While I don’t feel as flamboyant as Dean Legge is about Todd Monken…
But letting someone go is only step one in a two-step process. Kirby replaced the old offensive coordinator with someone who was in charge of some of the highest-producing offenses last decade in college football.
Todd Monken.
Five seasons last decade Monken oversaw an offense or a team. Needless to say the results speak for themselves. At Southern Miss, Monken yanked the Eagles from being one of the bottom 13 scoring offenses in the country before he got there to the No. 13 scoring offense the season he left.
But what he did as an offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State is extraordinary. There were 1,263 offenses that put up statistics in major college football last decade. Todd Monken’s offenses in Stillwater were No. 6 and No. 16 overall…
For. The. Decade.
Consider that two years after Monken left Stillwater, the Cowboys finished No. 77 in overall scoring offense… not for the decade – for the year. If what Monken did on offense at Oklahoma State and Southern Miss are any indication it won’t take long for UGA to be a top ten offense – even with the defenses in the SEC.
… he does make a valid point there.
Take a look at points per game in the year before Monken became the OC at Okie State, with the two years he was there and then the year after he left:
- 2010: 44.2 (3rd nationally)
- 2011: 48.7 (2nd)
- 2012: 45.7 (3rd)
- 2013: 39.1 (13th)
And here’s a similar story at Southern Miss, where he went to become head coach:
- 2012: 19.7 (112th)
- 2013: 17.1 (119th)
- 2014: 19.0 (117th)
- 2015: 39.9 (13th)
- 2016: 32.8 (41st)
Clearly, the guy has a clue how to direct prolific offenses. How can he be worse than what we saw last season?
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If Monken is going to develop a better offense for us, I sure hope he can do it in year one. It appears it took a little while to get on track at So.Miss. Of course, I don’t know the impact of the personnel he had at the time. The good things people are saying about Monken coupled with the good things said about Newman, it’s hard not to get excited about our offensive possibilities this season.
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The story of the 2012 Southern Miss football season isn’t pretty.
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I mean, theres reasons I’m so big on Monken.
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Answer is, he can’t. I think yesterday’s post showed that.
Wish this season wasn’t honked up by the virus. I think we could be in for a special year.
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Adding Luke and Faulkner were huge moves too. Monken will have a good supporting cast.
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Monken comes into a situation where he has talent galore the likes he has never experienced. He only has to worry about one side of the ball, and had the bar for improvement set so low last year that it would be HARD not to be significantly better. He knows he can take more risk (up to what Kirby will allow) with the safety net of a smothering defense to bail them out if something goes array. Color me optimistic!
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His offensive roster in 2011 was superb. 2012, not so much. His job in both seasons is what gives me strong hope for our season. And he’s experienced enough now and has the talent on board to make this better immediately.
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Here is the one maybe that is not being considered. The defense should allow for many more scoring opportunities(more 3 and outs, better field position) 2 things he probably didn’t have at S. Miss. or Ok St.
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The past is the past. What has me excited about Monken, isn’t what he did at S.Miss, or OK St. It’s that he’s coming into the most talented team UGA has ever fielded. Offensively, at every position there’s at least one 4 star who’s backup, or third string. The cup is overflowing. As mentioned, the defense was tops in a couple catagories last year. They were better than LSU and Alabama defensively, and had the offense not been so anemic, the SEC championship would’ve looked a bit different.
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Tommy likey!
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