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Message: [QUOTE="VAHuskyFan, post: 5070515, member: 1585"] I think a good OC gives you the biggest bang for your buck in college football. We saw with Lashlee how a competent and innovative OC can take an offense from listless to dynamic in a single season. And how quickly that same offense will regress once the play-calling reverts back to being stale and predictable. But it’s like UConn learned nothing at all from that experience. If there’s been one relative constant in UConn’s decade-plus of futility, it’s been our string of below-replacement-level OCs (Lashlee excluded). We just insist on this 1980s run-first, short-pass offense that requires guys to execute 20 plays in a row to generate a score. Sure, each individual play is “low risk,” but the point is to actually score - a distinction that every other college program seems to have grasped, but that continuously eludes our OCs. Not going to get on our OC too much because it’s his first time doing a job he has absolutely no experience with. But it’s an institutional failure to put a guy like that in charge of playcalling. How does that even happen? Who thought that was a better idea than hiring someone who’s actually done the job successfully before? [/QUOTE]