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Good lord, the absolute BULL**** that is spinning out of F$U fans and writers after this disastrous start.
1. They are "rebuilding". But...WHY? Rebuilding is something that happens (most commonly) in college football when you fire a failed coach. Or if you signed one really great recruiting class ONE TIME, then they all became seniors together, and now they are gone. Of course, this ignores two major realities of college football. First, you can sign a mini-team EVERY YEAR. If you hit the high school recruiting hard each-and-every-year, then there IS NO "rebuilding". Second, there is a thing called THE PORTAL now. And given the fact that F$U's 13-1 undefeated team was built on Portal players....well, here's an idea...SIGN MORE GOOD PORTAL PLAYERS. You don't need multiple years for Portal players to hit. Again...THERE IS NO REBUILDING YEAR FOR A COLLEGE COACH COMING OFF A 13-1 UNDEFEATED SEASON.
2. They are "bridging". But...TO WHAT? If this "bridge" theory was correct, then they have an AMAZING younger talent pool that is merely one year from dominating college football...AND they load up on 1-year Portal guys to hold them until that time...and we all know that BOTH of those elements are false.
3. The "cost" of everything. I have written about this previously. After finally getting back to a 13-1 undefeated season, largely by paying big NIL to Portal players, F$U suddenly decided to go cheap. In a variety of ways. First, rather than say "hey, what we just paid is the 'standard' budget, let's go spend it on new guys", they decided to try to spend LESS coming off of a 13-1 undefeated season. Second, they decided to SHAME their own underclassmen who, for right or wrong, felt that it was now their time to be compensated. So the F$U writers and fans spent the off-season telling the world "Sophomore Billy Bob wants to be paid $X, which is what we were playing Jared Verse, and he isn't worth it, and he hasn't earned it". Which, of course, is NOT how you build loyalty and love. Finally, when F$U had the CHANCE to go out and make lightning strike twice (by signing the newer version of Jared Verse out of the Portal), they decided to waste their time and money on guys who had glittering HIGH SCHOOL resumes, but had not yet produced at the collegiate level. All of those things are a veritable PERFECT STORM of stupidity and ignorance when it comes to getting bang for the NIL buck.
4. Hope is crushed. I've been DM'ing with a couple of posters, and one of them pointed out the CRIPPLING impact that Mario has had on Florida and F$U, as they chased and chased and chased recruits that they THOUGHT would pick them, only to have their hopes crushed when these kids picked Miami. And the seconardary impact of this is that when Prison Mike and Slingblade Billy suddenly had to fill spots, they got MUCH lesser talent (whether HS or Portal).
5. These head coaches are NOT as good as first claimed. I said it about Prison Mike right off the bat, that it was JUSTIN FUENTE who rebuilt Memphis. Ah, yes, but then the CIS He-Man Norvell-Lovers Club tried to tell me how "The Portal" had changed everything, and that Prison Mike had invented the GREATEST STRATEGERY EVER, the "Portal Method". And then I pointed out that Slingblade Billy's entire resume was propped up by Mario recruiting a batch of blue-chip SoFla WRs at Alabama. But but but, Slingblade Billy made magic happen at Louisiana, that's what I was told. Meanwhile, both Prison Mike and Slingblade Billy have hired and/or retained some truly questionable assistant coaches, and now it is looking like their "offensive playcalling genius" was a bit overstated too.
6. "Culture". Uhhh, yeahhhh, right. Both Prison Mike and Slingblade Billy have supposedly rebuilt the "culture" of their programs, and all of their players are high caliber kids who spend 25 hours a day, 8 days a week preparing for football. "C.L.I.M.B.". "Billy's Army". All of that stuff is being exposed as a load of hot bull****.
Don't let the F$U (or UiF) fans try to spin "good" reasons for the failures at both schools. The reality is that they signed under-talented players and are coaching them poorly as well.
No mystery there.
1. They are "rebuilding". But...WHY? Rebuilding is something that happens (most commonly) in college football when you fire a failed coach. Or if you signed one really great recruiting class ONE TIME, then they all became seniors together, and now they are gone. Of course, this ignores two major realities of college football. First, you can sign a mini-team EVERY YEAR. If you hit the high school recruiting hard each-and-every-year, then there IS NO "rebuilding". Second, there is a thing called THE PORTAL now. And given the fact that F$U's 13-1 undefeated team was built on Portal players....well, here's an idea...SIGN MORE GOOD PORTAL PLAYERS. You don't need multiple years for Portal players to hit. Again...THERE IS NO REBUILDING YEAR FOR A COLLEGE COACH COMING OFF A 13-1 UNDEFEATED SEASON.
2. They are "bridging". But...TO WHAT? If this "bridge" theory was correct, then they have an AMAZING younger talent pool that is merely one year from dominating college football...AND they load up on 1-year Portal guys to hold them until that time...and we all know that BOTH of those elements are false.
3. The "cost" of everything. I have written about this previously. After finally getting back to a 13-1 undefeated season, largely by paying big NIL to Portal players, F$U suddenly decided to go cheap. In a variety of ways. First, rather than say "hey, what we just paid is the 'standard' budget, let's go spend it on new guys", they decided to try to spend LESS coming off of a 13-1 undefeated season. Second, they decided to SHAME their own underclassmen who, for right or wrong, felt that it was now their time to be compensated. So the F$U writers and fans spent the off-season telling the world "Sophomore Billy Bob wants to be paid $X, which is what we were playing Jared Verse, and he isn't worth it, and he hasn't earned it". Which, of course, is NOT how you build loyalty and love. Finally, when F$U had the CHANCE to go out and make lightning strike twice (by signing the newer version of Jared Verse out of the Portal), they decided to waste their time and money on guys who had glittering HIGH SCHOOL resumes, but had not yet produced at the collegiate level. All of those things are a veritable PERFECT STORM of stupidity and ignorance when it comes to getting bang for the NIL buck.
4. Hope is crushed. I've been DM'ing with a couple of posters, and one of them pointed out the CRIPPLING impact that Mario has had on Florida and F$U, as they chased and chased and chased recruits that they THOUGHT would pick them, only to have their hopes crushed when these kids picked Miami. And the seconardary impact of this is that when Prison Mike and Slingblade Billy suddenly had to fill spots, they got MUCH lesser talent (whether HS or Portal).
5. These head coaches are NOT as good as first claimed. I said it about Prison Mike right off the bat, that it was JUSTIN FUENTE who rebuilt Memphis. Ah, yes, but then the CIS He-Man Norvell-Lovers Club tried to tell me how "The Portal" had changed everything, and that Prison Mike had invented the GREATEST STRATEGERY EVER, the "Portal Method". And then I pointed out that Slingblade Billy's entire resume was propped up by Mario recruiting a batch of blue-chip SoFla WRs at Alabama. But but but, Slingblade Billy made magic happen at Louisiana, that's what I was told. Meanwhile, both Prison Mike and Slingblade Billy have hired and/or retained some truly questionable assistant coaches, and now it is looking like their "offensive playcalling genius" was a bit overstated too.
6. "Culture". Uhhh, yeahhhh, right. Both Prison Mike and Slingblade Billy have supposedly rebuilt the "culture" of their programs, and all of their players are high caliber kids who spend 25 hours a day, 8 days a week preparing for football. "C.L.I.M.B.". "Billy's Army". All of that stuff is being exposed as a load of hot bull****.
Don't let the F$U (or UiF) fans try to spin "good" reasons for the failures at both schools. The reality is that they signed under-talented players and are coaching them poorly as well.
No mystery there.
