Georgia hires OC

[JHB4UK]

Brian Schottenhiemer, career NFLer

perfect, the SEC East rivals of UK hiring of OC's went 3 for 3 (for us). All boring, traditional offense guys at Vandy, Florida, now Georgia. us & UT the only teams in the division running spread modern 21st century offenses.

 

[Rhavicc]

Originally posted by JHB4UK:
Brian Schottenhiemer, career NFLer

perfect, the SEC East rivals of UK hiring of OC's went 3 for 3 (for us). All boring, traditional offense guys at Vandy, Florida, now Georgia. us & UT the only teams in the division running spread modern 21st century offenses.

We don't exactly run a spread, per se, but it's close. It's pass centric, but judging by how Dawson says he coaches, it may very well be a spread as opposed to an air raid.
The difference between UK's offense next season, and Tennessee's, will be the tempo. UT goes about Neal Brown's pace, but they huddle, Brown didn't.
Dawson goes no huddle, extremely fast tempo, and that causes defenses a lot more problems. No huddle forces defenses to make adjustments while already being in a defensive formation, ready for the ball to be snapped. The tempo rushes defenses into formations that they likely don't want to be in. It isn't like the professional level where experienced pros can adjust without ever having to go into a huddle, and not have significant problems.
The tempo will be as much of a weapon as any player that we could put on the field next season. It is encouraging to see everybody else is going to go to a pro-style offense though, I would much rather have to deal with that as opposed to a up-tempo spread option game like Oregon or TCU.

 

[DACats86]

Interesting hire. FootballScoop said he received a text from an NFL OC that just said "lololololol..." I don't think BS has ever coached at the college level.

 

[DACats86]

A positive is that UK is much better defending traditional, pro-style offenses than they are against spread/up-tempo offenses.

 

[GomezH2O]

someone post the .gif of all 5 Jets receivers running 4 yard curl routes on 3rd and 5.

 

[Rhavicc]

Originally posted by DACats86:
A positive is that UK is much better defending traditional, pro-style offenses than they are against spread/up-tempo offenses.

Most teams are, but I see your point. I'm glad we have a very different offense than really any other offense in the SEC.
The closest will be Texas A&M, who had an offensive coordinator from West Virginia.
I'm not entirely sure that A&M did a lot of tempo though, didn't watch them enough.

 

[mrschwump]

DA, BS had short college asst jobs at USC and Syracuse at the start of his coaching career in the late '90s. But true, he's been a pro guy since then. Will be interesting to see how he recruits.

 

[JasonS.]

Missouri certainly runs the spread. Gary Pinkel is one of the forefathers of the modern spread.

 

[mrschwump]

Grumpy, where are you??

 

[JHB4UK]

Originally posted by JasonS.:
Missouri certainly runs the spread. Gary Pinkel is one of the forefathers of the modern spread.

ach, still keep forgetting about them being an east team! dang realignment stuff is hard to get used too still.

 

[Rhavicc]

Originally posted by JHB4UK:

Originally posted by JasonS.:
Missouri certainly runs the spread. Gary Pinkel is one of the forefathers of the modern spread.

ach, still keep forgetting about them being an east team! dang realignment stuff is hard to get used too still.

There it is lol.
So in the entire conference, there is UK, UT, Mizzou, Auburn, and Texas A&M that run some variation of the spread, correct?

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

Originally posted by mrschwump:

Grumpy, where are you??

I was taking a nap when hiring was announced, guy has to sleep. As for the hire it has its positives and negatives like all of them I guess.

On the positive side he is a pro style qb coach and OC, which was all we were ever going to hire, Richt isn't going to a spread. He has had some success in the NFL and coming from the NFL he is a name recruits can relate to. Was OC and qb coach when Jets made it to playoff 3 years in a row

On the negative side, offense wasn't great with the Rams, I am afraid he will be too much in love with the passing game and not get the ball to our RB enough. Hasn't recruited very much.


But our offensive commits are excited about the hire, our 16 qb called it a homerun hire so I guess those are all pluses. Wasn't my first choice but I don't get a vote We have some talented passers in the system, top flight RBs, a good OL, good TE and a large group of incoming WR plus or speed guys from last season.

Like all the hires only time will tell if its a good one or not, but if our offense struggles to move the ball in the opener this fall we will know. Might as well be excited about him, he is ours.

 

[WildCard]

Originally posted by Rhavicc:

Originally posted by JHB4UK:

Originally posted by JasonS.:
Missouri certainly runs the spread. Gary Pinkel is one of the forefathers of the modern spread.

ach, still keep forgetting about them being an east team! dang realignment stuff is hard to get used too still.

There it is lol.
So in the entire conference, there is UK, UT, Mizzou, Auburn, and Texas A&M that run some variation of the spread, correct?

Everybody runs some spread but for some teams it is "situational". I would broadly characterize "spread teams" as teams that operate from a 4 wide set more often than not. I would also add both Mississippi schools. Hard to characterize USC. Doesn't make much difference what Vandy does and we don't know yet what FL is going to do. That leaves GA, AL, AR and LSU as the "non-spread" offenses in the league.

Peace

 

[seccats04]

Heck I could be the OC at Georgia. Just give the dang ball to Chubb and Michel about 40 times a game

 

[kats23]

Schottenhimer isn't exactly the greatest offensive mind in the world but with their running backs it doesn't really matter. Still, it's a plus for UK. Both the Jets and Rams had pretty lackluster offenses while he was there.

 

[Kooky Kats]

This is what I predicted. I said UGA has the personnel like LSU to hire an OC like Cam Cameron to lead a balanced attack. Plus the school recruits itself.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

Originally posted by Kooky Kats:
This is what I predicted. I said UGA has the personnel like LSU to hire an OC like Cam Cameron to lead a balanced attack. Plus the school recruits itself.

He wasn't my first choice or even 2nd, after that it really didn't matter as long as it wasn't Roper from UF. My first choice and I don't think he was ever considered was the co OC at TCU, Meacham. But the reality is Richt wasn't going to hire anyone who ran a spread offense so he didn't have a shot if interviewed. My second was Bloomgren, Stanfords OC/OL coach, but I don't think he had the experience in play calling. I would have been fine with John Lilly who called plays in the bowl game.

Schottenheimer's offenses never won a division, same division as Patriots made that tough, but made the playoffs with the Jets. They weren't great by any stretch with the Rams. But the key to his hiring was he had worked with Brees, Farve and Bradford, Rams qb who missed most of last 2 seasons, and all improved.

Richt's offenses is pretty complex, leaves lots of calls and audibils up to the qb at the line and there just aren't many options in the NCAA for that style qb coach right now with the spread being so popular.

I looked him up and did some reading on Schottenheimer and he is a little different in formations, uses much more motion than we have in the past read and creat the matchups he wants. I always thought that was one of Bobo's biggest weaknesses, likes a FB instead of an H back, and really likes using the TE. All of those are good for us, we have a big FB who can block and run on occasion, a great young TE. But like I said above, only time will tell how he works out, but Richt being an offensive guy I think will be hands on that he was with Grantham.

 

[KY1WING]

Anyone heard where Kurt Roper landed?

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

Not sure, but I think he is still in a holding pattern, rumor was he did interview with us, I was sick at my stomach.

 

[NoviG8r]

Brian Schottenheimer played QB at Florida under Spurrier. He was a backup, but did play some, even tossing the first TD pass for the Gators in the 1996 season. Even at that time he stated that his goal was to go into coaching, like his father. Haven't followed him much since I don't really care about the NFL. As someone mentioned above, UGA is not likely to do much tinkering with its offense. However, he is also the QB coach, in addition to being the OC in Athens. So, he may have a positive effect on Brice, or whomever else the 'Dawgs bring in as a signal caller. It should be interesting when UGA faces USC early next season.