My Choice for Offensive Coordinator - Zach Kittley from Texas Tech and bring along one of his QBs. Your choice?

[RCBeta79]

My Choice for Offensive Coordinator - Zach Kittley from Texas Tech and bring along one of his QBs.
Your choice?

Texas Tech has a crowded room of QBs with game experience.

 

[RU4Real]

Ya know...

I find that I don't really care.

I'm convinced that there is no one who can break The Curse in my lifetime. Just keep working on our tailgate game because that's the one place we have a real shot at being the best.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Ya know...

I find that I don't really care.

I'm convinced that there is no one who can break The Curse in my lifetime. Just keep working on our tailgate game because that's the one place we have a real shot at being the best.

Ole Miss used to claim that.. and they have a helluva scene in The Grove... and they win now.

So.. there's always hope! And heart...

 

[retired711]

Ole Miss used to claim that.. and they have a helluva scene in The Grove... and they win now.

So.. there's always hope! And heart...

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Here it is from the 1958 movie, Damn Yankees!

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Here it is from the 1958 movie, Damn Yankees!

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I had that up there first but replaced it with the 69 Mets! Sure the musical won a Tony.. but the movie only got a few Oscar nominations.. losers! But the '69 Mets won the World Serious. They had HEART!

 

[retired711]

I had that up there first but replaced it with the 69 Mets! Sure the musical won a Tony.. but the movie only got a few Oscar nominations.. losers! But the '69 Mets won the World Serious. They had HEART!

I liked the version you posted, too. But I am ancient enough that my parents had the cast album of Damn Yankees! with the immortal Gwen Verdon as Lola. " A little brains, a little talent/ with the emphasis on the latter."

 

[Knight Shift]

My Choice for Offensive Coordinator - Zach Kittley from Texas Tech and bring along one of his QBs.
Your choice?

Texas Tech has a crowded room of QBs with game experience.

A Leach tree disciple is the best choice, and Kittley is a Leach tree disciple.

Zach Kittley started as a student assistant to Sonny Cumbie, who played QB for Mike Leach at Texas Tech, and Cumbie is now head coach at Louisiana Tech.

From Wikipedia:

At Houston Baptist, he engineered a turnaround of an offense that ranked in the bottom half of the NCAA Division I FCS division prior to his arrival to one of the top passing offenses in the country behind an Air raid offense.[6] While at HBU, Kittley was intimately involved with the development of another quarterback prospect in Bailey Zappe, who would play a critical role at his next coaching stop.[7]

Western Kentucky​

Kittley was named the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Western Kentucky on December 14, 2020.[8] Zappe would follow Kittley to Western Kentucky. In Kittley's first year with Western Kentucky, the Hilltoppers offense improved from 115th in scoring among FBS teams in 2020 to 2nd in the FBS in scoring in 2021.[9][10] During WKU's win in the 2021 Boca Raton Bowl, Zappe set new single-season FBS records for passing touchdowns and yardage.

 

[RU4Real]

Just remember...

 

[rutgersguy1]

He's from Texas and a TT grad and likely has freedom from McGuire to do what he sees fit. It's unlikely that he'd be a realistic option.

I mentioned Ben Arbuckle a 27 year old understudy of his who went on to take over at WKU and keep things running in his 1 year as OC as a more realistic but maybe not the most ideal option. He's since become the OC at WSU.

 

[PSU_Nut]

My Choice for Offensive Coordinator - Zach Kittley from Texas Tech and bring along one of his QBs.
Your choice?

Texas Tech has a crowded room of QBs with game experience.

Would be a great choice but why in the world would he take the job especially after watching what happened to Gleason? Why would you make a lateral career move to take over a train wreck? That not to mention he is a Texas native and a TT alum.

 

[Yeah Baby]

Seems like a good choice. Good to see someone actually thinking and not just complaining 20 times every day. We all know the past let’s talk about what we can do to get better. I like it.

 

[jsol_05]

Seems like a good choice. Good to see someone actually thinking and not just complaining 20 times every day. We all know the past let’s talk about what we can do to get better. I like it.

But is it a realistic choice?

 

[rutgersguy1]

But is it a realistic choice?

No as I stated above and I've mentioned Kittley here a bunch of times but just in regards to prowess and using unknown qbs like Zappe and Reed and being very productive with them.

Guys like Kevin Decker now ODU OC and Ben Arbuckle now WSU OC were more realistic options that I've mentioned but are now off the table.

Seth Littrell is also a someone I've mentioned and is somewhat realistic as he's not working anywhere now as far as I know. He's a Leach tree guy and had good offenses at UNC and IU.

I've also mentioned Slade Nagle just this morning in the OC thread. It's not particularly a style of offense I think will work consistently well but at least for this year they've made it work at Tulane. You can read about I mentioned of him and Fritz in that thread.

 

[MADHAT1]

Would be a great choice but why in the world would he take the job especially after watching what happened to Gleason? Why would you make a lateral career move to take over a train wreck? That not to mention he is a Texas native and a TT alum.

if he thought he could succeed in a way to move his career upward , an assistant would consider a lateral move and leave the the program they're in , unless he/she is in line to take the top spot where they're at.
Assistants are terminated all the time and quality replacements are readily available to take that spot.

The problem is with replacing Gleason might not be his termination, but the chances for success as the OC at RU looks to the good ones
But you do make a good point on why someone from the southwest would want to gamble on being successful on the east coast.
But sometimes the chance to advance your career better( even if a lateral move) makes coaches leave their confort zone and take thir skills to a different part of the college landscape.

 

[rutgersguy1]

if he thought he could succeed in a way to move his career upward , an assistant would consider a lateral move and leave the the program they're in , unless he/she is in line to take the top spot where they're at.
Assistants are terminated all the time and quality replacements are readily available to take that spot.

The problem is with replacing Gleason might not be his termination, but the chances for success as the OC at RU looks to the good ones
But you do make a good point on why someone from the southwest would want to gamble on being successful on the east coast.
But sometimes the chance to advance your career better( even if a lateral move) makes coaches leave their confort zone and take thir skills to a different part of the college landscape.

Kittley doesn't need to do that for his career. A Lashlee move to UConn made more sense for his career. I've mentioned this line of thought before. Why does he leave Auburn to go to UConn. To get out from under an offensive coach like Malzahn and make his own name on offense. Kittley is running the offense at TT, McGuire is a CEO type coach. So Kittley can make a name for himself right where he is. Garrett Riley would be more likely to move in the sense like Lashlee just to come out from the umbrella of Dykes and make a name for himself. But Dykes is known to give autonomy to his OC so he really doesn't have to move either. Riley turned down the A&M OC spot to stay at TCU. Anyhow, that's the line of thinking where you could see an unlikely move but it doesn't fit for Kittley.

 

[RU4Real]

Really, guys, this is silly - no disrespect to the OP. Gary has stated repeatedly what kind of offense he wants to run. Any OC he hires is going to be a grind-it-out guy, or will be made to act like one. It would be great to run a unique scheme in the B1G, but as long as the coach is the coach it's just never going to happen.

 

[retired711]

Really, guys, this is silly - no disrespect to the OP. Gary has stated repeatedly what kind of offense he wants to run. Any OC he hires is going to be a grind-it-out guy, or will be made to act like one. It would be great to run a unique scheme in the B1G, but as long as the coach is the coach it's just never going to happen.

I'm more optimistic than you are. I think the key for Schiano is how Gavin progresses. The more Gavin develops, the more willing Schiano will be to open up the offense.

 

[RU Cheese]

Really, guys, this is silly - no disrespect to the OP. Gary has stated repeatedly what kind of offense he wants to run. Any OC he hires is going to be a grind-it-out guy, or will be made to act like one. It would be great to run a unique scheme in the B1G, but as long as the coach is the coach it's just never going to happen.

Let alone a guy leaving Texas Tech for a lateral move to RU? Jesus

 

[Caliknight]

The HC doesn’t have a philosophy of offensive football. I can’t see him hiring an air raid type guy AND allowing him to run it.

 

[RU#1fan]

The HC doesn’t have a philosophy of offensive football. I can’t see him hiring an air raid type guy AND allowing him to run it.

This.
Unfortunately we eliminate many top OC candidates because of this.
Would love to us get Gino Guidugli from Cincinnati but don’t see it happening.

 

[RCBeta79]

Would be a great choice but why in the world would he take the job especially after watching what happened to Gleason? Why would you make a lateral career move to take over a train wreck? That not to mention he is a Texas native and a TT alum.

More money and Rutgers only lack an average QB to win 6-7 games right now.
He could bring in a QB with him and has shown he can coach young QBs.