How can you constantly blame everything on the coaching this year?
I haven't. I think I've been pretty clear that we've had a horrific offseason that put us in a pretty bad place. In fact, I started a thread about coaches who struggled mightily in their first year and did great things after that.
In this thread? My point is that Paul Johnson didn't destroy the program. He inherited a pretty great 2007 class, but otherwise it looks about the same as it did before that and after that. This was a down year due to a 2016 class that got torn apart, but there's more young talent on this team than we've had since 2008. The slight uptick in recruiting rankings backs that up.
Do you think we fire everybody and start over after 4 games?
Absolutely not. We're definitely recruiting better and seem to be playing better defense. I'm worried about our offensive game plan, though.
Who do you think would or could be doing any better right now given our situation?
In terms of getting offensive production despite being outmatched, I think Mike Leach, Lincoln Riley, any of the Briles, David Cutcliffe, Dan Mullen, Urban Meyer, Scott Frost, Jeff Brohm, Mike Norvell, Dana Holgorsen, Ryan Day, Jeff Monken, Ken Niumatololo, to name a few, would be scoring points. In terms of previous GT coaches, I think Ralph Friedgen and Paul Johnson would have absolutely called plays to take advantage of our strengths and what the defense was giving us.
Have you ever heard the saying, you need your best talent closest to the ball? That is our weak link. Yes we have talent at WR, talent at RB, and each QB has his strengths, but none are complete. This coupled with a piecemeal OL is a disaster in the making. We could have mediocre RB and WR, but if we had ANY decent experience on OL and QB, it would completely flip the script.
Agree with this. Our OL situation makes it very difficult right now. Regardless, we aren't beating Clemson or UGA anytime soon without out-scheming them so it's discouraging to see us look so horrible against teams with lesser or equal talent. Even if you want to argue that Temple is our match, talent-wise, they shut our offense out.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]