elimunelson
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Spent the weekend at the Cosmo betting/drinking/eating/ogling. I enjoyed winning most of my games and obviously losing my bet on Syracuse football (in a tease no less). It was a fantastic weekend with family and friends.
I'm numb to Syracuse football at this point. I came into the season with tepid enthusiasm as I've probably shown in some of my posts. I watch alot of football and felt like AET covered up ALOT of the issues this offense will have coming out of the gates. He was special last year and essentially carried this team to a 4 win season.
With him gone, the offense is identical minus any home run threats. It was exposed by a low D1 team on Saturday at home. Let that sink in for a second. Our coaching staff didn't adjust (from my drunken vantage point) at all during the game.
My only take is this offense, when it takes off, hopefully (b/c alot of you are convinced it will) will put us back into the top 25 perpetually. However, there is a small part of me that worries that the money ball aspect of running this speed spread offense is that teams know how to defend it. At end of day, football is blocking and tackling and running. We have zero running and my limited knowledge of the recruiting shows me that the next Robert Konrad, Reyes, Malcolm Thomas, Dar Dar, et al is not walking through that door. If we had at least a power back who could do what Chubb is doing for Georgia, we could tread alot more water right now.
Syracuse, since i've followed them, has always had a good stable of running backs. right now this is the worst i can remember ever (and that's even during the GROB era). It will not bode well for this year's team if one guy can't step up and run if this fun and gun offense falls flat for another year.
The optimist in me sees 4 wins (BC looks gross and will be hiring a new HC soon i bet). WF is pretty decent and will determine if we win 3 or 4. The pessimist sees 2-3 wins at most.
I'm sure this was all covered ad nauseum but color me concerned and really boxed in a corner. Dino will be the HC for the next 3-4 years. Can he get this offense clicking where it's a thing to behold, has college football figured this offense out minus the big time talented teams who can run it still b/c of the 4-5 star athletes running it, if he can't get this offense doing what it needs to can he adjust and go to a more traditional offense, can this offense actually keep us healthy w the amount of plays being asked of it.
I have questions, ZERO answers btw. Just some observations.
If this is rambling, my apologies just wanted to put something on paper for cathartic reasons.
I'm numb to Syracuse football at this point. I came into the season with tepid enthusiasm as I've probably shown in some of my posts. I watch alot of football and felt like AET covered up ALOT of the issues this offense will have coming out of the gates. He was special last year and essentially carried this team to a 4 win season.
With him gone, the offense is identical minus any home run threats. It was exposed by a low D1 team on Saturday at home. Let that sink in for a second. Our coaching staff didn't adjust (from my drunken vantage point) at all during the game.
My only take is this offense, when it takes off, hopefully (b/c alot of you are convinced it will) will put us back into the top 25 perpetually. However, there is a small part of me that worries that the money ball aspect of running this speed spread offense is that teams know how to defend it. At end of day, football is blocking and tackling and running. We have zero running and my limited knowledge of the recruiting shows me that the next Robert Konrad, Reyes, Malcolm Thomas, Dar Dar, et al is not walking through that door. If we had at least a power back who could do what Chubb is doing for Georgia, we could tread alot more water right now.
Syracuse, since i've followed them, has always had a good stable of running backs. right now this is the worst i can remember ever (and that's even during the GROB era). It will not bode well for this year's team if one guy can't step up and run if this fun and gun offense falls flat for another year.
The optimist in me sees 4 wins (BC looks gross and will be hiring a new HC soon i bet). WF is pretty decent and will determine if we win 3 or 4. The pessimist sees 2-3 wins at most.
I'm sure this was all covered ad nauseum but color me concerned and really boxed in a corner. Dino will be the HC for the next 3-4 years. Can he get this offense clicking where it's a thing to behold, has college football figured this offense out minus the big time talented teams who can run it still b/c of the 4-5 star athletes running it, if he can't get this offense doing what it needs to can he adjust and go to a more traditional offense, can this offense actually keep us healthy w the amount of plays being asked of it.
I have questions, ZERO answers btw. Just some observations.
If this is rambling, my apologies just wanted to put something on paper for cathartic reasons.