Muschamp will get his dudes. The issue was is and will forever be the fucking Oline and…are we going to get 1:1 for our departures? Cuz that is all I give a fuck about.
I mean most people don’t buy into rankings of anything (recruits, the portal, regular weekly rankings) unless it’s the poll/rankings that we need to make the CFP but…
Part of it is a Harris/Sark combination. The other part of this is yes most schools are dealing with this shit. The difference is the schools that routinely use the portal to build on and survive got in and out clean exit with their targets and we are caught flat footed bc we focused on 3 or so big names that are not oline dudes with experience and we whiffed on those names because we do not have a competent oline nor a competent oline coach. Say you are a bad ass WR or TE or RB. And lots of schools can afford you. You see Arch and think cool I can play with that guy and I will get a lot of NFL attention and sark is calling the plays. Cool. Then you see our Oline or lack there of and realize you may get killed. No amount of money is worth that if you are mortally wounded before you can even be drafted.
We won’t fix it with guys who have barely played a full season. Guys that we didn’t want to recruit and now have to fill holes with. Question for the peanut gallery: if building a team the right way is thru recruiting and using the portal to fill gaps why in year six are we doing a complete overhaul of dudes we recruited? This isn’t simply dudes wanting a paycheck, we are pushing fuckers out that we selected. And not only that we are a day late and a dollar short on getting the primary olineman we needed to make a deep run. 🏃♀️ the fuck?
We have an Olineman visiting for Oregon State that has played for 6 games/444 snaps in total. We are losing dudes who have at least a full year of snaps under their belt for dudes who haven’t played a full season. I think everyone in our portal room is drunk high on crack. Wtf? Also according to Vogel
That’s cool. We have had two amazing years and scratched the surface of a good one towards the end this year. I’m more concerned about the present and the future and people need to fire that asshole in their heads stat that tells them things are fine based on 2023 and 2024. 2025 is what it looks like when you give Sark the keys to the kingdom with no oversight. 2026 is a work in progress. I went from thinking MNC bc of Arch and the pieces we were building around him to thinking 8-4 in a matter of a few days and possibly 8-4 next year and it doesn’t sit well with me. I cannot predict the future any better than anyone else but I can base it on past results. And had we done the same things we were doing in 2024 to prepare for 2025 I’d have a different outlook and my posts would not be a redundant pissed rant on a loop. I’d see the hope. Instead we retained Flood and Banks and brought in Nansen and fired PK and yes Muschamp is back but he’s one of the only NET positives outside of Arch I can see right now. And I hope to shit I’m wrong but you do not crown a HC until he has won an MNC. Especially one who only wants to play HC while just being a glorified play caller. It totally shows how disorganized the whole outfit is when the HC doesn’t want to do anything else than audition for the NfL with play calls for personnel we don’t have bc he won’t take an active role in keeping the players he recruited. Fuck my life.
The auditioning for the NFL is what is pissing me off. Treating the team like a half ass NFL franchise that’s loosely run by Harris and Sark and his buddies. I thought we were going to go all in and hit on our biggest targets in the portal. Swing with a mighty bat. Instead the teams that are trying to build a sustainable culture in a crazy landscape hit on their targets immediately and anything else they net is gravy. We did NOT hit on our targets and now are trying to figure out of the 2500 players left how to fill the holes we lost to understandable attrition and outright mismanagement by Harris. On top of which 2027 looks bleak. People ain’t sure if Sark is bolting to the NFL. Because his actions and not his words speak volumes on that. Firing PK and throwing him under the bus for the bulk of our problems while retaining asshat pals who don’t inspire confidence didn’t help. Muschamp isn’t the issue but he was set up to be the HC so sark can retain the title and call the plays with personnel he didn’t target. The most glaring issue of all was and is OLINE and if we had hit on 3 lineman on day one or two of the portal I would be happy. I’d shut the fuck up. Instead it appears our targets were all shiny weapons that we WHIFFED on while pushing players out the door who may not have understood bc chucklefuck Harris sucks that we wanted them to stay. This sucks and it will take 💯 focus by Sark as a HC to fix. And he doesn’t want to focus on being head coach so you see where this is a fucking problem.
Harris is a problem. Confirmed. Sark’s inability to accept blame for anything is a problem. Confirmed. Sark surrounding himself with yes men and pals is a problem bc most of these coaches on his staff I expect to see at a mid tier that is about to get a complete overhaul. If players left here thinking their contributions were not appreciated that is on sark. He should be in the room not this hands off “let me focus on my play calling only please” management style bullshit. Players talk and given a chance to play behind a stable coaching staff with real bonafides and collect a paycheck our targets are opting to play elsewhere. That’s the reality.
One way that might get Harris out of our “hair” and stop being a fly in the margarita machine is for our cigars to SEE schools like Indiana continue to rise and wonder why it’s not happening here. Two Wisconsin is on the rise. I called it. I got dibs. When schools like Indiana make fast strikes and hit on their dudes early it absolutely stands to reason we did not bc of Harris/Sark. There is no other way to see it. Particularly when you look at the schools that are hitting fast and early bc they have experience with the portal. This is no longer in P4 where you just out athlete the other schools. And when you whiff repeatedly on recruits OR don’t develop them or in our case our players met with Harris and determined they needed to leave based on the low dick energy Harris conveyed we have a sincere problem. used to be portal opens and if we have a slot available kids wanted it. Now it’s the Wild West and they don’t care about the school (those just in it for a paycheck) but if our own players are left feeling from Harris that they need to go when he didn’t mean to convey that damn. This is concerning the type of bullshit we are building behind our team.
Welcome! He’s a fine addition 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼 Oline please? 🙏 as far as Harris/Sark I took this from the 9.95 forum bc I thought it explains a lot many of us not convinced that what has been going on with roster turnover and other issues is merely bc it’s the Wild West (and it is but no school is immune from it and every school is dealing with it.) Harris sounds like a complete boob. It is concerning to me we have a staff comprised of Sark suck ups (most of whom could not be a waterboy on Cig’s staff) and buddies and one grown ass man in Muschamp. That guy is either going to stroke out or punch sark out.
Mainly just lurking and getting portal updates. I appreciate the information that some are providing as well as valuable insight. 8 days. Let’s get an oline, for fuck’s sake.
I really like Fernando Mendoza and Dante Moore. It sucks they will likely go to franchises ill-equipped to hire a proper coach. I think Moore might have a better chance if he doesn’t go one overall of landing a better team. If I’m building the ultimate team I’d hire Kliff as QB coach or an OC and likely Flores as DC and either McVay or Vrabel as my HC. In a perfect world. The Raiders need a grown ass man who can hire a proper staff. Mendoza is one of those rare perfect QBs. Total playbook nerd. Exactly the right height and weight. Can scramble. Loves the game. Supports his teammates. All the intangibles. About to get demoralized and wasted on the wrong team if they don’t hire a proper head coach. Mendoza thrives in a process oriented strict atmosphere. He can’t go to a complete mess with a shit HC. I know people laugh at McCarthy and he’s getting a lot of looks and his clock management and in game decisions are shit but he would be good for the Giants. I just don’t know if there is a process oriented type coach that can be a Cig in the NFL for Mendoza to thrive under and that sucks to watch essentially a perfect QB prototype get wasted under shit mgmt.
So we need to ditch all our millionaires and find one billionaire to run point? There seem to be more meltdowns happening In the recruiting thread. It’s too hardcore for me. 😂