Coaching Changes

Some old and new changes that could and will change the face of football here in Utah have happened. Let's start with some of the old. Miami and Florida both went looking for new head coaches and found them in an up and coming, Urban Meyer-esk Al Golden and Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp. Golden comes from turning Temple from winning 22% of their games in 30 years to 9-4 in 2009 and 8-5 in 2010. Can they become Golden's Hurricanes? Will 9-4 be good enough? In Florida they are going for a mindset change, kind of. Urban Meyer is known for his offense and scoring, but if you go back to 2004 in Utah, his most successful teams have all won from the defense setting up the offense. However, Texas is known for their defense and that all came form Will Muschamp. He will bring the hard hitting attitude that some of these speed demons on the Gator defense need. How does this affect football in Utah? It doesn't. It could have, but it doesn't. The original rumor was Dan Mullen to Florida, but who would have went to Miss St? You know the top 2 names would have been Kyle Wittingham and Gary Patterson. But that's all water under the bridge now. It didn't happen and we have another year to breath.

The things that will change the face of football here in Utah is what BYU just announced. Well, not announced, but leaked. Robert Anai is out as OC and the entire offensive staff has been let go and are free to reapply for whatever position they choose. I have a friend who has a friend who knows somebody (c'mon, it's about BYU so he probably heard it from his wife in Relief Society, those girls know everything that's going on everywhere) that told him that Brandon Doman is going to be the new OC and Ty Detmer would be the new QB coach. Can you imagine Detmer coaching Jake Heaps?! Talk about 3 years of brilliance. There is one catch though, Doman as the OC over Detmer? I'm sorry, as a BYU observer and not a fan, I really hope it's the other way around. I have been reading posts about some BYU fan's saying they wouldn't be comfortable with Detmer being an OC. What's his coaching back round? REALLY?! His last 8 years in the NFL as a player was really just coaching. It was either Andy Reid or Mike Holmgren that said he was invaluable on their staff as a QB coach when he was a player. He is a high school head coach right now. What experience does Brandon Doman have? He has been BYU's QB coach for 5 years and was a drug rep before that. For experience, I'd go with Detmer. Plus, can you imagine a younger, more spread out version of the Chow offense run by those young freaks at BYU? Man, that would be scary for an opposing DC.

With all that said, either way, I think they are better off. Both QB's played for, and said they like, a more traditional West Coast style offense. I would love to see Heaps hand off to Quezada on first down, play action pass down the field to Hoffman on 2nd down for a TD. I love it. Man, I wish Utah would get with the program and maybe bring in Mike McCoy? I wonder what he's doing now? He was a QB coach for the Panther's for a few years in the same way Detmer was for Atlanta. In fact, when Atlanta went to the Super Bowl and beat the Panthers in the NFC Championship game, they were both listed as emergency QB's. Anyway, BYU will grow from this and get better, maybe on both sides of the ball.