In my opinion:
Lashlee hire: A-
Justice hire: A-
King Transfer: B/B+
Reed hire: A-
Lockette hire: A-
It is incredible that a 6-7 HC already on the hot seat after losing in historically embarrassing fashion to FIU, Duke, and La. Tech, could land such high quality individuals to join this Program.
Although Lego Boy Blake remains at his post, the Alonzo negotiations ended in a disaster, and uncertainty remains about what is required for Manny to survive 2020, at least 2020 looks a lot better on paper heading into the Spring than we could have expected after the La. Tech Game.
Enos is gone- replaced by a solid innovative Spread Offensive OC in Rhett. Justice and Lockette add both on and off the field quality to the offense. And no fair minded fan can deny that Ed Reed’s presence in the building immediately impact the culture in a positive direction. We lose a talented Jarren Williams, but gain a talented, dynamic, and veteran King.
Irrespective of the long list of issues we have with this team, the changes made in the last 3 to 5 weeks have been excellent, and about as good as can be expected. It is unfair to summarily dismiss the importance of all of these changes.
But off-season paper doesn’t automatically mean in-season wins. having a “wait-and-see approach” to all of this equalling wins, is more than fair and reasonable. Can’t blame fans for having reservations about what will happen before we even see a Spring Game, let alone joining all of the over-the-top sunshine pumping. QB issues, key defensive personnel gone, defensive staff, special teams, tougher ACC scheduling- there’s a lot of reasons to pump the brakes on anointing a 9-10 win season just yet.
For me as a fan though, I’m glad we have a lot of different things to talk about over the next few months, and can at least for now we can temporarily move off of the daily Lego Boy Blake/BOT/Manny bashing. They’ll be plenty of time for that in the fall in the event 2020 is a bad year again.
Lashlee hire: A-
Justice hire: A-
King Transfer: B/B+
Reed hire: A-
Lockette hire: A-
It is incredible that a 6-7 HC already on the hot seat after losing in historically embarrassing fashion to FIU, Duke, and La. Tech, could land such high quality individuals to join this Program.
Although Lego Boy Blake remains at his post, the Alonzo negotiations ended in a disaster, and uncertainty remains about what is required for Manny to survive 2020, at least 2020 looks a lot better on paper heading into the Spring than we could have expected after the La. Tech Game.
Enos is gone- replaced by a solid innovative Spread Offensive OC in Rhett. Justice and Lockette add both on and off the field quality to the offense. And no fair minded fan can deny that Ed Reed’s presence in the building immediately impact the culture in a positive direction. We lose a talented Jarren Williams, but gain a talented, dynamic, and veteran King.
Irrespective of the long list of issues we have with this team, the changes made in the last 3 to 5 weeks have been excellent, and about as good as can be expected. It is unfair to summarily dismiss the importance of all of these changes.
But off-season paper doesn’t automatically mean in-season wins. having a “wait-and-see approach” to all of this equalling wins, is more than fair and reasonable. Can’t blame fans for having reservations about what will happen before we even see a Spring Game, let alone joining all of the over-the-top sunshine pumping. QB issues, key defensive personnel gone, defensive staff, special teams, tougher ACC scheduling- there’s a lot of reasons to pump the brakes on anointing a 9-10 win season just yet.
For me as a fan though, I’m glad we have a lot of different things to talk about over the next few months, and can at least for now we can temporarily move off of the daily Lego Boy Blake/BOT/Manny bashing. They’ll be plenty of time for that in the fall in the event 2020 is a bad year again.
