He was absolutely fired, just not publicly, and Urban has typically found landing pads for his demotions. Same with Ed Warinner.
After the 2014 NC run, OSU lost OC Herman and RB coach Drayton. Their OL coach (Ed Warinner) was an absolute witch at developing OL, so they could not afford to lose him too (and you may recall that staff turnover crushed his later UF squads). Trying to avoid this, he promoted Ed to OC and teamed him up with his former running mate at Kansas, Tim Beck, who put up huge numbers in 2007. (which speaks slightly to the difference in conference defenses)
They were defending champs with the world's best RB, a stud NFL WR named Michael Thomas and talent across the board (Braxton Miller was one of the last options in the passing game, that speaks to the depth) and a flamethrowing monster QB in Jones (with a top-5 heisman finalist as the backup). The result was something about like Florida churns out offensively. The QBs were constantly looking over their shoulders, the playcalling was disjointed, the scheme took a huge step back. It didn't help that there were 3 OCs (Urban is the real OC, with Ed wrongly promoted above his paygrade and Beck not helping matters) and they were doing this with two QBs with big flaws.
Tim is a wicked recruiter, and Herman is an offensive savant with strong QB whispering skills. I suspect Beck will be much better away from the 3 ring circus that osu had for the last two years, but his primary purpose is to lock down the destroyed fence around Texas. Osu is coming back for Cook after last year's in state heist (namely 5-stars Okudah, Sheffield and high 4-star Dobbins with a narrow miss on Marvin Jones).
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