Ed Warinner is the OL coach; Spring Game confirmed for April 14
Ed Warinner's dormant twitter account has awaken.
Two things-
He tweeted out a graphic of our spring practice schedule. It says April 14 is the spring game, as originally posted on here awhile ago. It's now confirmed.
Also something way more important: per his twitter bio, he is the Offensive Line Coach.
February 24th, 2018 at 7:40 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 7:59 PM ^
You look at his career, and his offenses were literally only bad when he had Nuss. I'm really just thinking that guy is a fool. Florida fans will also tell you that McElwain scripted the first drive and then Nuss called the game after, and that the first drive was always the best of the game (it was against us).
February 24th, 2018 at 8:04 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 8:08 PM ^
Didn't say it was impressive, just reporting. McElwain is a good OC nonetheless.
February 24th, 2018 at 10:56 PM ^
February 25th, 2018 at 1:13 AM ^
Are you an insider? How can you definatively say that Harbaugh forced Drevno out? How can anyone, not privvy to their conversations?
February 24th, 2018 at 10:28 PM ^
McElwain is surely the best choice on the staff.
February 24th, 2018 at 7:45 PM ^
OC/WR
February 24th, 2018 at 8:04 PM ^
Can we truly expect to get JM's 100% effort here? I can see someone cooling their heels for some career rehab I just worry he's not fully engaged during this transition period.
February 24th, 2018 at 8:26 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 8:33 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 9:04 PM ^
February 25th, 2018 at 9:36 AM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 8:42 PM ^
I don't think he can come to A2 and F up and land a good job elsewhere; would not follow.
February 25th, 2018 at 1:15 AM ^
How can he achieve career rehab without being fully engaged? If he was looking for what you are suggesting wouldnt it be logical that he give his absolute best?
February 25th, 2018 at 10:47 AM ^
Skipped the logic class, eh?
February 25th, 2018 at 12:44 PM ^
Well, he could be spending most of his time selling his bbq sauce, so that would definitely affect his effort at coaching.
http://www.gainesville.com/sports/20170914/mcelwains-barbecue-sauce-to-debut-at-swamp
February 24th, 2018 at 7:39 PM ^
I know OSU fans hated him as their OC, but the ones I know LOVED him as their OL coach. He built an OL that ran over Bama and laid waste to Oregon en route to a national title. Will he do that next year? I don’t think so. It’ll take time to get there. But he’s the best man for the job. When he gets to focus just on the OL, he may be the best in the country at his job.
He’s the best chance of saving this OL and bring it back from the depths. To turn it into the killing machine it has the potential to become. I hope this hire becomes as good as the Brown hire, where Harbaugh hires the best man for the job and gets the hell out of his way.
Fix the OL and the rest of the offense takes care of itself.
February 26th, 2018 at 11:12 AM ^
and yearn for a kick ass O line again. But I think we need to pump the brakes on our first year expectations. Hopefully they are better enough to be a functional B1G line, but we won't have a corps of road graders/pass rush killers yet. He wasn't able to do that in Minnie in one year.
February 24th, 2018 at 7:47 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 8:00 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 8:12 PM ^
Your sense of humor seems awful today. Darrell Funk should be banned from this board. I mean, we've managed to ban reporters and sketchy websites, why can we not ban the architect of the worst OL's UM has ever seen from even getting a mention on here?
Ughh... He was just awful. Horrible.
Thanks for dredging up that memory...
February 24th, 2018 at 8:20 PM ^
February 26th, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
He kicked our ass. I wasn't entirely sure he was sane.
February 24th, 2018 at 8:04 PM ^
Does anyone know what blocking scheme Warinner coaches?
February 24th, 2018 at 8:05 PM ^
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February 24th, 2018 at 8:10 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 8:16 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 8:21 PM ^
That's what I thought too. It doesn't exactly fit the narrative people have been spreading on here about Harbaugh "learning his lesson" in regards to zone blocking. Personally, I like it. I think the problem was trying to coach both. In college, it's better to pick one and rep it to perfection. Here's to hoping we just had the wrong guy installing the zone blocking scheme.
February 25th, 2018 at 10:05 AM ^
Especially a 'new' vs. 'old' bias.
Scheme is scheme. On a meta level It's kind of an arms race between offense and defense to look at the scheme across the LOS and figure out its weaknesses to exploit. So you get a season where you have something like the zone read on O or the Cover 4 on D that looks AWESOME for some team. It might last a few seasons as other teams pick it up and tweak it. But eventually it gets downloaded and you are stymied till you adjust yourself.
I think honestly you see schemes get tweaked endlessly till they evolve into something new.
Since I've started watching football I can think of, in no particular order:
WCO, Zone Blitz, Cover 4, Zone Read, greatest show on turf, R&S, various flavors of spread.....
In my opinion....If you have the right guys and they execute it properly it will all work to some extent. If you had Bo's offense from '69 and ran it with the right guys today who executed it perfectly, it would work and people would be hailing the amazing power offense.
What has failed us often on the O line isn't scheme, it seems to me. Its individual execution. If the O linemen start picking up twists and stunts and block them effectively with good footwork, our season last year looks dramatically different....
February 25th, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
... it would be successful against lesser teams but struggle mightily against PAC-10 teams in the Rose Bowl who had equal physical talent but had the ability to run and pass with equal facility.
Because that's exactly what happened.
February 26th, 2018 at 9:49 AM ^
but I think that the weakness there, ironically was defences set up to defend against hard run teams facing PAC -XX teams that could do both.
Ball control with this defense is, IMHO a winning combination. Of course, so is the spread with this defense....
All assuming you have the guys to run it.
My base argument I guess boils down to the Jimmies and Joes one. As we saw with the read option, a great scheme with the wrong guys sucks. A 'non modern' scheme with great guys or guys who fit will be fine ('Bama early on, Wisconsin, etc.).
February 24th, 2018 at 9:19 PM ^
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February 25th, 2018 at 1:17 AM ^
Everyone is multiple these days. I dont get the obsession with blocking schemes.
February 25th, 2018 at 9:57 AM ^
said on a podcast that they would look for the best guy on the opposing D line and try to break him.
I want that scheme back.
February 25th, 2018 at 7:16 AM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 8:11 PM ^
I hope this collection of coaches gets us to steamroll our opponents with an attacking running game.
The Spring Game will be awesome this year -
February 24th, 2018 at 8:18 PM ^
Great! Now our new OL coach can hustle over to Rice and make nice with Calvin Anderson, right?
February 24th, 2018 at 8:21 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 8:55 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 10:10 PM ^
February 25th, 2018 at 1:19 AM ^
Especially when the situation is as fluid as it has been.
February 25th, 2018 at 2:46 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 9:09 PM ^
I want the full story on Drevno. Do we even have a glimmer about why he was not successful?
February 25th, 2018 at 1:25 AM ^
He's a Brady Hoke. He's a Mike DeBord.
If he would have just stayed a Line coach, he would have probably been OK.
Some guys are just not cut out to be Coordinators or Head Coaches, despite their career ambitions.
February 25th, 2018 at 2:51 AM ^
February 25th, 2018 at 9:34 AM ^