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Q & A : o f f e n s i v e c o o r d i n a t o r j o h n s h o o p Better With Age? Shoop ties offensive struggles to youth BY KYLE CHARTERS KCharters@GoldandBlack.com season that's invisible to people on guys, (telling them), 'At some point the outside. These guys learned how you guys are going to push through to work, they learned how to prepare. this wall and things are going to start ohn Shoop has seen rebuilding You came to our practices on Tuesday clicking. But we are not going to slow projects before. and Wednesday, and the way that these down this pace just because there are He's been a part of them in the guys work is how you're supposed to. seven or eight freshmen out on the NFL, with Chicago and Carolina, and "I think our best game was our last field. We're not going to slow down in college at North Carolina. But the pace. You guys are going to Purdue, which went only 1-11 in meet that pace.' 2013 with one of the most anemic "And I think the last couple offenses in the country, might be games of the year, those guys the biggest challenge yet. met that. I think that it's going In Shoop's first season at Purto be a morale booster going due, the Boilermakers ranked into this offseason. among the worst teams statis"This isn't the first time I've tically in the FBS, placing 119th been around building a team. In (out of 123 nationally) in both 1995, the Carolina Panthers, it scoring (14.9) and total offense was their first year in existence. (282.9 yards). Yet, Shoop is optiIn our second year, we go 12-4 mistic for the future, particularly and are division champions. because of an offense that is cenAnd the year before I took over tered around rising sophomore for the Chicago Bears as the ofquarterback Danny Etling and a fensive coordinator, they were host of young skill position play4-12. Then the year I took over ers. my first full year, we go 13-3. Following is an interview with The University of North CarShoop from early December, olina, we were playing with a when he was in San Diego reTom Campbell redshirt freshman quarterback, cruiting. Coordinator John Shoop's offense featured a rookand we were only 4-8 (in 2007). J ie quarterback in Danny Etling and a wide receiver … Then, we went on a run of Gold and Black: You've had group that was underclassmen heavy. That may have four or five straight bowl games a while to digest the season. made for Year 1 struggles but gives him hope for the after that. These guys did a lot As you look back, why did you future. of work this year that is invisistruggle? ble to people on the outside, but Shoop: "Well, I haven't gone back game offensively and I got a feeling as it's a real strong foundation moving and looked at every cut-up yet as I've well as our players got a feeling that forward and this offseason has just got been traveling in planes. I've been things were starting to click. And the to be as aggressive and as intense as looking at as many as I could but I thing that I'm very pleased about is any in the country. couldn't look at every one. I don't look we never dumbed it down, we never "And with guys like Danny Etling at it as much as the problems; I look at slowed down. We just kept pushing our and Danny Anthrop and (Robert) it as these guys did a lot of work this f IllustrateD volume 24, issue 3 39