Dead Fisch

It's not officially official, but I think it's a done deal. Jedd Fisch's notorious run as the OC at the U is done. 1 great year is all he had in him before bailing for an actual demotion position wise to the QB coach in SEA back in the NFL with Pete Carroll. He's an NFL guy who never really adapted his system or style to the college game. Too bad, I think he would have been much better in year 2.

Who do we get to replace him? My vote isn't for a specific guy, but more for a type of guy. First, not an NFL nobody hoping to be somebody. We're a big 0 for 2 in our NFL hires for coordinators in the Brew era. We have to get a guy who runs a balanced offense, actually I'm not even opposed to going back to more of a spread if we put the right guy under center. It has to be someone from the college game who wants to be in the college game and who knows the college game. I know the list of contacts for Brew is very limited when looking for guys like this, because he's mostly an NFL guy himself...which is part of our problem. But find a guy who can teach and runs a normal offense that is efficient and simple like most of the other successful programs do...not some wunderkind looking to re-invent the wheel and a 5,000 page playbook. I think the majority of our talent is young enough to embrace ANOTHER identity change on offense...but this is it. So they had better find someone who is interested in being here a while and they had better hope he can be successful right away.

It also sounds like our coveted OL coach might be heading to USC to work with the great one...everyone invovled with this pathetic offense of 2009 is abandoning ship...I think it might be the beginning of the end for this whole regime. Next year is going to be tough, but there needs to be some noticeable results and improvements or the whole progrum will be blown up...again.

I know you're all in Viking mode...(for at least 2 more days ;) ) but I wanted to get this out there just in case anyone who cares hadn't heard. Might have gotten the greatest news ever today...we're flying Continental and most of their planes have tv's with access to DirecTv...yeah, may be watching the Purple after all!