The Sooners' head coach talked at length during his weekly coach's show about his decision to fire his offensive coordinator and replace him on staff with analyst Kevin Johns.
“Well, a lot goes into you making those types of changes. And there's a — it's over the last several months. There's a body of work that you look at all of it and evaluate it. And obviously we haven't played winning football, you know, on offense. And so you always go back and look at why. And there's certainly, you know, we know what some of the issues have been from a roster standpoint and injury standpoint, and those are very real, without question.
“And so it's a change in leadership, a change in the voice. It's a change in, again, game planning, it's a change in perspective. It's a change in the coaching, it's a change in the sequencing on game day, all of those types of things. And again, maybe it provides the spark, too. And maybe, you know, I know that we're somewhere in the hundreds in all the different categories, and it's, you know, completely unacceptable and embarrassing and well below the standard.
“And again, there will be real change. You know, the things that I just said will be different, even though there's people that are still here on that side of the ball. And the things that I said are very real, the things that can be different and maybe better and maybe it's whether it's a placebo effect or not, I do believe, if we just make some incremental improvement, play to our potential, do the things that the game requires you to do in order to execute and win — No.
“And obviously, we've promoted both Kevin Johns and Joe Jon. You know, Kevin, when he got here, was hired later in the winter, early spring, as an analyst. Coaches — off the field coaches were not allowed to coach. So he was doing, he was … looking at advanced scouting and not really in the nuts and the bolts of the X’s and the O’s and learning all the new language and things, although he'll pick up some things, but that wasn't his forte.
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