Should Jimbo Fisher Call Plays as Head Coach??

i.e. overseeing the program as a whole, I have no problem with it.

I do hope that Coley (and I expect he will) is able to contribute a lot in the pre-season so help reduce the burden of both running the program and the O.

I also expect Coley will make suggestions about adjustments b/w O series (or perhaps even during the O series) based on what he sees from the booth.

Lastly, (and this has nothing to do with the O) I hope we have at least 1 D coach in the booth next year. Anyone know if Stoops coaches in the booth or from the sidelines for Arizona? I want to say on the sidelines, but am not 100% sure as I only saw them play maybe 2-3 games this year and it wasn’t something that I was looking for at the time.

As the HC do any of you think Jimbo will oversee what the defense is doing at practices or will he allow Stoops to do his own thing as long as he gets results? I do expect Jimbo to be more involved in practices than Bobby has been in recent years. I just don’t see Jimbo riding around in a golf cart all day.

Jimbo has in his defense and defensive coordinator. A lot of the teams on the list above were not successful (I.e., did not win tons of games) because their defense was so bad. Long and short, Jimbo was put in place as HC to win football games, not set offensive records. If he can win as OC, by all means do it. I would almost like to see a correlation between the nations top teams (AP Poll is what I would use to determine this) and the team specific responsibilities of the HC.

and that’s all he’ll have time for as to the defense.

On the other hand this is Jimbo’s first big gig. I am sure he wants nothing to go wrong. It does not mean this is the plan forever. Offensive coordinator can still be shifted over to Coley at a later date. Coley will be in the box recommending plays and checking off with Jimbo.

Fisher is looking to kick off his initial stint as head coach with a bang which is I am sure what we all want also.

Jimbo had a head coach at LSU, Lester who wanted to always be involved in the offense. That is one reason he left. I would really love for Lester to run the whole offense. That would surely be a spectacle. This guy has already called time outs when the ball is dead and spiked on on fourth down instead of kicking the winning field goal. He is paid four million a year to prove an idiot can win 8 games at LSU.

FSU is getting way more for their money with Fisher.

on that list whose HC called the plays for them… they had a porous defense. GA Tech, ND, Houston, Oregon, Arky…. I’d rather have the HC with an equal hand in all 3 phases of the game.

Also, there is a difference between delegating responsibility with accountability, as Jimbo will probably do, and delegating, being hands off, watching from a tower, give almost complete autonomy, discretion, and not holding your staff accountable.

Jimbo, as a new HC, will be a work in progress. He will loosen his grip as he gains confidence in Coley and whichever other coaches he brings in.

And just as Jimbo will be a work in progress, so is EJ. Under Jimbo’s guidance, EJ will show the same progression as Ponder did from year to year. I am not too concerned about EJ starting in 2011, and as he gets more PT this year (hopefully).

I would imagine it is somewhat like this now. Coley looks over the field at the alignment suggests something he thinks might work, Fisher agrees or disagrees and signals something in. After the offense is where he thinks it needs to be he could well give patsie games and mop up all to Coley to evaluate what he is doing.

…from a continuity perspective. With so many changes going on right now with the new staff members, Jimbo needs to hold off on handing the OC duties to Coley until 2011. If he didn’t it would be, in effect, changing both offensive and defensive coordinators in one offseason. He’s maintaining a sense of stability by doing things the way he is.

I think he calls his own plays.

I think it will be a joint effort coley telling jimbo what the D is doing and jimbo looking into is qb eyes and feeling the gamem but I think in his 1st year jimbo should call all the plays with suggestions from coley. Jimbo will know 1st if a TD is there cause coley will be screaming in the headset its there! Its there! Fear the spear! Keep it 3rd and manageable jimbo

Having turned a #22 defense in Arizona I would be surprised if he doesn’t come very close to replicating that at FSU. Now of course he is new on the job, but I honestly believe he is being handed a talent group much better than he was working with. I think Stoops believes that also as he was very interested in this job it appears.

Common sense tells us we won’t have the #106 defense in the nation next year. How fast he upgrades it will be very interesting.

The biggest thing I’m concerned about is defending the spread. UF runs a similar offense to Oregon and AU hasn’t defending Oregon all that well. Granted there is a talent gap between the two schools and I think Oregon is a very good team, especially offensively, but I’ll be interested to see what he does. I’m not saying Stoops can’t build a defense to stop that sort of thing but rather I’ll be interested to see what he does to try and stop it.

Note: I understand that UF will be more of a pro spread next year but they’ll still have many elements of their current offense like the zone read and what-not.