.....it is suggested that the coaches are purposefully trying to keep the best
players off of the field each and every game, in an obvious attempt to tank
the season, and in such a way as to make themselves completely un-hire-able
thereafter.
Hmmm.......what's THAT Kool-Aid they're drinking? LOL
Wait a second now. Although everything you say is logical, and you have a better chance of being right than wrong, there is something suggested in this post that warrants discussion. There are a few possibilities worth considering:
1. is our coaching staff capable of evaluating, envisioning how to use and/or utilizing the talent they have in the best way possible? It seems that there is some evidence to suggest that they don't.
2. haven't many of you former athletes seen good players not played because coaches just didn't like the guy or because they just liked another player better (Ron Gardenhire with Nick Punto comes to mind).
3. there must be dozens of players thriving in college football that Brewster and his staff never recruited because they didn't think the players were good enough. that's an example of a deficiency in evaluating talent.
4. look at all the players in professional sports, who were by-passed by many supposedly brilliant coaches, who've gone on to perform at the top of their sport (Kurt Warner, Tom Brady, Chris Carter, come to mind. I'm sure you can name a lot more than I can). The point is, it's hard to know if guys like Brandon Green would be thriving on another team. There is a decent chance that they would be.
The fact of the matter is, Brewster and his staff are making the best decisions they are capable of making. But each of them comes with certain biases, tendencies, "eyes", analytical abilities and a knack, or lack thereof, of figuring out who their best weapons are and how to use them. I would bet $10,000.00 that there are football coaches out there that would take all our current players, evaluate them, and utilize them in some same and some different ways than the current regime and do so with better results. These coaches are simply more talented football coaches and have better imaginations and decision making abilities.
So the posters question, while perhaps not articulated very well, certainly has merit and gives rise to some interesting things worth considering. Why do the majority of posters here simply "get off" on ripping everyone else's ideas instead of using them to foster discussion. Isn't this what a discussion board is for?