You’ve said a lot but have said nothing. I’d love to hear how Knox is better than Mock. I don’t think you could come up with anything meaningful there.
You’re grasping at straws to defend wasted talent and effort here.
You’re going on star rankings alone and not considering coaching and on the field performance. Our coaches haven’t gotten the best out of the talent they do have. 4-3 is no stretch with a loss to a G5 team, a domination by a below average P5 team and a loss to an Iowa team basically playing without a QB.
If they haven’t gotten the best out of what they have…what makes you think talent changes anything? If you think the Hazell holdovers were talented yet one guy went 3-9 with them and one guy went 7-6 with them…doesn’t that suggest the guy who went 7-6 knew what he was doing?
Lots of games coming up with teams with similar talent but if what we’ve seen thus far this year holds we will continue to be out coached and executed.
No excuse for going 3-9 or 4-8 with what we had left from last years team…even though people will exhaust themselves making those excuses.
Lol I haven't mentioned star ratings once, in fact, I literally said star ratings aren't always accurate so I have no idea what you are talking about. I also said nothing about Walters being a good coach because AGAIN for the fourth time I have said and am saying the jury is out on Walters being a good coach. The ONLY point I am making is to push against the nonsense idea that this team was left with talented players. It was not. The players Brohm started with at key positions were better. The issue was line play under Hazell was atrocious along with play calling and overall coaching. JUST like with Tiller there was plenty of talent there, it was just poorly coached. The difference with Brohm is he brought in several oline transfers that plussed up the oline and he did have some good dline players and linebackers already there to go with better defensive coaching and of course much better offensive play calling. So yeah Brohm knew what he was doing better than Hazell, a point no one has disputed or argued against.
You keep wanting to make this into a Walters v Brohm coaching battle which has zero to do with the discussion. No one here is claiming Walters is a better coach than Brohm. Not. A. Single. Person.
What people are taking issue with is the claim that Brohm left a lot of talented players here. He absolutely did not. The oline was always going to be sketchy. The entire defense except maybe the dline and one safety was always going to be sketchy.
We were basically all holding out hope that somehow Walters could work magic with the defense being somewhat unique and that Card would be an upgrade.
Welp, no he can't turn bad into good just with scheming on defense and Card turned out to be the worst starting QB since before Blough. The receivers the worst since well a long time, and the oline similar. So even if folks want to believe Mockabee is better, the oline doesn't consistently block openings.
We ALL came into this season knowing it was going to be tough to make a bowl game and I'm pretty sure that wasn't because we all thought there was such great talent left over, but now history is being rewritten.
Now does that mean the coaching hasn't sucked ALSO? Nope. It has. Which is why we've only beaten two fairly bad teams so far. Because the coaching is trying to scheme things that we don't have the talent or players to do. Like run up the middle on third and short, or play single high safety man coverage on defense.
Those things worked for them before because they had the talent. They don't work now because they don't. The coaching problem is being stubborn and not adjusting to what their players can do instead of forcing them to do what they don't have the talent to do.
So, folks can stop reacting to my posts as if they are defenses of the coaching staff, because they ain't.
