Mehringer was a horrible hire in that we did not have the personal to run his offense and he tried to do it anyway. Killed the defense with all the 3 and outs. He’s a big part of why we were blown out so much.
Wrong.
First off - your premise has nothing to do with the Mehringer hire.
It's an argument against a change in offensive philosophy.
If we were a losing team under Flood with an ineffective offense, why would we keep running it back and stay with the same philosophy?
You are advocating to keep an offense because it suits players who were losing games and not executing.
Players that many said needed to be recruited over.
Changes takes time. Condition the players. Recruit new players. New plays. New terms.
The sooner you commit to the change the sooner you'll get through the growing pains and come out the other side.
This adverse reaction to change is why our offenses never evolved with the rest of CFB elite. Or even CFB non elites who used offense to jump up and win over their expectations.
"Well we tried it for 1 year with a roster and players that weren't a fit. It didn't immediately work so let's go back to a meathead offense. So what if that has failed many more years. We'll just ignore that."
Is the premise that we were somehow winning 8 games if we didnt try to change the offense?
Like all those other years we had a great offense?
That's why HC Ash was a failure. He started down a path to change then abruptly turned back after only 1 year.
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