governmentmule
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The numbers work well except for the comparison with UF. Slight advantage for UF in the youth department but huge difference in record.
The numbers work well except for the comparison with UF. Slight advantage for UF in the youth department but huge difference in record.
This "youth" excuse is tiresome. I haven't heard anyone argue the fact that we play a lot of underclassmen, we do. And every year we hear from the head coach whether CBJ or CDD, it's the same song. I guess my reply to this issue is, why do we play so many freshmen? The only reason I can come back to is that our coaching staff can't develop talent. I understand that you'll get your underclassmen that are more talented than upperclassmen, and may even come in and start right away, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't at least have depth across the board by now. I mean, as soon as a upperclassman is recruited over, in regards to talent, do we just quit on the upperclassman....all in all, I understand the "youth" issues, but our coaching staff can't even take what's left and turn them into capable back ups, which is inexcusable to me.
He sorta glossed over that because it didn't fit his "we're young" excuse template.
McElwain is Butch's worst nightmare. He's a guy that's under-selling and over-delivering versus Butch, who ever-sells and under-delivers. Mac is 6-1 and just went toe-to-toe with arguably the best team in the nation during a week where he lost his starting QB. He also has his team poised to make the SECCG in year 1, not year 3, or 4, year 1!
this "youth" excuse is tiresome. I haven't heard anyone argue the fact that we play a lot of underclassmen, we do. And every year we hear from the head coach whether cbj or cdd, it's the same song. I guess my reply to this issue is, why do we play so many freshmen? The only reason i can come back to is that our coaching staff can't develop talent. I understand that you'll get your underclassmen that are more talented than upperclassmen, and may even come in and start right away, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't at least have depth across the board by now. I mean, as soon as a upperclassman is recruited over, in regards to talent, do we just quit on the upperclassman....all in all, i understand the "youth" issues, but our coaching staff can't even take what's left and turn them into capable back ups, which is inexcusable to me.
This "youth" excuse is tiresome. I haven't heard anyone argue the fact that we play a lot of underclassmen, we do. And every year we hear from the head coach whether CBJ or CDD, it's the same song. I guess my reply to this issue is, why do we play so many freshmen? The only reason I can come back to is that our coaching staff can't develop talent. I understand that you'll get your underclassmen that are more talented than upperclassmen, and may even come in and start right away, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't at least have depth across the board by now. I mean, as soon as a upperclassman is recruited over, in regards to talent, do we just quit on the upperclassman....all in all, I understand the "youth" issues, but our coaching staff can't even take what's left and turn them into capable back ups, which is inexcusable to me.
He sorta glossed over that because it didn't fit his "we're young" excuse template.
McElwain is Butch's worst nightmare. He's a guy that's under-selling and over-delivering versus Butch, who ever-sells and under-delivers. Mac is 6-1 and just went toe-to-toe with arguably the best team in the nation during a week where he lost his starting QB. He also has his team poised to make the SECCG in year 1, not year 3, or 4, year 1!
We are playing more freshmen and sophomores because Dooley did a terrible job at bringing in talent. You can't blame this coaching staff for not coaching up upperclassmen when they have brought in better underclassmen. If the team fails with the upperclassmen they recruited the next few years. It will fall upon them ,but you can't hold the lack of talented upperclassmen against the staff who wasn't here to recruit them.