Statistical Look at Watson / UL Offense

[Lord Vader]

I am not going to burn my guys, but I will tell you this:

Major Applewhite did not give a damn once this was set in motion. He went so far at the end as to say some very derogatory things to the players before the bowl game.

At least some of the kids felt no one had any clue who was running anything in the program, and felt Major had no clue how to run an offense.

We still scored points with all this turmoil going on.

Now look at ULs offense and Watson. He was the QB coach the last two seasons for Bridgewater, you know, the ones where he kicked ass and developed into a top draft choice.

We havent developed anything but a good case of hemorrhoids at the QB position since Colt McCoy was here.

I dont care that UL wasnt "up tempo". Find an offensive identity, be it, and get after it.

Play defense. We werent that up tempo in 2012 and yet could have won more than 9 games if we played anything other than ole defense.

ULs only loss was by 3 points to UCF, a game UL should have won. UCF blew Baylor out. UCF hung over 50 points on Baylor. We hung 10 on the same defense. 10.

Cons: We need a QB and a TE. Guess what, we needed a QB and TE no matter of Gruden Christ himself was running the offense.

Everyone is up in arms because we arent buying Chad Morris, Scott Frost or Tom Herman. NO ONE is going to pay an offensive coordinator over 3 million dollars a year, and those guys are not going to take a lateral move to this mess away from the stability they have. They are all going to be head coaches very soon, and I would almost bet the farm Florida, Michigan, and Nebraska will be coming open next year. Those guys are going to get big time jobs elsewhere or in the NFL.

There will be growing pains. It will be fine. Chill out.

 

[86MEHorn]

So I just got through with one post where Coach Strong doesn't give a $#@! about losing recruits. Now he has a $#@!ty OC?
I don't know how much of this $#@! I can stand.

It's a sports blog, fans debating the right OC for the Big 12, the "all-star staff" that was rumored. HornEsch presented data in a reasonable way and asked for "THOUGHTS". Watson's track record seems "meh", maybe not "$#@!ty".

 

[86MEHorn]

Major Applewhite did not give a damn once this was set in motion. He went so far at the end as to say some very derogatory things to the players before the bowl game.

We still scored points with all this turmoil going on.

I dont care that UL wasnt "up tempo". Find an offensive identity, be it, and get after it.

Play defense.

There will be growing pains. It will be fine. Chill out.

Good post. Guess that explains our offensive suckitude against Baylor and Oregon.

I have no concerns about the defensive side of the ball. We need at least a top-25 offense or get stuck in the "10-win" season category.

Agree on the growing pains, who knows what we will have at QB and RB next year.

 

[Bevo11]

They were in a bad conference and had arguably the top QB in the country.
Look at his work at CU and Nebraska for a good gauge of his abilities.

Our conference wasn't very good either, and Baylor padded their stats against a horrible non-conference schedule and got throttled by that "other" conference's winner in the bowl game.

 

[86MEHorn]

Watson is not coming to UT - relax.

Please elaborate...

 

[riloh05]

for comparison...i think of TCU/WVU. they did some things outside of the big12. after joining very underwhelming. big12 may not be the sec, but it isnt a cake walk either. thanks for the stats they mean nothing as it relates to Texas football.

 

[whatthewhat]

Am I the only person unconcerned with numbers because I think the fact that he's an asshole is more of an impediment?

 

[Topstarr]

I still want the big hire (Splash) at OC

 

[MBHORNSFAN]

Am I the only person unconcerned with numbers because I think the fact that he's an asshole is more of an impediment?

Yeah I think what he did to Colt in the 2009 Big 12 championship games was pretty classless.

 

[Rynin]

I think our main concern, is that he said he would hire the very best staff. We were expecting a "splash" hire, and this is more of a ripple =/

 

[Texdoc]

I want the BIG splash too.

However, his Big 12 numbers aren't as bad as some seem to think, so if Strong does want him :

VS BIG 12 TEAMS ONLY

2000 - 25 PPG as a rookie OC

2001 - 31 PPG (Only scored 7 vs us in regular season matchup, BUT made some good adjustments & beat us in Champ game with 39pts !) (Also cost us trip to MNC)

2002 - 32 PPG

2003 - 29 PPG

2004 - 21 PPG

2005 - 30PPG

2007 - 32PPG

2008 - 36PPG

2009 - 20PPG

2010 - 30PPG

So, except for 04 & 09 he was putting up over 30PPG. Obviously, he should've improved since then with more experience so if Charlie is trotting out a stellar defense, 30 PPG plus should be acceptable.

That said - I also once again am not endorsing him - just stating that he is not as bad as some of you infer....

 

[HornEsch]

Yeah I think what he did to Colt in the 2009 Big 12 championship games was pretty classless.

Yeah I will be honest that irked me. However I would venture to guess that all of us have had moments in our lives where we let the passion of the moment get to us and do or say something that we would like to take back if we could. I for one surely how I am not jedged on any one moment in my life.

Now saying that I have no clue how he is as a person in general. Which I went to pure numbers at this point.

for comparison...i think of TCU/WVU. they did some things outside of the big12. after joining very underwhelming. big12 may not be the sec, but it isnt a cake walk either. thanks for the stats they mean nothing as it relates to Texas football.

Obviously you are entitle to your opinion. However in my opinion that is apples to oranges. You are talking about entire teams coming into a stronger league. In this case you are bringing a coach in to a team that has resources. Looking at numbers, with the caveat of where he is, is an objective way to look at his style an potential. It is obvious that it is nowhere near the end all be all. However to say that the stats mean nothing is extremely short sighted.