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Great Article on Bob Stitt and his Offense

Oline Coach said:
2-8
7-4
7-4
6-5
12-1 * 1-1 playoffs
6-5
4-7
7-5
8-4
8-3
9-3 *0-1 playoffs
8-3
6-5
8-3
10-2 *0-1 playoffs

This is the reality of this coach....playoffs every 5 or 6 years with early exits. If mediocrity is your thing, this is the coach to hire.....we dilly dallied around when Leipold (107-6) was interested and this will be a huge price to pay.
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my reply to that would be: don read.
 
Grizz Man said:
jcu27 said:
I wouldnt have him as HC. How about BH as HC and Stitt as OC? Id be happy.
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I'd love that as well, but I think Stitt has said that he wants complete control of the offense, and that might not sit well with Hauck. Especially if that includes big decisions like going for it on 4th down...
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I think a lot of people on this board are under selling how respected Stitt is in college football. He is not ever going to be the OC of the Griz unless he is the Head Coach and OC. Stitt has been offered OC jobs at major FBS schools the last couple of years, but the complete control of the offense requirement has made it not a perfect fit in his mind.

If Stitt was hired as our head coach, people who follow college football closely would laud it as a tremendous hire. It would be an up and comer, and fresh thinker, and a well respected offensive mind throughout college football taking over our program.

I know many people are getting caught up on his record and limited playoff wins...first off, he is well over .500, and second, before he got to that school they were awful. What he has done given what he took over and what he has to recruit to or really choose from in recruits who qualify is impressive. Delusional Griz fans may live in a world where resumes have to be nearly unreal (unless they have previous ties to the program...) but if you gave the list of finalists that we throw around on this board to 10 unbiased knowledgeable college football types, they would all say Stitt is the best hire. Hauck may be close behind because of he record here, but honestly, who else is considering ANY of the other names we have thrown around for head coaching jobs? No one.

Pease is not on any other programs radar to be a head coach.
Hauck is not on any one else's radar to be a head coach.
Ty is not on anyone else's radar to be a head coach.

If we hire Stitt and Griz fans complain, I think they will eat their words relatively soon.
 
Oline Coach said:
2-8
7-4
7-4
6-5
12-1 * 1-1 playoffs
6-5
4-7
7-5
8-4
8-3
9-3 *0-1 playoffs
8-3
6-5
8-3
10-2 *0-1 playoffs

This is the reality of this coach....playoffs every 5 or 6 years with early exits. If mediocrity is your thing, this is the coach to hire.....we dilly dallied around when Leipold (107-6) was interested and this will be a huge price to pay.
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You need to expand your thinking and look realistically at Colorado School of Mines. This is a top end academic school, not UM where you can go recruit iffy academic guys, he has 109 engineers on his football team. Average ACT score is 29, which is probably more than Alabama combined on their whole team. You're very focused on win/loss which indicates you've done ZERO homework on him. National college football writers find him so fascinating and successful they go to Golden, CO to write articles on him. Dana Holgorson credits his 2012 Orange Bowl win to Stitt. If we want a guy with high wins/losses go get whomever coaches Grand Valley State, or Joe Moglia, or Bo Pelini.. but it's more than W/L that determines a head coach's success.
 
Sounds like a good get if we land him. I like his philosophy with the offense. QB will need to be sharp and elusive ... but isn’t that where its all headed anyway?
 
Here is some great videos and info on Stitt. Pick out what you want.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bob+stitt+offense" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
Any coach, like Stitt, who respects academics, puts things in their proper perspective, has a workable program going, and knows how to coach college kids, is ok in my book. I'm still in shock that Florida State and/or North Carolina are being rewarded because they have winning teams. That is not what college athletics should be about. This guy looks golden!
 
Oline Coach said:
This guy is such an offensive genius that his teams have won ONE playoff game in 15 years....not the guy to hire.
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hmm, that ties UM record of the past 3 years.
 
GrizLA said:
Oline Coach said:
This guy is such an offensive genius that his teams have won ONE playoff game in 15 years....not the guy to hire.
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hmm, that ties UM record of the past 3 years.
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Yep, this gets at the heart of it. There's a good reason that Stitt hasn't won more playoff games - the dearth of physical talent at CO Mines, a highly academic college with only engineering majors. But if he can be an innovator for the offense, and we maintain a solid D, he could put us over the hump. I can't guarantee it - but I don't see a better candidate.
 
The more and more I read about this man...the more I like him as the next HC...his offense seams very different, elaborate, yet easy for the players to learn...super QB friendly, I'd love to see players at this level run it!
 
I'd go with this guy as the OC, His article even stated that he wanted to move up in the position if given control of the play calling.

Get a HC that can do well in managing the bigger picture (PR, personnel etc)

Give Gregorak another year or two to finish figuring out how to be a DC, as he appears to need to learn how to make in game adjustments a bit faster.
 
another good article;
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2012/10/29/bob-stitt-fly-sweep-colorado-school-of-mines-college-football-offense/1659819/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
GOLDEN, Colo. – The best offensive mind you've never heard of was home Jan. 4, watching football way past his 7-year old son's bedtime. The Orange Bowl kept going later and later, the outcome long since decided, but Bob Stitt didn't want his family to miss a single snap. West Virginia just kept scoring and scoring, but even from 2,000 miles away in suburban Denver, Stitt couldn't help but feel a connection to one of the most important games of the season.

The Mountaineers eventually put up 70 points that night, running one play over and over that Clemson just couldn't stop. Stitt recognized the play immediately. He had invented it.

Back in 2008, Stitt made an impromptu stop at one of Houston's practices during a fundraising trip to see Dana Holgorsen, whom he had met at a coaches' clinic a few years earlier. By the time practice was over that day, he had helped Holgorsen, then Houston's offensive coordinator, install his version of the "fly sweep," a classic misdirection play that had been a staple of Stitt's NCAA Division II program at Colorado School of Mines.

Now, a few years later, the sense of pride watching Holgorsen shred Clemson with it was undeniable. Stitt's wife, Joan, just rolled her eyes. She had been used to her husband calling her into the living room whenever a big-time college coach borrowed one of his wrinkles, and it became the running joke of the household. "There's my play!" he'd say. "So when are you going to get paid like those guys?" she'd respond.

But when the Orange Bowl ended and Stitt got up to put his son to bed, he almost did a double-take. As ESPN's Lisa Salters was finishing her postgame interview with Holgorsen, she asked about the play that "looked like a volleyball toss" and nobody could quite figure out.

A big smile crept across Holgorsen's face. "My good friend Bob Stitt at Colorado School of Mines gave me that," Holgorsen said.

Stitt had to run it back on DVR. He couldn't believe it.

"It's fun for me because I kind of get to live a little bit through those guys," Stitt said. "And when you're coaching at a smaller level people say, 'Well, that might work here, but it won't work in the big-time. And then you see it and you can say, 'Yeah, it does.' "

The next innovator

Alabama's traditional, straightforward approach may be the gold-standard formula for winning national championships, but there is undoubtedly a philosophical shift taking place in college football. More and more coaches are ascending the ranks from nontraditional backgrounds, bringing unique ideas and changing the fabric of the sport.

Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris, the nation's highest-paid assistant, was a high school coach in Texas as recently as three years ago. It took more than a decade of setting high school records in Arkansas before Gus Malzahn got a shot on the college level, where his wide-open offense almost instantly became the toast of the SEC. Chip Kelly spent 13 years toiling in anonymity at New Hampshire, honing an up-tempo system that has produced a 42-6 career record at Oregon. Hugh Freeze, a longtime high school coach in Memphis, blazed a trail of touchdowns from Lambuth, an NAIA school, to Arkansas State to a head coaching job at Ole Miss all in the span of four years.

As long as wide-open, spread offenses continue to score points and sell tickets, college football will remain a place where undiscovered talent can turn into overnight stardom. And if you set out to discover who that next innovator might be, you'll invariably be led to a tiny engineering school nestled in the Rocky Mountain foothills where Stitt, 48, has built a consistent winner and done things offensively that programs like West Virginia, Texas A&M, Louisiana Tech and Cincinnati have borrowed.

"It's hard to flip through the channels on a Saturday and not see his influence some place," said Hal Mumme, who came from a small college background and shocked the SEC with his Kentucky "Air Raid" offense in the late 1990s. "He's a really bright guy, and people are becoming aware of what he's doing. I promise you, he's going to get a big job somewhere. He's going to get his chance if he wants it."

Stitt says he'd be willing to move up as an offensive coordinator, but only if the head coach would give him total offensive control. It's not difficult to see why he's so well-regarded in coaching circles, especially by those who run wide-open offenses. At 6-3, Stitt is closing in on his 11th winning season in 13 years. In all but a few of those years, the Orediggers, who play in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, have ranked among the top-10 in Div. II in passing offense. This season, his sophomore quarterback Matt Brown is the nation's leading passer, throwing for 3,424 yards and averaging 34.5 completions per game.

And all of this is happening at a school of 5,200 of engineering majors where the average ACT score is 29. His recruiting strategy is largely built around the school's petroleum engineering program, which plays well in Texas high schools. It's happening at a school with such poor facilities and so little track record of success that every one of his friends in the business told him it would be career suicide to take the job.
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Oline Coach said:
2-8
7-4
7-4
6-5
12-1 * 1-1 playoffs
6-5
4-7
7-5
8-4
8-3
9-3 *0-1 playoffs
8-3
6-5
8-3
10-2 *0-1 playoffs

This is the reality of this coach....playoffs every 5 or 6 years with early exits. If mediocrity is your thing, this is the coach to hire.....we dilly dallied around when Leipold (107-6) was interested and this will be a huge price to pay.
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You want to talk the reality of this coach? Ok let's do that. How about the fact that the only degree at his school is engineer. Hence every single one of his 134 players are engineers. Try building a powerhouse, in the RMAC, with a bunch of Math and Science guys! :shock:

And yet he has the #2 passing offense, and #3 overall offense in all of D2. And #1 4th down offense as well. :clap: The guy can coach!
 
So what is the fascination about this guy? He's been at a mid level DII school forever, only made the playoffs 3x in 15 years, and hasn't won anything. Is it simply because he runs a variation of the spread offense that is driving egrizzers to this guy?

if Stitt mirrors his Colorado record at UM, you all would want his head on a stick. But at least he runs the spread? Maybe he is your new OC, but again, if he was such a genius, why is he still at Colorado and who hires the OC before the HC.

No smack intended here, just curious as to the fascination with this guy.
 
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