Both of those guys are young. It takes some people a while to acclimate to college ball.
It's also a reason why I hate recruiting rankings....it creates unrealistic expectations. Most guys need time to develop out of high school. And if people don't burst onto the scene, then people think they're busts. Which isn't true.
Yeah, it definitely highlights the limitations of recruiting rankings. They're just an estimate of how things "may" turn out. Higher recruiting rankings usually translates to skillful football, but not always. Plus, poor development and mediocre coaching yields *meh teams even with great recruits. Look at pretty much the bottom half of the SEC.
That was one thing we always had to account for, even when we were really good. We had to develop the **** out of our players and play an offensive scheme that very few teams wanted to play in order to win a lot. And even then, we lost pretty much every major title game we got to for like...20 years?
What I like about the potential of Frost's offense is that it is malleable and it relies on more up-to-date principles developed by Chip Kelly to do mostly the same thing Osborne's offense did; it doesn't physically beat you into the dirt, but it exploits weaknesses wherever they are found and punishes you for them. Your players are not in the best shape? Ok, we'll play super fast. Oh, your corners and linebackers kind of suck? Get ready for bubble screens and sweeps to the outside until you're blue in the face. Your defensive line needs work? Ok, we'll run the ball at you using literally any player we can think of from any direction we want to and then POP hit you with a long pass to a wide open WR or TE half way down the field. Make an adjustment? Ok, we'll adjust around it and hit another weak spot. And we'll do it as quickly as possible to have your guys sucking air and running around confused ASAP.
Our defense is literally designed to give the ball back to the offense. That is how strongly Frost believes in what he is doing, and honestly, the evidence at Oregon and UCF suggests he is right.
