I watched just a few minutes of the game at the end once it was well out of reach. My night was much more enjoyable because of it.
I'm conceding this year. Don't care what happens from here on out. Everywhere Leach has gone, it's taken awhile for the offense to get going. I understand that. I think a dude making $5 million a year should be able to figure it out a lot quicker than that, but I'm willing to give him the rest of this year and next year to figure it out. But it all hangs on next year for me. He has to get it rolling. The only problem is I don't see it getting better.
QB: You've essentially got a RS freshman or a true freshman as your starting QB next year. Not a great recipe. I think it's good that Rogers will get experience this year. But he's still going to be young.
RB: Marks and Johnson are solid. But they're still going to be young as well. I think they'll be serviceable though.
WR: Mitchell will hopefully be gone. That's addition by subtraction. We've got some good WRs coming in. Gotta have them come in immediately and contribute though.
OL: Here's your problem. This group has been putrid this year. Our 5* hasn't looked like a 5*. Eiland will hopefully move on. Parker may be back. But we need immediate help in this group and I'm not sure you're gonna get it. The OL we have committed right now are sub-par. Two HS guys (they're solid but can't expect them to contribute) and two JUCO guys nobody wants. Desperately need to hit the transfer portal hard for a couple of guys.
I look at what we have coming back and who we have coming in, and I don't see a vastly improved offense on paper. Yes, the transfer portal can change some of that, but the list of guys we've gotten from the portal who have helped us isn't very long.
Basically the only hope is that another year getting used to the offense turns it around. Can that happen? Yes. Will it? I think it depends on if Leach can adapt some things. If he is hell bent on running the exact shit he's been running out there the last month, then no, it will never work.
