Exactly! Great post! Everyone thinks they have the answers sitting behind a keyboard! It takes more than 2 years to rebuild! Last year was great! This year we lost Angeli and have many other injuries! Good things are to come! All the negativity and bashing is not good for recruiting. Fan support is a huge part of a programs success in both good and bad times!
I agree, Fran.
Next year is critical. Fran is almost surely on a four year deal. If there's not progress next year renewal before (not during) year four is problematic, and without renewal recruiting starts to fall apart.
Fair
No prior hc experience, no P4 coordinator experience and no other known offers. Plus SU was coming off Dino's buyout and is not a wealthy school. If Wildhack gave 5-6 years I'm even less impressed with his acumen.
It's never that simple. And it is insulting to blame a 20-year-old for a team regressing substantially as the season wore on. The job of the OC is to find a way to score points with whatever is left of the team each week. Game 11 did not look much different than Game 5 in terms of play calls. By Game 7, it was clear that we could not do the McCord/Angeli offense with even 33% the effectiveness. Instead, we just tried using different players.
They did have a backup plan. But they thought it was "put QB#2 in and call the same plays you would for QB#1."
I don’t think anyone can argue about last years coaching other than Stanford which most just chalked up to a learning curve and moved on. A boneheaded play call but still moved on.
Nixon is good when he has a competent QB, but I haven’t really loved what I’ve seen from Erob.
Which guys do you want booted?
ERob, o line, and maybe Nunz not acting as QB coach
Don Brown made everyone happy for one week. But a competent OC/QB will take advantage of a blitz-happy system. So we have to react to that. In any event, I think the smart move is to bring in a co-DC to call plays and have ERob continue the recruiting/be down on the field with the players/DL coach. No need to fire ERob or even truly demote him. Win/win for everyone.
yes, he's got next year to fix it, 5 wins or fewer he's gone
Nunzio is gone by his own choice, he was the fall guy for the lousy QB room beyond Angeli. He was McCord's QB coach when he set the world on fire, what changed this year? Did Nunzio suddenly forget how to coach? What changed is the backup QBs stunk. He'll end up back at Rutgers and recruit against us in NJ.
McCord was already fantastic. He only threw 6 pics his junior year, had basically the same completion % and had a better YPA. The only difference was Nixon let him throw 40 times a game his senior year. His TD% was actually better his junior year
Who has ERob been credited with recruiting?
Guy is borderline dumb w these game plans. I wouldn’t keep him to maintain the turf.
borderline is far too nice. If he is the DC next year the offense will need to be great to just be a .500 team
But the recruiting is great. If this is great recruiting then I’m blind.
it's the portal recruiting that will make or break Fran for next year. Listening to him he has changed gears on the portal very recently which is wise but funny how he i kind of scrambling now. He's brought in some solid talent the problem is there are still plenty of developmental players that have been brought in, how many of the kids from the 25 and 26 classes are really going to make a difference next year? I don't know but year 3 has to be 6-7 wins and right the ship, year 4 has to be Fran has had enough time to build the foundation, had enough recruiting classes where we don't get the give it time etc etc.
Let’s hope so. Cant have another Nintendo reset button season. I can’t imagine what season ticket sales will look like next year coming off this one.
