I have a real hard time with this discussion.
1. Many point to the ranking of our low offense. This doesn't bother me, we run less plays, than other teams, we run and pass in balance, we run lots of playclock. So this argument holds no weight in my book.
2. Tress doesn't adapt to change...Once again this bothers me some...When Smith took the reigns of the offense we saw a totally different offense. He has recruited different type of athletes...The smaller type receivers with speed, he put in the shot-ginn offense...Keep in mind I am not saying he is an offensive Genious...I still go back to Miami in 2002 when he had them completely off balance.
3. Execution...This is a tough question for me as well...I understand the running plays, but truly there are only a couple ways you can run the ball. You line up in the I, singleback, Shotgun, and you either do the dive, lead with someone in the hole, trap, toss it outside...With this said we do see the Power play quite often, it is back to the question of execution...we knew against Navy they were going to option left option right, and we couldn't stop, because they executed. With as many times as we run the power it should work...Why isn't it working? To me it is execution.
4. Playcalling...This is another one...Tress called a pretty good game the other night. He surprised me with a couple calls...he broke tendencies...The only thing I question is there are lots of weapons, we just need them in a way that we have some sort of identity. It is almost like he trys to get creative at times, and either it is something we have not really worked on or we don't execute and he doesn't come back to it. I think we almost get too complicated trying to outthink, and then we oversimplify with the running plays. Think about USC in how they put a mcknight out at receiver and just run a short pass to him, or playaction to fullback who is an athlete.
5. Oline...The talent level here has been up and down. It is getting better. We have not had drive blockers that you just line up behind and smash the defense in the mouth. Obviously at times us being predictable hurts this,
With all that said. I think Tress could use a true offensive coordinator. I feel he has his hands in everything which is good, but at some point being in everything is too much. Delegation is a tough skill to learn for a leader, but if he could he could sit back and really watch this team go to the next level. I am not talking a whole new scheme change either. Just someone that is a 100% dedicated to this task.
I think the biggest challenges we face on offense are scoring touchdowns in the redzone. It is almost like Tress wants to make sure we come away with the field goal as well as try and score a td.
And Short yardage. We struggle to pick up short yardage, because 90% of the time it is the same play.
We just lack sustainability. We have a decent drive going, we stall due to third down play...Or we get in the redzone and settle for the field goal.
Let me preface I don't want to see Texas Tech offense, I don't want to see Florida offense. I want to see an offense that creates mismatches. Makes things easier on us.
Look at teams like USC, FLorida, etc. Against [censored]ty teams they know that their athletes are better than theirs. So if they ever get one on one on the outside they beat them deep. They know their guys can get to the corner easier so they run outside in space. Obviously they do alot of their base offense, but their base offense works better when they strike fear into defenses and make them play zone, and not crowd the box because if they don't they go deep and score easily. Also about keeping the defense on their heels.
Obviously lots to digest there, and I don't think we drop Tress, I don't think Bollman should be fired, I think we bring in an offensive coordinator who takes the reigns and we find ways to score tds instead of Fgs and convert short yardage plays and use our athletes in situations where they are more likely to succeed.
