Recovery time

How long does it take to recover?

  • 1 year

    Votes: 35 25.4%

  • 2 years

    Votes: 71 51.4%

  • 3 years

    Votes: 24 17.4%

  • Never or 4 years +

    Votes: 8 5.8%
  • Total voters
    138
Jmonty71

Jmonty71

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Now Collins is gone. TStan maybe going, yet to see. We have to get a new head coach and maybe AD. How long of a recovery do you expect? Are we looking at a year, 2 years, 3 years?
 
It's a whole different ballgame now with the transfer portal. With an advantage of players wanting to come home to the atl region after starting somewhere else (M. Sims, Allen, Watson, etc.), you can change your whole team much quicker. Moving forward I think coaches will get a year 1 grace period, but you've got to be cooking by year 2. The whole "I need 4 years and my guys" is dead, for better or worse. Mostly worse.
 
We go from 3 wins to 5 wins to 7 wins.

seems unlikely we add more than 2 wins per year over the previous year.
 
agt45 said:
We go from 3 wins to 5 wins to 7 wins.

seems unlikely we add more than 2 wins per year over the previous year.
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The schedule lightening up alone adds atleast 1-2 additional wins per year with basic competent coaching. I voted 1 year, because I think it's possible to go back to a bowl game with the right hires, but honestly it's really too early to say at this point, too many variables.
 
This team has talented players. If they’re willing to absorb actual coaching, instill discipline, and work hard we can be very successful very quickly.
 
smokey_wasp said:
If we don't hire someone who makes half the team transfer, I see no reason we can't go bowling in the crummy coastal year 1. The schedule eases a bit, too
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half the team transferring is no problem if a whole team transfers in.

Ole Miss had 27 transfer in this year. incredible! that's a team plus 5.

as folks have been saying transfer portal works to our (or any other team) advantage during a transition if its handled right.
 
given the portal i think it's possible to go bowling next year especially if we hire an unemployed guy now like Mullen or Mendenhall.
 
Bowl game next year. That's my expectation. If a coach isn't ready to sign up for that, then don't sign the contract.

Although the record would indicate otherwise, this isn't a total talent/roster rebuild at this point. It's about taking the players we have, and winning football games with them... something the previous coach couldn't do.
 
What constitutes "recovered"? Bowl game?

A really good coach could get the team there this year. It would be an impressive feat and I certainly don't expect it, but this team has some talent on it, and should be able to beat most of the ACC. Unfortunately we already blew one of the most winnable games this past weekend.

An above average coach should absolutely have 6+ wins next year.
 
andrew said:
ACC sucks and I think our team has more raw talent than our record shows. Combine that with with the transfer portal and the right hire could take us to a bowl in season one.
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Agreed as per usual, it seems. I also think it's heavily dependent on the TYPE of hire we pursue. If we pursue a system-focused guy (as I personally hope), I don't see any reason we can't win 5-6-7 games in year one depending on what happens with the roster. If we go for a more program-minded coach, there might be a down-year while we build things back up roster-wise.
 
One year if you choose Deion. Could take 3 years if you go with a safer coach like the guy at Coastal or if you could poach Wake's coach (for examples). The difference is not that Deion is a better coach, just that it would take longer for normal coach that wins via coaching to do that while a "Jimmy and Joes" coach has zero restrictions on loading up on ballers in year one. Who reaches a higher peak at the end of the rebuild is simply unknowable. Pure speculation.

And by rebuild I mean bowl. Not suck.
 
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