Come on guys...we won 9 games last year. We had ONE guy drafted in the 7th round because he can run fast. It's college football. 25 or so guys leave every year on every team. Other guys step in. Who was irreplaceable?
Year one, you analyze what strengths you have and utilize them. You install your culture but that doesn't mean you install the spread or the triple option flexbone without the players to flourish in it. You run whatever will make you the most successful in the present while installing elements of what you want to do in the future and are able to successfully execute now. You transition slowly.
You are just making excuses, buying time to collect a paycheck if you need three years before you say you can start to build a winning team. The athletic director is talking about the urgency PJ is bringing to the program. Year zero is urgency?? Major disconnect somewhere there with both PJ and most of you guys willing to give him three years to plod along until we see what we got.
<b>All I know is there was zero imagination on offense Saturday. If you don't have talent then you have to be innovative, you trick people, ala Purdue. You don't run the same play over and over without running the variations off of it...using it as a decoy, deception to something else. You don't tell your quarterback not to run and then run a play that requires him to. What happened to two backs? Watch highlights, wide receiver screens score a touchdown every other highlight. Spread people out...any college quarterback and receiver can play catch...that's all it is. One block, one fast receiver, touchdown. We don't need new recruits to do that!!! Or many other not really even innovative offensive plays that are hard to defend...especially when the defense is surprised....and we had them set up to be surprised by something different.
Line can't block...maybe we need a fullback...maybe we need a tight end to be an extra blocker. Million things we don't need better players to be more successful to execute offensively. Find a way!!! We certainly do have some talent. Oh btw we were 2 touchdown favorites for you guys who think we are as whoa as me as PJ paints.</b>