CA HILL AND MATT GROTHE

[Mr._2_cents]

OK, one correction, we do need a QB fast.

[USFPDiddy]

not sure i'm sold on dawsey any longer

Lawrence Dawsey

Receivers Coach

Second Season

One of two new coaches on the USF staff in 2004, this former All-America receiver at Florida State did a remarkable job with a youth-oriented receiving corps, and the group appears ready to revitalize an aggressive Bulls’ offense.

Dawsey joined USF from LSU, where he was a graduate assistant during the Tigers’ 2003 National Championship season. His rookie season with USF in 2004 marked his first full time collegiate coaching role.

In addition to his outstanding playing career at Florida State, Dawsey enjoyed a solid NFL career, mostly with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who drafted him in the third round of the 1991 NFL Draft. He went on to be named Sports Illustrated Rookie of the Year and was also named to the Pro Football Weekly All-Rookie Team. He led the Buccaneers in receiving that year with 55 catches for 818 yards (a Buccaneer rookie record) and three touchdowns. He led the team for a second straight season in 1992 with 60 catches for 776 yards and one touchdown.

After missing most of the 1993 season, Dawsey again led the Bucs in 1994 with 46 catches for 673 yards and one touchdown. In 1995, his final season with the Bucs, he had 30 catches for 372 yards and no touchdowns. His 206 career receptions are 10th most on the Bucs all-time list, while his 2,842 yards stand eighth. He had four 100-yard receiving games, including a best of 116 on seven receptions at Washington, December 18, 1994.

Dawsey would go on to play for the New York Giants in 1996, the Miami Dolphins in 1997 and the New Orleans Saints in 1999.

At Florida State, Dawsey earned All-America honors in his 1990 senior season when he led the Seminoles with 65 receptions for 999 yards and seven touchdowns. He had also led the team as a junior with 38 catches for 683 yards and four touchdowns and he had 128 career receptions for 2,129 yards, including nine 100-yard games.

His career highs in receptions (13) and yards (172) came against Florida State’s top rivals Miami and Florida, respectively, each in his senior season. He had a career-long 93-yard touchdown reception in his 1988 sophomore season against Southern Mississippi.

Dawsey began a coaching career prior to signing with the Saints in 1999 after a year away from the NFL His first taste of coaching came at Tampa Catholic High School in 1998, where he supervised the receivers. He has most recently been the graduate assistant at LSU in 2003, when the Tigers won the National Championship. He has also coached at Tampa’s Blake High School in 2002, and he was a training camp assistant with the St. Louis Rams in 2001.

Coaching Experience

Year School/Team Assignment

1998 Tampa Catholic HS Receivers

2001 St. Louis Rams Training Camp Assistant

2002 Tampa Blake HS Recievers

2003 LSU Graduate Assistant

2004 USF Receivers

That's one thing that always interested me.  I don't know for certain how perfect our wideout's routes are, or how much say our WR coach gets in what they do in the game.  If they're not allowed to run an out, it's hard to evaluate that route, etc.

I'll let one of our more careful observers/experts chime in about how well the wideouts have actually run their routes...now to the other WR question.

Why do they drop the ball?  AND, how coachable is that?  People do the same thing to catch the ball everywhere.  They catch it in practice, maybe using a jug machine too.  That's about it.  You can't do much else...

The QB is different because he is missing reads and throwing incorrectly given the situation.  You know, that "appropriate pass strength" part of the pass skeleton drill.  How many drops are on the receivers I just can't say.  I don't know who to blame for a drop other than the individual (unless its at his feet while he's running across the field, making it hard to catch without kicking it out, or a bad throw behind, etc.)

So, on this guy, how often are the wideouts getting open?  I've seen Julmiste miss open reads in the past...so I wonder how much is on them after all.  Julmiste does not throw it very nicely...

[E.T.]

I do see our receivers NOT making fundamental actions on routes, "working" DB's ... but not informed enough to blame the coaching, but the things I see as a fan are coachable things that should be learned in HS.

Go BULLS !!!

[smazza]

for a team loaded with wr's and a team that has 3 and 4 receiver sets a good portion of the time,our wide receivers are not a factor in our offense

very strange

\instead of all the wr's we should have lineman

[Triple B]

for a team loaded with wr's and a team that has 3 and 4 receiver sets a good portion of the time,our wide receivers are not a factor in our offense

very strange

\instead of all the wr's we should have lineman

It's amazing we've been able to get ANY wr's to come here considering the passing game the last few years ....