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Tee Martin

There may be a candidate that Manny wants to keep under wraps for public perception purposes until the person is cleared by risk-management. He mentioned something about Is getting dotted and Ts getting crossed on the radio yesterday and I believe things are in the works.
 
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If he's coming as OC it better be as a Co-OC / Qb coach and not the play caller. Only way I'd be ok with this.
 
ddann said:
So... basically what you guys are saying is that Tee Martin is the “ace recruiter” version of Pat Nix.
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No because he’s coached 2 top 20 offenses in the last 3 years. It’s funny how tee Martin does that but everyone gloss over that and act like he would be a terrible hire....
 
He can say the only thing that stopped him was a 17 year old HS senior at qb....... And STILL he had better numbers then any of our qbs with less talent then we had. Y'all are hilarious man Darnold carried Tee yet the qb coach and HC didn't think he was starter worthy the first 2 games of his first year but somehow Tee knew how to make it work when Darnold went in
 
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ThomasM said:
This is a crappy hire, and not the innovative, attacking type I had hoped for. But what do I know, I'm just a fellow ******. Just like you.
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Who's the innovative, attacking type you hoped for? Major Applewhite? Larry Fedora? 2 guys who were fired themselves as well?

And for the record, I really wanted/want Fedora. I think he'd do great here. And I'd be OK with Applewhite. But Martin is absolutely a fine hire too, if it's him. You need good football players to be good at football. This guy gets them.
 
My question would be, is he a fit with the scheme that Manny said he wants to run on offense? I can admit that I haven’t followed Tee’s whole career, so I don’t know if he had any experience with a spread offense. From a recruiting standpoint.... great! Play calling... meh. If he’s trying to run a spread attack.... pass me a drink!!! Long season fellas.... again
 
Here are Tee Martin's USC offense ranks against FBS teams with winning records, take it for what you will. I like to do it this way since it gives somewhat of a quality team versus cupcake teams.

2016 (Total Games:6)
Yards/Game: 422.7 (37th)
Yards/Play: 5.98 (34th)
Off Points/Game: 23.7 (67th)
RZ TD Conversion %: 57.14 (68th)
3rd Down Conversion %: 43.9 (23rd)

2017 (Total Games:9)
Yards/Game: 494.3 (6th)
Yards/Play: 6.57 (7th)
Off Points/Game: 30.3 (21st)
RZ TD Conversion %: 51.28 (88th)
3rd Down Conversion %: 41.73 (30th)

2018 (Total Games:7)
Yards/Game: 335.4 (96th)
Yards/Play: 5.13 (82th)
Off Points/Game: 21.4 (83rd)
RZ TD Conversion %: 57.14 (71st)
3rd Down Conversion %: 36.73 (64th)


Martin had no problem moving the ball his first two years, but he also had the benefit of a Sam Darnold/Ronald Jones/JuJu core in 2016 and Darnold/Jones/Burnett core in 2017. I think the alarming stat here is the inability to convert RZ opportunities into TDs, which he's never been good at during any part of his juncture. In my opinion, this is where you really find the true quality of an OC's play-calling aptitude. The ability to get it across the plane when the defense is on high alert and has a much smaller ground to cover. We've seen it time again since the Golden years up until Richt, where we get a bunch of chunk yardage, only to have to settle for 3 points instead of 7. The elite offenses of the world like the Clemsons and Oklahomas are hovering at 65%.

Some will say Tee gets a pass in 2018 because Darnold/Jones are gone. But those numbers above are absolutely horrible, given it was year 3 of his offense.

If he ends up coming here, he's going to need to bring in or develop elite talent at the QB position or else it's most likely will end up being Richt/Rosier pt II
 
jnf2257 said:
It’s been a week. That’s a good amount of time when it comes to hiring a staff.

Again. Im holding him to his own standards. He wanted a staff in place by tonight. He hasn’t made one **** hire. He doesn’t have much time left.
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You can’t confirm whether he’s hired anyone or not, no one has confirmed anything because no one outside of his staff knows anything, For all we know he probably signed the position coaches already, and is just waiting on the OC to sort out any contract issues, or vice versa, also Manny retracted his statements yesterday when he said that in a perfect scenario he would love to have the hire be done by the 10th but doesn’t mind stringing it longer if its what it takes to make a good hire.
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
Who's the innovative, attacking type you hoped for? Major Applewhite? Larry Fedora? 2 guys who were fired themselves as well?

And for the record, I really wanted/want Fedora. I think he'd do great here. And I'd be OK with Applewhite. But Martin is absolutely a fine hire too, if it's him. You need good football players to be good at football. This guy gets them.
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They were NOT fired from failing as OC. They were PROMOTED from OC jobs to HC to begin with. Tee Martin was not promoted to HC due to his incredible play calling, but fired from play calling. You honestly can't see the difference? I guess love is blind.
 
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