Report: Mississippi State going after Pep

$1m is nothing in the football budget. It's got nothing to do w money, just a question of whether he's the best available

thought the gameplan for OSU was outstanding. Just needed a QB to execute it better. That alone, changed my view a bit on Pep. Another year in the system with these players may be better than starting over. But it just doesn't seem like Pep is a college position coach where you are going to get a lot of shy 18 year old kids that need to be brought out of their childhood into manhood. That is more like a Jedd Fisch type coach. Jedd was in the system, so that would be the plug-and-play if Pep takes one of these HC jobs. Jedd could be the OC/QBs with Frey as OL/TE coach and then hire a real good WR coach. Drevno may move back to Cali was the rumor last year, but decided to stay after he got the bigger contract. I could see him taking a HC job at a lower-tier school on the west coast if it opens up.

still had 4 losses and an overall shitty gameplans!

He was worse against Iowa. Do people also forget we lost our top 3 receivers from last year and replaced them with freshmen and sophomores? And our running game this year when Speight was still our QB was worse than it was last year.

I think if Speight had stayed healthy this team would have been so much better. He was getting used to a new WR corps and they were getting used to him and even the college game as a whole. And things would have been totally different if the running game had been on track with him in there.

I think any blame for the offense really has to be on Harbaugh. Maybe he thought with the roster turning over so much it'd be a good idea to do more zone running and use a more wide-open passing game, but obviously that didn't work out well. It will be interesting to see if they keep pushing on to next year with the same plan. I don't have a problem with it because I expect young players to improve, but it seems like a lot of people here will be bitching all offseason if Drevno or Pep isn't fired by the time spring rolls around.

Part of Speight's problem may have been a lack of familiarity with the pass concepts, but he also seemed to bail on his read sooner and bug out sooner than he had in 2016. So I don't think it's fair to say it was all Pep.

Pep or Harbaugh? I think there are a few things Jim doesn't relinguish to his staff; QB coaching or recruiting, design of the offense, playcalling during tight games.

I find it hard to believe that people legitimately know who to pin the blame on when our offense struggles. Pep just seems to be the scapegoat du jour.

Harbaugh put his stamp on the offense. Hamilton is gone. He is wasted space. Drevno and Harbaugh know how to run an offense. It starts at QB. If we have a good one our team will look like a national championship contender next year.

We started running more power, a Harbaugh staple. Hamilton is pretty much a non factor and him leaving means nothing.

This. While I thought it was a great game plan, it’s hard not to feel like that offense wins us at least on more game, and possibly every game but PSU.

Pep Hamilton came in and we all heard the offseason rumblings of going 5-wide and spreading teams out and it was boner town around here. 

Then, between Speight looking generally confused by the concepts, the offensive line being a sieve in pass protection, the loss of Black/struggles of Crawford, and ultimately the Speight injury and move to O'Korn, the balls-to-the-wall passing attack was shelved before it got off the ground.  If Hamilton had a master passing plan in mind, he didn't even get 4 full games to implement it and we were already down to O'Korn against MSU in a monsoon.

After that debacle, we were in full reversion to manball.  That was not the intent heading into the season (again, per always-reliable internet rumblings), and I challenge any coordinator, including the infallible Jedd Fisch, to seamlessly change between such polar-opposite approaches on the fly.  3 ugly weeks later, Hamilton and the offensive staff had a 3rd QB to design around and get up to speed. 

By Wisconsin and Ohio State, the offense seemed to have an idea of who they were, both running and passing, only to be undermined by the extreme limitations of John O'Korn.  Given all of the chaos within that unit over 12 games, that seems reasonable.

I'm not a Pep fan. I have my concerns.  But there are 4 guys involved in this offensive attack and unless you spend all week in offensive meetings, I can't figure how anyone can determine which coach is solely to blame. 

So where was that plan all year long?  It didn't exist, because that style of OSU gameplan wasn't even a thought when this team took the field against Florida.

 

he left 1 year ago.