Music to My Ears

Doman:

- On his offensive philosophy: “It’s going to be dependant on what the personnel is, on who is playing quarterback and what does our run game look like, what do our running backs do well. To sit here and say definitively on what the offense is going to look like, I’ve learned enough about football as a player and as a coach that you create the offense around the talent that you have. That will be sorted out over time within the next few months and deciding on what the players can do great and on what they can’t do very well and then put together an offense that suits who we are and what we can do, hopefully better than anyone in the country.”

k, let me preface that my comments are not directed at you Jonnylingo at all, but the question asked of Doman at his press conference was a stupid one.



First off, whoever it was that asked the question just asked a rookie OC that has never run an offense what his offensive "philosophy" is going to be. Even if Doman knows, he isn't going to tell you. Why would you start talking about what our offense is going to look like next year and tip your hand to anyone that is going to try to defend it. Doman is a wild card right now. They should close spring ball and fall ball to everyone so that no one knows what we are doing. Ole miss and Texas will have to see what we give them when we line up opposite them. I liked the answer Doman gave but thought the question was pretty dumb.

frdbtr wrote:
k, let me preface that my comments are not directed at you Jonnylingo at all, but the question asked of Doman at his press conference was a stupid one.



First off, whoever it was that asked the question just asked a rookie OC that has never run an offense what his offensive "philosophy" is going to be. Even if Doman knows, he isn't going to tell you. Why would you start talking about what our offense is going to look like next year and tip your hand to anyone that is going to try to defend it. Doman is a wild card right now. They should close spring ball and fall ball to everyone so that no one knows what we are doing. Ole miss and Texas will have to see what we give them when we line up opposite them. I liked the answer Doman gave but thought the question was pretty dumb.

Whatever, it just made me feel good to here him say "you create and offense based on the talent you have". Anae was good at a lot of things, but his ability to tweak and make adjustments to his system based on the strengths and weaknesses of the talent he had was not so good. It was just refreshing to here. A reporters job is to ask questions, a coach'es job is to not answer them :)



Also, I am not sure why its a dumb question. What questions do coaches answer completely honestly with a full amount of disclosure, like none. So your reasoning simply suggests that all questions are stupid. :P He can give a general offensive philosophy without tipping his hand much. I think its probably a very relevant question to ask a new offensive coordinator.

Jonnylingo

At the risk of asking the obvious, does your screenname come from a 1960's or so BYU movie production about the guy who offered up some very nice cows, more than others thought necessary, for a wife?



If so, at the risk of getting asked by someone why I claim to know someone on every topic posted, the author of that movie was a very good friend of my mother and inspired my mother to try her hand writing scripts for BYU and later, a few LDS themed novels - but with less success.



Orma Wallengren has strong ties to the Heber Valley, especially to the Homestead Resort in Midway, and moved onward and upward to write scripts for Disney after Johnnylingo. She now uses a different name and I found her via her son, Mark, a celebrity himself, on Facebook and reunited her with my 82 year-old mother.



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jonnylingo wrote:
Doman:

- On his offensive philosophy: “It’s going to be dependant on what the personnel is, on who is playing quarterback and what does our run game look like, what do our running backs do well. To sit here and say definitively on what the offense is going to look like, I’ve learned enough about football as a player and as a coach that you create the offense around the talent that you have. That will be sorted out over time within the next few months and deciding on what the players can do great and on what they can’t do very well and then put together an offense that suits who we are and what we can do, hopefully better than anyone in the country.”

This is one thing I noticed about TCU. Their offense seems to mold itself around the talent they have. I don't know that they're going so far as to change their scheme each year, but every year their offense looks quite different than the last.

jonnylingo wrote:

k, let me preface that my comments are not directed at you Jonnylingo at all, but the question asked of Doman at his press conference was a stupid one.



First off, whoever it was that asked the question just asked a rookie OC that has never run an offense what his offensive "philosophy" is going to be. Even if Doman knows, he isn't going to tell you. Why would you start talking about what our offense is going to look like next year and tip your hand to anyone that is going to try to defend it. Doman is a wild card right now. They should close spring ball and fall ball to everyone so that no one knows what we are doing. Ole miss and Texas will have to see what we give them when we line up opposite them. I liked the answer Doman gave but thought the question was pretty dumb.

Whatever, it just made me feel good to here him say "you create and offense based on the talent you have". Anae was good at a lot of things, but his ability to tweak and make adjustments to his system based on the strengths and weaknesses of the talent he had was not so good. It was just refreshing to here. A reporters job is to ask questions, a coach'es job is to not answer them :)



Also, I am not sure why its a dumb question. What questions do coaches answer completely honestly with a full amount of disclosure, like none. So your reasoning simply suggests that all questions are stupid. :P He can give a general offensive philosophy without tipping his hand much. I think its probably a very relevant question to ask a new offensive coordinator.

Funny, he has been saying this same thing all year. He got flamed by some on this board when he said that Riley Nelson could be a very successful QB at BYU with the right offense designed for him.



Yes, it is a reporters Job to ask questions, but some reporters do it better then others. Sometimes I think some reporters took a class at journalism school that taught them about asking stupid questions.

Sammich wrote:

Doman:

- On his offensive philosophy: “It’s going to be dependant on what the personnel is, on who is playing quarterback and what does our run game look like, what do our running backs do well. To sit here and say definitively on what the offense is going to look like, I’ve learned enough about football as a player and as a coach that you create the offense around the talent that you have. That will be sorted out over time within the next few months and deciding on what the players can do great and on what they can’t do very well and then put together an offense that suits who we are and what we can do, hopefully better than anyone in the country.”

This is one thing I noticed about TCU. Their offense seems to mold itself around the talent they have. I don't know that they're going so far as to change their scheme each year, but every year their offense looks quite different than the last.

Exactly my point. That is one thing that makes for a good coach. I am not for restructuring the offense completely every year, but making obvious tweaks each year based on your talent. Anea was just a little stubborn in his approach in my opinion. That "stubborness" had its benefits in discipline, consistency, and execution, but I think a little flexibility is good and will help us go to the next level if doman is succesful in doing it well.

Actually 2QB was an attempt to build around what we had. If it had panned out better, we could have debated who to credit for it. Since it did not work out so well, we got to debate who to blame. But, nonetheless, running two schemes around two QBs was quite a departure from the tried and true and many on this board felt it was sacrelidge to change BYU football to fit personnel.



Tweaking the offense to fit personnel sounds like OC 101 to me and hopefully Doman will do it with great success, because the offensive gun returns fully loaded and has been test fired at the test range and we now have a far better idea of who can or cannot do what. We need to sort out tight ends and test out a promising new RB and a promising new receiver.



I hope everyone that has anything at all to do with BYU football and the last name of Reynolds is back - if so - the BYU offense will be very good starting week 1. Tough road games may disguise that fact just due to SOS, but we will be competitive offensively in every game next year. The defense and kicking game are bigger questions to be answered.



Bold Bib prediction. If all things Reynolds return - the running game will be even better, Heaps will be even better, receivers will be better, and tight end will be good enough.



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qb2 is not up for debate, ever. The person that instituted it, and was the proponent of it is gone, as he should be.

Cougarbib2 wrote:
Jonnylingo

At the risk of asking the obvious, does your screenname come from a 1960's or so BYU movie production about the guy who offered up some very nice cows, more than others thought necessary, for a wife?



If so, at the risk of getting asked by someone why I claim to know someone on every topic posted, the author of that movie was a very good friend of my mother and inspired my mother to try her hand writing scripts for BYU and later, a few LDS themed novels - but with less success.



Orma Wallengren has strong ties to the Heber Valley, especially to the Homestead Resort in Midway, and moved onward and upward to write scripts for Disney after Johnnylingo. She now uses a different name and I found her via her son, Mark, a celebrity himself, on Facebook and reunited her with my 82 year-old mother.



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Moke (Mahana's Dad), is from my home ward in Laie. :blush: Actually he is a very gentle and loving man.

Imuakahuku

I envy those that live at your end of Oahu - wish it was a shorter commute. Maybe I will figure out how to post a picture of that beautiful white temple nestled against the green backdrop.



Maybe we will meet someday.



Go Cougs



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imuakahuku wrote:

Jonnylingo

At the risk of asking the obvious, does your screenname come from a 1960's or so BYU movie production about the guy who offered up some very nice cows, more than others thought necessary, for a wife?



If so, at the risk of getting asked by someone why I claim to know someone on every topic posted, the author of that movie was a very good friend of my mother and inspired my mother to try her hand writing scripts for BYU and later, a few LDS themed novels - but with less success.



Orma Wallengren has strong ties to the Heber Valley, especially to the Homestead Resort in Midway, and moved onward and upward to write scripts for Disney after Johnnylingo. She now uses a different name and I found her via her son, Mark, a celebrity himself, on Facebook and reunited her with my 82 year-old mother.



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Moke (Mahana's Dad), is from my home ward in Laie. :blush: Actually he is a very gentle and loving man.

That was the impression I got from his role in the movie ;) Very good movie, I have seen it many times and still like it (even though we would make fun of it as teenagers). It makes a very good point on self esteem. I read something the other day on what happened to Mohana and it was really cool to see the person that she turned out to be in real life. I am sure that everyone in that movie had a good spirit about them.

imuakahuku wrote:
Moke (Mahana's Dad), is from my home ward in Laie. :blush: Actually he is a very gentle and loving man.

So in real life he never really said anything like "Mahana you ugly!"?



The trader's assistant became the bishop of our ward in Samoa. But your connection is better.

I have been to a Luau hosted by the man who played Mahana's father. His son is one of my best friends and it is my stake in Lehi. They are a great family.

When I get home from this trip I am going to have to dig through my video tape collection and watch this one again.



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