Review of Sparty OC Jay Johnson's 2019 Colorado Offense
New Sparty offensive coordinator Jay Johnson's year held the same spot for Mel Tucker in 2019. Here's a good breakdown of Johnson's offense and potential preview of what we will likely see this fall:
Go Space Coyote!
Three years from now, Mel Tucker and his Spartan band of go-getters are gonna win a natty.
That one made me LOL (laugh out loud for the Sparty trolls)
Are they reclassifying as a JUCO?
I doubt that Norfolk State would consider hiring him after a couple of 5 win seasons.....or ever.
Thank you for the sports content.
Conclusion:
Such an underrated show. Family Guy is essentially a copy-paste of that show with its brief asides.
Don't know about the copy pasta, but The Critic was, indeed, a great and underrated show.
This makes me feel pretty confident in our continued dominance of the rivalry. Great find!
Darrin Chiaverini was the reason Colorado had anything close to a competent offense last year, this is what my friend from Colorado told me.
Interesting. Had to look him up.
Will admit that my first thought was that your autocorrect had a weird time with “Laviska Shenault”
As in competent scheme.
They seem to run a lot of crossing routes with picks. Things that have given us issues in the past.
I wonder if the WR talent between OSU and MSU might be a bit....different
Indiana has shown us in recent years that lower talent (compared to OSU) can still give us fits... MSU may just be a closer indicator to whether or not our defense is learning and will do better vs. OSU.
The last 2 years Windiana was working with wunderkind S&C super-genius Matt Rhea. Who made the Hoosier players a lot faster. Who I loudly advocated hiring.
This sounds like it will be maybe a vaguely more competent offense than Mork's but still somewhat uninspiring and fairly easy to prepare for. Without them pulling a recruiting coup and hauling in some amazing talent, it doesn't seem like an offense set up to dictate to the defense and win games you otherwise wouldn't.
Remains to be seen as well if they continue the Sparty tradition of spending all year prepping their special plays for this game. Something tells me that might be somewhat less of a focus as Tucker tries to right the ship and win some other games.
Then again, if Dantonio left behind the keys to the weather machine and his Michigan Hatred Manifesto laying around...
Checklist for post-Dantonio MSU that would make me a little more uneasy:
- a hotshot young OC bringing in a modern offense
- an athletic playmaker at QB
- a highly respected OL coach
- top 20ish recruiting classes
I'm thinking they're 0/4 at the moment. That could certainly change, but for now it's looking like we should have the upper hand for the next 3-4 years. The great equalizer (as it's been for years now) will be if Michigan can't find a QB in a given year, but barring a John O'Korn type starter things are looking pretty Blue in this rivalry.
Obviously it's year 1/2 because Dantonio left them pissing into the wind, but Tucker's best attribute (according to UGA and Colorado fans) is his recruiting chops and that's not currently in an uptick.
Their current class is no better than what Dantonio had been pulling in the last 3 years. It might go up in future years when Tucker has had some time to recruit for MSU and when there isn't a pandemic freezing in person visits, but they're going to stink this year which could hurt recruiting.
They are back to old Sparty levels. They have one shot to do anything, and that's beating Michigan. Otherwise it's 4-5 wins and a rebuilding story, a la "We need you to turn this around, 4* recruit."
And it'll continue like that until Tucker beats Michigan. If recruiting is his best attribute, he still can't do that without a story. Most players don't have any idea who he is, and the MSU brand is busted. A loss in EL and a 4-5 win season leads to another subpar recruiting class, and the cycle continues. If he doesn't beat Michigan in his first 3 years - and I don't see that happening with their roster - it's not going to work out. And then 4 years down the line they'll fire him, now with a fully diluted brand, and look for a coach who wants to have Michigan in-state and OSU and PSU in the same division, with a difficult task in even fighting with stable and respectable Indiana for 4th place. The Dantonio implosion, including the team's performance, timing of his retirement (and associate bonus which sure seems like it drove the timing), and Blackwell lawsuit (which may actually not have much to it, apparently), was astonishing. They had so much luck for so many years, and it all came back in seemingly equal portion. Right back to old Sparty.
Don’t try to tell a sparty that. Every commit they get on Reddit I see like “wow, look how big this guy is, he’s gonna be a future NFL pick!” Ignoring the #1500 ranking... If an OL is 6’7”, 300lbs and not highly ranked, he’s probably incredibly unathletic.