Quote Originally Posted by coachnorm View Post
What makes anyone think the situation would be any different if CML was still head coach? Will Rogers is still the same. The garbage scheme of check downs, swing passes, and mesh patterns has been figured out. The defense recruiting with no future draft picks is the responsibility of the head coach. Does CML have any culpability for our current status? I admit that I have no concrete answers for our current status. Who actually caused this backward evolution or are some going to say this was not a backward evolution of the program and something that happened on a spur of the moment?
When we lost Leach we also lost Arnett the DC.

We have better receivers than we did last year- but we don't utilize them like we did before. Will would still struggle to push the ball down the field because that is who he is. But he also never struggled putting up points on lesser defenses in the Air Raid and in year four of a system and with better talent surrounding him there is no reason to think that we wouldn't continue to have success- last year we played 6 or 7 top 35 defenses and so far this year we have played 1 and yet our PPG and total offense numbers are worse. We wouldn't have as many miscommunication issues that we're seeing and having players literally running the wrong direction or into each other which we are seeing too much.

On the other side of the ball we have an inexperienced DC which is a huge mistake to go along with a relatively inexperienced OC. Arnett is much better than Brock and if that side of the ball had his full attention there is no question in my mind that we would be better there.

The only side of the ball that is performing the best is the one we touched the least- and that's with a freshman kicker and punter.

We miss Leach's ability to manage the team. You may not agree with how he did it but at least he was consistent and everyone knew which direction to pull in. Right now I feel like we have several people with different opinions trying to get their two cents in and a coach trying to keep people happy while at the same time overthinking everything.

With Leach I feel confident we beat South Carolina and Auburn at least. And the Arkansas game doesn't make Football Sickos game of the week where we are declared the Iowa of the SEC. Beyond that- the LSU game would have been much closer if not a win and Alabama probably would have been more competitive too.

We may not have the most talented team in MSU history- but we do have a team and program that has shown that with the proper leadership we can be way more successful than we are now.