Name a player you think would help our O line on the roster that playing time would have helped. Fusile, a 2nd year walk-on and Lay a 5th year walk on get major minutes. If you have been in the program 3 or more years and can’t beat walk ons you lack talent.
By throwing him out there you are ensuring he hits the portal. Hope is the only thing we have to keep some of our young players from leaving. Throw Pyron out there like we did Gibson and no way he comes back. What parent would want their freshman son thrown around like a rag doll in meaningless games under a lame duck staff and then return? I admit there is no good move going forward. Gibson was brought in to be that sacrificial lamb so let him earn the scholly by taking it for the Institute.
If they're OL that didn't pan out elsewhere, you're probably right. I was hoping some savvy new HC could lure in or bring with him some of a higher caliber, but it's just a hope.
and not giving him playing time when the options in front of him are garbage could easily make him want to transfer too. and hell, he could transfer just because a new coaching staff coming anyways.
Could be, but I’m sure he knew this was a redshirt year especially with Sims. I just don’t see any benefit to playing him with our putrid OLine and an offensive system that is garbage and one he won’t be playing in next year. If a lame duck coach and OC plays him and he blows an ACL and misses the spring and all next season with a new staff then you just set GT football back even more. 2023 is gonna suck but at least we‘ll have hope. By 2024 we need a serviceable young QB and an OLine on the rise. The rest of the team will be fine.
It’s not demeaning at all. Some walk ons made All Conference. Most make the Scout team. There are decades of data to support that.
"Know this: Our biggest problem by a light year isn't our quarterback, its our offensive line." That is true this year, maybe last year, and quite possibly the year before that. An ongoing issue that never seems to be solved. FSU went through this back in the early 2000s or so and what was surprising, at least to my Florida friends who keep track of such things was how the cast of characters was always changing, the players and the coaches but the results were pretty mediocre on teams gifted in so many other areas. Line problems on offense and defense seem intractable and stubborn things to remedy.
Trying to remember and in Coach Johnson's era, the one most frequently mentioned was his very first center on as makeshift a line as can be imagined. Sean Bedford was a walk on defensive tackle that was moved to center in another of Coach Johnson's flashes of insight and played quite well. Austin Barrack, as I recall, was a tight end by trade and was moved to offensive tackle with serviceable results but I don't think he was a walk on, maybe he was. I don't know if Key is a good recruiter and a terrible coach or a poor judge of talent or what the problem is but it does not seem to be getting any better. Frustrating to us, damn near life threatening to Jeff and anyone else foolish enough to risk life and limb behind that line.
I think the fact that it was paired with the coaching change means something. It seemed to me like fcgc told Sims to take the path of least resistance every time to make sure he never got hurt. With CBK in charge, Sims was freed up to play like he should have all along.
Interesting speculation. And I kind of hope that’s true.
I think that lies on the OL. Sims has shown he can execute to an acceptable level when the plays are there. We have playmakers at WR and RB. The plays just get blown up too often by the OL losing their battles. Especially in the UVA game, the DL just bull rushed every time after Gibson was in since they knew he couldn't run and pressuring him would really affect him (self-sacks).
The Uva nose tackle 90 dominated our center guards.
People forget how bad Johnson’s first OL was. Few OL, fewer were skilled enough to handle the demands of complicated blocking schemes, but somehow they got it done and were a serviceable patchwork unit.
Two seconds? Are you sure he has that long?
