The Tale of Dan Enos: Failure In Numbers

[Awsi Dooger]

I love the whining. Everybody wanted a cupcake coach with tinkerbell stats. If he put up big numbers at some podunk school while running the ball only 5 times per game, everyone would be in delirium.

The idea is to establish an identity, one that is recognizable and can attract recruits from all positions while also allowing us to win big once the personnel is in place. We aren't winning big regardless of offense right now.

That Arkansas style is quarterback friendly along with running backs, fullback, tight end and receivers. Offensive linemen will know they will be asked to run block and pass block in sufficient percentage and toward what the NFL is looking for. There won't be any need for projections.

In short, we are not cutting corners. This style can look bad out of the blocks if some mental midget like N'Kosi Perry is asked to make pre snap decisions and run a pro style offense. But Enos has much higher aspirations than N'Kosi Perry. That is why he is coming here. He knows Miami already has running backs and tight ends who fit his offense, and no reason other pieces cannot be quickly obtained.

I am very impressed that Diaz recognized the potential for this type of offense, as opposed to succumbing like the typical simplistic cupcake fan to a video game variety. And don't ignore for one second that Diaz was influenced by all the problems his defense had with Wisconsin two years in a row. This Enos style is very similar to Wisconsin, other than it is more varied and not quite as power based.

 

[Dwinstitles]

Lets see what happens, aint trying to get excited over nothing unless we finish with a top 3 class next cycle then ill fap

 

[Hurricane21]

but everyone on here would rather have an OC (applewhite,T,Fedora) that got fired vs one that was wanted for two SEC jobs. Plus heavy spread/air raid systems don't win titles. You run those when you don't have talent. That was never our problem. Did any of the other guys have better stats? Didn't think so. You will never get a top OC from a high performing school to come here for the same job. Those guys are fine where they are and want HC jobs.

 

[WhatTheHell]

You do realize that using offense stats vs all other CFB teams when a guy is at Arkansas isn't going to be a great reflection of how good or not good he is as a coach, right?

These parameters were used to evaluate candidates such as Briles at FAU, Harrell at North Texas, Fedora at Southern Miss, Applewhite at Houston, Yost at Utah State, and Dillingham at Memphis, and Enos still comes out looking terrible.

And you mention Arkansas, the stats include his five year inept offensive stop at Central Michigan.

The only guy who couldn’t muster more than one top 25 offense in his near decade of opportunities.

 

[Nlakat13]

It’s time to wake up. At the moment this is not a marquee coaching destination, and you basically can not ruin your program poaching from an elite team like Bama. The U was never gonna get Fedora or an other top OC to just come here after the train wreck season we just had. Hopefully as a recruiter he has ties outside of Fla because we aren’t even getting elite prospects from here anymore.
As for him having a connection with Hurts, he would be an instant upgrade and would hands down win the QB job next year. Alabama doesn’t have a scrub recruit on their roster, they turn away 4 stars. He wouldn’t have been there if he wasn’t a top prospect, and for those who say he lost his job to Tua, he didn’t lose it to a bum, the guy was runner up Heisman and a national champ QB. If you’re gonna get replaced that’s not a bad way for it to happen.
Give the guy time, he might have different ideas that could work. Diaz wouldn’t hire a guy who he thought was gonna be a disaster

 

[For_The_U]

These parameters were used to evaluate candidates such as Briles at FAU, Harrell at North Texas, Fedora at Southern Miss, Applewhite at Houston, Yost at Utah State, and Dillingham at Memphis, and Enos still comes out looking terrible.

Not a single one of those teams play weekly vs SEC defenses.

 

[WhatTheHell]

Not a single one of those teams play weekly vs SEC defenses.

Oh so Penos’ five year slate at Central Michigan was chock-full of LSU and Alabama?

 

[DB4]

We could’ve hired Sean McVay and some of you would’ve cried about it.

"Too young"

 

[JgDaCane]

that arkansas offense was good the year before he got there as well

coley was already Co-OC at georgia. so im guessing he turned down a Co-OC job there, and most likely what was going to be one at bama, to come here to be the sole OC.

this isnt a slamdunk, homerun hire. but it is a safe one

we’ll see.

This was our #1 target & we beat out Uga at minimum for him. You think they’d rather ****bag James Coley? This is an elite hire. You & the other doubters will soon see. We’re going to once again have real QB play here at Miami.

 

[Katzenboyer]

So you would rather have Richt and his 4 verts huh?

That's a clown argument. The poster went out of his way to show stats that indicate that this in no way should be considered a "home run" hire. And the false equivalency you posed now means he'd prefer Richt?

Oregon hired Chip Kelly from NEW HAMPSHIRE. Swinney pulled Chad Morris from TULSA. You can go into the lower levels and find a guy who runs a system that's produced results, or you can go with the Wonder Bread name brand crap that Enos' appears to be shoveling.

Doug Nussmeier. Jim McElwain. All "hot commodity" OCs at Bama. All busts. And there's nothing in Enos' past that indicates he's going to buck that trend.

 

[KevinCaneFace]

I remember when Manny had bad numbers too. Maybe coaches improve, get better, evolve.

It also helps he won't be calling plays for Arkansas (with a forced system) and Central Michigan

 

[3FW]

Great pick. Guy is perfect for what we need. Much better than the others mentioned.

 

[Hurracanes]

Never heard of the guy before this week. But it seems like a weak pick. I don't by the Bama and UGA wanted him as OC hype.

Saban is cleaning house. If Saban wanted him, he’d have him.

 

[1mg of Epi]

There's a reason uga and bama offered him OC jobs....even Sabin and Dabo had bad seasons before becoming champions...why not wait to see before judging him post bama?

I think OPs point is that all of his seasons have been bad.

 

[clg003]

Awesome so now Saban smokes crack and our porsters are college football gurus.

 

[jmiller]

Yep. This is literally the only reason people are excited. The SEC little brother syndrome is strong with our fanbase.

No where just used to hearing things like incarnate world. Easy to see why people are excited to get a on field coach from arguably the best program in the country .

 

[Katzenboyer]

Awesome so now Saban smokes crack and our porsters are college football gurus.

You really think that Saban is being outbid if he didn't want this guy to leave Tuscaloosa?

No chance.

 

[cyrez8]

Saban is cleaning house. If Saban wanted him, he’d have him.

Factually incorrect.

 

[TheEye]

Our only options were Richt and this guy?

Yes.

 

[Liquidstoke]

People are enjoying hyping themselves over the “Bama OC” title he’s held for two weeks, even though he’s never called a single play for Saban.

There’s also rampant and furious *********ion due to the fact that Georgia is rumored to have offered, too. That’s fine, but if you look deeper than that at metrics of substance and numbers that quantify his actual output coaching offenses, there isn’t much to get excited about. There isn’t a pattern showing a history of routinely fielding great offenses.

Let’s look at the results. This is a post examining cold hard facts and indisputable numbers — Not one about who’s rumored to be pursuing him, or his job title, but objective stats. Stats Penos can’t escape.

He was the head coach at Central Michigan from 2010-2014. He had full control of that team. He could’ve run any offense he wanted. Here’s what he did:

Total offense:
2010: 49th
2011: 57th
2012: 64th
2013: 110th
2014: 70th

Scoring Offense:
2010: 82nd
2011: 91st
2012: 64th
2013: 96th
2014: 81st

So he winds up in Arkansas with that Butthead looking weirdo Belima. Here’s what he does as offensive coordinator:

Total Offenss:
2015: 25th
2016: 54th
2017: 94th

Scoring Offense:
2015: 27th
2016: 57th
2017: 61st

If you look at just his resume alone, he’s a terrible candidate. Not only is he not a fit for the style that best suits us AND the one Manny claimed to want, he has nothing in his history to indicate he’s capable of engineering highly powered and productive offenses. He can’t move the ball. He can’t score.

You throw his resume up against a guy like Fedora’s and he gets absolutely run out of the building. People like him because they hear “Alabama offensive coordinator” and we’re so desperate to be good we’ll like anything, so they build a small fire and grunt around it “hur hur Saban hur hur Bama OC” without delving any further into his past production or style.

Coming back to the facts:

Penos produced ONE respectable offensive unit in SEVEN seasons.

We can post homerun gifs or talk about which coaches wanted him, but when it has come time to put a successful offense on the field, he’s failed to do so 85% of the seasons he’s coached.

And those remain the facts.

I hope he has some late-career revelation that turns him into an offensive savant, but as of now, all he’s proven is that’s he’s a journeyman guy running an offense that seldom produces and is pretty opposite of what Manny said he wanted.

God help us all.

Wow Enos sucked so much that the most DOMINANT F*CKING TEAM IN CFB FOR 8 YEARS and the GOD HC OF CFB hired him and wanted to upgrade him into the OC role for the MOST DOMINANT F*CKING TEAM IN CFB.....yeah he really sucks....you are so F*CKING smart....