The Official "Promote Anae to Interior O Line Coach" thread

[oxcoug]

Here's how it is:

Robert Anae is an offensive lineman who became an offensive line coach who then was promoted to being BYU's Offensive Coordinator.

He has never stopped thinking like the offensive line player and coach he was for more than 20 years of his life.

Offensive linemen and coaches think in terms of hat-on-hat hitting and execution. Anae is fatally prone to this problem and he hasn't evolved out of it as I thought/hoped (but more hoped) he would.

He should have a long, long and honored career as an offensive line coach.

Or maybe as a head coach he'd do better. But OC ain't his thing.

[CJF]

Anae has been very good as an OC. And really the only play I have a problem with in this game is the 4th down run that just happened.

[OhioBlue]

Not a great game for Anae. Very poor playcalling at times, bordering on the absolutely silly at others. And then he'll have a stretch where it's like, okay this is more like it.

For example, I can't fathom how a coordinator worth his salary asks Jake to throw a fade to the corner/boundary of the end zone like 8 times in one game. I'm actually going to assume that at least a couple of those were Jake's decision because Anae has to be smarter than that.

Even with Anae's poor playcalling, he didn't miss wide open WRs....Jake did that.

Way. too. much.

[ERCougar]

Even with Anae's poor playcalling, he didn't miss wide open WRs....Jake did that.

Way. too. much.

Absolutely. I'm thinking back, and I really can't recall him hitting a wide open receiver. He made plenty of nice throws on timing routes but I can't think of any where the receiver had any significant separation or space. When they were really open, he missed. Weird.

[DapperDan]

I wonder if Anae's insistence on calling plays from the sideline is further proof that he can't shake the Oline mentality.

[Jacob]

For example, I can't fathom how a coordinator worth his salary asks Jake to throw a fade to the corner/boundary of the end zone like 8 times in one game.

I recall Weiss doing this with Clawson at ND. The results were not good.

[pellegrino]

I wonder if Anae's insistence on calling plays from the sideline is further proof that he can't shake the Oline mentality.

was he on the sidelines last night?