It's the Jimmys and Joes. The coaching wasn't the issue yesterday imo. Sure, there was a couple of bonehead play calls, and Roberts went vanilla way too much, but our players have to play better. This week's loss will not affect how bad they want to beat bammer this week, and hopefully, it lights the fire the program needs to take it up a notch. Crap happens.
Daldridge97
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Look, yesterday was inexcusable and there's no way around that. One thing I keep seeing is the comments about our talent level relative to NMSU and I wanted to put some things into perspective, because I made this comment several times. It really seems people don't have a grasp on just how devoid of major D1 football talent this team actually is. We have 1 4* recruit in our starting lineup on offense and 5 4* recruits in our starting defense. These are just the starting lineups, these don't take into account the 2 deep which is littered with the rest of our transfer class comprised of mostly C-USA talent. Again, yesterday is inexcusable, but let's not make it out like we have some stacked up roster, or even half competent roster for SEC level football. This is a roster which is going to take years of recruiting and developing to get up to the level that we were at even in the middle of Malzahn's tenure. Hugh Freeze has shown that not only can he recruit with the best of them, he is one of the best. Give him time to get the roster right. As Jamonta Waller said and even Dubose alluded to, this team is rebuilding and needs players. The sun did in fact rise this morning. There is simply no way around our complete trainwreck of roster management the last 3 - 4 years. I mean an entire recruiting class under Harsin transfered our, folks. This was a 3 win roster before we added what we did in the portal and what we were able to add in the portal were mostly guys who came from mid major conferences that wouldn't see the field or even the roster at our rivals.
Our starting lineup yesterday:
Qb: Thorne - Michigan State 3*
RB: Hunter - Auburn 3*
TE: Fairweather- FIU 3*
WR: Shorter - North Texas 3*, Jay Fair - Auburn 3*, Shane Hooks - Jackson St 3*
OL: Dillon Wade - Tulsa 2*, Gunner Britton - WKU 2*, Connor Lew - Freshman 4*, Kam Stutts - Auburn 3*, Izavion Miller - JUCO 3*
DL: Keldric Faulk - 4* FR, Justin Rogers - 4* Kentucky, Marcus Harris - Kansas 3*, Jalen McLeod - App State 3*
LB: Austin Keys - Ole Miss 3*, Eugene Asante UNC 4*
DB: DJ James - Oregon 3*, Keionte Scott - JUCO UR in HS(4* JUCO), Jaylin Simpson - 4*, Zion Puckett - 4*, Nehemiah Pritchett - 3*
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