Report | Mike Markuson Candidate to Fill Offensive Line Coach

Second, I think bringing in some very experienced coaches may be Tubs way of helping his young coordinaors, not replacing them. Or, as you said, moving a runner up just behind the leader on the mile run. Either way, as long as these guys communicate with each other and get oin the same page, it could be good for TTU. I know these guys were surrounded by talented players and we just do not have them on the OL as far as aI can tell. So let’s see if Markuson can coach up who we do have. I opredict a power running game as one component of the offense next year, and from what i see in the offenses around, that may be a good thing.

At this point, I don’t trust any decision that Tommy makes is a good one. All we can do is just sit back and watch. NB has now looked at three head coaching positions, he is clearly on his way out. Love NB, but I don’t blame him for wanting to move on. The ship is filling up with water fast.

and according to the movie, which is part fiction, his foster parents pointed him in that direction, eventhough Oher said it was his own choice. I would like to know who had the hand in recruiting him.

This guy might be the best ever, I don’t know him, I don’t have much faith in anything Tommy does at this point. I want to believe, but I need to see some results.

I don’t know how Tommy ever made a living at selling used cars, he has not shown any results or closed any deals.

One other thing, which appears to be somewhat of a change in philosophy for Tuberville.

When Tuberville was hired, he said he wanted coaches that could recruit and the staff that he hired, except for McElroy, were relatively inexperienced in terms of coaching years. Now, Tuberville has hired three position coaches that have coached in college a combined 64 years.

Markuson – 1990 to 2011, 21 years.
Lovett – 1984 to 2010, 26 years (was coaching in the UFL last year and didn’t count 2011).
Price – 1994 to 2011, 17 years.

It’s good this guy can multi-task in case Neal bolts or fails. I like the hire personally even though I was a Matt Moore supporter. Hopefully some of these new coaches can light a fire under these players and also create some competition within the coaching staff. Lord knows we need all the help we can get because anybody could have coached this team to 5 wins last season.

I’m all about laser focus on a single objective. I think leaders have to give their organization an identity and a strategic framework. Then they have to surround themselves with staff who are 100% bought into that framework and identity.

Right now, I’m seeing a divide on this coaching staff. The OC is a spread/pass guy. The HC keeps saying that he wants to run the ball, and he hires a line coach who is a former running game coordinator. The DC is a 4-2-5 guy, but the position coaches hired by the HC are not.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that this could become a problem down the line, as we’ve already seen schizophrenic playcalling in really key situations. At this point, it’s difficult for me to say just what Tuberville wants this team to be… and I don’t think that’s a problem that successful teams have.

One other, somewhat off-topic comment. Just in case anyone was worried that attrition applied just to Texas Tech, both OU and UT are dropping a few players each. I don’t have time to link to it, but just wanted to throw out there that attrition happens to every program.

Is that they’ve been a distinctly poorly coached team for a while now, that makes up the gap by relying on a pipeline of talented but academically disastrous players to come through on their way to the NFL. Orgeron and Nutt in particular are two guys who have made their reputations mostly through oversigning and other recruiting shenanigans, not through putting teams on the field that perform with any kind of consistency. I won’t claim to have been paying especially close attention to their offensive line’s performance, but I think we can all agree that when an o-line is playing well it tends to make the rest of the offense look even better, and conversely when they are playing poorly it makes everyone else look that much worse. Having watched Ole Miss a few times this year, I can definitely say that they had some major issues, and it affected the offense’s aggregate performance. Sure, you can contrast that with a year like 2008 when Ole Miss was an extremely good team, but they also had a 1st round left tackle working, but I prefer, when we’re discussing coaches, to talk about how their players do in years when they’re not guys who have pro football futures. In this sense, and with the caveat that I’m fully aware that this probably has more to do with a full-scale shift in offensive philosophy than one season’s performance, I’d say Markuson is a dramatic downgrade from Moore.

It’s just my opinion, but from the wild swings in quality I’ve seen at Ole Miss from season to season and indeed from game to game, I doubt that whatever their coaching staff has to offer is not what a team that beat OU and then lost 5 games in a row needs.

with the Harsin-White offense and 2 co-coordinators. I don’t think this would be a bad thing.