FullyERicht
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........With at least one of the following: (aka, it's not just one issue, folks)
1) Green, Porter, Pierre, Gaines, Cornelius, AJ, Rodgers, Morris, Walford, Cleveland.....these kids all had no business being offered to play here, let alone comprise 50% of the starting lineup!
2) the kids on defense were all recruited for a completely different scheme. Chickillo is a 4-3 DE. When you switch to a 3-4, he has two options: Play OLB, which he is too slow for, or bulk the kid up and play the DE spot (which is a very physically demanding, 2-gap spot). So the kid bulks up, and is actually holding his own. But the increase in size killed his athleticism, and he is basically a JAG. Wasted talent, but none of the upper class men were meant to play in a 3-4.
3) the kids got bigger, but not more explosive. The Nebraska teams we used to **** on in the 80's and early 90's were all bigger than us. Guarantee they could all bench press more too. But football power is simple physics: force = mass x acceleration. Skinny and fast GENERATES THE SAME FORCE AS BIG AND SLOW. The job of the staff, and specifically the S and C program, is to find the ideal balance at which a players speed and size generates the ideal amount of "force" which we see as explosiveness. So DP may be stronger, but he hits with the same force, AND is slower sideline to sideline. Simple math.
Al Golden is not a strength coach; either let Swasey do his job (and we've seen what that looks like), or bring in someone who can get real results. Tanking in November every year gets very very old.
4) the scheme: as I've written before, if you are going to play this base defense you either need a dominant pair of OLB, or a well designed package of blitzes. We have neither. Zone based defenses are all interconnected. It's like a leaky ship, you plug one hole another bursts. And our staff is completely incapable of stopping the leak once it springs bc they are helplessly dependent on everything working in concert. There are no backup plans, no package of well designed some blitzes. It is amateur hour, and D'Ono absolutely has to be fired.
The system is a joke. The players do lack talent. The offseason programs are still ineffective.
Fire D'No, Swasey, and spend some goddam money, recruit like the have, and we can fix things. Anything less is a concession to mediocrity.........
1) Green, Porter, Pierre, Gaines, Cornelius, AJ, Rodgers, Morris, Walford, Cleveland.....these kids all had no business being offered to play here, let alone comprise 50% of the starting lineup!
2) the kids on defense were all recruited for a completely different scheme. Chickillo is a 4-3 DE. When you switch to a 3-4, he has two options: Play OLB, which he is too slow for, or bulk the kid up and play the DE spot (which is a very physically demanding, 2-gap spot). So the kid bulks up, and is actually holding his own. But the increase in size killed his athleticism, and he is basically a JAG. Wasted talent, but none of the upper class men were meant to play in a 3-4.
3) the kids got bigger, but not more explosive. The Nebraska teams we used to **** on in the 80's and early 90's were all bigger than us. Guarantee they could all bench press more too. But football power is simple physics: force = mass x acceleration. Skinny and fast GENERATES THE SAME FORCE AS BIG AND SLOW. The job of the staff, and specifically the S and C program, is to find the ideal balance at which a players speed and size generates the ideal amount of "force" which we see as explosiveness. So DP may be stronger, but he hits with the same force, AND is slower sideline to sideline. Simple math.
Al Golden is not a strength coach; either let Swasey do his job (and we've seen what that looks like), or bring in someone who can get real results. Tanking in November every year gets very very old.
4) the scheme: as I've written before, if you are going to play this base defense you either need a dominant pair of OLB, or a well designed package of blitzes. We have neither. Zone based defenses are all interconnected. It's like a leaky ship, you plug one hole another bursts. And our staff is completely incapable of stopping the leak once it springs bc they are helplessly dependent on everything working in concert. There are no backup plans, no package of well designed some blitzes. It is amateur hour, and D'Ono absolutely has to be fired.
The system is a joke. The players do lack talent. The offseason programs are still ineffective.
Fire D'No, Swasey, and spend some goddam money, recruit like the have, and we can fix things. Anything less is a concession to mediocrity.........
