Imagine, if you will, this scenario: An offensive coordinator at a college football powerhouse puts together a stunningly inept season of offense, takes a year off from taking plays, then shows up at a middling Big Ten program and tries to implement his old offense—only without a relative advantage of talent when it comes to conference play. If Big Ten fans find that scenario familiar, they should. It’s the story of Greg Davis, ousted from Texas after a brutal year of offense only to wind up at Iowa, where the Hawkeye offense horrified the unsuspecting masses of Kinnick Stadium with abject ineptitude en route to a 4-8 record—Kirk Ferentz’s worst since he was rebuilding the program more than a decade ago. We’re ready to relive that scenario in 2013. Former Ohio State offensive coordinator Jim Bollman , who oversaw one of the most brutal years of offense in …
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