These are great stats but taken out of context with respect to each different coach's game strategy. Dykes put it all on his offense. Run up tempo and lots of plays and score more points than the other team, but don't worry about defense. Wilcox has a completely different game strategy. His is all about ball control. Offense moves slow, and grinds the clock. Great defense limits scoring. The end result of a Wilcox game is 22 points probably gets you a win. With a Dykes game you better be close to 50 or you're gonna lose. I can't comment on Tedford because while he is the winningest coach in CAL history, and I think he's an awesome coach, he was never consistent in his philosophy, and I think that's what did him in, along with an offensive playbook bigger than some pro teams...how can you ever get a back up QB ready? Joe Ayoob was a great example. Ayoob was a phenomenal athlete and awesome QB. When he played at SFCC coaches who recruited him said he was the best JC QB they had ever seen. So what happened? He was thrown to the wolves after one Spring because of an injury to a starter. He never had a chance in Tedford's system. In conclusion I have like all our coaches and their systems from Tedford till now. Sonny was fun and scored points. But my favorite is Justin Wilcox: he has a philosophy that doesn't change with the breeze like Tedford, and he is building a program designed to get better every year on both sides of the ball, unlike Dykes. Unlike CBS, I don't think we are going 11-1 this year but I think we will be improved again and a 10 win season is not out of the question. We could win 11 and we could win the PAC 12 Championship with our returning talent. Oregon is without Herbert and USC, with the best talent in the PAC12, still suffers from coaching issues in my mind. I for one am looking forward to our next season and I am more certain now than ever that Wilcox was the best hire we have made since Mike White. I just hope he likes Berkeley and we can keep him.
"Sonny Dykes’ offenses always seemed to perform best at the start of the season and then decline over the course of the year"
Which is weird, because it's an offense predicated on execution and familiarity, so the more reps you get the better your players should be at executing it. They should get better over the course of the season.
Also, I'll note that I think the overall grading also is normalized to a background level of satisfaction with the current regime, though obviously that has a dynamic correlation back the other way with the team's performance. But people were pretty happy with the team and the coaching staff by the time of the RedBox Bowl (especially having just won the Axe), so the grades were likely higher than would have been merited purely by the output on the field that day.
I guess the variance could be explained by the backloading of our schedule. I am eager for the future, when Furd is relegated to cupcake status but for now it always seems like our toughest games are at the end of the year.
These are great stats but taken out of context with respect to each different coach's game strategy. Dykes put it all on his offense. Run up tempo and lots of plays and score more points than the other team, but don't worry about defense. Wilcox has a completely different game strategy. His is all about ball control. Offense moves slow, and grinds the clock. Great defense limits scoring. The end result of a Wilcox game is 22 points probably gets you a win. With a Dykes game you better be close to 50 or you're gonna lose. I can't comment on Tedford because while he is the winningest coach in CAL history, and I think he's an awesome coach, he was never consistent in his philosophy, and I think that's what did him in, along with an offensive playbook bigger than some pro teams...how can you ever get a back up QB ready? Joe Ayoob was a great example. Ayoob was a phenomenal athlete and awesome QB. When he played at SFCC coaches who recruited him said he was the best JC QB they had ever seen. So what happened? He was thrown to the wolves after one Spring because of an injury to a starter. He never had a chance in Tedford's system. In conclusion I have like all our coaches and their systems from Tedford till now. Sonny was fun and scored points. But my favorite is Justin Wilcox: he has a philosophy that doesn't change with the breeze like Tedford, and he is building a program designed to get better every year on both sides of the ball, unlike Dykes. Unlike CBS, I don't think we are going 11-1 this year but I think we will be improved again and a 10 win season is not out of the question. We could win 11 and we could win the PAC 12 Championship with our returning talent. Oregon is without Herbert and USC, with the best talent in the PAC12, still suffers from coaching issues in my mind. I for one am looking forward to our next season and I am more certain now than ever that Wilcox was the best hire we have made since Mike White. I just hope he likes Berkeley and we can keep him.
Furd is on the long slow decline for some reason. Maybe it's a burnout situation like Tedford. Maybe not. Maybe they were lucky for a number of years.
"Sonny Dykes’ offenses always seemed to perform best at the start of the season and then decline over the course of the year"
Which is weird, because it's an offense predicated on execution and familiarity, so the more reps you get the better your players should be at executing it. They should get better over the course of the season.
Also, I'll note that I think the overall grading also is normalized to a background level of satisfaction with the current regime, though obviously that has a dynamic correlation back the other way with the team's performance. But people were pretty happy with the team and the coaching staff by the time of the RedBox Bowl (especially having just won the Axe), so the grades were likely higher than would have been merited purely by the output on the field that day.
I guess the variance could be explained by the backloading of our schedule. I am eager for the future, when Furd is relegated to cupcake status but for now it always seems like our toughest games are at the end of the year.