I will give him credit for building up the O-line and the running game, it is solid and I can see the philosophy behind it and actually have seen the development and a plan that was implemented and well on its way to being considered successful. Grade: A
I have not seen any semblance of the development of a QB, maybe that will change with Luke Nickel but so far I have not seen a QB that he has brought in as a normal recruit. You get credit for waiting around and having Cam Ward forego the draft but if that had not happened this would have been an atrocious season that would have seen Mario possibly being shown the door as I highly doubt that Poffenbarger or Williams (aka Park Statue) would have achieved more than 4 wins. Grade: D
Wide receivers, Jacolby George still does the same things during a game that make you want to scream and I don't think Mario recruited him. Sam Brown underachieved, Horton was coming along and now he is gone. Portal recruiting hopefully saves the day. Restrepo was another player here when you got here. Grade: C
Tight Ends, lots of talent coming through the door and it seems to make sense and there is a plan to the approach and it is being executed. Right next to the O-Line so Mario seems to understand what goes on with TE's. Grade: A-
D-Line, I have never seen a single unit regress during a season, until now. Was it the additions thru the portal or just terrible coaching? Was it paying players and they have no desire because they get fat and lazy? Who knows but anyone even remotely familiar with Canes football knows that our D-Line is what made this program great, these players are the least achieving of all the bad D-Lines over the past 20 years. Grade: F
Lber's and DB's, just really bad, getting tired of typing the same crap, our DB's had no clue who to cover, it was mesmerizing to watch, either they are the dumbest players on the planet or the coaching was the worst ever, who doesn't know that when a player goes in motion that both DB's covering 2 receivers in front of them shouldn't both go with the receiver in motion??? Grade; F
Haven't seen a complete plan developed and we played our 3rd season with this coach, don't know his philosophy for building a team and he is as bad on gameday as I have ever seen since I walked out on Butch coaching against WVU in the OB one Saturday. Not sure Mario is very intelligent, he works hard for sure but breaking rocks with a sledgehammer after dynamite has already been invented seems to be where we are at right now, sorry to say.
I have not seen any semblance of the development of a QB, maybe that will change with Luke Nickel but so far I have not seen a QB that he has brought in as a normal recruit. You get credit for waiting around and having Cam Ward forego the draft but if that had not happened this would have been an atrocious season that would have seen Mario possibly being shown the door as I highly doubt that Poffenbarger or Williams (aka Park Statue) would have achieved more than 4 wins. Grade: D
Wide receivers, Jacolby George still does the same things during a game that make you want to scream and I don't think Mario recruited him. Sam Brown underachieved, Horton was coming along and now he is gone. Portal recruiting hopefully saves the day. Restrepo was another player here when you got here. Grade: C
Tight Ends, lots of talent coming through the door and it seems to make sense and there is a plan to the approach and it is being executed. Right next to the O-Line so Mario seems to understand what goes on with TE's. Grade: A-
D-Line, I have never seen a single unit regress during a season, until now. Was it the additions thru the portal or just terrible coaching? Was it paying players and they have no desire because they get fat and lazy? Who knows but anyone even remotely familiar with Canes football knows that our D-Line is what made this program great, these players are the least achieving of all the bad D-Lines over the past 20 years. Grade: F
Lber's and DB's, just really bad, getting tired of typing the same crap, our DB's had no clue who to cover, it was mesmerizing to watch, either they are the dumbest players on the planet or the coaching was the worst ever, who doesn't know that when a player goes in motion that both DB's covering 2 receivers in front of them shouldn't both go with the receiver in motion??? Grade; F
Haven't seen a complete plan developed and we played our 3rd season with this coach, don't know his philosophy for building a team and he is as bad on gameday as I have ever seen since I walked out on Butch coaching against WVU in the OB one Saturday. Not sure Mario is very intelligent, he works hard for sure but breaking rocks with a sledgehammer after dynamite has already been invented seems to be where we are at right now, sorry to say.
