Perhaps the biggest complaint from fans and media members last year regarding Northwestern football's performance was how the coaches used their personnel.
In one sense, the offense trended away from the spread and what it had always done, but in another sense, the coaches refused to adapt their dink-and-dunk style, even when it was grossly inefficient. That style worked when NU had explosive players, but the Wildcats were dead last nationally in explosiveness, and the results suffered accordingly.
You don't have to tell Pat Fitzgerald that — he was in adamant agreement — and now the question becomes how NU is going to fix that.