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What Brian has to understand.

I'm on the board for the Community Services District in my town. An elected position with very low pay. We on the board get criticized all the time. That's life. Brian makes a good salary. Questions about his play calling are allowed.
What does criticizing (indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way) accomplish? I think it is one of the more foolish human traits. We all do it, some more than others, and some more constructively. Not a lot of constructive criticism on fans sites. In order to actually 'critique' someone or something you would have to have as much or more knowledge or expertise than the object of the criticism. That will conclude today's lesson. :)
 
That when the oppossing defense rolls more than 7 in tight on defense, we need to do something othsr than try to run it straight into them. 5 blockers against 7-8 defenders is tough no matter who is on the O-line.

It is my #1 issue with KF football.

Force the defense to guess what is coming, and to spread out the defense to make the offense more effective.
 
I'm on the board for the Community Services District in my town. An elected position with very low pay. We on the board get criticized all the time. That's life. Brian makes a good salary. Questions about his play calling are allowed.
Oh, and I think it's commendable that you are serving your community. Do you like being criticized by people that have no clue what they are talking about? Or who make it 'personal'?
 
The jury is still out on Brian but the only thing I know for certain is if this were a Greg Davis coached offense this board would be viral!
 
That when the oppossing defense rolls more than 7 in tight on defense, we need to do something othsr than try to run it straight into them. 5 blockers against 7-8 defenders is tough no matter who is on the O-line.

It is my #1 issue with KF football.

Force the defense to guess what is coming, and to spread out the defense to make the offense more effective.
Well, there would only be 7 at the most in that scenario, because in order to have '8' they would be leaving a receiver uncovered and obviously we would take advantage of that. I believe they are trying to get that extra man out of the box and quit letting defenses basically play cover0 against them. They need to keep going vertical even more and COMPLETING SOME OF THEM, instead of over throwing it all the time. Any successful offense (ours or a spread etc.) has to be able to dictate what the defense does and make them adjust. KF and KOK etc. believe it or not, are trying to do that. But if you don't execute certain things that 'set up' others, it is very difficult. These guys DO know what the are doing. All most understand is the results aren't there and so they are frustrated and someone must be 'blamed'.
 
The jury is still out on Brian but the only thing I know for certain is if this were a Greg Davis coached offense this board would be viral!
I just don't think this offense has found any 'rhythm'. The line, the QB to the receivers on deep routes, the coaches, etc. I assure you they are all more frustrated than we are, because they all know this should be a pretty decent offense even with 2 freshman tackles. We are a couple plays and a couple mistakes from being unbeaten even as out of sync as they have been for the most part of the year.
 
I assume you think Jim Leonhard was a bad hire as defensive coordinator at Wisconsin?

If he had no experience, it was definitely a risk. I don't know his background, but Brian has a total of five years of college coaching under his belt. In addition, Brian was coming into a situation in which the Hawkeyes offense had been a disaster. Whoever the D coordinator for WI is was coming into a situation in which the Badgers defense had been great for years and only got the job because Wisconsin keeps losing their assistant coaches to other programs because they are actually sought after. I think Ken O'Keefe in 2011 was the last assistant coach who got pulled away from Iowa. That's six years of assistant coaches without any of them garnering interest from other programs. That's a bad sign.
 
Again, Brian needs to create "the Brian Ferentz" Offense. No one is going to be lining up to hire him as an O.C. If it is really the "KF offense" including Iowa when the time comes. The whole thing was he would be the guy who could say NO to his dad. FWIW I believe he will figure it out and this off season is huge for him.
 
I give Brian two years to prove what he can do. Next year is a favorable schedule for the Hawks. If he can't prove his worth next year, it might be time to move on from the Ferentz family.
 
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