I wanted to ease my pain from seeing Doman struggle so much as a new offensive coordinator, so I looked up game totals from BYU's former offensive coordinator in his first season. The news is not good for the cougars.
To start the 2005 season the cougars scored just three points against Boston College, however the rest of the year aside from a 10 point performance against San Diego St. was decent. BYU even managed 50 points in a close loss to TCU. The former coordinator started slow week one but never really looked back until last year.
Doman on the other had has only seen one offensive touchdown in his first two weeks. The defenses he has faced may be tougher but the offense sure has not worked liked everyone had hoped. Was he not brought in to allow BYU to play well against good defense?
I feel that everyone has taken the Texas loss way to hard. Maybe that is because we have to go undefeated now that we are independent or maybe it is how we lost. The hardest thing to swallow is an offense that was supposed to be more diverse more aggressive has proven to be not even close to that. To me the past coordinator lost his job when settling for a field against Utah last year in a game very similar to this years Texas game. The offense played no different in the Texas game than in did last year in the Utah game, possibly worse.
So what does it all mean, nothing. Doman clearly has not learned how to call plays yet or the players have not learned how to make plays against good defenses. Lucky for the cougars and sad to fans the only have the Utah and TCU games left to prove they are a better offensive team and firing the former coordinator was justified. Right now I do not see much of a change and really doubt the cougars throw for over 300 yards and score more than 24 points against Utah and will be lucky to score against TCU. I do not think bringing back the old coordinator is right. It would have been better had they made the change before last year, taken their lumps and than had the offense did what it did at the end of last year all the hype would have been justified and we would have been set for a great year. Now it looks like we will take more lumps this year.
The Texas loss seems like the end of the world, based on the offense and how we lost, can BYU turn it around against good teams, only two chances left to show they can, lets hope it happens.
I think you're right to some extent. I honestly thought (for whatever reason) there would be no lumps taken with Doman. I read all about how well the offense looked all pre-season. I think there have been a lot of factors to why this hasn't been the case, thus far. Doman's play calling has been a lot more conservative than I would have imagined but I think he takes the blame because he's the offensive coordinator. From what I hear, Apo and Hoffman aren't creating space (Cahoon's prerogative) and when they do, Heaps' decision making has looked slow and his accuracy poor at times. I think Doman needs time. He is a good coach, I feel, that just has no experience, yet. It probably would have been good to get last year under his belt but it's hard to fire a guy (Anae) after you go 11-2 and are ranked in the top 15 (2009).
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