More Players Out the Door

Correct by why weren't they going to play? They were misses. Coaches have to be accountable for misses as well.

Too late to hire Doug Marrone?

Coaches do have to be accountable for misses, but we knew these guys were misses pretty much all of last season, and nobody complained about them then, so I'm not sure why we'd complain about them now.
 
A lack of retention is an issue. How can you ever build quality depth when you are constantly having to replace guys? We are always young and inexperienced. This is why. The biggest issue of the Rhoads era is not recruiting or coaching, it is retaining players. No doubt in my mind that our defensive struggles this year were a direct result of the attrition we suffered the past two years. You cannot lose that many upperclassmen, replace them with youth, and expect to maintain.

Maybe at a high level program that attracts top-end talent. But not somewhere that has to win by developing players instead of attracting them.

Frankly I'd rather have a couple Freshmen with potential to be third stringers than a couple juniors and seniors who aren't going to ever see the field.
 
where in gods name did he say that? You win the idiot of the day award.

Welll - let's see. He said "once again" = as before, and "our team's fine" = things are ok.

It's an English language thing.

BTW - Thanks for the comment. Very manly of you. For ******'s sake - it was a joke - like most of your points.
 
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I'm confused about the misses. Are all 85 players supposed to start? Are all the guys who passed these guys on the depth chart not a step in the tight direction?
 
The whole program, even internally, is a mess from everything I have heard. So players leaving should be not be any surprise. Sounds like Julian Good-Jones is taking an official to Louisville per their rivals site, so should continue to be fun.
 
The whole program, even internally, is a mess from everything I have heard. So players leaving should be not be any surprise. Sounds like Julian Good-Jones is taking an official to Louisville per their rivals site, so should continue to be fun.

When guys who are starters start leaving on their own, then I'll declare it a mess. The loses that have happened so far can all be contributed to misbehavior or being buried on the depth chart.
 
Rhoads must be trying the Gary Patterson method

Step 1: Kick half your players off the team.
Step 2: ??????
Step 3: Finish 12-1
 
I'm confused about the misses. Are all 85 players supposed to start? Are all the guys who passed these guys on the depth chart not a step in the tight direction?

A successful team will have all players understand their role. If you're a junior or senior and you're not cracking the 2 deeps maybe it's something as simple as understanding the schemes, and helping the younger guys during practice.

TJ will be a loss and while the other guys in a vacuum aren't game changers, the "all-in" look of recruiting misses, dismissals, etc... points to years-long holes as new "better" players come in and learn the system over the years and pan (or NOT pan) out.

It's all good because we're really setting up for a championship run 3-4 years down the road. All the pieces are in place so only thing that can trip us up is reality.
 
C'mon Luth. You're better than that. Don't take your assumptions to be fact, and certainly don't post them as fact.

Most of the posts on this and any other board are people taking assumptions to be facts. Losing a couple third stringers isn't anything new so I'm not going to act like it's anything fatal.