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Jay Johnson - OC/QBs for your Colorado Buffaloes

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Jay Johnson joined the Georgia staff as an offensive quality control analyst in February of 2017.
The Lakeville, Minn., native has more than two decades of experience coaching offensive football. He came to Georgia after one season as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Minnesota.
Previously, Johnson had coordinated the offense for five seasons at Louisiana, which set program records in every major category during his time there.
Johnson has also served as offensive coordinator at Augsburg University, Truman State and Southern Miss and has also coached on the offensive side of the ball at Kansas, Louisville and Central Michigan.
Johnson was a three-time All-Gateway Conference quarterback at Northern Iowa, where he led the Panthers to a 31-8 record. Northern Iowa won three conference championships and appeared in the playoffs three times as well. Johnson finished his career with almost 500 completions and threw for more than 8,000 yards and 58 touchdowns.
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This speaks to our program in the post Barnett era, but I don't think we've had a more accomplished OC hire since Barnett left. He has no excuses for not hitting the ground with a solid offense in year one. He may not deliver spectacular numbers, but if he is as committed to the run as his history suggests, we will be a competent offense that wears Ds out.
 
Darth Snow said:
This speaks to our program in the post Barnett era, but I don't think we've had a more accomplished OC hire since Barnett left. He has no excuses for not hitting the ground with a solid offense in year one. He may not deliver spectacular numbers, but if he is as committed to the run as his history suggests, we will be a competent offense that wears Ds out.
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And we'll need far better O-Line performance. Somehow I'm not able to reconcile an effective run game with our current O-line. Hope we're able to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
 
BuffUp said:
reading up on him - his offense seems to be out of the pistol and run 1st with west coast tendencies, mixed in with some zone read. Going to need a mobile QB with good ball fakes it seems.
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Can you share the links to these articles? TIA.
 
Darth Snow said:
This speaks to our program in the post Barnett era, but I don't think we've had a more accomplished OC hire since Barnett left. He has no excuses for not hitting the ground with a solid offense in year one. He may not deliver spectacular numbers, but if he is as committed to the run as his history suggests, we will be a competent offense that wears Ds out.
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2018: Darrin Chiaverini (1st time OC with control of offense)
2013-2017: Brin Lindgren (3 years as OC at FCS Northern Arizona & 1 year as OC at San Jose State)
2011-2012: Eric Bieniemy (1st time OC)
2009-2010: Eric Kiesau (1st time OC)
2006-2008: Mark Helfrch (1st time OC)
2000-2005: Shawn Watson (1st time OC)
1999: Tom Cable (1st time OC)
1995-1998: Karl Dorrell (2 years as OC at Northern Arizona before becoming a FBS position coach)
1994: Rick Neuheisel (1st time OC)

Can't remember who it was before Rick in '92 & '93. Gary was OC for like a year (national championship game & '91 season) before getting the Northwestern job. He was a 1st time OC, too.
 
Buffnik said:
Can't remember who it was before Rick in '92 & '93. Gary was OC for like a year (national championship game & '91 season) before getting the Northwestern job. He was a 1st time OC, too.
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Elliot Uzelac. Not a first time OC - and his offenses hummed (minus the Huskers), but were also crazy talented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Uzelac

Edit - he's the one that brought the 1 back, 2 TE formation we used with Kordell and Rashaan. And Skippy was never our OC. He was the QB coach when promoted to HC. That was one of the reasons the move was so controversial at the time.
 
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Buffnik said:
2018: Darrin Chiaverini (1st time OC with control of offense)
2013-2017: Brin Lindgren (3 years as OC at FCS Northern Arizona & 1 year as OC at San Jose State)
2011-2012: Eric Bieniemy (1st time OC)
2009-2010: Eric Kiesau (1st time OC)
2006-2008: Mark Helfrch (1st time OC)
2000-2005: Shawn Watson (1st time OC)
1999: Tom Cable (1st time OC)
1995-1998: Karl Dorrell (2 years as OC at Northern Arizona before becoming a FBS position coach)
1994: Rick Neuheisel (1st time OC)

Can't remember who it was before Rick in '92 & '93. Gary was OC for like a year (national championship game & '91 season) before getting the Northwestern job. He was a 1st time OC, too.
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Holy ****. This is incredibly bad, even though a lot of those guys got promotions after us. Trend has been godawful too, with only Helfrich moving "up" after coaching for us since Cable.
 
Darth Snow said:
This speaks to our program in the post Barnett era, but I don't think we've had a more accomplished OC hire since Barnett left. He has no excuses for not hitting the ground with a solid offense in year one. He may not deliver spectacular numbers, but if he is as committed to the run as his history suggests, we will be a competent offense that wears Ds out.
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Is the #1 priority at this point, to steal a top rated RB? I love the commitment to the run, but do we have backs that can make that work?
 
I don’t know if Chev has the OC chops or not. But maybe stepping back after a season as our OC and working with an experienced guy will be good for him.
 
Johnson's bio on UGA's site: https://georgiadogs.com/coaches.aspx?rc=2438&path=football

Minnesota 2016: http://www.espn.com/college-football/team/stats/_/id/135/year/2016
Louisiana 2015: http://www.espn.com/college-football/team/stats/_/id/309/year/2015
Louisiana 2014: http://www.espn.com/college-football/team/stats/_/id/309/year/2014
Louisiana 2013: http://www.espn.com/college-football/team/stats/_/id/309/year/2013
Louisiana 2012: http://www.espn.com/college-football/team/stats/_/id/309/year/2012
Louisiana 2011: http://www.espn.com/college-football/team/stats/_/id/309/year/2011

Minnesota QB Mitch Leidner: http://www.espn.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/2970710/type/college/mitch-leidner
Louisiana QB Blaine Gautier: http://www.espn.com/college-football/player/stats/_/id/384890/blaine-gautier
Louisiana QB Terrance Broadway: http://www.espn.com/college-football/player/stats/_/id/503922/terrance-broadway
Colorado QB Steven Montez: http://www.espn.com/college-football/player/stats/_/id/3915436/steven-montez

I have listed all the links for the coaching stops that Johnson made and the stats that his offenses produced.

I also included Minnesota's QB Mitch Leidner since it would show how he handled the transition from his previous OC to Johnson in 2016. Also Terrance Broadway was Johnson's QB in 2012, 2013, and 2014. Broadway sat out the 2011 season after transferring from Houston. I also included Blaine Gautier who enjoyed an excellent 2011 season under Johnson and had 5 TDs with 0 INTs in 2012 before going to Broadway. I suspect Gautier went down with a season ending injury in 2012. The 2015 season saw two QBs split the duties.

Before jumping to conclusions, I want to stress that numbers do not tell the whole story.
 
Liver said:
we're going to pound it and launch it!

heh.

kidding aside, those ULL offenses were very potent-- you can go fast and be physical and run at the same time. this could be fun.
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"Fast & physical" is the offense I've been wanting at CU for years. It's one thing that @Duff Man and I have consistently agreed upon -- that the natural evolution of what McCartney had going for the championship years and which hadn't been invented yet when Kordell was here are the up-tempo, zone read, get matchups in space, run-based attacks developed by Rich Rodriguez, Chip Kelly, Art Briles and Urban Meyer. For some reason people see the points those offenses put up, hear "spread", see the pace and think those are passing offenses. They are not.
 
I like the hire for all the reasons already mentioned.
Hope he can hire a RB coach who is a RECRUITING MONSTER.
 
Buffnik said:
"Fast & physical" is the offense I've been wanting at CU for years. It's one thing that @Duff Man and I have consistently agreed upon -- that the natural evolution of what McCartney had going for the championship years and which hadn't been invented yet when Kordell was here are the up-tempo, zone read, get matchups in space, run-based attacks developed by Rich Rodriguez, Chip Kelly, Art Briles and Urban Meyer. For some reason people see the points those offenses put up, hear "spread", see the pace and think those are passing offenses. They are not.
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Johnson's UL Lafayette offenses didn't play fast. They took their time between plays.
2015 Team:
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2014 Team:
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