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Okam is headed to the Panthers and Herman should have known that from the second Rhule got hired 12 days ago. You can't fault Herman for Okam picking Carolina over us. You should fucking roast him for being dumb enough to not know there was no way he was coming.


What do you expect him to do? He’s interviewing him and others. Stupid post.
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52 minutes ago, Farkimedes said:

Okam is headed to the Panthers and Herman should have known that from the second Rhule got hired 12 days ago. You can't fault Herman for Okam picking Carolina over us. You should fucking roast him for being dumb enough to not know there was no way he was coming.

I mean I'm as annoyed as anyone about the DL coach situation but do you really think this was all totally settled for Rhule 12 days ago?

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Okam is headed to the Panthers and Herman should have known that from the second Rhule got hired 12 days ago. You can't fault Herman for Okam picking Carolina over us. You should fucking roast him for being dumb enough to not know there was no way he was coming.

Dipshit post. You should feel bad. 

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15 hours ago, Farkimedes said:

Okam is headed to the Panthers and Herman should have known that from the second Rhule got hired 12 days ago. 

Herman should have know Rhule's complete staff well before Rhule knew his complete staff. 

It is good to see that you are reasonable about things. 

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SIAP ... Good article about Yurcich and his offense. Sorry in advance for the sunshine pumping:


 

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By Kaelen Jones Jan 16, 2020

AUSTIN, Texas — Mike Yurcich’s door to coaching FBS football opened while driving across the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Yurcich, then offensive coordinator at Division II Shippensburg, was out on the recruiting trail alongside head coach Mark Maciejewski. A few days before, the Shippensburg offices received a call from Oklahoma State asking for film of the Raiders offense.

“It didn’t even dawn on us what it was about,” Maciejewski said.

Maciejewski agreed, so long as the Cowboys sent film of their offense in exchange. Later, OSU coach Mike Gundy, without revealing his identity, called looking for Yurcich and left a number with a Shippensburg assistant. So, as Maciejewski and Yurcich crossed the turnpike, Yurcich dialed the number, connecting with Gundy for the first time.

“And that’s how it started,” Maciejewski recalled.

Fast forward seven years and Texas has turned to Yurcich, hiring him in December as its offensive coordinator to take over play-calling duties from head coach Tom Herman. The 44-year-old from Euclid, Ohio, has not yet been made available for interviews as he enters his third Division I post. He spent last season with Ohio State after coaching for six seasons at Oklahoma State. Those who have worked with him and played for him suggest it’s not surprising he’s found success.


After entering coaching at Division II Saint Francis (Ind.), Yurcich worked as a graduate assistant at Indiana before jumping back to the Division II ranks. He moved on to Edinboro (Pa.), where he became the offensive coordinator during his tenure, which stretched from 2005 to 2010.

It was there that Maciejewski encountered him. Yurcich’s spread offenses had given Maciejewski, then the defensive coordinator, fits. “Whenever we played them, they were tough to defend,” Maciejewski said. “That’s for sure.”

Upon being named head coach in 2011, Maciejewski felt Shippensburg needed to transition from its wing-T offense to an up-tempo spread.

So Maciejewski plucked Yurcich away.

“We wanted to change up the offense and open it up,” Maciejewski explained. “What he did as a scheme was exactly what I was looking for.”

Quarterback Zach Zulli had wanted to transfer. He had been promised playing time during his recruitment but had seen little during his first two seasons at Shippensburg. But then he heard of the plan to switch to the spread under Yurcich.

Zulli remembers his second offensive meeting with Yurcich during spring practices. The coach stood up in the middle of the meeting room and physically demonstrated the proper steps he wanted linemen to execute.

“Everyone’s like, ‘What the hell?’” said Zulli, now 28. “His footwork was so good. I was like, ‘This guy’s the guy!’”

Admittedly, the change was a bit difficult for Zulli. The terminology in Yurcich’s spread was different from what he was accustomed to. Everything felt faster paced. He estimates that he met with Yurcich two or three times per day throughout the spring, getting 12 to 15 practice sessions together, too.

“I had it down before the third week,” Zulli said. “It was all about the reads, all about what he wanted me to see on the defense.”

Maciejewski described Yurcich’s spread offense as multiple. It’s predicated on tempo, and Zulli said game plans were typically structured based on what opposing defenses were running. Against teams with smaller fronts, they’d emphasize rushing the football. Against heavier fronts, they’d air it out.

“It really depended on who we were playing and what kind of players were on that defense,” Zulli said. “We were trying to pick on someone every week. He would literally find one thing wrong with their defense that would give it away, and he would study that.”

According to Zulli, who currently coaches quarterbacks at Archbishop Carroll High in Pennsylvania, Yurcich is “very funny” and has a coaching style that is “a little bit crazy.” That apparently stems from his meticulousness. During practices, Zulli remembers having to run plays over and over again until they got everything right.

He still remembers Yurcich barking, “Reach, gather, hitch, throw — now!” and “On time!”

“He’s very fierce on the football field,” Zulli said. “Very intense. Everything had to be perfect.”

Still, Yurcich, a three-year starting quarterback at California University of Pennsylvania in the late ’90s, wasn’t shy about being loose around his players.

“We’d be watching film,” Zulli recalled, “and he’d be like, ‘Goddamn, Zach. That was a hell of a throw. I’ll tell you one thing: I never did that shit.’ He’d always kind of make fun of himself because of how bad he was as a player, and I’d always chuckle when he did that.”

The Raiders offense was prolific in Yurcich’s first season, averaging 465.8 yards (ninth nationally) and 37.4 points per game (14th). Shippensburg set single-season school records in points (411), total touchdowns (55), total plays (898), first downs (281) and total yards (5,124).

Zulli, then a redshirt sophomore, was at the heart of the production, setting single-season school records for completions (226) and passing touchdowns (34).

“The way that he explained things,” Zulli said, “it was just so much easier.”

The Raiders offense was even better in Yurcich’s second season. Shippensburg led Division II with 529.2 total yards per game and finished second in scoring (46.9). Zulli said he credits Yurcich for much of his success.

“He was that good of a coach,” Zulli said.

Yurcich’s success caught Gundy’s attention. As the story goes, Gundy — who declined to be interviewed for this story and will now face Yurcich annually in Big 12 play — had searched the internet for no-huddle and up-tempo offenses and whittled down his search to coordinators who also coached quarterbacks.

That’s how he discovered Yurcich, whom he hired in February 2013. Yurcich inherited an offense that didn’t have a clear starter at quarterback. Redshirt junior J.W. Walsh and redshirt senior Clint Chelf had seen the field in 2012, and a quarterback battle ensued ahead of the ’13 season.

Chelf described Yurcich as being different from his previous two coordinators, Dana Holgorsen and Todd Monken, who had left the Cowboys in recent seasons for head coaching gigs. The first thing that stood out to Chelf was Yurcich’s energy and eagerness to learn, as Gundy intended to employ the same offensive system he’d been running prior to Yurcich’s arrival.

“(Yurcich) obviously tailored it to what he knew and the things that he did well,” Chelf recalled. “But I think that was really a unique situation to have a coordinator come in and then the quarterback kind of know more about the offense to start than he did.”

Quarterback Clint Chelf played under new Texas offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich at Oklahoma State in 2013. (Ronald Martinez / Getty Images)
Through the first few film sessions, Chelf recalled Yurcich having to learn OSU’s terminology. Still, it didn’t take long for Yurcich to get the hang of things. Gundy’s offense was based on a three-day install, and Chelf said it took only a few weeks before Yurcich was proficient. Chelf said it was still clear that he was the coach in the room, but there was a dynamic of mutual respect.

“He caught on very quickly,” Chelf said, “and then he added some of his own wrinkles and some of the things that he knew from his days and what he was good at and what he could coach up. So it wasn’t like he came in and didn’t have any control over it.”

Chelf greatly admired Yurcich’s adaptability and teaching ability. “Being flexible at that position is really key, in my opinion,” Chelf said, “just because of how quickly things change. I think that’s really what sets him apart.”

In Chelf’s lone season under Yurcich, the coach didn’t hesitate to shake things up. Chelf was benched in the Cowboys’ season opener against Mississippi State and played Walsh, naming him the starter. But after five games, Walsh was benched in favor of Chelf, who retained the starting job for the rest of the season.

OSU finished 10-3, averaging 39.1 points per game, which ranked 14th nationally. The Cowboys averaged 547.0 total yards per game (fourth nationally) and 331.7 passing yards per game (seventh).

The success was sustained after Chelf’s departure. The Cowboys averaged 38.0 points per game and 478.3 total yards per game through Yurcich’s six seasons, and they ranked fifth nationally with 315.9 passing yards per game during his tenure. Oklahoma State ranked in the top 40 in yards per play in five of the six seasons, including No. 4 in 2017, averaging 7.3 yards per play.

In addition to Chelf and Walsh, Yurcich worked with Daxx Garman, Mason Rudolph and Taylor Cornelius as his starting quarterbacks.

“I think what he did at Oklahoma State really shows his ability to adapt and to game plan,” Chelf said. “Not just from season to season, but even week to week, I think he has that ability to really understand what defenses are doing and game plan specific to and tailor it to what’s going to work.”

Last season, Yurcich served as Ohio State’s passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He returned to his home state, where he received a pay increase from $800,000 annually with Oklahoma State to $950,000 per year at Ohio State. He didn’t call plays, but he oversaw the development of Justin Fields, the Buckeyes’ Heisman Trophy finalist who threw for 40 touchdowns and three interceptions. Fields ranked fifth nationally in passing efficiency (181.4). Now, Yurcich will inherit a Longhorns offense headlined by rising senior Sam Ehlinger.

In a statement, Yurcich called the decision “a no-brainer career move.” He will reportedly make $1.7 million annually at UT.

Herman said he wanted someone whom he could entrust with play calling and who will find a way to maximize talent.

“He knows our conference well from his time at Oklahoma State and, including the run he had with Ohio State this year, has played a big part in some of the nation’s best offenses for the past several years,” Herman stated after Yurcich’s hire. “All of that said, what impresses me most about him is how he works with and develops players and the creative ways he utilizes all of his weapons on offense.”

“He can run the spread, and he’s creative enough to really utilize what talent he has around him,” Chelf said. “And so I think the Big 12 is the style of offense that he is most comfortable with, and I think that’s what would make him successful coaching at Texas.”

“If you’re trying to build a program, this is the guy to do it,” Zulli added. “No. 1, he’s going to make sure the whole team is on the same page. Two, he’s going to show you exactly where you need to be to win a game.”

 

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“It really depended on who we were playing and what kind of players were on that defense,” Zulli said. “We were trying to pick on someone every week. He would literally find one thing wrong with their defense that would give it away, and he would study that.”

Fuck, We are allowed to do that every week, its not just for the bowl games?!?!

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Horns 247 / Chip Brown / Coaching update - Sunday, 1:45pm

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Sunday 1:45 pm - I'm told former Longhorn and Baylor DL coach Frank Okam, who has been offered a position on Mack Brown's defensive staff at North Carolina, is still under consideration at Texas.

 

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28 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

UNC would have to go unbalanced or Mack knows someone on defense is leaving, because they already have 5 defensive coaches.  

Much more likely is that Chip heard Carolina was interested and he assumed it was North Carolina instead of the Panthers.

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On 1/18/2020 at 6:30 PM, Farkimedes said:

Okam is headed to the Panthers and Herman should have known that from the second Rhule got hired 12 days ago. You can't fault Herman for Okam picking Carolina over us. You should fucking roast him for being dumb enough to not know there was no way he was coming.

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Horns 247 / Chip Brown / Coaching update - Sunday, 1:45pm

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Sunday 1:45 pm - I'm told former Longhorn and Baylor DL coach Frank Okam, who has been offered a position on Mack Brown's defensive staff at North Carolina, is still under consideration at Texas.

 

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Sweet Jesus Chip. Stick to excessive drinking and gambling. 

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