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FRANCHIONE HIRES NEW OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR

Posted on July 12, 2017 at 10:16 PM.

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The 2012 football season was not a good one for the Texas State Bobcats and head coach Dennis Franchione. After posting a 4-8 record in his second season with the team (first season in the FBS division), Franchione has decided to shake things up on the offensive side of the ball. With minimal success in his pistol option-based system, he has hired a pass-oriented coach in Sean O'Bradovich. Some may consider this a bit premature as Franchione's tenure is still young considering the jump to division 1 just last season. But perhaps, Franchione sees the writing on the wall and wants to be proactive rather than reactive.

O'Bradovich comes from Missouri State University where he was the offensive coordinator, leading his offenses to multiple school and conference records as well as the FCS national title in 2012. But Sean's body of work is probably what made Franchione believe he could be the next big thing in football. Although O'Bradovich was a former marine and didn't attend a division 1 college, let alone play since high school, he started his coaching career in 2003 as an assistant in a Kansas City area high school. He quickly displayed his prowess for developing talent and creating schemes that left defenses baffled. By 2006 he had been promoted to head coach, and in 2007 he won his first of two straight 5A State championships. In 2009, he took a job as an offensive assistant with Missouri State and became coordinator by 2011. As mentioned before, Missouri State broke passing records on their way to an eventual 2012 FCS championship.

O'Bradovich's offensive system is reminiscent of the way the Run and Shoot offense tore up defenses in the 80s and early 90s. It seems to take a tone of keeping the pressure off of his defense as much as possible by inversely keeping pressure on the opponent's offense to keep up. It'll be interesting to see if that style of "score quickly and often" can still work at the FBS level.