Going into year 4, and Golden possibly has no answer for the QB position. Except to bring in a transfer, to shore up his recruiting, and coaching failures. No other way to say it.
I know guys will jump in with the Williams talk. They have him painted as the next Dorsey, but prior to Morris cracking last season. Almost everyone sporting orange, and green. Had the dude painted as a bum.
If Golden, and Coley don't have Olsen, our Crow ready to play. Come the start of the season. It will not be a good look for them. They don't need band aids right now. They need one of their guys. Too look the part @ this position. No young QB is going to want to step into a situation. Where they feel they won't get the coaching, our a chance to shine. Kids today, want to play now.
I don't buy the Kaaya hype like the masses do, but i would rather toss him out to the wolves. Than to bring in some scab. That is running from getting his *** handed to him. By younger cats, being the QB here. It would be one thing. If we were getting Russell Wilson, but that isn't the case.
2 top 10 QB's and a 5th year senior transfer to hold them over. God, what a coaching failure.
If your two top 10 QBs are not ready to take the ball
during their freshman year, then it is a COACHING failure. Having them and the 5th year senior is a recruiting/planning success, not a coaching one. Again, Al the CEO is not bad. Al the coach has everything to prove. The sales pitch was good. The product has not been impressive. We have a redshirt freshmen top 10 coach's son QB recruit who is not ready? What the heck was Al doing last season? Shouldn't someone had been on our franchise QB's rear end making sure he was working hard. Al didn't trust Williams in December and let us get our heads handed to us, so I can't believe he expected him to be good enough in March. But sure enough, there we were and Williams was the best thing since sliced bread.
Listen, Al's biggest achievement so far here is Jed getting stolen by NFL. Finding him gave hope to Al's coaching eye. Olsen is Jed's guy. If he stinks then Jed was not the find we thought and Al has done even less that I thought. Al stole Coley-- a big deal at the time. A year later, our offense sucked all year, BUT we are all excited over Coley's boy.(I love Kaaya too). Al NEEDS Olsen to pan out. He needs to prove that in his second full recruiting cycle he got it right at the biggest position at THE U. He certainly has not proved he could get the second most important position right, we are still waiting for a DT worthy of the name.
FIFY.
Seems kinda ridiculous. And more importantly, it's complete conjecture at this point as we're 4 months away from the start of the season.
There are many legitimate complaints against this coaching staff -- DT is an obvious one, LB is a pretty obvious one as well that doesn't get the attention it deserves, IMO. Although most people consider the LT position the second most important position - and he nailed that one with Flowers.
Time will tell, I think this will be the season we find out what Golden is made of, just like Randy in his 4th season after 3 straight years of "trending up".
Manziel and Winston disagree...
Look, I like Golden and I want him to succeed... **** I could hate the man and still want him to succeed because that means we are winning meaningful games. And I don't want to have to rely on a freshman QB either but whose fault is it that we only have freshman ready to step in behind Williams?
His first class he was short on time and by that time most decent QB's are committed ok... I understand that. But the following year he brought in Dewey, Crow and Thompson. Thompson is soley baseball now, ok fine. But he struck out on Dewey and the odds don't look that great for Crow. So the fact that we have to rely on freshman would lie on him.
I didn't like all the excuses the last few years but given the talent level, the gaps in the depth chart, the investigation when he took over... I could buy some of it and give the man more time. But he's had time - he's in the hottest recruiting bed in the country and has had time to build his team the way he wants it and for ***** sake we are in the ACC. It's time to win.
