Link here.

Hilarious, Nick Saban/Alabama complains, and then we get this. They’re claiming it’s to help defensive players with injury. The truth is more likely that defenses can’t figure out how to stop these offenses, so they’re crying to the NCAA about it. Even thought his rule would help OSU/Banker, I don’t like it. I’d rather teams be forced to adapt. There’s no evidence up-tempo hurts defensive players. Wouldn’t it hurt offensive players, too, and if true, their coaches wouldn’t use it?

The only noticeable improvement I have seen under Perry is that guy’s play the ball more. He’s been fine…I’m not complaining about the guy, but in relation to Garrett, fans are saying things like “You guys didn’t like Perry blah blah”…well, I think many of us wanted a recruiter over a coach. That’s why we were down on Perry. And secondly, he has been fine but not great so far.

Great players make coaches look like geniuses. OSU needs better players more than they need great coaches. I’m not down on Perry, but I don’t think of him as either a great recruiter or great coach (okay recruiter, good coach), and after hearing the talk above from rivals I understand why I have that perception (wink wink).

I honestly don’t know much about Garrett, but this hiring feels underwhelming. That is no surprise. The only recent coach I’ve been excited about was Brennan, and that’s because he had a reputation as a recruiter. Recruiting fires up the fanbase, but it doesn’t fire up Riley. He’s content with the “coach ’em up” philosophy, though I feel that only goes so far. Riley’s career performance backs up this statement. He can never “get over the hump”, as they say, and this is due to (a) his bone head decisions/management at times and (b) personnel. Is John Garrett such a good coach that he’ll turn 2 and 3 star guys into elite players? What in his history suggests this? The “In Riley we trust” mantra is full force today. On the surface this looks like another hire from Riley’s good ol’ boy network.

I’d rather have seen Brennan move to OC, then hire a TE/WR coach who can recruit. We lost Hayward. Langsdorf was an okay recruiter, and Cav might be gone. Rumors are that Brennan is talking with other teams and is upset he didn’t get this job. Who is left on this staff that can recruit?

Maybe Garrett will turn out to be good. But to the bigger point: does this program/head coach ever make a splash or statement? The fanbase is dead, and this is supposed to get us excited? I realize that’s not why you hire a coach, but there were more intriguing options out there that would provide a good coach, recruiting, and either a big name or intriguing up and comer.