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[QUOTE="chakka3421, post: 1318164, member: 1091"]
Simplicity is key in college.  FHCDM had just as many plays like FOCGM but found out the hard way that you can't install that many plays in the first couple of years of a new offense.  It's just too much for a college player to remember more than 30-40 plays because of limited practice time (unlike the pros where it's a full time job).  After 3-4 years, you can build upon the base set of plays as upperclassman can help the newbies along outside of formal practices.

This is my case for keeping an offensive coordinator and staff intact for a long time just to build up consistency over time.  HCSS made a strategic error in hiring FOCGM who had no experience as an OC and cost us 2 years in program development.  OCTL is taking the right approach but it's too bad we are already into year 3 of the Shafer years...will they be given enough time to rebuild the offense?

But when it comes right down to it, simplification and a good OC & staff will only take us so far.  You still need good recruits that can be developed into great players to take a program like SU to the next level and win consistently.
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