Kansas Fires Offensive Coordinator for the Second Year in a Row

Another season, another offensive coordinator is let go from the University of Kansas.  It was around this time last year that Doug Meacham was fired.   Earlier this week, Les Koenning was fired after six games as the University of Kansas offensive coordinator.   Let's take a look at the Kansas Jayhawks performance on the offensive side of the ball since 2008.  To measure this, I am using the Complex Invasion College Football Production Model, using aggregate data provided from www.cfbstats.com.

As you can see in the figure below, the Kansas Jayhawk's offense hasn't been above average since 2009.  So for Kansas to be poor on the offensive side of the ball is a decade long trend.

If we take a look at just the 2019 season, things look a little different.  During weeks 2 through 4, the defense was the star of the show for the Jayhawks', being above average as compared to the rest of the "league", while the offense was below average; and terrible in week 2.  Yet the last two weeks, while the offense has not brightened, its the defense that is now the concern, and at the end of week 6, the offense was finally higher in terms of productivity than the defense.  It is curious that after week 6, when the defense was dropping substantially, is when Les Koenning was fired.