307bball wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:43 am
Lax said it better than I have been able to. Totally agree with his hope that the only problem in our offense was a guy named Vigen....However, I completely reject ragtime's assertion that you would be able to pin down the major cause of our offensive struggles the last few years based on what happens next year.
I stand corrected. 307 and Oredigger have effectively straddled the fence and laid claim to any position.
307bball wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:43 am
Direct question to anybody following this thread (particularly Ragtime)...If the offense struggles next year ... do you feel that would vindicate Vigen?
For me..the answer is ...no way!
My take is that we'll see a noticeable improvement on offense; so much so that it will be obvious that Vigen was holding it back. That's what I believe will happen. I don't think this is Cockhill and Glenn because the teams are so much weaker now. Any coach worth their salt should be able to field a functioning offense against the lackluster Ds we largely face.
If the offense is a clone of previous seasons, then, yes, I do think it exonerates Vigen.
I completely understand that your trying to pin down a "decision bias" if you will, but I would disagree with that notion. Vigen had more than enough time to demonstrate that he can competently field an offense. If there is relatively substantial improvement in 1 year without Vigen, then I think it clearly points to Vigen as the culprit.
If the offense sputters some but looks somewhat improved while it is apparent that the approach has changed, I think it is a little less clear and probably requires at least 2 years to see where it goes. I don't think it gets to here, but we'll see.
I definitely think it'll be an evaluation of parts of the season (i.e. first part of the season will be quite a bit different than latter part of the season). I think it will be very possible that the averages don't look great because of a sputter at first followed by substantial improvement. Even in this case, I think it will be a conviction of Vigen because the offense rarely improved over the season. Maybe game to game, but rarely steady improvement unless we had a string of cupcakes on the schedule.