Collins report card

Old-Fashioned UGA Hater said:
Give me some big boy football examples? I know what happened at each of these schools and it's starting from scratch. It's apples and oranges and again it's not power 5. A total rebuild for a power 5 would exponentially tougher too.
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Penn State?
 
johncu said:
I wanted to bring some stats to the table, especially in judging the offensive and defensive units. I used Football Outsiders’ FEI ratings, which are (IMO) the best I’ve been able to find. I’ve included the national ranking of each unit below.

Defense: D-
2019: 96
2020: 73
CPJ fired 3 different DCs for putting up results like this. Actually, this is slightly worse. Only reason it isn’t an F is because we are still significantly lacking talent, but you’d like to at least see improvement from previous years that we all acknowledged as bad.

Offense: D+
2019: 100
2020: 78
We went from being the best non-Clemson offense in the ACC to a joke. Last year was an F-, but we did improve significantly this year, even with freshman in key roles. I’m a bit more optimistic here.

Special Teams: F
Do I really need to elaborate?

Game Management: D
Wasted timeouts, penalties by unprepared players, bad situational play calls - he looks like an unseasoned coach here, but that’s not unexpected because he still is.

Everything Else: A-
Culture, recruiting, branding, fan outreach - all markedly improved. I’ll give CGC full credit, because he made an effort here and I do think it will cause the above grades to improve.

Going forward, I’m interested to see if we make any coaching changes. Other than RB and OL, I’m not convinced that any position group is playing particularly well, nor am I sold on either coordinator.
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This is a welcome bit of sanity based upon the data. Need to break 500 next year somehow.
 
GTCrew4b said:
Penn State?
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Apparently, he’s just going to “ya, but” everything. I mean, merely switching offenses is harder than having the HC, coaching staff, AD, and President fired and the entire athletic department and university tarnished on top of everything else that routinely comes along with a coaching change.
 
ElCidBUZZingFAN said:
Apparently, he’s just going to “ya, but” everything. I mean, merely switching offenses is harder than having the HC, coaching staff, AD, and President . me fired and the entire athletic department and university tarnished on top of everything else that routinely comes along with a coaching change.
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I guess you're missing my point in the tactical problems CGC is dealing with as opposed to a conference USA team getting the axe, plane crashes, rapists, and pedophiles. It really is a unique circumstance that we're going to have to work through. And don't get me wrong CGC will have to improve but I cut him a little slack. We'll learn a whole lot more of what we have by next year.
 
Old-Fashioned UGA Hater said:
I guess you're missing my point in the tactical problems CGC is dealing with as opposed to a conference USA team getting the axe, plane crashes, rapists, and pedophiles. It really is a unique circumstance that we're going to have to work through. And don't get me wrong CGC will have to improve but I cut him a little slack. We'll learn a whole lot more of what we have by next year.
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I have not seen one person remark about the short prep time for Pitt, and few mention the limited practice time and players available for this season. There’s no way you can make any kind of a judgement on Collins this year. All teams from last place to first will have an asterisk by this year in the record books. I do expect significant improvement next year.
 
If this is a pass/fail course, I’d definitely say Collins passed. We were picked to finish dead last in the ACC, we didn’t. We were outmatched in many games, but our team never quit. Although we don’t have all the pieces in place yet, I saw some improvement in many facets of our team Throughout the year.

As some said, we have excitement around the program we haven’t had in years and some really talented players want to come here. Were there some suspect coaching decisions this year? Of course there were and some undisciplined mistakes, but I think those are easily correctable. Getting the talent here is step one and we have some help on the way.

I too would love to turn the switch on to be all of a sudden a good football team, but unfortunately we have to continue to turnover the team through recruiting to get us there. I like the direction we are pointing, just need to continue to make positive steps forward!
 
Buffalobuzz said:
If this is a pass/fail course, I’d definitely say Collins passed. We were picked to finish dead last in the ACC, we didn’t. We were outmatched in many games, but our team never quit. Although we don’t have all the pieces in place yet, I saw some improvement in many facets of our team Throughout the year.

As some said, we have excitement around the program we haven’t had in years and some really talented players want to come here. Were there some suspect coaching decisions this year? Of course there were and some undisciplined mistakes, but I think those are easily correctable. Getting the talent here is step one and we have some help on the way.

I too would love to turn the switch on to be all of a sudden a good football team, but unfortunately we have to continue to turnover the team through recruiting to get us there. I like the direction we are pointing, just need to continue to make positive steps forward!
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I want to believe! :ughrun:
 
GEETEELEE said:
I have not seen one person remark about the short prep time for Pitt, and few mention the limited practice time and players available for this season. There’s no way you can make any kind of a judgement on Collins this year. All teams from last place to first will have an asterisk by this year in the record books. I do expect significant improvement next year.
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I've seen plenty of talk about the short prep week, and even then most of the blame for the Pitt loss is overwhelmingly on the officiating. I agree it is hard to judge any coach based on this season; but as I type that I see that Kevin Sumlin just got fired. I think CGC is safe next year; particularly if the recruiting continues to be top 30.
 
THWG16 said:
I realize it’s hard going from 3option to this style offense & we knew it would be tough , but if we knew when he was hired that he would win 6 games combined his first 2 years then we’d all be hugely disappointed.. more wins better come very soon . I’d give him a C-& the only reason I’m being that gracious is cause the recruiting has been good
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dude if this is your take I honestly don’t know what to tell you. If we’re in the same boat after year 4 then maybe you would have a point.
 
Old-Fashioned UGA Hater said:
Baylor was a sad story for sure and Rhule's first season they only won one game but they weren't switching from the Triple Option dude. It's much easier to turn things around in their case. I think Rhule even went to a dinky bowl game in his second year.
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Baylor also has 2 wins this season despite things. To be determined how much was Rhule but interesting nonetheless
 
Recruiting -A
Media Relations- B
Alumni Relations - B
Game Preparation- D
Game Coaching - C
Player Development - D
Overall - C+
 
77GTFan said:
Recruiting -A
Media Relations- B
Alumni Relations - B
Game Preparation- D
Game Coaching - C
Player Development - D
Overall - C+
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Player development grade seems a bit low. Offense looks light years better considering who's playing and how the offseason unfolded. Also we were blowing Duke off the ball in the 2nd half and it's not because we had more depth.

I think a B- is more fair
 
Offense- B largely due to Sims and Gibbs
Defense D this unit has not improved over last year and the secondary regressed
Spec Teams- F no discussion needed. Worse than mos competent high school teams.
Recruiting- B+
P/R- A
Game mgt- D
 
He gets four years before a grade in my book:

positive indicators:
- our most talented players (on paper) at EVERY position are his recruits or transfers he brought in
- our offense greatly improved via talent injection
- we have lost some winnable games (last year I don’t think any loss was even close)
- the team does not quit

negative indicators:
- penalties unrelated to effort. Pre-snap crap: Delay of games out of timeouts, lining up wrong, etc
- putting the “special” in special teams
- I think he’s too loyal to upperclassman at the expense of getting more young guys reps especially in this kind of season
 
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