I really hope so. Do not need another season with one dimensional offense. I am not here to attack this position group, but even Coach BMW Beamer stated this week like the previous coaching staff said, someone has got to step up.
When this unit shows improvement the recruits will come. Good coaching will bring good results and I am glad Steppe is our WR coach. Definitely a step up.
Muschamp routinely brought in top 20-25 classes up until it became obvious he was going to fail again. There is talent on the team. It may be under coached and under utilized but it’s there.
Yeesh. I don’t think anyone said anything about an SEC championship. Just a few fans who are actually excited to see what difference a new (hopefully better) coach with a new approach can do in the way of improving our WRs.
Everything works hand in hand in a situation like ours. It starts with the coaching, though. Beamer and Co. need to win some games and give recruits a reason to believe in their program. With hope comes (hopefully) some better players. Now, the coaches have to move from maybe a 6-7 win program to an 8-9 win program. Again, you bring in better players and try to become a double-digit team.
Was gonna post that. The difference between him and Bmac is startling. Bmac couldn't coach or inspire a church league. You can tell Stepp cares about his players and their style of play but he's gotta weed out the goin' thru the motions players.
You're making the erroneous assumption that top 20-25 classes as stated by some clueless websites means we have better players. As we have seen over the years that is not the case. Regardless of what any rankings show, we have seen with our own eyes over the last few years that there isn't a great deal of talent on this team.
Have we or have we seen guys never develop and improve under a bunch of guys who made their names as recruiters and not coaches?
That's a ludicrous statement. Do you really think Muschamp was hired as a defensive coordinator at 2 major universities, named as a coach in waiting at Texas, and hired at UF as a head coach because he was a terrible coach? I think he was WIDELY regarded as an excellent defensive coach. He had problems as a head coach with putting staffs together and other non coaching functions that a head coach is required to do. But in actual coaching he was/is very capable. Contrast that to Dabo. I don't think anyone, even his own fans, regard him as an excellent coach in the fundamentals of the game, but he is very successful as a HC because he had a very capable staff that are very good coaches in fundamentals and technique, and most importantly, he and his staff have been phenomenal recruiters. Players make the difference. Great players can make any coach look good and mediocre players make a coach look mediocre.
Oh Geez, Obviously I was exaggerating to make a point. But since you didn't get it I will dumb it down for you a little. The point is that coaching, while important, is far less a factor in a winning program than having great players. As an example of this, Nick Saban, who is widely considered the best coach in the country took over Alabama with the previous staff's players in 2007. His team went 7-6 in his first season (before vacated wins were deducted) including a loss to Louisiana-Monroe at Bryant-Deny Stadium. He was an excellent recruiter and then recruited the best players in the country. Now look at him!!!!
Coaches are overrated all the time. In his two years at Auburn he took a top 10 defense and had them as a top 10 defense. He did have good defenses at Texas but again incredible talent. At Florida he was a dismal failure. Top 10 recruiting classes and losing records including a loss to a team that didn’t even complete a pass.
You are spot on, Diz. I especially like the talent on both the OL and DL. If we have a passing game to keep the defense honest, I really, really believe we will surprise people in Beamer's first year.
Not sure what your points are here. He was not overrated as a Defensive coach. Nick Saban - you know the best coach in the country - hired him as DC at LSU where his D led the nation in scoring Defense. Prior to that he coached at Auburn where he was 7th nationally in scoring D in his first year. The next year he lead the SEC in scoring D and top 10 in 4 defensive categories.
Yet somehow he managed to take our defense backwards when he was here. He must have forgotten everything he knew about defense.
None of those guys are infallible and he didn’t make a miracle mark at any of those spots either. Maintaining a level or picking up a spot or two isn’t that amazing. It’s also hard to really tell why a guy is moving around as much as he did as well. The longest he ever stuck around somewhere was the time he was here running the program into the ground.
I'll take the collective opinions of Nick Saban, Tommy Tuberville, and Mack Brown over some guy whose name is "Dizzy" on the internet any day. Not sure you even know what you mean by "maintaining". The guy took over a defense and the next year lead the nation in scoring D. Can you explain how he could have done better than leading the nation? That's pretty much as high as you can go. I'd love to hear your astute explanation of that. LMAO.
When Muschamp came here our defense regressed. It’s all about what can you do for me now, not what you did 10 years ago…
That has nothing to do with his coaching ability. He came here as a HC. HC and Assistant are 2 entirely different things. He failed as a HC because he could not put together a good cohesive staff. He also was not a good manager of people. But the main reason he failed here is he had little talent. He had great talent at Auburn, LSU, and Texas. That is when he excelled. No coach, not even Nick Saban, can make All Americans out of average players.
Yes, but defense is his forte. If anything it should have been decent if not very good. Most of his highest rated recruits were on defense. Yet we were not good. That falls on him
It falls on him, I agree. But not from his coaching ability. It falls on him because he hired the DC and the assistants and he signed off on all the recruits that came in. That's the difference from being a HC and a DC. It is also true that the problems with the offense fall on him as well since he also hired those coaches and approved those recruits. He simply was not a successful HC. He was, however, a successful DC.
