01-06-2016, 12:36 AM
Quote:Hiring Babich and Fisch as coordinators were two massive mistakes from the beginning.
Makes you wonder, huh? Those were two strikes already. It doesn't look good for Gus, but yet he's still got a vote of confidence
Quote:Hiring Babich and Fisch as coordinators were two massive mistakes from the beginning.
Quote:Okay he was actually 10-41 from 2009-2012 at NM State but just awful coach.
Quote:For those with half-filled glasses, Fisch was replaced by Olson. If Gus hits another home run with a new DC and Dave improves the defensive roster, we may have nothing to gripe about.but but... then no one can bash the gus bus.... it's not like he gets credit for hiring olsen and the offensive improvement but he should.
Quote:Okay he was actually 10-41 from 2009-2012 at NM State but just awful coach.
Quote:Hiring Babich and Fisch as coordinators were two massive mistakes from the beginning.
Quote:I don't think anyone could have coached the talent on this defense to much better than what we saw this year, but a head had to roll. The sacrificial offering has been made. It's not going to be enough for some.
Quote:Two pieces in two different offseasons cut.
Fisch: An unproven college coach who fizzled out in the NFL. Rumors of belittling the QB were reported more than once.
Babich: A bad track record in the NFL. He was on his way out in Chicago before good old Gus hired him. This Gus is partially responsible for this team finishing near the bottom of the league 3 consecutive years.
So who is responsible for hiring these failures? Is it a Dave and Gus combo or is Gus mostly responsible. Admitting your offensive coordinator and Defensive coordinator were mistakes is a critical error especially for a young football team.
Quote:Dave blamed himself. He forms the head of Jagtron.
Quote:Hiring Babich and Fisch as coordinators were two massive mistakes from the beginning.
Quote:For those with half-filled glasses, Fisch was replaced by Olson. If Gus hits another home run with a new DC and Dave improves the defensive roster, we may have nothing to gripe about.
Quote:Sometimes you have to take who will come work for you. It's not like the world's great coordinators were lining up to work for Sprinkles.
Hell, Olson needed the work and Marrone probably thought he'd be the head coach some time last November.
Quote:Newly hired head coaches tend to have to put a staff together quickly, so they go with guys they've worked with previously. Babich got Gus into coaching at the collegiate level, and was somewhat of a mentor to Bradley early on as a coach. They're close.
Fisch and Gus worked together on the Tampa staff, and developed a rapport.
In both cases, the hires weren't really a surprise based on the history there, and the need to build a staff quickly. Both guys stuck around longer than they probably should have. For Fisch, it was mostly because of a lack of talent. When the team gave him the QB to run the offense, he didn't utilize him correctly. He also didn't get along with the new QB, so that had to be addressed.
For Babich, it was also about talent issues, but he lasted a little longer because he managed to make the defense almost respectable last year. The expectation was that the improvements would continue this season. That didn't happen, and the unit actually seemed to regress. Some of that was injury and lack of depth, but some of it was also the play calling and the lack of creativity in scheming to work with the talent he had.
Someone had to take a fall, and both Fisch and Babich were held accountable. We see how hiring Olson, Hackett, and Marrone helped the offense improve pretty significantly this year, although it's still not quite where it needs to be.
Head coaches who have the opportunity to get to a 2nd coordinator tend to do a better job of landing the right guy for their team because there's not nearly as much of a sense of urgency as when they were hired. I think the Olson hire, despite the widespread panning it got here when he was brought in, proved to be the right one for this team.