Do you prefer a head coach with an offensive or defensive background?
This was bar stool conversation that I decided to take to the board. I actually prefer "competent", but that is not an option. When I looked at the College AP Top 15, there are 9 head coaches with Offensive backgrounds and 6 with Defensive. This flips in the NFL Power Rankings (weak, but the only comp I had) where there are 9 Defensive head coaches to 6 Offensive ones. I didn't take this beyond 15 because I wanted an odd number and dude, it's Friday so the analysis was just to spur conversation not get to Mathalete level.
September 16th, 2011 at 10:07 PM ^
Bo: defensive
Mo: push
Lo: defensive
RR: Offensive
Hoke: defensive
Of the successful guys only Mo wasn't completely defensive oriented but he had plenty of time coaching defense. And it bears mentioning that Jim Schwartz was a high level DC before coaching the Lions and they will not be a joke for the first time in forever. Wayne Fontes was technically a DC and the Lions were decent when he was coach but they seemed to always underachieve back then.
So yeah, defensive coach coah, alright? Kthanksbye.
September 16th, 2011 at 10:37 PM ^
That's a common misconception about Bo. He rarely spent any time with the defense in practice--when they were in seperate drills he was with the offense well over 90% of the time.