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[QUOTE="qdawgg, post: 3560041, member: 52"]
I think the scariest thing is recruiting.  The recruiting, even after wins against VT, Clemson, and a 10 win season haven't drastically improved.  I believed for awhile there was a trend towards getting high caliber talent and now I'm not so sure.  We still look smaller than most teams.  Every year it's said, we're a young team.  At some point you're not a young team anymore.

Higher quality players make better decisions on the field, need less time to be ready, are on a trajectory to improve across the board.  We're on the cusp of a 1 - 2 win season potentially, 3 at best, and I can't say the players overall on the team are of a "higher quality" than the previous coaching staff.

But we have an "offensive guru" for a coach.  Everyone believed that that alone would help to bring in high quality QB's and WR's.  It hasn't happened, largely.  Even after a 10 win season and a win at Clemson, recruiting #'s improved but I wouldn't say they improved to the degree those events should have created.

Where is recruiting going to go after winning 1 - 3 games this year and in the fashion they're happening.  Even if we hold on to this class, they won't be ready to play in the next season or two.  We have any level of injuries and a couple opt outs now and it turns in to losing to Liberty.

I just don't see what the end game is.  HCDB hasn't shown he can win without some level of talent.  Even if recruiting improves significantly we're 3 years away from seeing the potential positive impact of that.
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