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[QUOTE="supp, post: 1560157, member: 702"]
You make a good point, except for the "run a program" part.  Shafer's biggest problem seems to be that he didn't have much of a plan as head coach, other than reassembling his buddies in Syracuse.  The defense, he knew.  He was going to run his d and do it with someone who shared his philosophy.  But the approach on offense was remarkably disinterested, as if anything his chosen OC slapped together could work.  Well, that sounds to me like someone who wasn't ready to be a head coach and hadn't spent a ton of time thinking about how he'd run his own program outside of reuniting his friends.  Sure, all head coaches draw on their social network to a certain extent to fill their staff but not at the expense of a long-term vision and strategy.

And so decisions are made but without any kind of systematic thinking.  We as fans see the clearest evidence of this lack of systematic thinking during games but it's everywhere.  In my mind, you're either a systematic thinker or you're not.  I don't think Shafer has shown much evidence that he is one.  His ceiling is DC.
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