Originally posted by boiler17:
Originally posted by pboiler18:
and here I was fully convinced he was terrible from those recruiting threads!
Yes, the award has no bearing on future performance, but its always good to know that we have the best football player (results wise) from the entire state coming into the program.
While I dont disagree with any of the positions those recruiting threads took, one would think he would have the tools to be a decent college player in some fashion. Really hope we dont Jerome Bettis him when his playing days start.
I would expect a guy like him to be a good returner and an x factor player the way the coaches said they were going to use Hunt.
I mean, no shit....recruiting has to get better. My point all along is that it isn't WORSE than it was when Hope is here. Now, does that mean that will turn around this team? Heck no....but the criticism that this staff can't recruit is a farce. Now, can they recruit at a high level? That's the question. The answer looks like no right now.
Why Tiller was successful from like 2000-2005 was that he got a lot of good, developmental type kids in the program based off his early success....then developed them into good football players. I think that's truly the way to build a program here.
Now, that said....and where the previous coach fell short was the development of talent once it got here. I think THIS coach/staff have done well in some areas (some DL, LBs, some DBs,RB) but have fallen woefully short in other areas (WR, QBs backsliding, OL is still a ?). No matter what, it was going to be a process to build this team to back to what it was in the Tiller days. Obviously this is not being helped by complete offensive ineptitude. I really felt that if we went a different direction offensively that we would be a new and better team next year.
Now, all we have to bank on is Shoop having a stroke and having a young grad assistant step in who plays a lot of NCAA football with an Air Raid playbook team to have any hope of being decent next year.
No matter what people want to say about the D, they are VASTLY improving, and are still very young. I can't count on my fingers and toes how many times during the season they were put in a bad situation by our abysmal O and came out with a turnover or stopping the other team from scoring....only to have the O lose field position or turn it over.
