5 months ago
Chip Lindsey is Missouri’s newest violative coordinator and I americium highly skeptical of this hire. To put it nicely. In bid to show you why I deliberation this/talk myself into this hire, I’m going to reappraisal his resume and connection a break retired of really he’s done astatine each occupation he’s had previously.
I americium not going to spell complete his stint arsenic nan caput coach of Troy, however. Why? Couple of reasons:
- He was nan caput coach, not a sole violative coordinator
- Mizzou is hiring him arsenic an violative coordinator, not arsenic a caput coach
- He’s nan first Troy shot coach since 1991 to not person a winning season, nor triumph astatine slightest 1 convention title; he intelligibly sucked and there’s nary request to dive immoderate deeper than that to beryllium to you that he sucked astatine Troy
This is nan 2nd entry: his azygous twelvemonth arsenic Arizona State’s violative coordinator.
Part I - his clip astatine Southern Mississippi - is correct here.
Part II - his clip astatine Arizona State - is correct here.
Part III - his clip astatine Auburn - is correct here.
Part IV - his clip astatine Central Florida - is correct here.
Chip Lindsey astatine North Carolina
Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks coach
- Overall: 16th
- Rushing: 55th
- Passing: 20th
- Standard Downs: 49th
- Passing Downs: 9th
- Efficiency: 33rd
- Explosiveness: 31st
- Quarterback: Drake Maye (R-FR) - 342/517 (66.2%), 4,321 yards, 38 TDs, 7 INTs/184 rushes, 698 yards, 7 TDs
- Running Back 1: Elijah Green (R-SO) - 131 rushes, 558 yards, 8 TDs/19 targets, 17 catches, 107 yards, 1 TD
- Running Back 2: Omarion Hampton (FR) - 88 rushes, 401 yards, 6 TDs/6 targets, 6 catches, 40 yards, 1 TD
- Overall: 21st (-5 spots)
- Rushing: 8th (+47 spots)
- Passing: 36th (-16 spots)
- Standard Downs: 9th (+40 spots)
- Passing Downs: 36th (-27 spots)
- Efficiency: 14th (+19 spots)
- Explosiveness: 43rd (-12 spots)
- Quarterback: Drake Maye (R-SO) - 269/425 (63.3%), 3,608 yards, 24 TDs, 9 INTs/83 rushes, 574 yards, 9 TDs
- Running Back 1: Omarion Hampton (SO) - 253 rushes, 1,504 yards, 15 TDs/32 targets, 29 catches, 222 yards, 1 TD
- Running Back 2: British Brooks (GR) - 74 rushes, 375 yards, 2 TDs/17 targets, 14 catches, 73 yards, 0 TDs
Lindsey was hired by Mack Brown astatine North Carolina to switch nan departed Phil Longo, an air-raid guru who near to springiness a monolithic facelift to Wisconsin. While Longo was turning Wiscy’s generational dedication to tally first-second-and-third, Lindsey came successful and changed Longo’s aerial ambush to a much run-oriented attack. He inherited Drake Maye, presently nan backmost that is elevating nan woebegone New England Patriots to imaginable 1-seed successful nan NFL Playoffs. So, you know, he’s an elite quarterback.
And Lindsey made him worse.
Whether it was owed to strategy aliases nan talent astir him, Maybe sewage worse successful accuracy, full yards, full touchdowns, interceptions, each rushing stats, and astir precocious passing stats. The wide discourtesy slipped down 5 spots successful quality, acknowledgment to a immense leap successful rushing competence astatine nan costs of passing ratio and OF COURSE explosiveness.
Notice a trend?
- Overall: 38th (-17 spots)
- Rushing: 47th (-39 spots)
- Passing: 113th (-83 spots)
- Standard Downs: 86th (-77 spots)
- Passing Downs: 67th (-31 spots)
- Efficiency: 89th (-75 spots)
- Explosiveness: 54th (-11 spots)
- Quarterback: Jacolby Criswell (GR) - 186/320 (58.1%), 2,459 yards, 15 TDs, 6 INTs/47 rushes, 256 yards, 3 TDs
- Running Back 1: Omarion Hampton (JR) - 281 rushes, 1,660 yards, 15 TDs/44 targets, 38 catches, 373 yards, 2 TDs
- Running Back 2: Davion Gause (FR) - 67 rushes, 326 yards, 4 TDs/6 targets, 4 catches, 45 yards, 0 TDs
Drake Maye near astatine nan conclusion of 2023 and North Carolina’s violative competency went pinch it. Every metric regressed owed to nan truth that Jacolby Criswell was not nan aforementioned Maye. Omarion Hampton still ran for 1,600+ yards but nan violative ratio took a chemoreceptor dive by 75 spots and nan explosiveness - already middling - regressed moreover further.
What happened astatine nan extremity of this tenure?
- On December 13th, 2024, Lindsey was hired by Sherrone Moore astatine Michigan to switch nan fired Kirk Campbell, 15 days earlier North Carolina mislaid to UConn 27-14 successful nan Fenway Bowl.
- On November 26th, 2024, North Carolina announced that nan 2024 play was Head Coach Mack Brown’s past season. Freddie Kitchens was announced arsenic nan interim caput coach. The Tar Heels - an alluring occupation pinch tons of resources and nan timing to prosecute nan in-demand Jon Sumrall - decided to prosecute fired New England Patriots caput coach Bill Belichick. The Tar Heels went 4-8 successful 2025.
- Jacolby Criswell transferred to East Tennessee State wherever he played successful 5 games, started 1, and attempted 53 passes.
- Omarion Hampton was drafted successful nan 2nd Round of nan 2025 NFL Draft by nan Los Angeles Chargers and spent astir of nan play connected nan injured reserved roster.
- Davion Gause is still astatine North Carolina, managing 61 rushes for 259 yards and 3 touchdowns successful 2025.
Lindsey was a panic prosecute by a fading caput coach who mislaid his strategy violative coordinator and was hopeless to find personification who wanted to look pinch a coach and programme tandem entering their twilight era. Under his tutelage nan moving discourtesy sewage amended successful twelvemonth 1 while everything other regressed - including his NFL backmost - and past nan full dang point regressed successful twelvemonth two. I cognize I’m being a hater but it’s really reliable for maine to spot these 2 years arsenic thing but a nonaccomplishment successful execution. Was it worthy it to cannibalize what your NFL-caliber backmost tin do to make your NFL-caliber moving backmost better?
I would reason no.
But I’m a hater.
This Hater’s takeaway: failure
