folks, Chad Morris did not hire Jeff Scott as his OC

Dec 2, 2014, 12:02 PM

This does seem a bit simple, to me.

I've got some issues with Morris's basic concept on offense, as I've said. Unless you've got an absolute hoss like Tim Tebow or Tajh Boyd I don't like having your QB do double duty as your leading tailback AND your passer because it exposes him to too many potentially season-ending kill shots - see Deshaun Watson at Clemson and both Braxton Miller and now JT Barrett at Ohio State if you want more examples - and I think Morris was iffy as a developer of pure passers. Boyd had a beautiful longball and could run like a tailback but took major black marks from NFL scouts in his ability to go through a progression and his throwing mechanics and accuracy, and we all saw how Stoudt struggled with his fundamentals this year. That said, for what he did, he did very well, and Morris's offense posted even better numbers than Rich Rodriguez's did at Clemson. Morris is a very good offensive mind and there's a reason he's been on the short list of a lot of schools almost every year since he got here.

He did not hire Jeff Scott as his OC at SMU, though he could have.

If Jeff Scott is considered unready for the OC position at SMU, I would be supremely leery of hiring him as OC here at Clemson.

Clemson is a primo gig. Whoever walks into the post, walks into a job willing to pay as much as $1.3 million dollars a year, and will inherit an offense that has accumulated some of the best talent in the country. This coordinator will inherit Deshaun Watson, two highly-touted incoming freshman QB's in Tucker Israel and Kelly Bryant, rising sophomore RB's like Wayne Gallman and Tyshon Dye, and WR's like Mike Williams and Artavis Scott (who both look like future first or at worst second-round NFL draft picks to me), along with incoming instant-impact freshmen like Deon Cain, Ray Ray McCloud, and the #1-rated left tackle in the nation, Mitch Hyatt.

A coordinator can absolutely make his career, walking into that situation. You could actually make a case this is potentially the sweetest OC gig available anywhere in college football right now. Name one place that offers more money than that, or where a coach would inherit better talent. One. I don't see it.

And we're talking about promoting an unproven guy and rolling the dice when we could get virtually any OC in the country to jump into this gig? Are we kidding? Why on Earth would we take the risk?

We have the #1 OC job in the country open here at Clemson, folks. Why aim for anything but the absolute best?

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> made a differnce....If you don't think TB looked
> considerably better under CM than under BN, you just
> weren't paying attention

I certainly was paying attention. Boyd was a great college QB, and Morris put him in a situation where he was allowed to do what he did well. He spread the field out, put some of the most explosive targets in college football history out on the perimeter - Watkins in particular was a once-in-20-years-type-talent, and let Boyd fling away deep. If that was covered, Boyd pulled the ball down and rumbled with his own two feet.

Boyd had one of the better deep balls in college football, and he could run like a tailback. And as I said, he was an absolute hoss who could take the pounding.

Like Tim Tebow, he broke records. He broke scoreboards.

And exactly like Tim Tebow, what he didn't do well was check down to his second, third, or fourth options; he stared down his primary way too much, he didn't throw overly well across the middle, and he did occasionally struggle with his accuracy. Our offense either torched you in three plays, or it went three-and-out. And it did go three-and-out a lot. And occasionally our offense did hit a brick wall when the opposition had enough athletes to both erase the deep ball and keep Boyd from just pulling it down and taking off - see South Carolina all three years Boyd started, see FSU in 2012 and 2013. Not knocking Boyd - he was fabulous on the college level - but if he'd just been better with his progression and accuracy and able to check down and keep the chains moving more consistently, I wonder if Clemson might have won a national title one of those years. And Boyd ended up barely getting a cup of coffee in the NFL before he was out of the league.

folks, Chad Morris did not hire Jeff Scott as his OC

Maybe he didn't take the SMU job because he knew he

Re: Maybe he didn't take the SMU job because he knew he

Re: Maybe he didn't take the SMU job because he knew he

or....

or quozzel just isn't getting it these days. Do you think

That's funny, Chad didn't hire him because Jeff knows

That's a bold statement from MRTTMT***

with feeling!***

I'm blind and don't have my glasses this morning LOL***

He could have had Stoudt a decade and it wouldn't have

Re: He could have had Stoudt a decade and it wouldn't have

Re: folks, Chad Morris did not hire Jeff Scott as his OC

we do have a couple***

NO way Dabo let's his best recruiter and the guy who has

LOL Believe me, Chad would have taken Jeff, if possible***

Oh I know, what i'm saying is no way Dabo was going to let

Or maybe Morris doesn't "really" need an OC because

Re: folks, Chad Morris did not hire Jeff Scott as his OC

Scott's entire family is here. Why uproot and go to SMU?

Where did you get the idea Scott was considered unready for

paying our OC less means the DC can get a raise

So you know JS wanted that job and was turned down?

It begs the question, who is the best OC in the country

Maybe Just Maybe JS told CM***

Quozzel, always enjoy your input...

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