HC-OC

[iSac]

Sperbeck has been the team's Offensive Coordinator since he took the reigns as Head Coach. Is it very common for a HC to also serve as OC or DC? Does his OC role notably diminish his ability to focus on the big picture as a HC? I'll admit that the only football I've played was pick-up games with friends as a kid, so I've never seen the inner dynamics of a team at this level. Been wondering about this more so lately in light of recent posts regarding predictable offensive play calling.

Go Sac!

 

[Phantom Hornet]

My take on the predictable play calling is that we have a qb who has been in the system less than a month, and Sperbeck is trying to minimize mistakes like in the Western Oregon game. It's not unheard of for the Coach to be the OC as well...

 

[Kadeezy]

Well my football experience is probably much less than others on this board (4 yrs. H.S., Misc. college summer camps, about 2 weeks in college, hahahaha) but I don't object to Sperbeck having the OC duties as well.

For the most part he has done a good job. While I think his play calling was a bit suspect last week it's a good thing for a few reasons. He's in the know when it comes to his offense, we save a ton of money in salary (80-90Kish I'm guessing), and keeps in sync with clock management.

Sean Payton calls the plays for the New Orleans Saints and they're the champs. So, this is pretty normal on many levels of football....

 

[SDHornet]

From what I have heard and from what has been explained to me, the OC is basically playing a chess game. The OC plans out some plays determined by the game plan and how certain plays work during the game. Depending on how much power an HC gives an OC (obviously a defensive minded HC would probably allow an OC to run the offensive play calling), the OC will either call the plays, or give the HC the option between 2 plays (maybe more) via the headset. The HC would then pick a play to run from the options and signal in the play. Obviously there is a lot going on so each team probably has a different system. Keep in mind an OC would be one of the higher paid coaches so there is always the budget factor that would prevent the Hornets from possibly going the OC route.

There is probably someone on here that has a better grasp of it than me. I only played HS ball and we used none of that stuff. We ran everything out of a 3 WR, 2 RB I formation set…so…that’s my $0.02.

 

[Green Laser]

I have no problem with Coach Sperbeck as the OC. He was a good QB and I am sure he knows his stuff.
I think that he is currently a little limited in what he can do until Fleming develops better timing and consistency with the receivers. In the Montana game Fleming missed the receivers badly in the first half and they were able to concentrate on stopping the run in the second half. It's hard not to be predictable when half of your offensive options are not working. In his defense Fleming's passing seemed to be improving in the Weber game, hopefully he will be back on track this week.

 

[Fajadadu]

First Idea, At Montana we lost the chess game. We came out with a game plan, Montana adjusted, Hornets adjusted, Montana re-adjusted, stepped up, and we didn’t/couldn’t adjust again.

Second Idea, It used to be that if the team failed the head coach got fired. Nowadays it’s a lot more common to let go assistants, (Go Niners), The bottom line may be that if the team fails its Sperbeck that has to answer to the President, the AD and the alumni, not some coordinator. If coach wants to run his offense with his finger prints all over it then it’s his prerogative because he’s the one that has to answer for it.

That being said, Marshall doesn’t have to answer to the SacBuzz so let’s kibitz all we want about whether or not we need a new OC.

 

[Green Cookie Monster]

Chris Ault at Nevada calls his own plays.