In a recent post about Kliff Kingsbury, I touched a bit on his USC replacement, Graham Harrell. Well here he is, the crazy bastard. Young, hung, and full of shotgun. Graham is looking forward to his Trojans exploding this year, which normally would have students crying, but in this case has USC actually looking forward to the future. Or at least they should be.
USC head coach Clay Helton knew he needed to make a hiring splash after posting the school's first losing record since 2000. Kliff Kingsbury is a great high profile hire, right? Wrong, bitch. Kliff Kingsbury left USC after a month to go fuck up the number one pick in Arizona. What next? Former Mike Leach coaches/quarterback are really hot in the streets right now (Kliff, Lincoln Riley, etc) so Helton jumped in front of the curve and grabbed Graham Helton.
The year before Graham took the North Texas OC job the team went 1-11. His first year they improved to 5-8. His last two? 9-5 and 9-4 with back to back top 25 offenses (according to Bruce Feldman). So what exactly does this guy do?
Harrell, as a student of Leach, is a follower of the Air Raid attack. It's pass heavy, around 70% throwing offense, ran in the hurry up, with normally two outside receivers and two inside slot guys. Pass this shit out of the ball, spread the offense out in shotgun, and hope to god you tire out the defense. As Mike Leach once put it "There's nothing balanced about 50% run and 50% pass. That's 50% stupid."
So he likes to pass the ball. Which means he probably sits up all night like Sean McVay, concocting new plays, extending his secret playbook, figuring out crazy new looks to throw at defenses. Wrong again! Graham hates playbooks! Here he is basically calling Aaron Rodgers a dork while he was his backup in Green Bay, "I used to tell them all the time, 'If you pay me enough money, I'll simplify this whole thing for you and make it easier.' They didn't like that. It was like a badge of honor that they could remember a paragraph. I'm like 'Well, it's great that you can remember the paragraph, but I can't remember the paragraph and neither can anyone in here. So you're not doing us any favors.'" Hey Aaron! Cute badge!
Graham's just one of the bros, which should translate nicely in SoCal bruh (I don't know how people in California speak). He likes to start off his meetings with scenes from the Sandlot to clips of the WWF attitude era, (It's WWE clips I don't actually know if it's from the attitude era but if it's not, honestly why bother) in order to keep things cool, like his coaching pedigree. Speaking of pedigrees, Graham Harrell named his kid, Herschel Hawk Harrell. HHH. This guy is just so much cooler than yours and mine offensive coordinator. (I used a lot of parenthesis in this paragraph)
I'm paraphrasing here but Graham said his plan is to not overburden his team with complex playbooks but rather find a few plays they like, and just get really good at them. Fantastic! That's exactly my motto for playing Madden. I find like three or four plays that I know my friend can't stop, and run the shit out of them until he throws my controller at the wall. Graham's strategy is so annoying that it just might work.
Graham's just one of the bros, which should translate nicely in SoCal bruh (I don't know how people in California speak). He likes to start off his meetings with scenes from the Sandlot to clips of the WWF attitude era, (It's WWE clips I don't actually know if it's from the attitude era but if it's not, honestly why bother) in order to keep things cool, like his coaching pedigree. Speaking of pedigrees, Graham Harrell named his kid, Herschel Hawk Harrell. HHH. This guy is just so much cooler than yours and mine offensive coordinator. (I used a lot of parenthesis in this paragraph)
I'm paraphrasing here but Graham said his plan is to not overburden his team with complex playbooks but rather find a few plays they like, and just get really good at them. Fantastic! That's exactly my motto for playing Madden. I find like three or four plays that I know my friend can't stop, and run the shit out of them until he throws my controller at the wall. Graham's strategy is so annoying that it just might work.
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