Dino's Presser after Duke

[Cusefan69]

Lustig and Reno need to do better on our WRs or they may be looking for new jobs in December. It's hard to judge Cavenah(sp?) given the plethora of injuries to the oline but I would imagine he is on a short leash. I don't believe for one second Wildhack is happy with the performance or the offense trend line. I am sure JW and Dino catch up weekly. Dino is going to be accountable to JW for the product on the field I have no doubt. Injuries are part of it but the team regression is obvious and Dino will have to speak to that as well. Dino knows the goodwill from his 10 win bowl season is about gone, he is not unaware of that would be my guess. It's going to be interesting to see what happens. I think we will see one or two staff changes come December.

 

[TheCusian]

I’m so tired of the “it’s year 5” nonsense. Dino has shown that when he has upper class men on the field who are experienced and have had the time to develop their S and C that he can be extremely competitive.

the problem is Dino’s first two classes were NOT good enough. Part of that is something we should have expected. Regardless of whether it was misses or injuries/washouts the entire roster lacks experience because those kids never made it.

My point about “should have expected it” makes sense, Dino and co were used to taking dudes with MAC talent and winning with scheme. At this level you have to have talent. In the ACC scheme will help, but you need talent that’s on another level. Dino’s first two classes were guys closer to MAC talent than ACC level. So now that we have gotten better recruiters and subsequently figured out what talent we need (and started winning those recruits in 19 but more so in 20 and 21) those guys are all young (or not even here yet) and they are exciting on defense if undisciplined.

Dino needs to get it right, no doubts. But the last several coaches we have said (as we are kicking them out the door) “he could only win with the last guys recruits!” well yeah when the guy only gets 4-5 years before everyone turns on him and his first class or two isn’t good enough while they figure out how to sell Cuse to these kids. Then we fire the guy and the new guy comes in and benefits from the young guys in the program that the old coach recruited as they age up.

let’s let a coach who has brought in exciting talent coach these kids to be upper classmen. that said if the staff has a group of guys who need to be replaced then we need to do so and hit the transfer market hard at key positions (DT and WR and OL come to mind first and foremost)

How do you expect any new HC coming off a losing season with our programs deficiencies to recruit well in year 1 or 2?

Wildhack has done a lot to give Dino some of what he needs recruiting-wise. Some of that “foundation” work is what we need to continue to build on with whoever the HC is, IMO.

 

[Libero2]

How do you expect any new HC coming off a losing season with our programs deficiencies to recruit well in year 1 or 2?

Wildhack has done a lot to give Dino some of what he needs recruiting-wise. Some of that “foundation” work is what we need to continue to build on with whoever the HC is, IMO.

You absolutely can’t. That’s my point. We as fans should have seen this coming and realized that when his first class or two was set to be major contributors we would likely not be good enough.

now that we are at that point,it’s hindsight but we should have expected the team to not be good enough. Good news is reinforcements are coming and as these guys grow up we will have strong teams again.