It's not just you. It's anybody that looks past the shiney numbers.
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Downs fully healthy makes this offense even scarier to DCs. They'll have to worry about him, which will either make it easier for others to get wide open, or else open bigger holes fro the RBs, or both.
I think it rather obvious that Mack's chosen staff of BFFs had problems among the BFFs from Year 1, and the push out of Bateman, the guy Mack was forced to hire when his BFF choice for DC was rejected out of hand as soon as he had him come to campus, confirms the smoldering tensions. Including some from Mack toward those boosters and fans, and assistants, who dare doubt him in anything.
The great problem is that when you fail to get rid of the failing staff, the tensions will arise in new form because the failures on the field will continue.
Brewster and Mack remained very close through the years when Brewster coached under others. For him to leave UNC as he did surely means more than that he craved being back in FL.
The vibe out of this staff is odd, weird, shaky in everything but recruiting successes.
He’s getting a lot of special teams snaps but he’s still learning the offensive playbook and recently ran a wrong route while in a game which isn’t unheard of being a true freshman. I expect him to get more snaps as the season progresses but he’s got an extremely bright future.
And these other guys like Blackwell, paysour, JJ are gonna make him earn it.
Good question. I can't imagine Longo has the ability to fathom Maye getting rid of ball quickly, yet can't do the same for Howell despite league-leading sacks. I think it might have something to do with Howell's strengths. WAG.
I'm sure it does, but I think those strengths must be teachable at least to some extent. If you're going to be a top notch program you have to have top recruits, and how are you going to draw those if you don't show the ability to develop your players, particularly a rising star like Sam? Sam went from can't miss first rounder to what round was it? After seeing him do the wrong thing time after time for two years, I can't help laying a lot of the blame on the QB coach. That's Longo.
Yes, player development does exist. Even guys who shine as freshman always have an area or two of their game that could be improved. Good position coaches address those matters and produce improvement.
That is a long time weakness of Mack staffs. Mack seems to be like most super recruiters in assuming that if you sign enough talent, then they are good enough to win.
He outsigned Bob Stoops and OU almost every year, but won only 2 Big XII titles.
that is something I'm well aware of. When he went to Texas I kept track of his recruiting out of curiosity because he was such a good recruiter and he was in maybe the hottest hotbed in the country for good players. The numbers were ridiculous. He was killing it year after year. But where were the results?
Where is the 2010 Kendric Burney, Deunta Williams and Charles Brown when you need them. Those guys were the real Rude Boyz. Can we reach to that secondary coach?
First we have to remove Bly.
Again this week, guys that I think are the best analysts on TOS have stressed right now, 5* Grimes is being rated among the bottom 5 starting CBs in the ACC. That is all on coaching. A poor position coach can ruin even 5* recruits. That's the reason that Bateman wanted to clean house of D position coaches. Even the best DC in history cannot undo the poor work of position coaches, and may not even be able to deliver improvement within 2 seasons.
I look for Grimes to enter the portal at season end. His talent has been wasted here in CH. Once that happens it will be a very look for Bly and a bad look to recruits
Mack Brown is not going to fire Dre Bly. So, "we" can forget about that.
He could be. But that's completely out of our jurisdiction for power to make any kind of change.
Grimes looked really good his freshman year and the Orange Bowl. This has been his worst season to date and Warren is the db coach and assistant DC. But all the blame is on Bly? Also, Downs, among several others, aren’t Tar Heels if not for Bly.
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If he were as great at that as Mack assumes, Caleb Downs would be signed up.
The reality is that over time, bad position coaching by a great recruiter coupled with less than championship teams leads to lost recruits. We now are seeing the beginning of that for Mack and his staff.
Warren just arrived. He cannot undo 2 years of poor position coaching. Grimes as freshman was playing off how he'd been coached in HS. Now, he's showing his years under Bly.
