We know him well, and his name is Bruce Arians. I’d like to suggest my perfect coach, who just happens to be available. (For you who don’t know the city, Ridge Avenue makes lots of twists and turns, and even reverses itself on occasion.) Perhaps then, we’d have the Ridge Avenue Offense. Anyway, I’d like a coach who adapts his schemes to the ability of his players and not the other way around. I’ll bet Pat Kraft already has about fifty applications on his computer, and I’m sure he’s been quietly been exploring for some time. There’s no easy answer here but one thing’s for sure, we have to avoid taking the safe route just because we’re tired of always looking for a new coach. But how do we get truly outstanding coordinators at our pay level? As Jensen mentions, if he’d bring in outstanding coordinators it might be the perfect fit.
Ed Foley is a great guy and seems to be a solid administrator. Jensen also says he’d be happy with our Assistant Head Coach Foley. I think it’s a real stretch to jump to head coach. His main measurable strength is recruiting and has not been a coordinator. Well, Jensen had an interesting take in the Inky today and mentioned Francis Brown, our former defensive backs coach with Rhule, and who’s down at Baylor with him now. You have the chance to be my first follower. An infamous Inquirer sports writer suggested I do this. For more on this subject please go to on Twitter. Overall Grade: 80 – 82 (B-) – Basically, he learned to be a head coach on our time.
Bruce arians past teams coached plus#
Good: Esprit de Corp with the players which helped recover from two disastrous losses at the start of the season – Recruiting seemed to be a plus – Defense continually got betterīad: Patenaude’s “Broad Street Offense” – Poor recognition of who the QB should be (got it right on the third try, though) – Refused to acknowledge mistakes, including letting Armstead play injured Used to be we held on to coaches for five years, but now its dwindled down to two. Why not as a head coach? Who better to develop Anthony Russo than the original quarterback whisperer? Arians has promised to be at next year’s Cherry and White game. Dave “Fizzy” Weinraub, a former Temple player, suggests that Temple do the same with its former coach, Bruce Arians, a younger, more vital, version of Brown and certainly someone who still has a lot of love for Temple as proven by the above photo. They could not beat Temple because of the brilliant coaching of Bruce Arians and the elusiveness of Palmer.Īs far as under-the-radar wins by winning Temple teams, it has to be near the top of the list.īruce rode his players hard and 30 years later they still love him for it and he loves them and TUĮditor’s Note: North Carolina recently hired former coach Mack Brown to take it to the next level. Virginia Tech beat an 8-2-2 Clemson team, in addition to Virginia, West Virginia, Syracuse, Kentucky and Vanderbilt, among others. The only other loss Virginia Tech had that season was to Cincinnati in its opener. That season the Hokies finished their season by beating North Carolina State (8-3-1), 25-24, in the Peach Bowl–which was one of the top bowl games in 1986. Temple finished that 1986 season 6-5 and that day handed Virginia Tech one of its only two losses of the season. Palmer ran for 239 yards, the most Virginia Tech allowed to a single player in its history until that point. Saltz also connected with 4.3 sprinter Keith Gloster on a perfectly thrown 52-yard touchdown bomb.) (Lee Saltz was the Temple quarterback in the Oyster Bowl and was credited for a touchdown toss on a shovel pass that gave the Owls a 7-0 lead. Baker did play 11 games as a backup the next season and became the Temple starter in 1988. Baker was a redshirt freshman that year who made the trip but did not play. We were reminded of that win after seeing a photo yesterday of Matty Baker, the quarterback from that era, and Paul Palmer, the star of the game. The Oyster Bowl–like the Mirage Bowl in Japan–was one of two “bowl games” the Owls participated in during the regular season and the win was impressive both in Temple’s dominance of the “home” team and how good Virginia Tech was that season. Paul Palmer and Matty Baker get together 35 years after the Oyster Bowl.
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