Key was full time OL coach for 3.5 years, and they were bad, so a full time OL probably don't fix it. Gotta be a talent issue
1. Key has had other titles and responsibilities the entire time he’s been here, so “Key was full time OL coach for 3.5 years” may not be true
2. If you look at the PFF grades for our OL, they’re really low—low for FBS, not just low for P5. Our offense is certainly bottom 6 in P5, and probably in the bottom 30 offenses in FBS depending on how you track that. Even if you think that recruiting ratings are less methodical and accurate than astrology, even somewhat dumb luck in recruiting should get us close to average if we know how to coach an OL.
Does having good offensive skill players make a big difference when an OL recruit makes his decision on which school he will attend? I'm just not understanding why CBK cannot recruit good OLs, I thought he was supposed to be a good recruiter also.
We’ve had three classes of OL recruits, including touted transfers, plus a strength and conditioning program. It’s hard to believe even weak recruiting is the primary problem. Yeah, recruiting can be some of the problem, but smaller schools are having more success.
I’m thinking that the teaching and coaching has to be an issue.
Maybe they are being asked to do more than they’re ready to do—if that’s the case, you teach them something more basic and simpler.