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re: Looking for insight on Heupel: Offense looks strong. Is defense & personality the issue?

Posted on 1/27/21 at 11:46 am to
Posted by VagueMessage
Fayetteville, AR
Member since Jun 2013
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Posted on 1/27/21 at 11:46 am to
I think this should be graded on a curve. He took Kansas to bowls five out of eight seasons and rarely looked pathetic. Kansas has not won more than three games since they fired him in 2009. It almost can't be oversold how desperately pathetic the Kansas football program is.

Tennessee's version of Mangino would win back-to-back natties.
Posted by OrangeEmpire
Parts Unknown
Member since Feb 2020
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Posted on 1/27/21 at 11:48 am to
A lot of like Ralph Friedgen at Maryland
Posted by TRUERockyTop
Appalachia
Member since Sep 2011
15839 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 11:57 am to
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Heupal needs a strong armed, accurate QB to make his offense work. At Mizzou he had Drew Lock. At UCF he had the kid that suffered a nasty leg injury, but before that was great.

Heupal can recruit QB talent, but we don't know if he can develop. He doesn't teach a traditional read system to his QB. It's more throw it where the play is called. They also move very fast. Our offense had more possessions than anyone in the country. But even with Locks talent, most possessions ended in 3 and out and forced the defense right back out. They were dead by the 4th quarter.

Odom found Heupal on the scrap heap at Utah State not too long ago. He couldn't make his offense work at OU, with the best talent in the Big 12 and with no one playing defense. My take is, give him a NFL caliber QB, and he's aces. Anything less, he is below average. But maybe he has learned some new tricks.

Everybody laughed at Mizzou hiring Drink, so no one knows shite about how things will work out. Good Luck.


I appreciate the info

He should have some talent to work with at QB so atleast he has that going for him. I'm not expecting much regardless with the sanctions inevitably on the way. I will say, any offense at this point will be better than what we've seen the last several years. At minimum it looks like he needs to get a good DC & some recruiters and just stay out of their way.

Wasn't he the OC the year Lock broke all of those passing records for you guys a while back?
Posted by Quicksilver
Poker Room
Member since Jan 2013
10746 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 11:57 am to
12 wins at Kansas should qualify Mangino for sainthood.
Posted by Hback
Member since Aug 2017
9295 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 11:57 am to
Looks like he's dropped some pounds (and he shaved :)

LINK
Posted by Roger Podacter
Member since Sep 2017
58 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 12:00 pm to
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He looks like he doesn't even llike himself :/


LMFAOOOOOO
Posted by volfan30
Member since Jun 2010
40950 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 12:04 pm to
This guy is a bumbling loser.

What a hire.
Posted by Smokeyone
Maryville Tn
Member since Jul 2016
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Posted on 1/27/21 at 12:24 pm to
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Looks like he's dropped some pounds (and he shaved :)


Even wore the Bruce Wayne costume
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26986 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 12:24 pm to
quote:

I think this should be graded on a curve. He took Kansas to bowls five out of eight seasons and rarely looked pathetic. Kansas has not won more than three games since they fired him in 2009. It almost can't be oversold how desperately pathetic the Kansas football program is.


Actually, while Kansas has sucked since Mangino, his tenure wasn't significantly better than Glen Mason, two coaches before Mangino.

1996 4 7
1995 10 2
1994 6 5
1993 5 7
1992 8 4
1991 6 5
1990 3 7 1
1989 4 7
1988 1 10

So it really doesn't make sense to grade Mangino "on a curve", because what little he did at Kansas wasn't really completely unprecedented.

quote:

Tennessee's version of Mangino would win back-to-back natties.



You're a funny guy!
Posted by Athos
Member since Sep 2016
11878 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 12:44 pm to
His offenses produces a lot of empty stats when the game is done and we got those prevent yards.

It’s not an offense that will generate any consistency. You’ll either see five 3 and outs or a point flurry. And those flurries decrease when facing halfway competent defenses.
Posted by labamafan
Prairieville
Member since Jan 2007
24266 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 1:04 pm to
It will all come down to recruiting period. He doesn’t run an old school offense so if he recruits well TN will be competitive eventually.
Posted by BIGFOOD
Member since Jun 2011
12511 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 1:20 pm to
Heupel is 2-0 vs Lane Kiffin. Hey, looking for some sunshine here
Posted by surgicalvenom
Omaha
Member since Jan 2014
5368 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 1:28 pm to
Yes he was the OC. But again, Lock could drop it in a bucket from 60 yards. Heupal didn't have an innovative offense, he just told Lock where to throw it and Locks talent made it happen. The question is what can Heupals offense do without Lock type talent. It didn't work with OU's talent.

There is 1 QB recruiting concern. It's well documented by SEC announcers that Heupal didn't teach Lock NFL QB skills. He taught Lock to read only half the field, and only 1 progression. You better believe that's going to be used against him by other coaches in the living rooms. Hell, Dooley used it to get Lock to return to Mizzou for 1 more year. He promised to teach stuff that Heupal ignored.

Who knows. Harbaugh looked perfect for Michigan, Frost was a no brainer for Nebraska, hows that working out? Back in the day, who would guessed or dreamed about Schnellinberger and a small Miami private school that was about to drop its football program.

This post was edited on 1/27/21 at 2:55 pm
Posted by Hidden Tiger
Member since Jun 2019
1111 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:24 pm to
was bailed out by an old friend

hired as an SEC OC

leaves his old friend before that coaches first bowl as a HC

really shitty move
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