Go back to every game thread in 2022, I said I thought it was BRIAN who was calling the plays. Not for a minute did I think Albin or Scott suddenly flipped into an air raid style offense. I thought it was Brian bringing his Hawaii and Washington State playbook with him.

Never heard anyone ever actually address it, so just figured it was a mix of Scott and Brian. Which makes sense given his title as Associate Head Coach and "Passing Game Coordinator".

This season...

It looks like vintage Frank chew the clock ball.

Is that Tim or is it Scott? (I think it's Scott, bc Albin doesn't often have a playsheet with him. And Kurtis heads right to the phone after every drive.)

I'm not sure we'll see any hierarchy changes this season, but I do think Brian needs more of an active role in the offense, so he can become OC when Spense takes over in 2024. :)

Have you ever met Spence ? Does anyone on here know him personally? I’m thinking he would have some trouble being a head coach.

Yes, I have, and he'd be great head coach. His passion and fire are unmatched. Players love him.

Two rules on college football fan boards after a loss:

1. Insist that there is something wrong with the play of the QB, which is either his fault or the coach's fault for not utilizing him correctly. If it becomes a multi-game losing streak, insist that the second-string QB is really better than the starter because he either runs better, throws better, makes better decisions, has more moxie, etc., or some combination of the above.

2. Insist that a lot of the problem is with the head coach and that some assistant would really be better because he is more aggressive, better in-game strategist, better recruiter, not as conservative in play calling, not as prone as the current head coach to "holding back" the OC or DC from letting his true brilliance shine through, will bolt to a P5 program if he's not elevated, etc., etc., and/or some combination of the above.

Though we are not yet exhibiting all these symptoms yet, give us another loss or two this season, and the second-guessing will be in full flower. Having said that, I don't expect another loss and think we'll finish the regular season at 10-2! Go OHIO!

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Maybe because you were the one asking the question.

He probably knows something that he thinks would not be in good etiquette to say publicly. And, you know, good etiquette is name of the game here on BA.

I am not calling for anyone to be fired and I certainly don't want anyone to think that I think that I can, in a few hours of playing attention to the team each week, tell more than experts who have spent a good chunk of their lives learning football and are working hard every day of the week for figure out a game plan for this team. But I still want to point something out that I have been watching early in the season and has become glaring to me. I don't think that is just a comment coming from a frustrated fan after a loss. I have said the same thing to friends after wins recently and it isn't about being conservative or using the play clock but that we are really predictable on second down. If we run of first down we almost always pass on second down. If we pass on first down we run on second down. If we throw an incompletion on first down a run is all but guaranteed on second down. This wasn't so true when we were down two scores in the fourth to Miami and NIU or when we were running out the clock against LIU, FAU, BG and Kent. But we were still predictable for good reason in those situation and it is true a great majority of the time.

Again, I am self-aware enough to be aware of my ignorance. I am aware that there is more to play calling that just choosing to run or pass and I know teams do internal scouting of their own tendencies as well as trying to find opponent tendencies but this has just become a glaring obvious tendency to me.

Brian Smith ran the run and shoot at Washington State and Hawaii. I feel like he would be much more aggressive and would also get the offense in a flow because the run and shoot generally uses tempo.

A topic that's been discussed ad nauseam on BA this fall.

Two aspects of this I don't think have been discussed include: 1) what do recruits think about this offensive philosophy? and 2) how tough is this on OUr O-linemen, who have to sit in a 3-point stance while the play clock is winding down 20-plus seconds per snap? I honestly don't know but can imagine this wears on their knees and/or backs.

In addition to giving the defense enough time to run to the locker room to take a piss and call Conner Stallions in between plays, I think it's pretty clear our OL is even more gassed having to hold their stance 20 seconds every single play. In addition to running delayed hand-offs out of shotgun 60% of the time, these dudes are working double time.

We've reached a scary point in the season. Apathy. You can see it on all their faces. Honestly, I feel bad for the players. 6-3 feels like 3-6. We're at a tipping point. Will they finish strong against 3 bad teams? Or will they lose out? Honestly, neither would surprise me. And that alone is fileable.

I started laughing when Miami's LB "guessed" the snap counts and was clapping. I was yelling at my friends, you could see him clapping. Getting up on the line and smacking his legs or hands. He finally got flagged for it, but it only took like 3 series and they were pre-snap clapping to throw the line off. (I think that had a lot to do with our plethora of false starts, that and being forced to hold their stance for two hours)

It's just crazy that they didn't even adapt to that. Just wanted the refs to make them stop. They still knew the counts. They knew we weren't snapping until 1-2 seconds.