I agree with your overall point but the Enos part is factually incorrect. Enos was part of the Alabama staff & Saban was going to rely heavily on Enos to run the offense.
I think the biggest single issue is that Enos doesn't have the horses on the OL to run the type of offense he would have run at Alabama. HE HAS TO ADJUST OR HE WILL FAIL.
There is serious talent on offense. Virtually all teams in CFB would love to have Brevin & Mallory. JT4 has shown in the past that he can be electric. Pope has real potential (just needs to be more consistent). Osborn is dependable & moves the chains. Wiggins has elite speed & can be mixed in. Hightower could really develop for us. Deejay makes plays. This offense should be attacking the **** out of opponents & letting guys with great speed run in open space. I think it has been too conservative, too condensed within a 15-20 yard area from the LOS (which actually makes things harder -- if that's all you do -- as opponents will start sitting on those routes) and too much predicated on having a solid OL (which we don't).
I think Enos & Manny are so worried about limiting mistakes on offense that it's limiting our ability to be explosive & score points. We saw what Kosi & the offense was capable of against Va Tech. With the right playcalling, he could be throwing for over 300 yards on a fairly consistent basis. N'Kosi isn't perfect but he certainly appears to have matured significantly. He also seems determined to limit head scratching type mistakes. Let's spread out opponents, get our athletes in space, throw vertically more often, be more attacking & dynamic on offense and score more points. Outside of the forced comeback against Va Tech, what we've been doing has been so conservative that it has just stifled the offense. Miami was always at its best when we innovated & revolutionized CFB (moving safeties to LB etc/getting serious speed at every position on the field, Dennis Erickson's offense). The blueprint for major success has all been laid out in the past. Coaches like Baker & Enos don't have to invent anything new, they can look to the past for offenses that are far more dynamic than what we're running now....and those offenses didn't always have great OLs.
I think we forget that Enos spent one season at Bama. Locksley was the mind behind Bama’s Offensive philosophy. Thus far, both Hurts and Tua r both looking far spectacular w/o Enos as their QB coach.
Enos’ offense, while at CMU, always stayed in the bottom tier, statically, each year:
2010 - 82nd in total offense
2011 - 91st in total offense
2012 - 63rd in total offense (best yr)
2013 - 96th in total offense
2014 - 81st in total offense
While at Arkansas, his offense was a bit hit first yr; then it plummeted each year thereafter:
2015 - 27th in total offense
2016 - 57th in total offense
2017 - 61st in total offense
So while we were complaining about Richt during this time, Miami was actually the better offensive team in both 2016, 2017.
I know fans like to give Enos credit for Bama in 2018, b/c Canesport put that ish on his Bio, but truth be told, prior to Enos, Lane Kiffin brought Bama’s O to the 21st Century.
Under Kiffin, Bama was:
2014 - 15th in total offense
2015 - 30th in total offense (worst yr)
2016 - 15th in total offense
Then one yr under Daboll:
15th in total offense
Under Locksley (w Enos as QB coach)
3rd in total offense
Without Locksley and Enos this yr
2nd in total offense
Enos and our fans are putting a false feather in his cap. I’m telling you, we are running his offense now. He’s been nothing more than a middle of the road to bottom tier “offensive mind.” He’s stealing $1m. He now puts Bama on his resume and he’s using that to draw interest. We were the suckers to fall for it.
He reminds me of our old CEO; one convo w this dude and I knew he was unqualified. Peeped his linked in page; he took two classes at Harvard and hung his hat on it. Once he got in to a Sr position w one Fortune 500 company (although they are now bankrupt thanks to him), he’s been able to bounce from Sr leadership position to Sr leadership position, getting fired w the golden parachute to his name. Dude has made more $$ failing than anyone I’ve ever known. But it all started back in 1992 when he was able to put Harvard on his resume. Never graduated, but he did attend.
Enos is what he is, but Bama on the resume made him look like a home run hire. He’s nothing more than a dribbling first base hit.
