Not buying it. When Mike Williams left SU, it was pretty much confirmed that he quit... About year or two later, he finally admitted he got kicked off the team... If Doug wanted Graham, why would he not recruit and talk him to staying for one more year??? There is still time to talk him... Like I said, great player? No. But a solid contributor who will add depth to our WRs and Special Team. Yes. We may burn redshirt year for incoming freshman. I could understand this if we had great line of young WRs waiting on the wing to contribute. However, Doug has not recruited those players. We just have bunch of unproven 2 star recruits waiting on the wing.
For example, our OL Zach Chibane played about 20-30 plays his true freshman year. Doug didn't invite back our starting OL from previous year Jim Mckenzie and Tucker Baumbach for 5th year... We only had about 70-75 scholarship players that year. He could easily have kept those 2 players for one more year and Chibane could have redshirted. Now, next year will be Chibane's last year. Imagine how good he could be in 2 years. Chibane's redshirt year was burned IMO.
I don't disagree with not inviting players back for 5th year if there is no chance of contributing or adding depth. However, I have not seen or heard of a school where they don't invite players back if they were starters or big time contributors.
There are tons of question marks to how Doug Marrone has run this program since the day he was hired. He has not answered them verbally nor has he shown any coaching skill or recruiting skill to answer those questions. Just my opinion. Feel free to agree or disagree.
