Several sources tell me that the football team has been told they will be practicing with an entirely new offensive scheme, at least for spring practice.
The new offense will be an Oregon Ducks-fast paced set. And the players are excited to hear this.
This tells me that former Columbia head coach and current interim coach Ray Tellier is probably acting as the de facto offensive coordinator.
Ray would be picking off where he left off in 2002, his final season as head coach. Longer term fans will remember he instituted what he called a "Tempo Offense" that year to deal with the graduation loss of RB Johnathan Reese and Columbia's general personnel weaknesses that season.
If Columbia does bother to hire a new head coach for this coming season, perhaps he will scrap this offense. But even if he does, I suppose mixing things up a bit and getting the players moving faster couldn't hurt too much.
Meanwhile, we've continued to see the names of some new commits to Columbia coming in.
I will continue to list them and profile them in the coming weeks, but for now I want to wait until we finally hire a new A.D. as promised by President Bollinger. He's already three days late on his target date to announce that hiring and I just don't know what to make of the program until we get that news.
3 comments:
Did Tellier take over as offensive coordinator? That would be preferable to the tennis coach in there now. To have an effective offense, regardless of system, you need an effective offensive coordinator and coaching staff.
It's a Fellini movie -
Does anyone know if any of the new QBs,
freshman or recruits played hurry-up offenses in HS? Any other experienced guys
on the O would make the transition easier.
Several D guys from Texas played for and against hurry-up Os in HS.
Possible input from prospective new HC has lead to this something has to change attitude.
Uncage the Lions.
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