Likens rep as an OC is not very good.
He’s been an OC twice in his career & in both instances he got fired after one year because he wasn’t a good play caller at all. Both David Beaty at Kansas & Herm Edwards at ASU fired him for the same reason.
He’s a solid WR’s coach, very average to below average OC.
His is indeed, a very good WR coach.
And you brought up a great example about how coaching roles and skills are very different. And they are not necessarily transferrable.
Just because you are a good position coach, does not mean you are a good coordinator. And just because you are a good coordinator, doesn’t mean you are a good head coach. And just because you can do all of those, doesn’t mean you’re a good recruiter. It goes the other direction too.
The examples are too numerous to mention, but just think about the names that are familiar to Miami fans:
Marc Trestman? Great Qb coach. Mediocre coordinator
Dave Wannstedt? Great coordinator, mediocre Head coach
Randy Shannon? Terrible head coach, but really good LB coach
Greg Schiano? Was mediocre as a DB coach, but was a good DC
Don Soldinger? He and Joe Brodsky may have been the best RB coaches in history, but Solly couldn’t recruit a starving man to the buffet line at Sizzler
And it goes on and on …