More Answers, Part II
These answers are sponsored by Blowhard TV, which is also free.
Norm Chow is actively interested in the UCLA job and offers the built-in advantage of working at BYU and USC with defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker. Whether he gets it or not, we'll see.
Aaron Corp's impressed Pete Carroll but needs to become stronger to compete with Mitch Mustain or Mark Sanchez. If he was on equal footing from a strength and experience standpoint, he might be the best of the group. By the way, a regular visitor at recent games was Orange Lutheran sophomore quarterback Bobby Wheatley, who is the son of former USC basketball player Bob Wheatley, who played in the mid-1980's.
When we had Norm Chow as OC, he opened up the playbook and made a star out of Mike Williams. Every year, we're signing the best WRs in the country and making them block or run bubble screens on 3rd and 10. Makes no sense. I realize we don't have Carson and Leinart anymore, but you're telling me guys like the Texas Tech QB can sling it and our guys can't? Sark is terrible and predictable. He's the only OC I've ever seen that is expected to run on 3rd and long. If UCLA gets Chow or June Jones, watch out. I'm a diehard Trojan and all I want to see is for us to take advantage of what we have...or else we'll just be the Utah Jazz of college football.
The Utah Jazz of college football?! Since when did the Jazz win back-to-back championships? The rest of the post make sense....
The last place I want Chow is at FUCLA. If the bRuins had Walker and Chow, it would reinforce the old adage "if you can't beat them, hire their coaches."
Mike Williams made the bubble screen famous at USC. You don't remember BMW getting those screens and taking them for 6-10 yards at a time? The kid just dominated once he got over his case of the drops early on.
If you recall, people complained that Norm was too conservative for the first couple years and really opened up the playbook towards the end of Carson's Senior year and then again late in 2004. Norm Chow is one of the best OC's out there, but this mythical status that people have given him since he left is absolutely absurd. The reason for our success was a combination of a bunch of things, not just Norm's playcalling, which by the way was not always perfect.
Chow at UCLA doesn't bother me. He has been passed over many times for head coaching jobs. Stanford passed on him where he seemed a natural fit. He's not the most inspiring guy and is somewhat moody. And I don't think he did much in the area of recruiting. So there is more to being a head coach than being a brilliant OC.