I have to admit, Kyle Whittingham's new approach to coaching is innovative — "coaching by committee." The offense now has a separate coach for centers and guards, tackles and tight ends, wide receivers, quarterbacks and running backs.
Will they all vote on which play to run? It appears that Whittingham got a lot of mileage out of Norm Chow's old salary and has been able to hire specialists for virtually every position (including defense). Congratulations to Brian Johnson on becoming "chairman of the offense committee".
One can certainly not question Kyle's allegiance to his internal staff. I can see the benefit in practice of having specialists; it will be interesting to see how it works on game day.
Frank C. Overfelt
Cottonwood Heights
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Sounds like Frank applied to be the OC but was turned down.
Frank:
This is pretty common in college staffs. College staffs are huge. I have a friend on the staff and his job is "quality control." I asked him what his duties were and they ranged from breaking down film, charting plays both More..
Wouldn't the direction given by each specialist be within the context of a given play? Unless each specialist has the ability to call their own play I'm not sure I see the issue. BTW professional footbal teams have had this system for a long time.