OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY / OSU / COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich coaches the quarterbacks during an OSU spring football practice in Stillwater, Okla., Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
I wrote about new OSU offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich for my columns in the Sunday and Monday Oklahoman. You can read them here and here.But I had a lot of leftover stuff I thought I would share:
* Yurcich on what he?s most looking forward to:
?The first game against Mississippi State, I?m excited for that game. Just to get up in the booth and start calling plays and really looking forward to fall camp and seeing the fellows again and being able to coach ?em. Getting in the film room and meeting rooms. You kind of miss it over the summer. You want to go on vacation, that sort of thing, but you?re really itching.?
* Yurcich on becoming the patron saint of lower-division coaches, perhaps replacing Chip Kelly, who in 2006 was the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire and six years later was head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles:
?No smaller-level coaches have just come out and said that. But you would think it would have that effect on some folks. The point is, there?s a lot of good coaches everywhere.
?I don?t think you can ever think that you?ve arrived. I told my wife, me getting the job, it?s great, but having success is really important. Getting here, that?s the little thing. The big thing is what I do from here on out and how effective we are as an offense from here on out at Oklahoma State.
?I don?t want to take too much stock in thinking about, ?well here?s where I came from,? and assess all that. That?s not my job. That doesn?t concern me anymore.
?Yes, I understand your question. I do think people recognize that anything?s possible. I think that?s really important. But the thing I understand, and I always have, and when you go out and recruit and you meet all these high school coaches, and you?re around Division II a lot, you understand there?s good coaches everywhere.?
* Yurcich on having to defend himself to skeptics, perhaps even on the recruiting trail:
?Not at all. I feel very comfortable, especially in the recruiting element, because you?re dealing with high school coaches. I?ve been in the room with Division II on my shirt, and now I?m in there with a Division I label with Oklahoma State on my chest.
?High school coaches really understand that football is football, and it?s about getting your players to play, and ultimately it?s about what kind of players you have and how fast you can get them prepared and how well they know your scheme and how good they can get from a technique standpoint, from a fundamental standpoint. That?s what?s really important.?
* Yurcich?s two-year contract calls for $400,000 a year ? $200,000 in salary, $200,000 in a talent fee for appearances, etc.?He?s also in line for a variety of bonuses, which I think are very interesting:
National title: $20,000.
Big 12 championship: 10,000.
Top-10 final ranking: $5,000.
11-15 final ranking: $3,000.
16-25 final ranking: $2,000.
BCS bowl: two months compensation (approximately $66,666).
Other bowl: one month compensation, (approximately $33,333).
So here?s the crazy part. If OSU wins the national title, you would think a Big 12 title would go along with that. So Yurcich?s bonuses would total a little over $100,000. But he could make two thirds of that with just a BCS bowl appearance. Strange, the weight given to a BCS bowl.
* Yurcich on his first exposure to OSU football:
?I don?t know what year it was, goes a few years back, I had a drill tape from Gunter Brewer (former OSU receivers coach) that a buddy had sent to me. It had Dez Bryant on there doing a bunch of drills.
?That tape was really significant in my development as a coach. I used it and I watched it, along with a lot of other tapes. But that was really kind of the first time I was able to watch cutups of Oklahoma State and the offense they were running. I implemented that into our wide receiver drills.
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