Coachspeak, dude, nothing more to it at the moment. Patience, grasshopper. All will be revealed in time. :thumb:
While I think crowton has been awful the last two years, I think a big art of that is Miles. Crowton never ran an I formation in his life. So I think LM was heavily involved. That being said, and no excuse, I think Gary having a true qb for the first time will drastically improve things. Less spread equals less cutesy stuff and he can focus on calling the BYU O he grew up with (with some miles i-form). At least that's my optimistic way of looking at it. Maybe ZM is crowtons next Tim Rattay?
The problem is not the scheme, its the playcalling, period. He can't run a two minute offense. He can't even fix JL throwing off his back foot. He doesn't (and has basically admitted) know how to utilize so many playmakers. His playcalling in the red zone is horrible as well. And the biggest sin, in my opinion, is that he calls plays with the thought process of playing not to lose. Oh, and he is extremely predictable. I'm excited about ZM, but am already counting the days to the inevitable "ZM is Overrated" thread if Crowton stays and ZM starts.
Ok, so Crowton is going to be back, we may as well all just get on board. I have never seen a problem go away by just bitching about it. Hopefully the problem with the offense has been the 2 quarterbacks. I am willing to give Crowton one more shot in my mind. Only problem with that, whats going to be the excuse next year at this time, Mettenberger isn't used to the SEC yet.... so on and so forth. The OL needs a kick in the ass, because it all starts with them. They have to get better, and Stud needs a kick in the ass also. He has to do better.
I'm still not convinced that Crowton will be here, he just may be here thru the bowl game. I'm not bitching, per se, I just can't believe the miles people will to go to rationalize his horrible performance, when there is such a strong history and proof that he is not capable of sustained success. Got in a twitter discussion on this with Guilbeau and the lengths he went to defend him were mind boggling. He even pulled out the record setting 07 offense defense. When I presented him with career stats I got crickets :wave: Crowton returns and I will not boycott, but will be extremely disconnected next season.
It would be real easy to be disconnected, because it is frustrating to see such a talented offense do nothing. but keep the faith brother. :thumb:
Based on what? I've seen no statements made by Miles that he will definitely be back next season. In fact, when given the opportunity multiple times in the past week to make such a statement, all he's done is crawfish on the issue. That alone tells me there's some serious trouble in paradise. Crowton may yet be OC next season, but assuming that now, while the team is preparing for A&M, is putting the cart WAY ahead of the horse. We'll have a much better idea of where we stand looking at what Miles does after that game.
This. Miles isn't going to tip his hat before the Bowl game, I don't believe. I also believe that given the chance Miles is going to find a home for Crowton before he would just let him go. That is his makeup. That said, as I pointed out before Miles is the type that believes it is better to work with and give an employee every opportunity to improve and excel, rather than to fire them. Miles believes that he needs to work with Crowton and make him the best he can be. Part of that is to make sure that Crowton has all the proper tools to succeed. In my opinion the only reason Crowton would be back next season is because Miles may look at the past 3 yrs as, Crowton hasn’t had all the proper tools to succeed. That even though we had issues with the O in 2008, we had bigger issues with the D. In 2009 not only was the O stagnant, but it was partially due to poor OL play, RB play, and poor QB play. That in 2010 our biggest issue was poor QB play, with improvements in the OL and the run game. That Miles takes a big part of the blame in Crowtons failures due to his inability to provide the proper players that Crowton’s offense would need to be successful. Now that the OL and the run game have improved, Miles is supplying Crowton with a somewhat proven high caliber QB. With all the pieces in place to be successful maybe Crowton’s offense will be successful. Unlike Mack Brown, who forced out his entire offensive staff that had been with him for years, having all of them be the fall guys for UT’s poor season, Miles takes the weight and puts it on his shoulders as he let down his coordinator by not providing him with the adequate pieces to be successful. The other thing that has been pointed out, is with so many returning starters would changing the OC at this point be worse than sticking with Crowton, giving him a good QB and running his system one more year. I am not saying that Crowton will be back by any means, these are just my opinions on what is possibly going thru Miles’ head and what he might do. I do know that if Crowton is back, many Tiger fans will be looking at next season with trepidation. Also, it will be a big gamble on Miles’ part to keep him, because should next season be anything less than a shot at the SECCG there will be many fans look to Miles much like the did for most of this season.
