Golesh has stated that the amount of the offense that they were able to install would be the equivalent of elementary school. The goal is to build on that and get up to middle school in year two. The positive is that we were able to score on anybody we played using a vary limited portion of the playbook. Imagine the potential of the offense next season and beyond.
What was dissatisfactory about the progress on the offensive side of the ball and especially considering what they had to work with and through? We don't know that Golesh wouldn't have done just as well with the unique situation Chadwell has had for the past couple of years. How exactly he found McCall when pretty much everyone else missed him I'm not sure. But he won't make a living on finding 2* QB's like him even in the Sunbelt.
Appears to have been a conscious choice to focus on getting continuity with a smaller main group. That was an adjustment in addition to the change at QB that appears to have worked. Heupel gets max credit for making a couple of in-season adjustments with huge dividends.
Whether it was part of the problem with Milton or something they just chose to work away from... they appeared to have involved the TE's more in the first couple of games. Considering both Warren and Fant are returning... they don't seem to agree that they were cheated out of opportunities. FWIW, they were 5th and 6th behind Hyatt in yardage. Both had more receptions and yardage than any previous year.
UT was 5th in the SEC in 3rd down conversions at 44.7%... just behind the National Champs at 45.0%. In the prior year, they were dead last at 30.2%. Over the past 12 years, last year's result was second only to the loaded 2015 offense that had Dobbs consistently bailing them out (45.9%).
He had more yardage last year than his career total to that point. He had one career TD coming into last year. The only thing to regret there is that he didn't have more eligibility left after finding a coach that could use his talent.
