To keep it short they only took 12 HS kids. They went into the cycle needing space for transfers and juco's. Which are not added to the HS rankings. They have the least amount of commits of any acc team.
My original point is that Dino being liked by his players isn’t going to help keep them here.
Agree completely. As frustrating as some of his in-game decisions can be, in this NIL/Portal era a respected leader providing counsel to young men and their families on life and career changing moves will prove to be important - and it seems to be one of Dino’s strengths.
I get it. we all have personal thoughts about DIno. I was responding about the recruiting part. Weve known about bad recuiting for 20 years now. Thats nothing new.
Much better clock management in this game, and BTW, his strengths far outweigh his weaknesses anyday. I was actually ridiculously suprised at how well we played given the circumstances and all the noise. And for what it is worth Fleck is a tremendous coach and he won that game the way we won most of our games in 2018, turnovers and special teams as well as a bend do not break defense. Still we should have won.
He does OK, IMO. The recruiting is thin, I believe there are coaches who would do much better in that category, which is job 1. Many of the teams playing in the nowls had the same issues with portal and sit outs, Minnesota included, so it's not just a Syracuse issue. The team gave a complete effort which is a big check mark in the positive category for Dino.
You have to guard 1 time out for late game situations. You can't take time outs early in halfs because you don't like particular sets. You have to have coached in schemes for those situation or coach hard from the sidelines, that is what all successful coaches do. A coach doesn't have unlimited timeouts to have sitdowns with players at every crucial time during a game. Every strong coach saves 1 and often times they come out to be the reason the team wins or loses. Dino is going to have to manage a priority of using timeouts, like if he doesn't like a set on offense because of the defensive alignment, go to a base play that has some percentage of succeeding, and similar on D. a coach has to trust his captains he has in place on the field to make critical decisions. Whatever the strategy, you have to try to save 1 timeout.
and yet big time coaches use timeouts early in games all the time.. lack of Timeouts didnt have any effect on the game. you have 3.. It doesnt mean you will only have 3 times that a TO is a good call..
So many comments about Dino not being a good recruiter. If that is true, then who recruited our starting 22 from September that in my opinion was a top 20 team, before the injuries. Whoever that was deserves a raise.
The timeout usage has been for a long time, not just in the bowl game. Like the numerous times they come off a stopin play and then call a timeout or call 2 time outs before a play is run. Not really been logical.
OK, extend Dino, if he's all in, extend him. Last time he was extended, he wanted to parley his 2018 success into a bigger job and the subsequent coaching seemed halfhearted.
Its well known that DIno has mis managed time outs in the past but people are discussing the bowl game.
The timeout usage pattern has been established so I will say it clouded my analysis and the timeouts were used effectively in the bowl game as I can recall, to some extent, as I don't recall when the first one was used and what were the circumstances.
I hope that you and others are as generous and indulgent of all the other people you interact with in everyday life. Dino himself has taken draconian measures for players who have made mistakes. I was however, so disgusted by the condition of the field that I could hardly focus on all the minutia, which is normally what I like to analyze. In the end I felt like the team gave such a huge effort, thanks in large part to Dino's coaching, that it really was angering to have Minnesota come out with the win.
If the first 6 games were the only ones counted you would have a point. However...
