Three Options on Greg Davis
by OBdoc on Oct 1, 2010 8:20 AM CDT
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I have closely followed the lively debate concerning Greg Davis over the last couple of years and especially the last week and believe there are only 3 potential conclusions we can make regarding the situation. These mutually exclusive conclusions are based on 2 facts and one assumption.
Fact 1: Mack Brown is in charge. When he said he accepted responsibility for the UCLA debacle, he is not just being gracious and protecting his "troops," he is stating the obvious. He can hire and fire pretty much whoever he wants. And UT has the money to get him pretty much whomever he wants.
Fact 2: Greg Davis has been the OC for Brown at UT since 1998 and was the OC for Brown at UNC for the 2 years before that.
Assumption: Greg Davis is incompetent. I don't necessarily agree with that, but it seems to be very much a majority opinion among the BON.
Taking these 2 facts and one assumption together, I can only see 3 possible conclusions that can be reached:
Conclusion 1: Mack Brown is such a poor judge of football talent and so unable to assess what the problems and weaknesses are on his own staff, that he doesn't see Davis to be incompetent. (Seems unlikely to me.)
Conclusion 2: Mack Brown recognizes Davis as inept but for years out of a stubborn and arrogant sense of friendship and loyalty has kept Davis on in a critical position and thereby hurting himself and the entire program, betraying the trust of players and fans who expect the best coaching staff possible. (Seems unlikely also.)
Conclusion 3: Brown has kept Davis on for years because Davis is doing what Brown wants; Davis' approach reflects Brown's approach. (To me, this seems the most likely.) If this is true, then any criticism about unimaginative, conservative, "playing not to lose" offensive schemes needs to be aimed at Brown.
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Get over it
Mack Brown judges talent pretty well. He has more players in the NFL than any other team right now. I would say his loyalty to his staff hurts, but it also helps recruiting. Greg Daivs does pretty good with QB’s. I’m not a fan of him as a OC but it is what it is. Mack is a great HC and if things go further south this season (a loss to OU, NU and another) expect changes. Its a weird season. The O-line is bad, the QB is young and the WR’s are older but not good. In a few years GG will be experienced and will have Mike Davis, D. White and J. Shipley catching passes for him. I know Texas fans don;t think they should have to rebuild, but they run a weird offense that requires rebuilding. It would be different if they could actually run the ball like Alabama where all they had to do is replace the RB.
Conclusion 3
Been my thought for 5 years. Thanks.
GD is doing what Mack wants. Mack doesn’t think replacing him would upgrade the staff/team.
Criticism of Greg Davis ought to be aimed largely at his boss.
I think Mack has become teflon man due to his success. I don’t disagree with that. It does seem unfair to aim what’s really criticism of MB at someone else.
yep
Everyone knows that Mack is in Greg’s ear with many of the play calls, right? He and Davis both have stated that Mack is always suggesting what the next play or 2 plays should be based upon what he is seeing on the field. Mack is an offensive guy, and while he is not calling the plays…..he is heavily involved in the scheme of plays that they are trying each game as well as in-game.
Huh? Where are my Three Options?
I see two facts, one assumption, and three conclusions, but I don’t see anything that qualifies as OPTIONS on how to deal with Greg Davis…
In-VINCE-able.
You're right, the title is unfortunately misleading
What I had in mind was that there were 3 “options” or ways of looking at the situation, but it sounds like I was offering 3 options or ways of dealing with the GD “issue.” Sorry to be misleading. .
"Only angry people win football games." --DKR
GD wants to run the option?
; )
Naw, that would be way too creative for him at this point.
Watch out, I bite.
by EddieTheAlbinoSquirrel on Oct 1, 2010 2:29 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
You left out
what I think is the most likely scenario:
Greg Davis has had extremely damaging blackmail photos of Mack Brown for years.
Everytime Mack says something like “Hey Greg, you think you might want to wake up and actually watch the other team’s game film instead of sleeping in the dark and maybe get somebody out there to teach the receivers how to block on the 24 completely random screens you’re gonna call this week?”
Greg retorts, “Yeah, I’ll get to that in just a minute, say I seem to have misplaced some photos around here somewhere and I’m looking for them, I’ll get to that other stuff as soon as I find them. Would be a shame if they accidentally got posted to my Myspace page.”
Mack: “Take your time Greg, ya need a doctor pepper or anything?”
Whaley vs. C. Michaels, etc.
Texas passed on C Michaels for Whaley. We took Timmons and passed on Uzoma Nwachukwu who is playing well at A&M and Emory Blake from Austin playing at Auburn who is 5 for 72 at 14.4 2 avg.
We also passed on Burkhead and Swope, both clearly talented players. I love our recruiting in general, but I do think that Mack has missed on some obvious calls which I honestly do not understand. There was no reason to pass to on C. Michaels. He was clearly a talent and we could use him. The whole “we promised Whaley he was the only guy” is bizarre and doesn’t even make sense. Most recruiting boards had Whaley at Athlete instead of RB becuase of his obvious size issues while Michaels tore it up the whole time, even in the all star games.
I do not know anything about how much say Davis had vs. Applewhite or Brown in the RB decisions. But there is simply no reason to not get 2 and make sure we have one homer. Even Barry Switzer said he doesn’t understand Texas’ inability to get a homer at RB. Let’s hope M. Brown cures our woes—-but I wish we would recruit A. Green HARD and make sure that we have options. Green is a diffrent type of back and Brown and they compliment each other. No reason for us not to be hard after Green…..and when our OL doen’t open the middle for Brown let’s not blame G. Davis, unless he is the one making the call on the offers.
Also, I personally don’t believe that GG can’t run more. Sure, he is more pro-style, but just like Colt, when it is open and he runs it to get first down. It fires up the the entire O. And, I believe that GG can hit the deep pass and needs the options. He needs to keep the D honest and playing him deep.
Our OL needs to get its shit together. I also do not buy that an OL is either a pass blocker or a run blocker. We want TOP talent and that means they should do both. The fact that Jake Matthews dad laughed at Texas makes me really wonder about what our OL is doing. We have top talent coming, and we need to get them involved to MAUL the opposing D and win whether we decide to run or pass.
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