LOL, our offensive coordinator didn't even understand that embarrassment of an offense. I don't fault this kid one bit.
Very interesting read. Thanks. Its nice to see that Iowa's pro style system and the young guns they're bringing in are starting to get some attention. JR, CJ, now Shimonek, hell Ricky got a 4 or 5 year run, and may have had more if he'd gotten a fair shake in KC. Now we have Stanley, who showed well in his first year, and some young guns in the pipeline. Can't do anything but help the future of QB, and maybe WR recruiting to start placing more QB's in the league.
Crappy offense with sub standard WR core.
Pretty ugly. Of course, Iowa's numbers are lower than a non-fan might expect, simply due to the offensive and overall philosophy. Even taking that into account, it has been below average to bad. My personal opinion is that the biggest failings have been a simple lack of aggression, lack of creativity/mixing it up/keeping defense guessing,and failure to scratch where it itches so to speak. The underlying schemes are fine, just need that edge so to speak. That is where I am hoping the infusion of new and young coaches with different opinions will start to pay dividends.
And to think, Nic was a Greg Davis recruit via that incredibly deep Texas pipeline Greg built <insert sarcasm> ... and yet he stayed here one year.
To be fair, nobody ever questions KOK's ability to develop QB's. His ability to be a coordinator became stale to many after 10+ years on the job. Hiring him back as a QB coach, mentor, and decades of football experience at pretty much every level known to man was a good decisions IMO. I honestly think this is the best staff we have had since the early 2000's. A good mix of old and young. You have the best positional coach in the country with Morgan, PP is top notch DC and DB coach, KOK already mentioned, KF is o-line guru, coach P working with OL after winning National Chamionships as coordinator at ND State, Wallace was an outstanding DC in Georgia and LB's looked great last year, Foster seems like he is off and running with the RB's, coach Copeland looks like he could kick pretty much every WR coaches ass in the country- Northern Illinois is a great program, coach Woods focusing on special teams should improve that position, obviously Doyle is best in business at strength, coach Bell is doing awesome with recruiting.....
