I agree, but while I will cut him some slack for years 1 and 2, I will not for years 3 and 4.
Since players only get 4 years of eligibility, the time line stated seems excessive.
I respectfully disagree. With recruiting, the transfer portal, and proper development, you should be able to see significant result within four years. You should certainly see some improvement by then.
And if you look they are all sophomores and freshman on the 2-depth roster
the problem is even in the places recruiting at the absolute top don’t always hit on their recruits. it’s not like you just sign a full line and they start every game and by year 4 they’ve all played together. some guys get hurt, some guys don’t grow enough for college ball, some guys transfer or just never were that good and they miss
We'll likely be an underdog to Duke. Will (sadly) be a good test.The next 2 games will be "interesting". However, the bye week will come at a good time, IMO. I predict we will lose a close game to Pitt, but beat Dook and be 2-4 at the bye. I believe Key will start to instill a sense of discipline, getting back to basics ( wrapping up tackling, minimize penalties, fix special teams, etc.). The players will breathe a sigh of relief, IMO, and look forward to a fresh start with Key. They had to have felt the build up to CGC getting fired. I am feeling hopeful that with Cabrera we will will make good, thought out, hires for AD and HC to put us "back in the game".
Agree if anyone goes back in the past years and looks even before the NIL a class was good to keep 50% they signed all 4 years
It’s absolutely a big deal. It places an emphasis on competition for the starting job that will be published and known publicly. ATL was basically just our entire roster grouped by position in numerical order. You could look on the ramblinwreck website and get the same information.
It's kinda comical to think that we might need until 2026 or maybe even as far out in the future as the 2028 season to turn the OL around. We might as well give up. I'm excited about Carbrera's comments, Nevelle, even Key. Breaths of fresh air. Can't wait for us play Pitt to see what the immediate impact looks like, looking forward to Dook for what a standard non-chaotic week will look like, etc. There's excitement for our last 8 games, even if we may only win 1-3 of the 8. We're going to start playing phsical football again & our aim is to compete. Back here on this board we lament change and postulate, contrive or concoct elaborate scenarios in our minds how we understandably went backwards for 4 years & could now need another 4-6 years to dig ourselves out of the OL ditch, but that's just crazy. I've seen experts estabish low expectations they could easily exceed by leaps & bounds to coronate themselves as heroes, embellish their resumes or get huge payouts for exceeding milestones, but this is really taking the cake. We went to a bowl game & overnight, poof, we immediately sucked worse than Incarnate Word & have to give up a decade of GT football to fix it. Not buying it & if it's true all those in charge & behind the regime change will go down in infamy.
Look I’m ok with Key as interim and I like the guy. But still in the transition? It’s year four. Players are gone after 4-5 years. That’s a BS excuse for an awful unit in year 4.
the line play should be better. the transition was always gonna take 4 or more years. both things can be true.
The OL has stagnated. "Transition" isn't just a noun, it's also a verb. We had a transition period, we were in a state of transition, but we didn't transition.
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The word they were looking for was regression. Unfortunately, they forgot the "to the mean part" and just regressed. Now we need progress.The OL has stagnated. "Transition" isn't just a noun, it's also a verb. We had a transition period, we were in a state of transition, but we didn't transition.
Definition of TRANSITION
a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another; a period or phase in which such a change or shift is happening; something that links one state, subject, place, etc. to another : a connecting part or piece : such as… See the full definition
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A lot of the Oline bashing is unfair in my opinion as we are playing really young guys there & I expect they will look better in the 2nd half of the year.
To be clear...I'm not thrilled to see Key as interim, but I'm good with it. I'm thrilled with the change and good with Key being interim along the way to fixing this mess. If Key turns out to be the next Saban, then great. Let's just not give him a long-term contract if he gets us to a bowl game this year.
