense wasn't a good fit for him, looks like he made a good choice.
so does anyone know the context of this change and this statement?? seems odd tulane brings him in as OC and before he even coaches a game, strips his duties as play caller. doesn't make sense. some shit come to light?
So if he wasn't calling plays what was he doing? A lot of people on here think that's the OC's only responsibility.
So if I'm reading all of this correctly, Svoboda was basically relieved of his OC responsibilities in favor of Nagle and now people here have their hopes up that the defacto fired OC from Tulane will be replacing Brian?
Yes, flashbacks of greg davis
Outside of the Iowa connections which are numerous, where is the said 'smoke' coming from? What is linking him to this job or to Iowa?
Someone said there was smoke, I’m not saying there is, just don’t get the excitement, other than Brian being gone
It sounds like there was a collaborative effort designing the offense, getting the right personnel groupings, etc. but Nagle was just the guy actually calling the plays.
According to the Athletic article, really the main difference between the two was that Svoboda wanted to run an offense centered around outside zone running schemes, and Nagle wanted to run primarily inside zone and gap schemes.
Nagle had been with Tulane since 2016, whereas Svoboda joined this year. The article, and statements from coaches, suggest that Nagle just had a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the personnel, particularly the strengths of their star running back Tyjae Spears.
I really don't think its an indictment on Svoboda's play-calling ability. More that Nagle had a better command of the personnel and what worked for their team. Tulane was one of the worst offenses in the country last year WITH Nagle on the staff. Svoboda probably deserves some credit in the turn around
Well he's at the age where he can start collecting social security so that would make anyone not named Ferentz a prime candidate I'd imagine.
Sounds to me that if Iowa is looking for an OC from Tulane it should probably be Nagle.
This. For many, Iowa could hire a flag football coach as OC and they'd be excited, as long as he was replacing Brian Ferentz.
(I'm ready for a new OC too, tho)
Perfect, my flag football team had the best offense in the league. Where do I submit my application?
We have this whole thread on Svoboda, but is Iowa even interested and in talks with him or is this just some rumor drudged up somewhere by someone who thinks this would be a good fit for Iowa? I don't know anything about this guy, and he probably could not be worse then Brian, however, we all know everyone is a side seat coach these days, so I am just curious as to if this OC is even on the coaching staff's radar, or just a fans? LOL
I agree. Let's move on to someone more interesting. Kliff Kingsbury just came available. College Offensive guru. Back up the truck.
So the Tulane TE coach was calling plays and running the offense....
Tulane coach meeting with Jim Svoboda after the season....
Tulane coach meeting with Jim Svoboda after the season....
or Todd Lickliter. Hiring the wrong coach when the other guy was the brains behind the success.
Or all those Boise State coaches in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Houston Nutt, Dirk Koetter, Dan Hawkins… and the real genius was Chris Petersen.
