Nuss v. Borges total offense rankings
Below are the total offense rankings for Nuss and Borges in recent years. I also included the prior year's ranking in years where there was a job change.
Obviously Borges's career goes back farther than this but the site I used for the data only goes back to 2007 and I figured recent history is more relevant anyway. I'm not sure if anything useful or interesting can be drawn from this.
The biggest thing that jumps out at me is that both coaches engineered a remarkable turnaround during this stretch (Borges at SDSU and Nuss at Washington), although Nuss did it in a more competitive conference.
Michigan's offense experienced a sharp dropoff when Borges came on board and it never recovered, while Nuss pretty much towed the line at Alabama.
| Borges | Nussmier | |||||
| Year | Team |
Off Rank |
Prior Yr Rank |
Team |
Off Rank |
Prior Yr Rank |
| 2008 | DID NOT COACH | Fresno St. | 43 | 38 | ||
| 2009 | SDSU | 86 | 99 | Washington | 62 | 117 |
| 2010 | SDSU | 16 | Washington | 76 | ||
| 2011 | Michigan | 42 | 8 | Washington | 38 | |
| 2012 | Michigan | 79 | Alabama | 31 | 31 | |
| 2013 | Michigan | 87 | Alabama | 33 |
you forget that the DBs in the SEC are better than the B1G, so I'd say the wind storm is a tossup
Jesus, live in the now people.
If anyone wants a fun research project (I'd do it myself but I'm watching two toddlers right now) it might interest the board to go back and find out if Nuss called any signature games at Washington then lookup the youtube highlights. That's probably the closest we'll get to seeing footage of what we can expect this fall since, as other posters pointed out, his autonomy was probably restricted somewhat while at Bama.
I don't know if I would call this a "signature" game but you can see what his offense looks like in his 3rd year at Washington.
I think the biggest positive in bringing Nussmeier in is the teaching aspect. One of the biggest issues with Borges was the fact that we really never had a QB coach, and Devin, Shane and Russell did not show a ton of progression. Nussmeier's QB coaching has been very strong and I expect massive improvements from the QB play.