. My point is that what we’ll see with Plough will be similar to what we saw without him, before this last year when the offense took a step back,
Plough likely would have done better with the 2023 team. I think Plough is a good hire, but we aren’t going to see a offense much better than what we saw under Cody Hawkins,

In 2019, Ploughs last at Davis, with Maier, the team averaged 28.67 points and 433 yards of offense.
In 2022 under Cody Hawkins, with Hastings, the team averaged 35.91 points and 486.5 yards of offense,

i hope they keep Mike Cody as offensive line coach. The O line performed pretty well, and they had an innovative and effective run game. Plough will likely take over as offensive coordinator and QB coach. Cody has also done a good job of recruiting.

Rex is not a player who has been here already for four years like the guys who are known to be leaving. They most likely have earned a degree, and only thing they want from their new school is football. Rex academically is likely going to be a senior next year. People who transfer in their senior year have constraints and priorities that someone who has already graduated doesn’t have. So far we haven’t lost anyone in last two years who didn’t leave here with a degree, There is always a first for everything though.

He oversold expectations by suggesting that 50 points a game was a realistic, and got fired in second season when they only scored 10 against lowly UTEP.
I’d be surprised if he had power 5 offers to give it another try as an OC. He hasn’t proved anything by being a tight end coach. Even 2019 at Davis wasn’t an offensive powerhouse.

if they had had 2022’s offensive production then we would be in the playoffs, probably with a bye.
I’m disappointed in the defense also, not that they weren’t good, but they seemed to have periods of ineffectiveness, like the 3rd quarter against Eastern Washington. We had a set of linebackers that we are unlikely to equal for some time, playing behind the biggest line we ever had.

Many of the stars on defense are leaving not because the offense was bad but because they’ve graduated or been here four or five years so they can graduate if they want to.

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The 2019 team also lost to a 3-9 Southern Utah team.

What is Ploughs history as a coordinator?
Moroski gave Plough play calling responsibilities in 2011. In 2012 he shared offensive coordinator role with Daft. He left Davis when Gould took over, becoming an assistant coach at NAU, He became offensive coordinator after two years. Moved to Davis when Hawkins was hired, left before 2021 Spring season for Boise. Fired after four games his second year.. Boise.lost to UTEP and scored only 10 points in his last game.
Record
Davis 2012 4-7
NAU 2015 7-4
NAU 2016 5-6
Davis 2017 5-6
Davis 2018 10-3
Davis 2019 5-7
Boise 2021 7-5
Boise 2022 2-2 before fired.
Overall 45-40

Did rich donors instigate Goulds removal or just make it possible by providing the funds to buy him out? If the administration could have fired Gould without the money would they have done it? I don’t know the answers to those questions, but he would have been gone the next year in any case, not because of play calling but for not making any improvement during his tenure.

Defense is going to take a step back. Between graduation and transfers lose two of our three nose tackles, three starting linebackers.. The other two starters on the DL are going to be sixth year seniors if they come back. Zach Kennedy would be attractive to many teams. Budgett in the secondary has also been here 5 years.
I don’t think we’ll lose players because of Hawkins leaving, i think it’s because of the longer college careers. Once the Covid year effect is over the amount of transfers will drop off.

If they get Plough, they likely keep the assistants that are recruiting this years incoming players. Anyone from outside is risking keeping those recruits.
I think Mike Cody did a good job with our run offense, they should retain him as the OL coach.

Jake Maier

His last team here 2019 was only slightly better offensively than this season.

The coaching staff has little choice but to accept that some players won’t hang around after playing for four or more years and earning a degree. They know it too, which is likely why the roster makes no attempt to list players by eligibility; it’s a jumble of academic year and eligibility.
Buchanan was in the 2020 recruit class. Hastings, Tompkins, Budgett, Cloyd and Chaz Davis are class of 2019

I think we can assume the scale was accurate and Lan weighed 207lbs. They don’t make any effort to update roster weights.
Lan is a good jumper but Teddye Buchanan, amazing for his weight, is better.

I don’t know the winning % of non scholarship D2 teams, but in a way it is deceiving because in the early years they would lose to the eventual champion; Lehigh, Eastern Illinois, Southwest Texas State. There were only eight teams in the playoffs in those years,

It is a championship, they have to take conference champions and give them a shot. Fifth place teams from major conferences have already proved they aren’t the best teams, they have to give lesser teams a chance to prove the same thing on the field.
In 2009 Davis won a conference without an autobid. Team was 6-5 but two losses were to Boise State and Fresno State, a third was to the #5 team Montana by 17 to 10, and they didn’t get a bid.

Watching Delaware Lafayette. I would like to see Davis play Delaware some time, since Delaware was a D2 or college division power in the 70s when Davis started to enter the rankings.
Surprising they only have 4,000 something in attendance for a playoff game.