I thought I'd stop and count to ten before posting anything about the departure of Coach Stitt.
I will begin by saying that I was a supporter of Coach Stitt, just as I supported Coach Delaney, Coach Plugard, Coach Hauck, and all the Griz Coaches back to Coach Read from who I was lucky enough to take a couple classes from way back in the day. In other words I'm a maroon coloured glasses guy and I make no apologies for that. I believe I can still have perspective on positives and negatives, just like I love my kids but can see when they need a butt kicking.
That being said these are a few of my take aways from Coach Stitt's time at the helm.
1. He had to work 4 scholies down for his whole time here, this is an obvious handicap, magnified by the way FCS scholarships can be divided up; this is more like being 6 or 8 players down in terms of partial offers. This will be reflected in a lack of depth.
2. They played the meaningful part of this season with a RS Freshman QB and when he couldn't go a TE at the helm. As good as the offense was I can't help but wonder what would have happened down the road.
3. He inherited a pretty bare cupboard in terms of the lines. He made some smart moves bringing in Davidson, Favoroso and Shaw. And he cobbled together an offensive line with two converted TE's and a centre moved to guard. Obviously lots of the credit for the success of that needs to go to Coach Germer but it still happened on his watch.
4. He appears to have been a very good recruiter, the quality of recruit and the depth of the underclassmen speaks to that. The e-grizzers who complain that we need more at this position or that position are the same ones who, if we got a bunch of those recruits, would be on here saying we need more of this or that other position. We have also tapped into some areas that we haven't gotten players from in the past.
5. He appears to have been too loyal to some of his non-preforming coaches, which is surprising considering he seems to have been pretty mercenary with players that didn't pull their weight. There is no question that Coach Semore's high risk system was too easy to counter and was assignment unsound on third and long situations.
6. He didn't seem to have a grasp of the importance of special teams and rather than developing a philosophy seemed to swap personnel at random. He tried any number of returners and only JLM's individual brilliance ever seemed to have any effect.
Don't know if letting him go was the right call or not, not mine to make. I will support the crap out of the next guy and the guy after that too. GO GRIZ!
I will begin by saying that I was a supporter of Coach Stitt, just as I supported Coach Delaney, Coach Plugard, Coach Hauck, and all the Griz Coaches back to Coach Read from who I was lucky enough to take a couple classes from way back in the day. In other words I'm a maroon coloured glasses guy and I make no apologies for that. I believe I can still have perspective on positives and negatives, just like I love my kids but can see when they need a butt kicking.
That being said these are a few of my take aways from Coach Stitt's time at the helm.
1. He had to work 4 scholies down for his whole time here, this is an obvious handicap, magnified by the way FCS scholarships can be divided up; this is more like being 6 or 8 players down in terms of partial offers. This will be reflected in a lack of depth.
2. They played the meaningful part of this season with a RS Freshman QB and when he couldn't go a TE at the helm. As good as the offense was I can't help but wonder what would have happened down the road.
3. He inherited a pretty bare cupboard in terms of the lines. He made some smart moves bringing in Davidson, Favoroso and Shaw. And he cobbled together an offensive line with two converted TE's and a centre moved to guard. Obviously lots of the credit for the success of that needs to go to Coach Germer but it still happened on his watch.
4. He appears to have been a very good recruiter, the quality of recruit and the depth of the underclassmen speaks to that. The e-grizzers who complain that we need more at this position or that position are the same ones who, if we got a bunch of those recruits, would be on here saying we need more of this or that other position. We have also tapped into some areas that we haven't gotten players from in the past.
5. He appears to have been too loyal to some of his non-preforming coaches, which is surprising considering he seems to have been pretty mercenary with players that didn't pull their weight. There is no question that Coach Semore's high risk system was too easy to counter and was assignment unsound on third and long situations.
6. He didn't seem to have a grasp of the importance of special teams and rather than developing a philosophy seemed to swap personnel at random. He tried any number of returners and only JLM's individual brilliance ever seemed to have any effect.
Don't know if letting him go was the right call or not, not mine to make. I will support the crap out of the next guy and the guy after that too. GO GRIZ!
