let's not call Caleb Williams a typical "backup QB"
also the Colombi TTU game was on a player who knows better, not a scheme.
i understand your frustration, but this isn't a Todd Orlando situation where he is being terrible across the board.
"small time west coast guy" - don't shit on a guy. His results using DFEI (so normalized results) speak for themselves. the guy was a fantastic fucking hire when he was hired.
Boise - 2010: #2 DFEI
11: #15
12: #29
13: #71
Washington - 14: #18
15: #4
16: #4
17: #12
18: #7
19: #15
20: #65 (in 4 games, i think they got some kind of wild adjustment for only playing 4 though, because all of the underlying results have them no lower than 51? unadjusted had them at #39)
even now, they have the #36 DFEI team in the country (includes preseason ratings i think, which had them as the #31 team in the country, so not like it is holding their ranking way up)
straight up: opinions like this are the problem. shitting on a guy who has been on staff all of 7 games, who has a long history of being a successful coach with basically all of the underlying, adjusted, advanced statistics at the P5 level (and G5 level honestly) is dumb. there are issues there but reassigning a guy on a 3 year deal with $3.4 million remaining based on seven games with a defense that has been undercoached and significantly under developed for the last 10? years is dumb as hell.
at what point can we pretty clearly say it's the players and not the coaches this year?
Texas depth chart going into the OU game had upper classmen as starters at every position other than FE (Jerrin Thompson was in an OR with Schooler)
Seniors at both DE slots, senior WLB, seniors at both CB positions, seniors at boundary and STAR.
hiring, then re assigning this guy 7 games into a season (or even after the season) is exactly the kind of move that got Texas in this situation in the first place.