I think it is sort of interesting to go back and look at the anonymous coaches comments and see how accurate they were.
A breakdown of coaches anonymously discussing other ACC teams for the 2022 season.
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"Honestly, it's almost impossible to see a way in which Geoff Collins survives this season."
Got that one right.
"Three years in, coaches are beginning to question what the plan was on offense. The transfer quarterback will be a better fit for the new scheme. Chip [Long] knows what he's doing, but it's a really bare cupboard."
Mostly right. Don't think the comment about Gibson is correct, but the comment about the bare cupboard sounds about right. Our RB's are not good enough to overcome a bad OL. Our receivers do not get separation consistently. Our TE's are mostly a non-factor. I see very little talent on offense right now.
I feel like Long is better organized and has a plan, but I don't think he plays to the strengths of his players well at all. (And he doesn't have a ton of talent to work with).
"They've recruited a bunch of guys that other staffs think are overrated. That's fine, you have differences in evaluations, but they aren't a development program either."
This feels on target as well. How many guys that Collins staff recruited have panned out. Alot of the talent we have on defense is coming from guys who transferred in 2 years ago. That's good, but we needed a higher hit rate on our recruiting. Also, development has looked poor.
"They had one of the worst secondaries I've ever seen last year, and all those guys are gone, so maybe that's a positive move? The bigger problem is that the guys up front who could help are gone, too, so they're going to need multiple unknowns to step up if they're going to do anything."
The new secondary is a big improvement over the old one. DL is ok, sort of average.
"The failure here has been recruiting. It's been the exact thing he made such a big deal about in the first place, recruiting Atlanta talent to stay in Atlanta. They're as much of a non-factor on legit talent now as they were under Paul Johnson."
Got this one right as well. Frankly, I don't think GT is ever going to be a big recruiting school - i've followed GT for 40 years and it never has been. There are systemic issues that i'm not sure can be completely resolved. Top 25-35 is probably the ceiling. GT has been most successful when it has brought in that Top 25-35 talent and then developed it. That doesn't mean you deemphasize recruiting or its not important, just that it is one of 3 legs you have to be good at and at GT the other 2 legs may be even more important.
Honestly, I think the comments have been pretty accurate.
