It happens a bunch, but what are you gonna do when you reach the point that the old coach's "message isn't working anymore"
Is their message not working anymore, or is it just tough to recruit here and it takes a while to get your bearings, find the right coaches, and build a sustainable roster?
In South Carolina's case you are definitely right. Regimes have been changed far too quickly, even if they were underperforming. Never had a chance to build much consistency
FYI I am not arguing we should have kept Muschamp. I knew he was doomed when he hired McClendon as OC after the Outback bowl. the guy just can’t handle the decisions that have to be made as a head coach. And also same with Spurrier. He had clearly checked out and given the program over to his son. More so talking about other programs like ours. And the future of our program.
We went for like 5 other guys first and got stuck with him. AD knew they could sell it as a "name" but basically no one was ever excited about that hire and it never changed. The whole Muschamp era feels like a bad dream
I remember at the time we also were considering Lincoln Riley, him and someone else. I was fuming that we went with Muschamp.
Iirc, Kirby Smart was Tanner’s plan A. Once that whiffed we were scrambling. Would Mack Brown have come? That could have helped us in a few ways
Tanner should have been fired after or during that coaching search. Frank would be gone by now too. Run it like a business. No idea if Mack would have come but there were a lot of young coaches that probably would of considered the job. Tanner needs to go. Hyman is the best AD we’ve every had. Didn’t mind making fans angry to make the whole sports program healthier.
I can't remember if it was on here or somewhere else, but someone compared Ray Tanner to looking like he should be running a seed store in Alcolu instead of our AD and it was perfect. I'm from around that area as well and couldn't believe I saw someone on the internet mentioned Alcolu by name and unprompted.
also “supporting law enforcement” (whatever the fuck that means) is in their mission statement and i can’t fuck with that
lmao’ing at the fact they need to spell that out/basically subtweeting caslen we would like to hire a university president who is good at doing things university presidents do
What a concept! You’d think if a school around here hired a jackass military general to be president it’d be Clemson, but no
i get the hesitation, your OL looked like booty against a shitty team but i mean, it's ECU, y'all should just roll over them
The pass blocking was fairly booty, the ground game wasn’t actually as terrible as it appeared, we just went super vanilla and ran into loaded boxes I guess expecting to just roll over them regardless. I’d imagine we mix it up a little more this week.
I got us at a +110 ML. I’m usually pretty pessimistic when it comes to our football team, but I don’t think we have any excuse losing to ECU.
I am still really worried about the offense if Zeb is at QB, but between the way the DBs played last week and our special teams stood out I don't see it being particularly close. Not to mention we've got four elite pass rushers between Strachan, Enagbare, Burch, and Pickens for them to contend with down a starting tackle already after struggling with App State a week ago. I think defense and special teams does enough that if the offense can just put together a couple of good drives (and it should be able to just with the running game), then it shouldn't be a particularly close one.
I’m not sold on our DB’s yet. And yea, QB is a concern. ECU is going to do what EIU did on defense, but they’ll be able to do it a little better. I think the 1st half will be very low scoring unless we or ECU make some costly turnovers. If it’s us who make the mistakes, we could lose if Satterfield goes pass heavy. I think we’ll win comfortable with we stick to the run. Even if it’s not working at first. We’ll wear them down. We’ll have three RBs who can take it to the house when lanes start opening up. Our passing game just looks to inconsistent to win us any games if we have to throw it more than 20-25 times.
My gut (which is dictated by the trauma of watching Will Muschamp teams) says we get stuffed running the ball into blitzing 7/8 man fronts. We drop passes on third downs. Have a sack fumble in the red zone. Get down two scores. Then get too pass heavy and too penalty heavy to be able to come back. Lose by 4. But then again I also have money on us covering so I’m just a basket case of emotions right now.
I’ve had three vodka sodas already. Also just ran a 5k two hours ago. so my posting is about to get more sloppy than our offense here very soon.