I would take Butch as HC and Meacham COHC OC HCIW
If Butch were to covet an OC the caliber of Meachem who would bring that type of up-tempo, high octane offense to Miami, then it would dispel my biggest worries about him and I'd be fully on board. But that goes against Butch's highly conservative/vanilla track record offensively, so I'm not holding my breath.
Hearing Dorsey as the potential OC, even though it's the next logical progression in his young coaching career, doesn't have me excited. I want our offense to be able to capitalize on our greatest built-in advantage with a dynamic spread that can light up the scoreboard with speed/RAC on the outside/slot and power in the running game. Maximize the amount of opportunities we have to get the ball into the hands of South Florida skill talent every single game. Seeing some call all variations of the spread "gimmicks" in 2015 makes my head explode.
Maybe that's what Dorsey would plan to bring here, but that's obviously an unknown.
I assume your are referring to the over abundance of speedy athletes in So FL when you mentions "greatest built-in advantage". I agree that is our biggest advantage. Where we part company is your thought that it is best applied to the offense.
We were built, conquered and dominated by load the defensive side of the ball first and foremost. Then
the offense, which frequently got what was, my the Lord forgive me, the leftovers. Eddie Brown, maybe our greatest WR, was a DB. He was move to WR because of depth and need. Sapp was one of top TEs in country -- recruited to grow into classic quick footed Miami DT. Field an classic Miami fast defense unleashed with savage intents and your dynamic spreads will go the way of the once mighty option attacks.
Our Pro style offense
took college football by storm but it was our defense that
rained havoc on the landscape. Those spreads are designed for team without our type of available talent. You do that to "outscore" opponents you can't stop because of your lack of defensive speed. IF your spread can co-exist in an secondary spot to our old style defense then I am on board. But I have never seen the two go together. We can have the greatest defense in the country, one that nobody can duplicate. Everyone can have your "dynamic spread" offense. I'll take my chances with the one of a kind defense.
You know why I bolded so much of your post? Because it was all about things that happened 15 years ago.
You dismiss the "dynamic spread" offense even though Ohio State and Oregon beat the **** out of Alabama and Florida State's defenses, respectively, in the inaugural CFB playoff just one year ago with variations of the spread. They're not gimmicks. They're here to stay and will only evolve further beyond 2015.
This shouldn't be an either-or discussion. Both our offense and defense are irreparably broken and need to be fixed. The two teams that played in last year's championship game had elite offenses by every statistical measure. The old saying goes "defense wins championships," but you have no chance of playing for one in today's college football landscape without also having an offense that can light up the scoreboard.
2014 - Ohio State ranked 5th in points per game. The runner-up, Oregon, ranked 4th. Baylor and TCU had the highest-scoring offenses in the country and lost just one game apiece. Many felt they were hosed out of a playoff berth.
2013 - Florida State ranked 2nd in PPG
2010 - Auburn ranked 4th in PPG
Three of the last five national champions had elite, Top 5 scoring offenses. The outliers were Alabama in 2011-2012 with scoring offenses ranked 12th and 20th, respectively. Not elite, but still very good. Bama's defenses were dominant, but their offenses weren't liabilities by any means.