Norm Chow
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Oct 25, 2026
Joe GiglioHOST
Well, excuse me, was his high school coach.
Joe GiglioHOST
He gets to NC State after one year with Norm Chow.
Joe GiglioHOST
Phillip was essentially NC State's offensive coordinator his last three years in school.
Joe GiglioHOST
So he has a long track record of calling plays, knowing plays, knowing what to do.
CJ VogelHOST
It's, formations, it's motions and shifts, it's down in distance and knowing what your strengths are.
CJ VogelHOST
And I also am reminded of what Sark said about, hey, maybe we need to keep it simple, right? He told us a couple of weeks ago, keep it simple, stupid, right? It's something that he heard back in the day from, I believe, was it Norm Chow? I believe that He had heard it from.
CJ VogelHOST
So I think it's always difficult for any offensive coordinator or play caller to kind of walk the fine line of what's really simple and what works versus – Hey, where do we have to go to create new looks or, you know, bring out something new that opposing defenses haven't necessarily seen before? He said at one point, you know, it's kind of difficult to, I guess, keep the team excited for the quote unquote boring plays, which I'm paraphrasing a little bit there.
CJ VogelHOST
But that was interesting to me.
Mike ParkerHOST
Hal Mumme went to BYU to a practice and said this.
Mike ParkerHOST
One day, Hal Mumme recalled, I was sitting in Norm Chow's office, and he says to me, Coach, how do you run four verticals? And Mumme said, we don't run four verticals.
Mike ParkerHOST
And Norm Chow, then the OC at BYU, Norm Chow said, Coach, If you're not going to run four verticals, you might as well not use this offense.
Mike ParkerHOST
It's a good story.
Mike ParkerHOST
Tell us about four verticals, what Mommy's talking about, what Norm Chow was talking about.
Mike ParkerHOST
We'll get to what you're talking about with the Beavers in a moment.
Mike ParkerHOST
But when I say the four verticals, tell our listeners what that means.
Jeff HoweHOST
I'm missing too many things, got too many blind spots." If he looks at it the way, like, Kirby Smart has looked at hiring defensive coordinators, or the way Nick Saban looked at hiring defensive coordinators.
Jeff HoweHOST
Sark needs to put himself back when he and Lane Kiffin were at USC with Norm Chow.
Jeff HoweHOST
And Sark needs to go find that version of him, that version of Lane Kiffin.
Jeff HoweHOST
"I need to go find the early '30s-
Gary DickmanHOST
And last text before we go to break.
Gary DickmanHOST
Has this year's fan's voice been worse than the Norm Chow year? Not yet.
Gary DickmanHOST
Not yet, but the building.
Gary DickmanHOST
The Norm Chow years were tough.
Gary DickmanHOST
And I didn't want to be defensive and defending him.
Gary DickmanHOST
And it was really hard because those teams, they were getting blown out left and right.
Todd McShaySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Is Sark developing him the right way? Can Sark develop quarterbacks? And you go back, he was a quarterback coach of Carson Palmer.
Todd McShaySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But Norm Chow was the OC.
Todd McShaySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then again with Matt Leiner.
Todd McShaySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Beyond that, I went back and looked.
Ben CriddleHOST
Yeah, I think with the counter-argument, if you haven't bought into A-Rod, you're like, okay, all right, he's the best offensive coordinator since Doug Scoville.
Ben CriddleHOST
There may be some that actually really liked Norm Chow, but a lot of the BYU fan contingency, trust me, I've polled them, I've evaluated their comments, and they wanted Norm gone.
Ben CriddleHOST
And then he goes to USC and the Titans, and he's one of the best OCs in the football world.
Ben CriddleHOST
Anyway... um you know they wanted norm gone so uh i think there are more and more individuals that were the murmurs the haters of a rod that are now bought in like all right i'll give you your flowers for the time being but those that still remain if there are those that still remain murmuring in the background saying i'm not sold yet he does some stuff on third down i just don't like he doesn't throw to the sticks um You know what they're saying, Ronald? They're like, well, yeah, because he's got Bear Bachmeier saving him.
Todd McShayGUEST
But then there's the other option, which is, is Sark developing him the right way? Can Sark develop quarterbacks? And you go back, he was a quarterback coach of Carson Palmer.
Todd McShayGUEST
But Norm Chow was the OC.
Todd McShayGUEST
And then again with Matt Leiner.
Todd McShayGUEST
Beyond that, I went back and looked.
Joe GiglioHOST
He really was smart in how he put together his first staff.
Joe GiglioHOST
Unfortunately, he lost Norm Chow after that first year.
Joe GiglioHOST
And the offense kind of became a little too predictable, a little too Noel Redzoni by the end of it.
Joe GiglioHOST
Noel Mazzoni, my favorite nickname from the state boards, right? Shout out to Pack Pride, the original OG Pack Pride, James Henderson.
Jason ScukanecHOST
We were pretty good.
Jason ScukanecHOST
Norm Chow.
Jason ScukanecHOST
Yeah.
Jason ScukanecHOST
We were one game away from being the first ever BCS Buster and then Hawaii.
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