okeefe4prez
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I would give him an A-. I can't give him an A+ because there a few things he needs to improve and I think he and Ferentz know exactly what those are.
IMHO they are:
1) SOMETIMES (like once a game at most) he needs to get the play in a little faster.
2) SOMETIMES the quarterbacks who aren't Juco transfers tend to start to clam up a LITTLE bit the longer they've been in the system and regress SLIGHTLY with time. We didn't see this with Chandler or Banks, but some of the other QBs seemed to have regressed slightly as they try to minimize costly mistakes.
3) ON OCCASION O'Keefe doesn't respond properly to pressure with screens, slants and other quick throws and he doesn't always seem to give the QB the option to check down when needed.
I think all of these are because O'Keefe is too much of a perfectionist. Though I'm obviously not a witness to all of the practices, it seems to me like the offense practices a fairly limited playbook and focuses on running a limited number of plays to absolute perfection and that when we try to deviate from those core plays the kids mess something up (e.g., the multiple motion penalties every time we tried to run that quick count QB sneak this year - a play that has not been a KOK staple for the past 13 years), which then causes a greater reliance on the core plays we can run to perfection.
I think some of you guys are unnecessarily hard on O'Keefe, as you seem to act like we're the only team on the field and you never give credit to the other team. The teams that we lost to this year for the most part had pretty good defenses and sometimes your guys just can't execute because the defense is taking things away. I know we've seen some Iowa defenses do that to opposing teams.
7-6 is prolly right about where this ballclub should have been, we should have beaten Minnesota but lost to Michigan. ISU was a tossup and unfortunately, we dropped that one.
Instead of bashing our kids and coaches, let's give credit to some of these opposing teams - MSU, Nebraska, PSU (pre-Sandusky), Oklahoma and ISU had some stretches where they played darn good football and they had good games against us. Our stretches will come again, fellas.
IMHO they are:
1) SOMETIMES (like once a game at most) he needs to get the play in a little faster.
2) SOMETIMES the quarterbacks who aren't Juco transfers tend to start to clam up a LITTLE bit the longer they've been in the system and regress SLIGHTLY with time. We didn't see this with Chandler or Banks, but some of the other QBs seemed to have regressed slightly as they try to minimize costly mistakes.
3) ON OCCASION O'Keefe doesn't respond properly to pressure with screens, slants and other quick throws and he doesn't always seem to give the QB the option to check down when needed.
I think all of these are because O'Keefe is too much of a perfectionist. Though I'm obviously not a witness to all of the practices, it seems to me like the offense practices a fairly limited playbook and focuses on running a limited number of plays to absolute perfection and that when we try to deviate from those core plays the kids mess something up (e.g., the multiple motion penalties every time we tried to run that quick count QB sneak this year - a play that has not been a KOK staple for the past 13 years), which then causes a greater reliance on the core plays we can run to perfection.
I think some of you guys are unnecessarily hard on O'Keefe, as you seem to act like we're the only team on the field and you never give credit to the other team. The teams that we lost to this year for the most part had pretty good defenses and sometimes your guys just can't execute because the defense is taking things away. I know we've seen some Iowa defenses do that to opposing teams.
7-6 is prolly right about where this ballclub should have been, we should have beaten Minnesota but lost to Michigan. ISU was a tossup and unfortunately, we dropped that one.
Instead of bashing our kids and coaches, let's give credit to some of these opposing teams - MSU, Nebraska, PSU (pre-Sandusky), Oklahoma and ISU had some stretches where they played darn good football and they had good games against us. Our stretches will come again, fellas.
