I find it very interesting (and telling) when people complain about his play calling. His role **should** go far beyond play calling duties. He's not playing ncaa26 and just picking which plays to run. The job of an offensive coordinator is to COORDINATE the entire offense. That job starts in the spring in a meeting room with the other position coaches and he has been out of his depth since then. The problem with hiring him had nothing to do with his play calling. A true offensive coordinator is responsible for designing, developing and implementing offensive scheme and identity. You can tell from some of Elkos pressers since spring ball by some of the little comments he's made that Wiggins isn't doing those things well.

When people say the problem is the plays he's calling that's like saying my CPA sucks because he's not good at filing my tax returns. That's the least of my worries. The problem is the lack of experience actually coming up with and implementing the plan. The play calling is the end result of the planning and offensive identity.

As a former offensive coordinator at the HS level, you want to know a little secret? There were games where I'd let my position coaches take over the play calling duties and didn't see a single change in offensive efficiency because guess what, I had done the job on Sunday, and Monday and Tuesday and in spring ball establishing offensive identity to the point anyone associated with our program could call plays. That's the fun part.

So you think everything is fine?

Hard to eval when QB is ranked 173rd out of 168.

But, I agree it's not just play calling that is their responsibility.

TyperWoods said:

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Hard to eval when QB is ranked 173rd out of 168.

But, I agree it's not just play calling that is their responsibility.

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Do I think Marcel was overrated at his high point? Sure....but there's absolutely no way you fall from a guy that would have been invited to NY for the heisman ceremony prior to the Texas game to suddenly the worst QB in football. Some other major external forces are a large factor in what he's doing and his performance. If we had no offensive staff changes I doubt we'd have seen this major fall by Reed.

I'll also add I think Wiggins strength is just a recruiter. I've never been blown away by his WR coaching. Our routes under him have been poor and our wr show no effort blocking. I miss the effort our WR's gave under Beaty during Johnny's time. Those guys never took a play off. If you watch guys like Horton now, he takes A LOT of plays off. Your WR blocking is critical in the run game.

I hadn't thought about this until I watched the Tres Amigos podcast this week. I had seen open receivers and lanes for the RBs. Then they said the primary responsibility of the OC is to coordinate all of the position through the week, season and year to be on the same page. The OC had to match the scheme to strengths of the personnel. In their opinion Wiggins was not doing that.

I think Elko made a big mistake promoting Wiggins to OC but I also think the die was cast when they stuck with Reed. I'm not sure any established OC wanted to come with Reed at QB1 or at least we thought that continuity would help. The Reed and Wiggins decisions led to Lynch and Perry too which have been bad as well. I do think he will fix these mistakes but he's learned a very hard lesson.