He is already more than half again better than Debord.
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Big money. Hopefully it's smart money.
Kalen DeBoer is set to become Indiana’s offensive coordinator, sources told FootballScoop on Friday.
DeBoer spent the past two seasons as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Fresno State. He also previously coordinated offenses for Eastern Michigan, Southern Illinois and Sioux Falls.
DeBoer replaces Mike DeBord, who announced his retirement on Dec. 30.
He is already more than half again better than Debord.
Well from I read that his offensive lines gave up a total of 22 sacks the last two years so the OL did well.As I stated, I think Indiana needs to build an offense from the offensive line out. We can probably scheme and skill our way to 6 wins per year, but if we truly want to be successful, the offensive line needs to be on a road grader level. They need to be able to consistently move people, that's what I want to see.
In baseball terms, I honestly don't know what we just hit?? Is it a Pete Rose dive into second with a close but late tag??
There is no guarantee that Tuttle will get the eligibility waiver. There is no clear evidence that Penix will be 100% by fall. Ramsey has another year to improve his arm strength with a good SC coach. Don’t count him out just yetI think Ramesy is done for sure. Now it comes to Penix or Tuttle. Tuttle is a lot more athletic than people give him credit for. Now is he a true "runner" no. The guy can still get out of the pocket and make plays. Penix we'll just have to wait and see how his knee does.
He is already more than half again better than Debord.
Yep...it is a good day.I'm not sure what impresses me more? That we made such a good hire or that we opened the checkbook and dropped $800K/Year on an OC? Either way, this is exciting news!
Just need to find out how much he’s going to be paid, because that will determine how much success he will have at IU dws
yeah, i don't like this hire either. the names are eerily similar. how much different can this guy be?We went from being "De" Bor(e)d to just being "De" Boer (Bore). Hope we dont see anymore boring offense from now on. VBG. Welcome to BTown Kalen!
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Whoa! We're paying $800k for a Coordinator?
I love the hire, for several reasons. He's good, he's young(despite the fact that older coaches are THE BEST IN THE WORLD, I like how players like being able to relate to younger coaches), & I'm proud of our staff for stepping outside of the usual ho hum, conservative, predictable hire(& predictable play caller). Even if it doesn't work out, I like the hire, & the willingness to hire this coach, specifically.
Fresno State BLEW UP under this guy the last couple of seasons. They were a 1-11 team 2 years ago, & their offense was dreadful--17.7 ppg, 329 ypg, & just 3,2 ypc. They improved drastically under DeBoar, & believe me, that was no small feat(I watch a lot of Mountain West football). The only thing I don't like is the elephant in the room--which is his last name.....Pretty Luke warm enthusiasm though.
No one is guaranteed success, but where in his track record does it show anything but positive results?
I live in Wyoming and by default catch Mountain West games. I concur that Fresno was atrocious offensively a few years ago.
Excited about the hire. Yes he has better talent but he will be going up against better talent. Can't wait for the season to begin.Someone said “they’ll think it’s his son!”
If he lights it up, and I do think he’ll be an improvement (bc he’s got better talent now) people will love his name!
I agree. DeBoer is walking into a good situation. There's plenty of talent on IU's offensive roster. He's getting paid major coin to turn that talent into points on the scoreboard.The lack of talent card simply can not be used anymore...Thank God! When you can turn to a two year starter, or two former 4* quarterbacks, mixed with a plethora of talent at RB/WR, it's on Deboer to show what he's got.
The no talent theme left the building a while ago...
I agree we need to be cautiously optimistic. He does have some nice parts to work with.At the lowest level?? Color me as FIRMLY in the wait and see mode...
Looking back on last year, the defense wasn't very good. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but they took a tremendous step back from the previous year. The offense certainly could've been better but I think the defense really needs to improve.
The lack of talent card simply can not be used anymore...Thank God! When you can turn to a two year starter, or two former 4* quarterbacks, mixed with a plethora of talent at RB/WR, it's on Deboer to show what he's got.
The no talent theme left the building a while ago...
This is true and as td points out we have a lot of decent talent in the skill spots but we are probably looking at breaking in a new red shirt freshman QB unless PR steps up his arm strength big time.You are right about the skill positions on offense, TD. But if you look at our OL on the scholarship chart, there are some holes. I think we have some good potential on the OL but a lot of it is either young ( true and RS frosh) or with very little game experience (Caleb Jones and DaVondre Love).
I expect the strength of our OL to be guard to guard: Nworah, Crider, Littlejohn & Stepaniak have all been around and have a lot of game experience. The tackle spots (aside from Cronk) don't have a lot of game experience coming back.
i wouldn't say we have a plethora of talent at wr. some talent, but certainly no more than most big ten programsThe lack of talent card simply can not be used anymore...Thank God! When you can turn to a two year starter, or two former 4* quarterbacks, mixed with a plethora of talent at RB/WR, it's on Deboer to show what he's got.
The no talent theme left the building a while ago...
i wouldn't say we have a plethora of talent at wr. some talent, but certainly no more than most big ten programs
Hopefully out outstanding speed merchant, Dr. Rhea can help us out there in the off season.We need more speed at WR. Whop has trouble staying healthy.
Hopefully out outstanding speed merchant, Dr. Rhea can help us out there in the off season.
I wonder what DeBord thinks of that?It was never going to be $500,000 range per my source. Too low and a bad impression.
I wonder what DeBord thinks of that?
Going into year 2 with Dr. Rhea, we should see some continued gains.
Still early, but what I saw is that we're certainly able to increase the top speed of our offensive players once they get going. Ramsey had some big runs while healthy that he wouldn't have made in 2017.
Of course, you're going to need 15-20 yards running in a straight line to really get going and use that speed. Increasing quickness and explosiveness seems to be harder.
There were a couple where he ran away from everyone. That dude has serious wheels.Agree with you on Ramsey and some of his big runs. I would also point out he showed some juke a couple times while running, especially on his long TD run against Maryland, that we had not seen from him before.