Steve Addazio replacement candidates
by mlmintampa on Oct 15, 2010 10:52 AM EDT
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PrintWhile most Gator fans are fairly confident in Florida's chances to win this weekend against Mississippi State, we cling to the hope that Steve Addazio doesn't find a new way to screw up the Gators.
No, the sky is not falling, but Addazio needs to go. To save Urban Meyer, Addazio has to be replaced by someone who makes Meyer look good. Here are our candidates.
Nate Meyer: We think Nate is 12, which means he has played hundreds of hours of Madden or EA Sports NCAA Football. That also makes him much more qualified than Addazio to be offensive coordinator. He would go for it on every 4th down, no matter the distance. Nate would also give the ball to Andre Debose and Omarius Hines every play. 12-year olds understand that the best players need to have the ball. Old, bald offensive line coaches don't. The more you think about this, the more it makes sense.
Galen Hall: The former UF head coach is the offensive coordinator at Penn State. Yes, he committed NCAA infractions at Florida, but he might have a chance to be a head coach quicker in Gainesville than at Penn State. Joe Paterno looks like he will coach until he is 100, while Meyer has already considered retirement.
Steve Spurrier Jr.: The old alums could get behind this, because they will support anything a guy named "Steve Spurrier" does. The South Carolina receivers coach has made Sidney Rice and Alshon Jeffery stars, and coached at UF during the 1996 National Championship season. Also, he would bring the passing tree, which is a concept Addazio does not understand.
Danny Wuerffel: The most successful quarterback in Gators history has more important things to worry about, but maybe he wants to take a break from rebuilding New Orleans. Plus, rebuilding the confidence of the Gators offense will be easier than the Ninth Ward.
Urban Meyer: It works for Andy Reid and Mike McCarthy. Ok, those are bad examples, but it's not like it is impossible.
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Steve Jr.
That’s genius
"When you argue correctly, you're never wrong."-Nick Naylor
by Hook85 on Oct 15, 2010 10:58 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I’ve said for a long time now, that after this current coaching administration is over, Steve Spurrier Jr will be the head coach at the University of Florida.
Don’t forget his work with Kenny McKinley either.
Steve Spurrier Jr. Coached at UF for a national title, and coached at Oklahoma during their national title and undefeated run.
The guy can coach.
The Once and Future King
It’s also funny 1996 was mentioned, because I saw on ESPN Classic yesterday, the 1996 Big 12 Championship Game between Nebraska and Texas, when Texas won 37-27, to help us get to the national title in the pre=BCS era. I’m forever grateful to Texas QB James Brown. That 4th and inches conversion sealed the game.
FlaGators
Yes, I remember that. Joe Germaine led them down the field. he was the backup, but I don’t remember who the starter was. And I forgot that BYU and Wyoming played the WAC Championship Game on ABC before we played Barry Lunney Jr. and Arkansas in the SEC Championship Game. Ah, Lunney Jr. Probably the most improbable QB to ever get to Atlanta.
That 4th and inches play
Was one of the ballsiest calls ever. I’m not even sure that Les Miles would do that. In fact, I’m sure he wouldn’t, he would have run a fake punt instead.
Addazio will get the ball to Debose
Now that Debose has demonstrated his big play ability (no thanks to Addazio), Addazio will run about half the plays of the game to him. Miss St will realize this by half time and start keying on him. He will get hit hard and banged up. Then another of our players will be hobbled. It just seems that Addazio doesn’t seem to get that it is a good thing to get the ball to different playmakers and keep the defense guessing.
Mr. Tractorr how are you so smart?
In truth it is not that I am that smart it is actually that Mr Addazio is just so damn stupid, and stupidity, children, makes a person unbelievably predictable. I, an untrained fan of college football was able to call what Steve was going to do a full day before the game. What do you expect that a football professional is going to do right before a play is called?
Speaking of hobbled
I hope that Demps doesn’t play. I’d rather him get a full 3+ weeks rest and be ready for UGA.
My picks for OC
Great list. I would like to add these to the short list.
Kerwin Bell
Gus Malzahn
Brian Schottenheimer (we can dream can’t we)
Jeff Mullen
Mike Leach
What about Mike Leach? He knows how to throw the ball around. We could start recruiting Texas… There are more players in one county in Texas than in all of Connecticut!
OMG—you were having fun and a lot of these folks are SERIOUS with the same material…
Of COURSE you’re right about the main point, though: WE NEED A NEW MAN-IN-CHARGE
…the only way that wouldn’t be the Head Coach rather than the OC we were talking about would be if Urban Meyer were to somehow re-animate his own body (the Coach Meyer that took us to new heights, the man of vision and intensity who accepts nothing less than perfection from himself and those he gives responsibility to, that man is long gone; only this “cypher” remains), take over the play calling and make wholesale changes across the board, changes LONG past due.
Failing that, there are some apt candidates out there, good ones who could get us back on track in a season or two: I put Kyle Wittingham at the top, but there are others almost as good. First y’all gotta face facts and get serious about all of this. though. Otherwise we’re in for a long, sad slide, and an even longer, tougher road back—with no guarantees we’ll make it, ya know?
Why would Kyle Wittingham, who was Meyer's DC at Utah, leave to be the OC at UF?
I do like how you recognized this was sarcastic, then you drop a line like that.
mlmintampa
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That's why Steve Jr. would be so genius
When you first hear Steve Jr., you think HA HA, real funny…and then 5min later out of no where you say; wait a second, yea, yeah, YEAH, Ohhh YEEEAAH!
"When you argue correctly, you're never wrong."-Nick Naylor
by Hook85 on Oct 16, 2010 10:56 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Dan Henning?
Please take him.
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Mike Leach
is weird, but would fit our current personnel. We could get the passing game going. Not to mention, he wouldn’t have to be lured away from another job mid-season.
Paul Petrino at Illinois would be another good option. Or getting an OC from a program like Utah or Boise.
The other option would be going to a more pro-style offense. That would be helpful in the long run for us to win the recruiting battles with Bama that we’re currently getting whipped on (i.e. RB & OL).
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