LOL, it's not the recruiting rankings. It's the guys WE target that WE miss on.
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Just curious... which position groups outperformed the oline this year? Certainly not dline or lb where we seem to recruit the best. Now if what I said is true, doesn't that tell you coaching is pretty important?
Not excusing it, and I did call Tucker to us due to a friend in the Roswell community. But when are we going to start a new thread when Gonzo whiffs? He's whiffed on Guridy, Racey, Bowie, the kid last year that went to Oklahoma, etc. if you're going to hold one guy accountable; hold them all accountable. When is the last time a MSU WR has been drafted? I don't believe any have under the Mullen Era..
Prepare thy anus this thread is going 20+ pages
Fire Hevesy Fire Hevesy Fire Hevesy!!!!!
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Well, nobody is denying that our defense looked incompetent and poorly coached for the entire year, hence the joy with Sirmon leaving. But the best players on our defense this year were very young. Now while our OL did look pretty good the last half of the 2016 season, in 2015 the OL was the worst performing unit on the team. I do think Hevesy generally gets about all he can with what he has to work with for the most part. That's why we perform best with a veteran OL like 2014 but it will not be that many years that your entire OL will be made up of 3 year starters.
I think pretty much everyone agrees that Hev can coach, he needs to recruit better, and Mullen isn't firing him. If this is true, we should get creative to help Hev out recruiting wise. For example, name brad Peterson TE and assistant oline coach. Hev still be in charge of the whole oline, but adding Peterson in the mix could help sell us to recruits. I don't really understand how practice and meetings run though, so this could be a dumb idea.
And yet we still have set our 8 best offensive seasons ever in the 8 seasons Mullen & Hevesy have been coaching here. Did y'all forget how awful our offense was with Croom? Remember that time we lost to Auburn 3-2? If our defense was ranked as well as our offense every year we would be an annual top 15 program.
Is that saying that much? As I have researched and previously posted, look at out national offensive rankings THEN look at our scores each year. Outside of 2014, our offense has been ranked 31 once and 40s and below the other seasons, with 1 in the 60s and 2 in the 80s. Look at total O, scoring O, 3rd down conversions, and red zone efficiency.
Yet our defensive rankings generally are better than that if I recall correctly, but they always get blamed for our losing games. Even in 14 when our D gave up a lot of garbage yards late in games when we were up big in and had a poor total D ranking, they were #1 I believe in red zone efficiency and 23 in scoring D.
Everyone conveniently forgets when our offense scores 17 or less with some 3, 10, or 14 point games along the way. We scored only 17 in '15 against a horrible AU team, and couldn't run the ball a lick.
ETA: The reason Mullen OWNS the MSU offensive record book is cause there wasn't one before he got here. We've never had much of an offense before. Serviceable at times ... but not record setting evah.
The SEC has always been a more defensive-oriented conference, you know this. This year, for example, we were 56th in the country in PPG offensively. But that was good enough for 6th in the SEC. So we were a slightly better-than-average SEC offense despite our struggles there.