I don't see how it's an indictment at all. You bring a handful of guys hoping 1 or 2 end up being impact players for you. They're never all going to work out. That doesn't mean the evaluation was bad. It just means that one develops faster than the others and/or earns the job over the others. The fact that EM had another guy ready to go on short notice after CM left says a lot about his ability to evaluate and develop quarterbacks. Maybe even more so that he was a walk on who hadn't played since his freshman year of HS.
Tough to argue EM isn't smarter than those other coaches in this particular situation, given the results he got out of DM in this game. And why not put the game in the hands of an inexperienced 18-year-old who comes in here and does what DM did? I'm glad they didn't go into their shell and play super conservative. I can't even imagine what the final score would have been if we had "leaned on the running game."
Yes, it's a past and present problem.
I'm surprised more teams haven't tried to press us on our inbounds. It's not like we're going to kick into running the floor, lol.
It’s hard to see because schools wipe dudes from their roster when they hit the portal, save for a few exceptions like if they stay on through a bowl game. I’m sure it was at least somewhere in the high 270s or low 280s. He hasn’t updated his twitter profile in a long time by the looks of it, and he looked like an average sized FCS offensive tackle out on the field in the footage against us.
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