Yost is the saving grace in this whole thing. I’m pretty sure we may have upgraded in the play-calling department. He’s 2-3x more qualified on paper than Kliff to call plays in the big 12.
He’s like a Leach-Beard. 50 yo, with a fuggin’ dolphin tat on his leg, and a man bun.
Self-admitted terrible athlete & football player. Grew the long hair to “distinguish himself in recruiting from others while at Toledo.” First job was $1000/year, plus free dorm and 2 cafeteria meals a day at Tiffin University. Hired by Gary Pinkel as a GA after teaching kindergarten a few years, he was calling plays in the big 12 like 15 years later, putting out first round qbs, personally recruiting and signing the #1 player in the country (Dorial green-Beckham), and calling plays for as many wins in Kyle Field as leach did in 1/3 the try’s...
So since yost is a leach-beard, he’s the opposite of Kliff: An incredibly heterosexual family man, but is also a surfer dude that grinded his way up from nothing.
Then he gets burnt out and quits out of nowhere, which may have been good for him. After a year, leach coaxes him to key west and promises not to try and kill him like Pinkel did — Yost called plays, coached QBs, and was the recruiting coordinator & social media guy when he quit. So he goes to wazzou state on an externship with leach, graham and other disciples, observes the purest of air-raid schemes, and then Oregon, one of the first iterations of the spread-you-out-to-run-it up-tempo offenses.
I read a yost quote from even back at mizzou that was like.. “coaching is plagiarizing and tweaking”.. so I imagine he took what he was doing at a very high level at mizzou and stole from Leach and Oregon
In his 2nd year calling plays again (last year), Utah state wins 10 games, averages 51.0 points per game, and has the 8th highest points per offensive drive in the country. Basically the best offense in school history.
I got frustrated with Kliff’s tempo.. a million ****ing plays, tons of quick lateral stuff at break neck speed.. it could and did work, but it’s brutal on the defense when it doesn’t.
Strangely, yost actually generated more possessions than tech last year, but he did so with 20-25 less plays per game. It reminds me more of the briles spread than the leach tree.
Even they are similar in skill, Yost has been doing this 2x as long as Kliff, and is prolly a 1/10th cheaper.
I’d honestly never even heard of wells or the DC, but I immediately recognized Yost, who appears to be a guy we should’ve been going after a long time ago.
He’s like a Leach-Beard. 50 yo, with a fuggin’ dolphin tat on his leg, and a man bun.
Self-admitted terrible athlete & football player. Grew the long hair to “distinguish himself in recruiting from others while at Toledo.” First job was $1000/year, plus free dorm and 2 cafeteria meals a day at Tiffin University. Hired by Gary Pinkel as a GA after teaching kindergarten a few years, he was calling plays in the big 12 like 15 years later, putting out first round qbs, personally recruiting and signing the #1 player in the country (Dorial green-Beckham), and calling plays for as many wins in Kyle Field as leach did in 1/3 the try’s...
So since yost is a leach-beard, he’s the opposite of Kliff: An incredibly heterosexual family man, but is also a surfer dude that grinded his way up from nothing.
Then he gets burnt out and quits out of nowhere, which may have been good for him. After a year, leach coaxes him to key west and promises not to try and kill him like Pinkel did — Yost called plays, coached QBs, and was the recruiting coordinator & social media guy when he quit. So he goes to wazzou state on an externship with leach, graham and other disciples, observes the purest of air-raid schemes, and then Oregon, one of the first iterations of the spread-you-out-to-run-it up-tempo offenses.
I read a yost quote from even back at mizzou that was like.. “coaching is plagiarizing and tweaking”.. so I imagine he took what he was doing at a very high level at mizzou and stole from Leach and Oregon
In his 2nd year calling plays again (last year), Utah state wins 10 games, averages 51.0 points per game, and has the 8th highest points per offensive drive in the country. Basically the best offense in school history.
I got frustrated with Kliff’s tempo.. a million ****ing plays, tons of quick lateral stuff at break neck speed.. it could and did work, but it’s brutal on the defense when it doesn’t.
Strangely, yost actually generated more possessions than tech last year, but he did so with 20-25 less plays per game. It reminds me more of the briles spread than the leach tree.
Even they are similar in skill, Yost has been doing this 2x as long as Kliff, and is prolly a 1/10th cheaper.
I’d honestly never even heard of wells or the DC, but I immediately recognized Yost, who appears to be a guy we should’ve been going after a long time ago.
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