Doug Meacham Fired as Offensive Coordinator at Kansas

University of Kansas Offensive Coordinator Doug Meacham has been fired.  To me this is a curious decision as Kansas is actually better this year on offense than this time last year.  Let's look at the number using the Complex Invasion College Football Production Model from the data provided from www.cfbstats.com.

2017
At the end of week #6 for the 2017 season, Kansas ranked as the #84 most productive offense in all of the FBS after scoring 148 points to this point.  Of interest, at this time, Kansas had the #108 ranked defense, which is much worse than their offense.   By the end of the season, Kansas would fall to the #125 offense (6th worst) after being shut out twice and only scoring 76 points in the last seven games.  Their defense was #126 (5th worst) in all of the FBS.

2018
At the time Meacham was let go, Kansas is ranked #62 most productive offense (which is above average) in the FBS.  Kansas has scored 166 points, but has also played one more game than last year.  On the other side of the ball, Kansas is ranked #100 most productive defense, so maybe the offense is not the only problem.