OT - Florida fires O.C.

In 2006, Pease became wide receivers coach at BSU, adding the title of assistant head coach the following year. In December 2010, Pease was named offensive coordinator at Indiana. However, he returned to Boise less than two weeks later, succeeding Bryan Harsin as the Broncos' offensive coordinator.  I'd say they peaked before he took over the reins, and he inherited their greatest QB ever.

Our O lost one starting WR and two back up RBs, but aside from minor ailments that sidelined a player for a week or two, was relatively healthy.  Losing Pip for the year was the most brutal blow to the team I'd say.  Missing him along with Ross and Jarrod for the OSU game hurt.

As has been stated here ad nauseum, Hoke's history is not devoid of letting assistants go.  Personally I admire Borges for working his ass off for this final game when he could have mailed it in, but any warm, fuzzy afterglow of his work for The Game could quickly be wiped away by anyone bothering to press play on their DVR'd copies of the MSU and PSU games this year.

I agree with you though that this isn't an easy decision, and devoid of a surefire, quality OC in the wings, it wouldn't surprise me to see Hoke stick with Borges, and hope that he shore up these massive deficiencies in OL play and coaching, and that he devise a gameplan to counter the MSU/PSU blitz happy defensive schemes which, as my signature attests, completely owned him.   To be clear, Ohio's defensive gameplan was not nearly as aggressive as MSU and PSU, perhaps in part because they  didn't feel they needed to take those risks on D given their insanely efficient offense (zero punts in the second half).

Concur, however not re next year.  Next year will be immensely better re rushing the football because honestly there isn't much room for being worse than this year, but given the brutality of our road schedule next year (@ND,MSU,NW,Ohio), not sure the cards are stacked in favor of immense improvement.

The Game will always be the key game of the year, but the other key game will definitely be @MSU not so much because /obvious rival game, but to see if our OC, whomever that might be, has bridged the cavernous gap evidenced this year between MSU's defensive schemes and execution and our offensive schemes and execution.

Noonan.... you can do it...

Makes perfectly good sense.  Borges' season can be characterized as utter futility bookended by two excellent showings vs ND and Ohio.  Indiana wasn't a quality enough team or defense (pass rush? what's that?) to toss any cache Al's way from that game.  If anything, the fact that the offense came together as well as it did vs Ohio and ND helps Al, but also actually undermines Al in terms of excusing his futility in other games on player inexperience. 

It's going to be a tough decision for Hoke and Brandon but personally I think it will come down to whether they have a strong viable replacement candidate.  If they don't.  We'll enjoy my avatar one more year, and hopefully he'll shore up not only the OL, but his predictability, and improve on his QB's ability to check down.