While I absolutely do believe that Freddie Kitchens should no longer be our OC, and obviously endorse making a change there, what I’m afraid of is that the offensive issues that plague our program run deeper than simply poor play calling by the OC and that simply changing OC’s for the sake of change itself will be rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. What I mean by that is, I think that the problem with the offense is that the style of offense that Bill Belichick wants is exactly what we saw this year: a vanilla, slow tempo, risk-averse, unimaginative, ball control offense that minimizes possessions and runs a low risk of turning the ball over. I think that style of offense is at least a decade or more antiquated in college football. So we can change OC, and we can bring in somebody who has previous experience calling college games as OC, but unless we change our fundamental bedrock offensive philosophy- which would almost assuredly require the head coach who is infamous for his refusal to relinquish control or change/adapt his preferred methods and styles of play- I think we’ll be right back here next year this time. Sure, the offense may look “less bad”- maybe it will crack the top 80 instead of the top 120- but my fear is that it wouldn’t be enough to dramatically lift the low ceiling that the Belichick experiment has currently placed on the program.
