So Spring Practice is underway and the guys have had some great weather to play in. This is Coach Baber's second spring practice with the team.
The last unresolved winter point was about who was going to be the OC. As we know, BG's previous two co-offensive coordinators left for the same position with Tulsa, which has hired a fellow cult members and is going to be Hurricane Fast.
The co-OCs will be Mike Lynch and Sean Lewis. Lynch coached RBs last year and this year is coaching RBs and the O-line, which is an odd combo. Seems like we are still down one guy. Anyway, he was at EIU before Babers got there and Babers kept him on. It is unclear if he counts as being in the cult or not.
Lewis is coaching QBs. He coached WRs last year.
Andrew Sowder, who was Director of Player Personnel and Recruiting, will now coach the outside WRs. Kim McCloud, who was DC, is now coaching the inside WRs.
Of course, Coach Babers calls the plays anyway, so not sure how strong these distinctions are. This sort of arrangement has been considered likely for a while, as the hiring season came and went without BG hiring any outside coaches besides the new DC.
Here is something else I don't get in addition to having one person coach both the running backs and offensive line. If the system is so specific, so unique and so "cult-like" that nobody new can come in, what about when he got to Eastern Illinois originally? Lynch was retained from the old staff and Lewis was a GA at Akron. Their offensive line coach (now at Western Michigan, interestingly) also had no background with Babers. Very, very strange and inconsistent to say the least.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. Seems to go in circles.
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