Over/Under on Adrian returning next year?
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I doubt he will be back. Firing Harry Potter was really a slap in the face to Martinez as it was based on his 4 seasons of futility on the field. Plus, the fans are burned out with him. A new offensive coordinator might bench him, and getting benched as a 5 year starter would be a dubious distinction alongside his record number of losses.
There was also a lot of chatter that he wasn't developing viable backups either. Pretty obvious with Held, Verduzco and Austin unable to get the right guys on the field and ready to go that they were in over there heads. It's hard to find another power 5 team with overflowing RB's and no clear starter entering each season. A room loaded with OL potential not developing across the board, or building on anything throughout the season. Its a bad look when the HC has to force an OL personnel change and it works. We seem to be one of the very few teams with zero options for a backup when our QB has a broken jaw and a high ankle sprain. Sorry for the rant.
Is Frost still in charge of these decisions? The answer to this question determines whether AM is back.
Most of the OL are freshman and redshirt freshman.. that is on Frost, not Austin. It takes several years to develop an offensive lineman and they should be juniors and seniors playing, but they are not. We have had some good backs, but not good blocking. Martinez is not a competitive QB. Scott ran off all the throwing QB's, got dual threat guys, then lately switched back to recruiting passers.. Those assistant coaches run players through drills mostly.. it's up to the OC and Frost in this case to call the plays and decide who plays what.
The roster management is on Frost, not the assistants. Your whole rant is aimed at the wrong people.
There is a great video by Adam Carriker, where he talks about all these metrics where the offense improved measurably..
He recorded this before we fired the OC and assistants.
I wonder how he is going to square that video.. 1 all this improvement on offense and 2 now you're all fired (except Frost).
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I think you just have to enroll prior to the start of that schools fall semester
remember gebbia?
Most RS freshman are really covid RS freshman that are in their third year in the program. Austin needs no defending. He kept playing Piper for a year plus and couldn't see on film he wasn't cutting it. He needed to go.
maybe so for Austin.. but the roster mismanagement will likely continue.. you think Frost will bring in a QB on the transfer portal? I highly doubt it. Nobody is going to challenge Adrian until he gets his redemption moment!!! (said with syncial frost crying voice) lol
Adam has a video from a few days ago talking about how Greg Austin isn't coaching his guys on how to use the skills they have to not get blown by untouched. Roster management isn't the entire issue. Development has been the issue. Greg Austin sends guys out that make the same technique mistakes every week. You can live with young guys making mistakes that improve week to week, but we have not gotten consistently better in any group on the offense outside of TE, and maybe WR (QB has to actually throw to them to find out what we really have)
There is zero chance AM is drafted, so his final year of football is 2022. His best option is to pull in any NIL money he can while finishing his master's degree on someone else's dime. Nebraska is undoubtedly his best deal, but if that seems to be souring, then he'd be smart to grab the next-best deal possible, preferably at a school with a more marketable name degree-wise than Nebraska. Does Stanford need a graduate transfer QB?