Courtney Messingham was on Paul Rhoads’ staff for five years. Of those five years, two of them he served as the offensive coordinator. Let’s just say, he never should have been promoted there.
Messingham was promoted from receivers coach to offensive coordinator before the 2012 season after Tom Herman left to join coach Urban Meyer at Ohio State. The Cyclones could never sustain much consistency on offense under Messingham, though an ever changing quarterback situation may have attributed to that (though at least part of that is probably Messingham’s fault).
Messingham’s offenses would play well for a quarter and then look like they had never seen a football field before the next.