I realize transitioning from PJ to a “pro”’offense will result in some tough times. I just don’t blame PJ for that. And everyone is hoping GC’s takes us to Orange Bowls. It’s a transition, plain and simple. So blame the transition for the losses, not PJ.
We’re giving Chan credit for PJ’s wins and blaming PJ for GC’s losses. What the hell messed up world is that?
I don't blame PJ for the transition difficulties; I blame the administrators who hired him.
I do blame PJ for bad faith recruiting choices and bad faith recruiting effort. It is not an unhappy accident that his last year he graduated some nice offensive and defensive line pieces and there was a drought in the pipeline behind them. I do blame PJ that so many players transferred or otherwise left
on his watch to gut the recruiting classes he assembled before he left, which is why we have not had anything close to a functional senior class since he retired.
I do blame PJ for a 90%+ failure rate for assembling a functional defense and leaving behind a sieve. I do blame PJ for subpar performance against good competition and subpar performance during bowl season for most of his tenure.
He had upper class players when he arrived. He had an extremely talented pool of young players when he arrived. What he left behind was in no way shape or form the same. He had his best multi-year results when he had someone else's players, despite the rhetoric that he needed specialized athletes for his specialized offense.
If PJ left behind even a normal PJ team, we'd be much better off than we have been, so yeah, a percentage of our bad record the last two years can be laid at his feet and not just on the transition. And it annoys me that termites make the job of the new guy so much harder by blaming him for things outside his control.