Yeah... If he had not gotten hurt, and his backup, and his backup’s backup, and at various points our top 3 (5?? 8?) receivers, each of our top 3 RBs at various times, our top 2 TEs (3 if you count Thomas who “retired” from football just before the year due to injury) and our best OL... If just those guys had not been injured, we coulda had a good year! Seriously I say this a lot but I have never seen a team so riddled with injuries on the offensive side of the ball in one season before. Not here or anywhere... Not making excuses just staring facts- that was an insurmountable number of loses for any program. Bama would have struggled to have a winning season if they had comparable injuries to what we saw last year.
A tater poster on a rivals forum has to be a little boring. Go play with your cheater ass friends at taternet.
I'm behind the young man 100%, and STILL believe that his dad is one heckuva danged fine coach, and can become a very integrally successful part of this staff the further up the ladder he can climb.
We had a lot of injuries in 2018 also. The running backs played cripple that whole year and our defensive injuries were the worse I’ve ever seen.
Guess that is why they switched s&c coaches. Hope we see some improvement. You always have a few injuries but it seems we get more than our share at the most vital positions.
Maybe he didn't want to endure another Muschamp OC?
Bingo! That, and a change of scenery his last chance at a starting role. Here's a kid who has the tools to be in the NFL but that hasn't translated into consistently good performances.
What do you deem successful? He was successful here. Had a great start as a freshman, took us to 9 wins as a sophomore, a bowl as a Jr and was on pace to break virtually all of our passing records. That IS SUCCESS. Our fans are just dense. We had three-four good years out of over 100 and all of a sudden our fans think we are not having “success” unless we make the playoffs and players are not having success unless they are in the Heisman race.
Even the fans don’t want to endure that but here we are.lol
If he’s successful there, it will tell us that their ol and backs were effective, their receivers put some giveadam in their route running and caught the balls thrown to them, and that their defense could hold a lead more often than not.
Yep. It's all on the players and not the multimillion dollar HC that has a documented and pitiful history of developing QBs at two different schools.
Year 4 of a rebuild and a bunch of 4*s don't know how to block, run, catch, throw or tackle. Hmmm...
Ok, not sure what last season’s record has to do with Jake? He only played one game... Yeah he struggled a bit vs UNC, but that is a pretty small sample size. Prior to the last game or two of the previous season he was lighting up the scoreboard. If he had stayed healthy last season, obviously nobody knows what would have happened but in all likelihood he would have been able to do better than a frosh who himself was not totally healthy and most likely Jake would have left holding the school record in many passing statistics. My point is that being the all time passing leader
Fair enough assessment. I actually deleted my reply because I thought my sarcasm was over the top. You must have been relying to me at the time.
They weren't real swift at it the two years prior to year one of the rebuild either.
Won 4 games last year. That's the worst season by a USC head coach who was not in his first season that didn't get him fired, even at this perpetually mediocre university. Do you realize what that means the university has settled for? BOOM! has really achieved something historic here, and not positive. Coaches have to coach. It's not enough to be a good recruiter. When he was hired he said you can't coach here if you can't recruit. Can you recruit well here but not coach?
He sure is. Those Cottonwood Canyons are epic.
Hmmm. That sounds like you're describing Muschamp's "best" team.
Sounds like App St with their 2* & 3* recruits.
