Knorr's biggest mistake was hiring Kish as his defensive coordinator and not having the spine to tell him he had to keep running an attacking 3-4, which is what the personnel was recruited to do. Instead he deferred to what he perceived to be more coaching experience and allowed Kish to run that horrendous version of the 4-3 that broke before it ever had time to bend.
Early on, they were in every game and scored a lot of points in the process, including against a ranked Toledo team.
Things with Gregory didn't go downhill until the losses started piling up and the players, especially Dontrelle Jackson, started getting frustrated. Throw in losing Brinker to the tumor, and Knorr lost control of the program in very short order.
Knorr had numerous opportunties to beat Akron in his debut. A dropped INT at the end of the game would have sealed it but instead the Zips were given new life and drove right down the field in a later possession, just like every other team that season, and kicked a game winning FG with no time left. I sometimes wonder if things would have been different had he won that game.
One final note: Knorr was warned not to take the job by none other than Grobe himself. As was alluded to earlier in the thread, it was first offered to Mitchell and Calhoun, both of whom wanted no part of it due to who their boss would be. Grobe didn't leave OU or Athens; Grobe left Tom Boeh.
Last Edited: 11/19/2010 11:51:07 AM by td111896