For those of you who don't know, Bill Connelly is one of the sharpest writers around. He's the dude who invented S&P+, which has been universally adopted and is essentially part of every intelligent college football discussion. This guy is really smart. There's nothing earth-shattering here, but it's good to see an outsider's perspective.
I think 2 things are essentially commonplace at this point, even from the national writers:
1. Mark Richt is not getting fired this year, no matter what, and he's not resigning. So he will 100.0% be the coach here in 2019. Enough with the new coach polls and threads. If we're in the same spot next year, it might be worth talking about. But it's literally not a remote possibility, so enough. Let's talk about what can realistically happen to fix this situation.
2. Because of #1, the only viable option here is to hire an OC. I really don't see any way in the world that he doesn't make a change. The question to me is, how drastic will the change be? There is simply no way he can head into 2019 with the exact same offensive staff. There will be some shake-up. There simply has to be. If he doesn't want to get fired potentially after next year, he's gotta change at least something. So what will that change be? I think the smallest change possible will be to relinquish play-calling duties to Thomas Brown. That'd be a huge mistake, but at least we can debate it. The best change, IMO, will be to hire an OC from the outside and hand over they keys to the offense, as Connelly describes below. As usual, he hits the nail on the head with the Joe Moorhead example. IMO, Miami needs to go that route. The offense is broken, stale, monotonous, and predictable. It's time for outside influence.
Bill Connelly on the Canes