🏈 Report: Nuss to interview for Southern Miss job

[Billie Bob]

I suppse if Nuss took the job (unlikely IMO) Scot Loeffler is available now.inkbiggrin:


http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/i...abama_offensive_coord.html#incart_more_sports

 

[bcracker]

Kirby Smart's possible defection to Auburn generated 102 posts. Poor old Nuss got none. NONE! What? No love for Nuss? Did the last Bama drive against A&M forever tarnish him, or was the idea of Smart pasturing on the plains the determining factor for the passion he generated?

 

[ElephantStomp]

I don't know enough about Coach Nuss to know whether he would take the job or not, but with only being at Bama for a year I don't think he will

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Kirby Smart's possible defection to Auburn generated 102 posts. Poor old Nuss got none. NONE! What? No love for Nuss? Did the last Bama drive against A&M forever tarnish him, or was the idea of Smart pasturing on the plains the determining factor for the passion he generated?

Smart has been around longer, plus the buzz was where he might go. Hattiesburg won't draw nearly the attention of a small town in west Georgia.

RTR,

Tim

 

[BamaDelta]

Kirby Smart's possible defection to Auburn generated 102 posts. Poor old Nuss got none. NONE! What? No love for Nuss? Did the last Bama drive against A&M forever tarnish him, or was the idea of Smart pasturing on the plains the determining factor for the passion he generated?

I love Nuss! Trust me he's a favorite amongst us girls. inkbiggrin:

 

[doemasters]

why is that Delta?

 

[jdpas29]

i preferred McElwain's style of offense, but Nuss has done an ok job. i wish him well if he goes.

 

[Bo]

Personally, I think Nuss calls a better game than McElwain did. I think he throws it on first down a little to much, but then again, that could be AJ checking to a pass play.

 

[UAgrad93]

Personally, I think Nuss calls a better game than McElwain did. I think he throws it on first down a little to much, but then again, that could be AJ checking to a pass play.

I think you are right concerning AJ checking off. I believe Saban even said as much that AJ has more control in the offense this year. I think Nuss does a very good job of calling a game.
jdpas29 this is CNS' offense not Applewhite, or McElwain, nor Nussmeier's. I think both Nuss and McElwain are almost identical in comparing the numbers without actually looking at them. I'm sure Terry will throw it up for us since he is the numbers crunching guy!! LOL

 

[PhillyGirl]

why is that Delta?

Well, he's not so bad on the eyes! :tickled_pink:

But more importantly, he's a great OC!

 

[TerryP]

I don't see a lot of difference in the results when I compare last year to this season.

We aren't as balanced this year as last year when you look at total yards on the season. But you won't find me complaining about 2920 passing versus 2788 passing.

There are so aspects where the two offenses are different. A lot of those can be credited to players maturation. We've had more explosive plays down the field passing this year than last. We've had less explosive plays rushing the ball this season but that's something we talked about here...what, a month and a half ago?

When I step back and look at the forest instead of a tree (IE: a series of downs against A&M) I see a team very successful running the ball. When you look at the entire NCAA you see a lot of teams ranked ahead of us that don't run the same scheme, much less have the same balance. We're ranked 20th right now with teams like Baylor, A&M, Ohio State, Oregon, Air Force, Ga. Tech, etc. ahead of us.

If you look at the passing rankings, one would think we can't throw the ball seeing how we're ranked in the bottom third of the NCAA. Yet, we've moved the ball in the air when we've had to do so with more yards gained in the air than on the ground in the season.

We're trying to draw a comparison between a guy working with an offense for one season versus a guy that's worked with the same group of kids for three years. One would think there should be a significant difference. Oops. There hasn't been.

Given every pixel of this year as a picture, I'd say he's done a pretty damn good job. No complaints from me.

 

[Billie Bob]

I think the calls in the Michigan game where the best I have seen in the CNS era. On the other hand, A&M defies all logic.

I pose this question to the audience: Is there really any team in America that we cannot run the ball on in the 4th quarter?:chat_headscratch: Answer is the no. I think and hope Nuss learned a lot from the mistakes in that game.

 

[TerryP]

I think the calls in the Michigan game where the best I have seen in the CNS era. On the other hand, A&M defies all logic.

I pose this question to the audience: Is there really any team in America that we cannot run the ball on in the 4th quarter?:chat_headscratch: Answer is the no. I think and hope Nuss learned a lot from the mistakes in that game.

Yes. We couldn't run it against A&M.

TIn the 4th, the longest run we had from our RB's was four yards.

We started one series with a handoff to Yeldon that went for two yards.

At the end of the A&M game, the give to Lacy resulted in? One yard on second and six from the six.

They were in a goal line defense.

I see no one complaining about the success we had throwing on first down in any game other than that one series against A&M. And, we likely wouldn't be having that discussion if we didn't have a fumble in the fourth...running the ball. Oh, on a series of plays we started with a pass on 1st down.

All this talk about the last series against A&M and throwing it all at Nuss reminds me vividly of 2010. A lot were blaming the staff and their decision to play Barron when he couldn't lift his arm to defend the game winning pass. No one mentions things like the fumble.

We didn't lose to A&M as a result of a few play calls at the end of the game. We lost because we were beaten by a team that played better than we did that Saturday.

 

[Billie Bob]

You are right there is no point in haggling over a call here or a call there because those individually did not affect the outcome of the game. However, my point is that we weren't exactly lining up against the steel-curtain defense of the 70's and that late in that game we had them on their heels. Their sideline was even dejected and seemingly resigned to defeat. There comes a point like Coach Brian O'Kelly said at the presser this week in referencing our game against gawga, that you have to exert your will to win. Maybe that is too simplistic.

 

[BamaDelta]

Well, he's not so bad on the eyes! :tickled_pink:

But more importantly, he's a great OC!

Yep! Because of point 1 he's a favorite on the charters.:icon_thumright:

 

[bamacheer07]

I agree with both points!

Well, he's not so bad on the eyes! :tickled_pink:

But more importantly, he's a great OC!

 

[Bamabww]

Tidesports.com (Chase Goodbread) text says he had not interviewed as of 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Don't know about since then.

 

[bamagirl917]

As the guys would say, this thread is useless without pics.

 

[ElephantStomp]

Play calling in the A&M game wasn't our problem. The team playing like crap and the fumble did us in. We couldn't run the ball against them, so running the ball in the fourth over and over and over would've resulted in us going four and out over and over and over. They outplayed us plain and simple