(01-07-2018 08:59 AM)The Knight Time Wrote:  Briles is a way better offensive coach than Kiffin. It will be very hard for someone else to come to FAU to keep that level of output. Briles was available before purely due to the extreme level of baggage he brought.

This is absolutely true. Kendall Briles obviously grew up as an Art Briles coaching disciple, and in my opinion is one of the most brilliant offensive minds in football. I said so right here on this board back when FAU hired Briles. A lot of fans on this board --particularly on the east coast-- just don't know K Briles, and just how good his offenses schemes are/were.

This coaching change can potentially be a HUGE loss for FAU and Lane Kiffin. I'm not saying Kiffin can't or won't replace Briles with another good OC, but the likelihood of Kiffin hiring another OC as good as Briles is very unlikely, particularly at a G5 school, where the salaries are typically much less. The stars aligned just right for Kiffin to hire Briles a few months ago, but Kiffin is about to learn how difficult it is to hire and keep top coaches at a G5 school on G5 salaries.

I agree with Ragu and goliath. Did Briles implement a Baylor-esk high-tempo offense as the OC? Of course. He was the one relaying the calls. But to say this was Briles' offense or that he is a better offensive coach than Kiffin is foolish.

The combination of Briles' tempo, Lane's play-calling, Chris' defense, and the #6 special teams efficiency was behind our success this season. We could easily replace Briles - but when Lane leaves, that will be a huge loss.

(01-07-2018 10:06 AM)goliath74 Wrote:  

(01-07-2018 02:04 AM)pesik Wrote:  

(01-07-2018 01:25 AM)goliath74 Wrote:  "Besides running the ball"? That's the most important part of FAU's offense. It was so before Briles and it will be so after Briles.

That was absolutely not a Baylor defense. This was a run-first, devil may care offense. Whatever works - worked.

Thing about signs - every coach today does signs, just like anyone else, FAU used a mixture of hand signs and cardboard signs. I looked at FAU's opponents this year and everyone used signs.

FAU had used a hurry-up defense for the last three years before Briles, and FAU had used it with Briles and will, most likely do it after Briles.

Sure there were some elements that Briles had brought to FAU, but FAU had always had a different personnel than anything Briles had to play with at Baylor.

"Besides running the ball"?
My point: besides it being technically "running" plays how kiffin ran the ball at bama and usc was completely different than how it was ran at fau...
at bama and usc, it was loaded to the center and power running down the middle..with fau it was about spreading the field and getting open space to run..

and you arent familiar with a baylor offense at all..baylor's offense is RUN FIRST...people mix it up with the air raid..not sure why..there is atleast a 1000yds rusher in every briles offense the last 11 years...

fau didnt have any good qbs like at baylor...here is what baylors offense would have looked like if they didnt have a qb...notice the huge rushing numbers. KB was calling the plays, 3 baylor qbs injured, 400yds rushing the first half alone




here is an article talking about how kiffin had to get used to giving up control of the offense, becuase he hates when head coaches get too involved and how its strange because he had to give it up to style completely different that his. but he likes to add his concepts in here and there.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/fau-o...story.html

you also dont get the playbook comment...every coach uses signs to reference plays on a playbook....there is no playbook to reference in the baylor offense..

read this article about how baylors offense worked
https://www.si.com/college-football/2016...e-football
note how it says there is no written playbook in the briles playbook like most offenses in college football (this article was before he was ever at fau).. now go back and watch faus games online (which i just did) they note it numerous times how fau has no written playbook..kendal briles just controls the offense with hand signs...a key element of the baylor offense

kiffins offense had a playbook


there an article i read this morning by Seth Galina breaking down faus offense..the summary was that your offense was baylors offense without a qb good enough to put up quite the numbers baylor did (70 in a half)

from my talk i can tell you arent familiar with the technicalities of football...there are hundreds of methodology on how to run the ball. they are hundreds of types of uptempo offenses...Results vary with all/ this wasnt kiffin's offense, you are naive to think so..and the baylor offense is extremely unique. youd need to hire a baylor guy to keep it going. just putting in anybody wont give you the same result...and kiffin doesnt know how to run the baylor offense. even says as much in the article above (he is a pro-style guy)

That's just silly. FAU does run through the middle between the tackles, quite a bit. Singletary got behind one of the three all-conference OLs (why do you think FAU had 3 1st team all-conference OLs?) and ran straight up, north-south. So, you are wrong there, already. Realizing that you had no clue of how FAU played, I stopped reading your post there.

Now, FAU may change run plays now that two of those big mothers up front are graduating. But that is for the next year. Reality is Briles may have installed Baylor offense at FAU in August, but by game 4 FAU has totally thrown it out the window when the entire offensive strategy changed with the replacement of the starting QB.

From that point on, FAU's offense was nothing like Baylor's offense. Different styles, different plays. Granted, FAU's personnel was different and running Baylor's offense without Baylor's personnel is tough. Sounds like you haven't watched many of FAU's games. I would bet you had not seen a single FAU game outside of a few highlights.

Dude as an FAU fan I can tell you are wrong. Lane pushed the change at QB pushed foir more running, had a hand in some play calling IE where should we attack this team etc.
But that was KB's offense.

Lane most likely keep most of the offense and find someone to run as he see's it should be run.
We return a ton of talent and will upgrade at the QB position.