Excuses excuses excuses. Explain all you will about how craptastic our offense and qb situation have been and ignore the results. They were putrid and they needed to be changed. There’s no excusing it.
Shoutout to Coach Braun
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Problem was that the program kept missing out on its top QB targets (after Thorson) 'since what talented QB would want to play in a turtle-O with no good WRs and a mediocre at best O-line?
That's on Fitz for sticking with fossil FB and not being able to develop a decent O-line (now, fossil FB can be successful if you are dominant in the trenches, but that was never going to happen under Fitz).
Poor scheme/coaching and mediocre O-line play is also why the program had so many bad losses like Army, ISU, etc.
Despite the level of success under Fitz (playing in the mediocre B1GW), those bad losses and those awful last few seasons under Fitz is why NU FB is more seen like the dark era days.
That's why CFB talking heads make reference that NU FB could be the "next Vandy" even tho they were Vandy before Vandy...
And you can be both D-oriented and O-oriented, you know, an actual complementary FB team (see the Hoosiers).
Or, at the very least, be very good on one side and competent on the other (as opposed to being totally incompetent on one side; like what happened too often towards the end of Fitz's tenure).
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Btw, thus far, the Cats are ranked 28th by 247 with regard to transfer classes (10 commits; 2 4* and 6 3*) whereas Sparty is ranked 34th (20 commits; 16 3*).