re: Either Grubb goes or DeBoer will ultimately go (in-depth)

Compare Lane to Grubb.

Take all of Lane's non-football shenanigans aside.

One of the things that has made Lane such a consistently great offensive designer and playcaller over two decades now, throughout radical changes in offensive and defensive trends in football, has been his willingness to change.

Lane has run vastly different offenses year to year. He changes the offense to fit the players on his roster that year, and to exploit the defenses he's seeing on a week to week basis. He doesn't try to fit a round peg in a square hole. Look at what he asked Leinart and Bush to do, versus Sims and Amari, versus Coker and Henry, versus Hurts, and then Dart and Chambliss. Every time it was something very different, fit to personnel and the defense of the time.

He's never forcing a round peg into a square hole.

With Grubb I see the complete opposite. I see a guy that loves the look of a play on the white board, and is excited to run it. Personnel, defense, down and distance be damned. This is a good play, I designed it, it's brilliant, it has 4 different motions, it will work.

The reality is it doesn't work. RPO is great. Our QB doesn't read RPO well. Why are we still calling RPOs? Because our OC thinks its a good play - but only in theory, not in execution. If the peg doesn't fit the hole he doesn't care, it's his peg, he's going with it.

Bobo gets maligned a lot by UGA fans and foes alike for the offense he runs. But I'll give him credit, he keeps it simple for a reason. He may not fool the opponent with ingenious play design and a mile long call sheet. But he's going to call something that his players can line up and run successfully at a high clip, designed to keep them in positive down and distance. There's something to be said about that. I wish our OC would learn from that.

But given that Grubb has been running the exact same stuff now for ~5 straight seasons, across wildly different personnel and opponent contexts, I don't expect much change.

The change has to come from CKD. He has to give his friend walking papers. That's tough. Hopefully our head coach is tough. If he's not, how could we expect our team to be.