I think the last time of a serious battle was with Vad and JT.
I seriously doubt that
Statistically Auburn’s line play was about the same as Tech’s. You just assumed Nix had better protection because they’re Auburn
I would disagree. We seem to want him and Scott Frost wanted him at Nebraska. From his tape he seems to have pretty good pocket presence, a decent arm and is pretty accurate. The fact that his team was terrible and he still put up good numbers to me is a positive. I think he would have a chance to do well here. Also, if we are going to avoid bringing in a transfer QB because our OL is so bad then we should probably look for a new OL coach.
I don’t think this upcoming season is a good time to replace a veteran OL coach with a respectable resume/track record. Not saying that’s what you were advocating necessarily but I think this is also Key’s year to provide some evidence that he’s been able to develop some of the younger guys who have now been under his coaching for 2-3 years now so let’s see how things pan out and what product hits the field next Fall. I believe that some of our deficits/rough edges can be polished if you hav a OC who understands and is able to scheme to our teams advantages while improving our weaknesses or at least using the weaknesses enough so that the offense doesn’t become totally predictable or one dimensional. Just my two cents/opinion. I also believe that you have to recruit via portal or play the best player at that position and let the chips fall as they may because immediate results are being required or every coach will be in the job hunt next year. The REALLY tricky balance is to have your fingerprint on a offensive scheme yet not stray so far away from the current system where all the offensive players are forced to learn something entirely different and using different language for plays that they already know yet are called something different by Long. Or else you’ll be spending the entire Spring and summer reinventing the wheel and be behind come the Fall when winning is expected.
How do you know Sims has the respect of the locker room? You earn respect in sports by winning and battling with your guys. I like Sims but that doesn’t mean another player couldn’t get a shot. I think the current GT players just want to win a freaking ball game. Gibbs and the others showed us how much they respect anyone in our program. And our new OC will really care less what players on a 3-9 team think. He’s coaching for his next job so he he’ll do whatever he thinks is best. I freaking hope Sims emerges because we have 2 years invested in him. But if he doesn’t then we’ll move on.
The crux is Collins came in and recruited linemen based on size. Every time I bring this up the post gets deleted because I guess they think I’m attacking players. I’m not at all. Good for them for getting P5 offers. But Collins told us he was going to get us bigger players to look like a P5 team getting off the bus. And he went out and got guys who aren’t P5 guys. That’s why they aren’t playing. Of course we have a few exceptions like Williams but all this talk of it taking years of strength and conditioning is just an excuse because we signed a bunch of big dudes who really aren’t that good. It was one of several strategies Collins and Key used. If we can find a few that can play then maybe it worked. But so far we’ve seen the results - the OLine stinks and the young guys are nowhere to be seen. Yet we see freshmen and sophomore OLinemen for every other team contributing. Don’t believe the excuses. Thankfully we pulled off the large kid in this upcoming class. He would never have seen the field.
would be nice. with mason and gibbs gone there’s so many touches vacated idk why he wanted to leave.
Hope so we can use him. ( If I was a running back I would stay with no more than we have on the roster )
Should we stop recruiting Quick and Tchio as well? Is bringing them in not supportive of the OL we already have? If you want to go with the strategy of not using the portal at all then I guess that's a strategy to have but im not sure its going to be very beneficial long term.
Might have had a meeting and now is being re-recruited by the new OC.
Not gonna lie would welcome him back with open arms... Running Back room of him, D.Smith, and Martin wouldn't be too bad if the OC has any ability to get more out of the oline scheme wise
youre comparing very unlike things so i dont know what type of point youre trying to make. not only has sims shown some flashes of being good, QB is a position one guy plays. while depth is important its not the same thing as the line, of which there are 5 positions and we are losing two of them
