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Coach, where's the process?

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Ok, it's easy to jump Al's case and stoop to name calling (an immature, childish no-no). The offense is beyond putrid and Al has been blathering nothing but coach-speak since being rejected by his alma mater, but perhaps the most disturbing indicator of where the program's at is 4 years into "The Process'' we're either recklessly playing or in desperate need to play true freshmen. Either way, it is inexcusable.

Having to rush Kaaya into action is understood, yet regrettable (thanks to Williams' bum knee and Olsen's 2-cent head). But by unofficial count, Al has already burned the redshirts of 17 true freshmen - along with playing both JUCO DTs.

This is what you do in Year 1 or 2 after taking over a crappy program. It should never get to this 4 years into a rebuild. Yeah, you play true freshmen, but it would seem you do so to augment existing strengths and build depth. Maybe you have 1 or 2 studs in expanded roles. Here, we're supposedly loaded in the secondary and playing 2 freshmen. The same at another supposed strength position - wide receiver. Three on the offensive line. Four on the defensive line (plus two JUCOS). Two running backs.

It's a telling indictment of where the program is at. And perhaps, suggests the program builder has been spinning his wheels the last three years.
 
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It's year 4, and we still can't get our Defense set up on time with the play call.
 
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It's a good point. Due largely in part to them missing on nearly 25 kids. That's a whole class right there! But no one to blame for that but themselves. I think these four years have unravelled differently than what anyone - fan, player, staff, admin - would have thought.

Contrary to what people think, al and staff have to feel the pressure to win now. If not there will be some changes.
 
Not to defend the coaching staff for less than stellar evaluations of some high school prospects, but the specter of impending sanctions severely limited the quality depth of some of Al's early recruiting classes.

This is not to say we did not get some quality players; we did. However, we also missed out on a lot of quality guys due to the negative environment forcing the staff to "reach" on some other kids. It's hard to argue this is not a reason for playing our best freshmen every year instead of redshirting some of them.
 
DFT31J said:
Not to defend the coaching staff for less than stellar evaluations of some high school prospects, but the specter of impending sanctions severely limited the quality depth of some of Al's early recruiting classes.

This is not to say we did not get some quality players; we did. However, we also missed out on a lot of quality guys due to the negative environment forcing the staff to "reach" on some other kids. It's hard to argue this is not a reason for playing our best freshmen every year instead of redshirting some of them.
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Yeah, we ended up with a bunch of 3 stars guys, in the mean time MSU was recruiting the same type of athletes and look what they done. Dooming sanctions affecting quality recruiting largely over rated.
 
DFT31J said:
Not to defend the coaching staff for less than stellar evaluations of some high school prospects, but the specter of impending sanctions severely limited the quality depth of some of Al's early recruiting classes.

This is not to say we did not get some quality players; we did. However, we also missed out on a lot of quality guys due to the negative environment forcing the staff to "reach" on some other kids. It's hard to argue this is not a reason for playing our best freshmen every year instead of redshirting some of them.
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And yet still kept getting the best classes in the coaRstal and still can't win it.
 
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Always crying about what they didn't get. Losers. No need to play those FR WR......at all. One more year of these systems won't make any difference btw. Players have been in it 4 years and still lost. So it means squat
 
Chicken_N_Roffles said:
DFT31J said:
Not to defend the coaching staff for less than stellar evaluations of some high school prospects, but the specter of impending sanctions severely limited the quality depth of some of Al's early recruiting classes.

This is not to say we did not get some quality players; we did. However, we also missed out on a lot of quality guys due to the negative environment forcing the staff to "reach" on some other kids. It's hard to argue this is not a reason for playing our best freshmen every year instead of redshirting some of them.
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And yet still kept getting the best classes in the coaRstal and still can't win it.
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This. Called getting less out of more. Any team in the weak *** coatal would love to have our classes and roster.
 
****, no joke - we are Temple.

Pulled this from Al's UM bio: In his first campaign in Owl Country (2006), Golden played 22 true freshmen, the most in the nation . . . During his second season in 2007, Golden once again played the nation's most true freshmen (20). He led the Owls to a 4-8 overall record and a 4-4 mark during their inaugural season in the Mid-American Conference.

So in Year Four of "The Process'' - not the first, second or even third year - we're on course to approach his freshmen numbers at the dump that was the Temple program.
 
Process without the commitment - not just a vague notion but an actual plan to do so - of continuous improvement, is a plan for repeated failure.
 
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Obvious that Al loves to play true freshmen year-after year, but at some point it also raises the question of how many truly develop. Or does he keep going thru players like cheap suits?
 
He is destroying these kids' careers and in a fair world there would be criminal punitive sanctions for doing this.

Ray Lewis should kick his *** on GP.
 
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