He's helping set the game plan and telling them what he expects.
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He's helping set the game plan and telling them what he expects.
Conversely, if Campbell shifts direction and says "let's go" with the offense, coaches at this level, including Campbell and Scheelhaase know how to call a more opened up offensive scheme. You would hope. Atleast to the point of a basic level of efficiency, which is all that we need at the moment.
We are talking about focused degree of stubbornness here though with Coach Campbell.
And as I think of this, I'm not sure even if CMC was to decide to change the offensive direction, that he has the offensive acumen that it would take for it to be successful here. He hasn't shown enough overall competancy in offensive play calling, or coaching in general, to give me great confidence.
Scheelhasse gives Campbell a stack of papers. "Got some new plays added coach". Campbell glances through them, removes all but one, and gives this single sheet back to Nate. "These plays are all you need. Go make them effective." Nate looks at the plays: slam right, slam left, short X post out, short Y post out, TE curl.
Something I've noticed is every time we're in a 3rd and long situation (which is a lot because of our non-existent running game and lack of downfield passing), anytime our receivers catch the ball, they somehow miraculously always end up 1 yard short.
We had a 3rd and 13 and got 12 yards and of course, we weren't in Ohio territory, so we ended up punting. The lack of play calls to get beyond the sticks is infuriating. Not everything can be an out route or shallow crosser for 3-4 yards every play.
We had a 3rd and 13 and got 12 yards and of course, we weren't in Ohio territory, so we ended up punting. The lack of play calls to get beyond the sticks is infuriating. Not everything can be an out route or shallow crosser for 3-4 yards every play.
I can't tell exactly on TV but it looks like the only way ISU's receivers get any separation is to come back to the ball after initially getting past the sticks.
The defenders just need to keep it in front to cover up after the catch to avoid the first down.
I ran through the offense tonight and the most frustrating thing is they’d run play action or anything in the realm of misdirection in the passing game it worked flawlessly. How that happens and you don’t just keep using their LBs against them blows my mind. That and the wide open shots down the field that worked.
The rewatch is brutal
An optimistic view is the staff was extremely overconfident and got caught using the game to practice things the offense isn’t good at
It’s not just repeatedly running stuff the roster has not been sufficiently coached in, the players are bad at it in part because it’s bad in design. A complete staff failure several years in the making
Yep I agree.
I fear we’re in for an awakening that there is no solution any time soon. JMO - I don’t believe the skillset exists on staff to improve or drastically change our offensive strategy. I don’t think anyone in staff is a P5 level offensive strategist, play designer, or play caller. I truly believe it’s THAT bad. And it is far worse than even Iowa, in terms of the overarching scheme and play design.
When you put our tape up against virtually any other team - it is bizarre how bad our scheme looks, from blocking schemes, to route concepts, and everything in between. It looks like a high school level design.
Sadly, this post is true.
I've seen much more creativity and better execution by high school and Div. 3 teams in Iowa.
That's where we are.
In year 8.
At $4 million per year for just the head man.
And people want more years of this. Not just this season, multiple more seasons.
If we have anyone on staff that is a high level offensive coach, they must not be allowed to provide input.
Our offense is the manifestation of top down failure at every facet- recruiting, development, teaching, game plan, play calling, game management.
This is my biggest concern as well. There isn't some flip that this staff seems capable of flipping in a week like Matt and Heacock did with the defense in 2017. They already seem to have a very over-simplified Division 3 (Mt Union anyone?) offensive game plan and scheme. If they are struggling to teach that to these kids, what makes us think they can teach them anything else all of a sudden? The rest of this season is starting to feel like a burn the tape type of season from here on out. Maybe get some new ideas and develop some things in the offseason, get a year older, and hope for the best next year, or Matt's time here will be done.
Lots of people are talking about how stubborn Matt is about the offense, but I personally think the staff has tried to run portions of the offense that they felt best fit the talent on this team. Going into the season, the thought was that we would have an inexperienced QB and a very talented TE room. Thus we have used a lot of three TE sets. The thought is it allows the TEs to create a matchup issue because of their multiplicity (block and receive). The issue is that while talented, the TEs are not very good blockers yet. This coupled with poor offensive line play has caused significant issues in the running game. Those issues were not so glaring against UNI because it was an easy win and then we struggled against Iowa, but that could be explained away as Iowa's defense. Now that we struggled against Ohio, the staff must either fix the blocking by to OL and TEs or pivot to another plan of attack. Less TEs and more passing seems like the logical change, but how talented are our WRs. We played that way when Matt got here because we didn't have TEs for a couple of years. Even if that change is made, the OL run blocking must be fixed. It seems to me that we are asking our linemen to be more athletic in their blocks than what they are capable of. I think something there needs to change.
Well, looks can be deceiving. We know that when we execute properly the run game and present scheme works. Fundamentals. It has in the past. We need to give the young players more of an opportunity to develop and be the best players they can be.
We are still climbing the mountain. ; (
[The above is sarcasm! Jimlad and all that.]
I'm starting to hate that expression, 'being the best you can be', when the coaching is not allowing just that to happen. It's becoming contemptuously ironic that the opposite is the case more often than not.
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Up until last year Campbell had 1 year where a RB on his team didnt end up starting in the NFL. He doesn’t know how to run an offense without a good RB and it shows. He has not adjusted as needed.
Cough up $20M to buy out the most successful coach we've ever had. That's what it took to get rid of Prohm. It's not that hard to understand.