Have not seen anything from Pyron but he is a 4 star and not a MAC baby. What part of coach's judgment has you 100% sure they're right? Is it their accurate assessment of Gibson and their ability to get him ready? The flopping game tape & running out of bounds while time expires while at Akron that makes you believe they're experts?
You have a point about the coaches ability to assess talent given the fact that we're hunting for a new head coach. That said, the coaches see these kids every day in practice and film study. Gibson is behind Sims and we can all see why. So what exactly do you think we have behind Gibson? Especially given the fact that a player can play in 4 games and still retain the redshirt.
Sims got hurt and had to come out. We got nobody ready. All I'm saying is put Gibson in if they were trying to retain redshirts which is the only logical assumption at this point, but when you got a chance to win & Gibson clearly was not doing it, burn 1 game of the other 2. It's likely we'll get 2 or more games out of Sims with 5 to go, he'll miss the fleabags plus maybe 2 more. No red****s would be burned.
i am by no means an insider with a lot of information but i’ve heard taisun needs a lot of work. he can run but he’s coming off one of if not the worst sports related injury. 1-2 years is kind of the recovery we’ve seen to get back close to your former ability. where he is in that process idk.
He was injured April 2021, played 5 games last season. Doubt he would have played that much at Clemson with a serious injury.
I agree. I would have liked to have seen Taisun or Pyron too, but the fact that we didn't suggests that Gibson was the better option. This is even more reinforced by the fact that Pyron could have played and still retained his redshirt. The real question is who gets the nod if Sims can't play next Saturday.
That would be difficult to tell, as none of them were here last year.
You can't just throw a true freshman out in that situation on a national stage with no blocking. Especially when your plan has been to redshirt him and I doubt that he has had any time with the 1s.
Agree with your assessment that Sims has gotten marginally better. I've seen him step up in the pocket more (before it inevitably collapses) to gain a second or two. He seems to be making somewhat better decisions, although his situational awareness could use more improvement, and as we saw last game, still throws too many picks. He ran out of bounds and actually made the first down last game, although I attribute some of that to CBK coaching him to be more aggressive.
Because I think he’s already considered tranferring once, he’s dinged and will be out for a few weeks. By the time he gets back there may be nothing to play for so I doubt we see him again under center at GT. Could be wrong but that’s my guess
That is my take also, but that begs the question..........how long will it take to improve our OL ? I know, I know 4-6 years.......
"It's clear to me that our staff has been very bad at developing talent"...........that may be the biggest problem out of the many we have. Whoever is our new HC may have a bigger rebuild than CGC had when he started.