His tenure is certainly a weird deal. IU was 6-2 and finished #12 in the country in 2020. Their highest end of season ranking I can recall. 82 of the 85 players were ones he signed. Bottom fell out in 2021. Maybe due to coaches leaving? Players leaving at the 2020 season? Maybe he got burnt out? The fact remains that coaching football at IU is one of the toughest jobs in the country
Lol, yeah, you really have to look at what a dumpster fire they've been to decide if KW or Allen did "well".
Lee Corso was the coach there in the late 80s and his record was woeful. Sam Wyche was the HC there for 1 season (1983) and I think they went 3-8. Prior to that he was the QB coach for the SF 49ers (1979-1982)...umm, we know who he coached during those years. Even after going 3-8 with Indiana in 1983, he still got the HC job with the Bengals. Point is, guys who know football and obviously good coaches, failed miserably at Indiana. Making the jump from an assistant in college to HC is not as easy or natural as many people think. For a college head coach, it's not all about x's and o's. All these guys know the x's and o's stuff. It's really about organization and management and there's a crap ton to manage at the college level. It's also about who you know in the coaching ranks and who can you convince to come help you with a rebuild (and in some cases convincing young athletes that coming to play at a place that is clearly basketball centric with one of the biggest personalities in college sports coaching the men's basketball team would be a good thing for them) is key. Kragthorpe was a master at it. Graham was good at it (until his aspirations got in his way of focusing at the job at hand and looking at the next big "dream job"). Burns was awful at it. Do I think Burns understood x's and o's, especially on defense? Sure. He was brutal with the other stuff. I think BB was actually good at the management stuff but let his ego get in the way in terms of the x's and o's and not giving up a little control. Monty...not sure he cared about or for the management stuff and we all know his ego dragged him down. He did convince an awful lot of good assistants to come to TU and be a part of it though.
Yeah, it's too bad that season was shortened as that was an all-time great defense for TU.
We're only making an OC change if someone comes and gets Spurrier which would suck. I think he has a lot of credibility in recruiting and I think he's a good QB coach. Now that it seems we've ID'd Francis as the QB moving forward barring a stud coming via the portal, I think Francis has a lot of the requisite skills and football IQ needed to run the offense successfully.
Iirc only 7 of the 22 starters for the final game started their career at TU on scholarship. Put another way, the roster and recruiting was so atrociously mismanaged over the last two years of PM, a majority of our team was walk ons, former walk ons, and transfers. The current group of underclassmen do not promise to remedy that in the next two years.
