I think mlsoft started it all.
mlsoft did not start it -- the performance of our secondary on the field week after week with no improvement over the 2 years he has been here is what started it.
Our secondary is poorly coached. They continually have problems lining up correctly, reading the offensive sets, getting off of blocks, looking back for the ball on vertical routes, getting in position during the play, and only one or two of them seem to understand how to jump a route. They give far too much cushion on the LOS and do not react to the ball well. Very few of them have shown progress during the year or even from year to year and as a unit they progressed hardly at all.
We do not have many kids that could start for LSU or Alabama, but we do have some pretty good athletes that are SEC caliber. Joseph caused some of his own personnel problems and could not identify his starters so as to build cohesion in his secondary. That was evident from the constantly changing lineups every week, and his insistence on playing Teague every game when it was more than evident that Teague was not ready to play in the SEC.
Finally, there was the bottom line. We did not play many decent passing teams this past season, but when we did (see Arky) they burned us alive. Even Alabama, who is hardly a passing team, when they decided to open up the offense a bit, easily picked us apart. The secondary (and Joseph) were fortunate that our opponents did not need to pass on us to win easily -- they did it with the run instead.
Joseph will not be going anywhere, but I very much hope that Shannon will bring in his own guy to coach the secondary and Joseph will be moved to ST.
mlsoft
