The Mountain West has had 4 teams make head coaching hires since 2016. The hires have led to varying degrees of success, but each coach has areas to focus on improving. A great way to evaluate what a team does and doesn’t do well is to use Bill Connelly’s five factors: explosiveness, efficiency, field position, finishing drives, and turnovers. Explosiveness is your team’s ability to create or limit big plays, while efficiency describes how often a given play is “successful”. Connelly defines a success as achieving 50% of the required yardage on first downs, 70% on second down, and 100% on third and fourth downs.
Evaluating New Mountain West Coaches
