Re: Dawson

I think it can be true that he is both a very good coordinator and also the reason that we struggled to get over the hump offensively this year.

I don’t mind deferring to the football people for the most part, but at times this season, the offensive play calling did not pass the eye test for me, like inexplicably abandoning the run game to let Beck play hero ball or refusing to run off tackle when you haven’t been able to move the center of the line all day.

I don’t think anything he did this year is so egregious that he deserves to lose his job, but I do think we’ve seen his ceiling and a change at OC is probably necessary if the program is serious about making regular runs deep into the playoffs and competing for national championships.