I still think this is a better hire than Kendall Briles (and you'll be hard pressed to find a bigger Briles fan than I). I say that because at least he has led HS programs (and Texas HS football is a big deal). He also coached in the Army All American game...you don't do that unless you can coach.Flipper wrote:Shows what I know....here I was calling the possibility of hiring Kendal Briles nutty and we go out and hire his doppelganger.
Looking forward to seeing today's press conference
From what I've seen of the resume I love this hire.
I do wonder what we'll look like on offense going forward. I know everybody sees Texas Tech and says it's another offense the same as what we have been running, but that's really not accurate. At least not with what Texas Tech was doing under Leach. I haven't watched them much under Kingsbury, and I figured the system he ran would be similar to what he played in under Leach, but looking at the stats perhaps it IS closer to what we've seen with Dino. Under Leach the air raid (he was one of the fathers of the system at Kentucky actually) was a spread it out horizontally and simplistic pass concepts. It was a pass heavy offense with little running, and unlike the Briles/Babers system they didn't spread the field vertically nearly as much as they did horizontally. It was a system based on simple concepts; pre snap looks pre-determined if the QB was gonna look left or right. Each side was running a route combo that basically made the QB's job one simple read (after taking the presnap usually from the sideline). QB would read one DB and that would determine which route he was throwing to on that side of the field. Very simple, very difficult to stop. Briles/Babers employed a lot of this, but did so by stretching the field vertically, and incorporating the run game to a much larger degree.
Now under Kingsbury Texas Tech has definitely run the ball more than they did under Leach. I'm also guessing that they've started throwing the ball downfield more as well since the QB completion percentage and yards/attempt numbers are more in line with what Johnson posted this year.
I'm curious how Jinks feels about tempo as well. The Briles/Babers/Kelly quick tempo game was NOT traditionally something that Mike Leach did at TT, but I'm not sure if Kingsbury has adopted some of that or not. And obviously, I don't know if Jinks will want to carry that forward or not.
Either way I see this as an excellent hire. Seems like a highly respected young coach that has roots in a high scoring offensive system. I hope that he keeps the "Falcon Fast" stuff, because to me THAT Is what made Babers' offense special, and it's the best way to play football. I hope he has Dino's guts and confidence in the system as well. Punting on 4th & short is almost always stupid, and I love that we have had a HC that realized that...I hope Jinks does as well. Dino was ahead of the curve with football concepts, and I hope Jinks is as well. The offense should be fun, but Dino was more than just a flashy system...he backed it up with how he called every other aspect of the game.
