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Message: [QUOTE="kingtidge, post: 358522, member: 994"] I don't share Stern's outlook but I do share his frustration... It comes down to this: - 4 years ago Marrone took over a team on the skids... A handful of decent D1 players and a lionshare of likely D2 talent and little depth. - The last three years have been a struggle building the depth, getting better recruits, building mature players and struggling with incessant injury issues affecting depth very negatively. - This year, we have depth, we have mature players and the offensive play has been very encouraging under Nassib. We have the necessary talent and depth to be competitive and win. - What's holding us back is extremely poor execution on special teams and ongoing big play issues and coaching decisions around big plays (either our ability to NOT be able to make a big play or our proclivity to give up big plays to opponents.) On that last point, by year 4, these should not be major issues - but they are. [/QUOTE]