Why Vigen should probably be next HC
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 3:27 pm
Looooooong time lurker - first time poster.
Subject heading seems like it is surely in jest - but hear me out. The reason that hotshot offensive and defensive coordinators seldom work out when they get promoted to HC, is that the very first thing they do upon taking the job is relinquish their coordinating duties. Teams that hire them as the HC don't get to benefit from what they do best - call plays and schemes.
This is why Vigen might actually be a decent HC - as he's clearly positioned to be HC since Bohl promoted him to Associate Head Coach. He knows the Bohl/NDSU/Wyo system - which is solid. But he'd probably have to farm out his OC duties to someone else. And pretty much anyone else would exhibit a modicum of innovation and willingness to occasionally take a risk and do something unorthodox. I'm as soured on Vigen as anyone as a playcaller - but maybe as HC he'd have to give those duties up. Of course it's a huge gamble because he might be the rare HC who retains playcalling responsibilities - which would be a (continued) disaster. Maybe Burman could hire him as HC on the condition that he hire an OC.
As a related aside, how this staff cannot see that Levi is clearly the superior QB is astounding and deeply disappointing.
Signed,
Not Vigen
Subject heading seems like it is surely in jest - but hear me out. The reason that hotshot offensive and defensive coordinators seldom work out when they get promoted to HC, is that the very first thing they do upon taking the job is relinquish their coordinating duties. Teams that hire them as the HC don't get to benefit from what they do best - call plays and schemes.
This is why Vigen might actually be a decent HC - as he's clearly positioned to be HC since Bohl promoted him to Associate Head Coach. He knows the Bohl/NDSU/Wyo system - which is solid. But he'd probably have to farm out his OC duties to someone else. And pretty much anyone else would exhibit a modicum of innovation and willingness to occasionally take a risk and do something unorthodox. I'm as soured on Vigen as anyone as a playcaller - but maybe as HC he'd have to give those duties up. Of course it's a huge gamble because he might be the rare HC who retains playcalling responsibilities - which would be a (continued) disaster. Maybe Burman could hire him as HC on the condition that he hire an OC.
As a related aside, how this staff cannot see that Levi is clearly the superior QB is astounding and deeply disappointing.
Signed,
Not Vigen