My reading comprehension is fine. Edsall did not leave behind a mess. Edsall left behind a roster of mentally tough kids coming off a conference championship. There was no mess until P was hired and, for three years, lost too many of Edsall's kids, didn't physically build up and teach up the ones who stayed and didn't keep the talent level up in his 2.5 recruiting seasons.
You need to take your rose colored glasses off regarding Edsall once in a while. We were 3-4, had gotten smoked by Louisville 26-0 in 2010, before some players got up in the locker room, and essentially said: "Jazz wouldn't have this.", comining of the 2009 season, and the team went on that 5 game run to the Fiesta Bowl - which gave Edsall his out he'd been looking for since 2007. There is no doubt that Edsall would have found a way to squeak out the 6-6, 7-5 seasons with the roster moving forward in 2011, but the recruiting problems we have now, and have had for the past few years, that we are JUST now coming out of, started in 2008. The talent level that Pasqualoni's program recruited is on the field right now, so if you don't like insulting current players, I would keep your mouth shut about that. The strength and conditioning coach, that everyone loved and Pasqualoni kept along, was fighting cancer from up through Jan 2014, and was declining steadily in his energy and performing up to standards for a few years, except nobody knew about it, because he never told anyone what he was going through. Pasqualoni should never have been allowed to bring Deleone on board with the program, and had Hathaway had any idea about anything, he would have made the hiring conditional on not hiring Deleone. We've been over this before. The only unit, on the field, that has been a recruiting disaster, and continues to be, for what we have now - 6 years after Edsall started bailing on recruiting - is the OL - Deleone's group. Pasqualoni treated college players like professionals, and did it with an antiquated bully style of coaching that does not relate to 21st century college athletes. They fell apart, but if you think that is entirely the fault of the coaching staff, and the players had no responsibility themselves, you are sorely mistaken.
Edsall screwed this program, the way he left it in the dark, with a progressively declining recruiting since 2008, and a class as of December 2010, that had less then 10 players, when we needed the full 25, mostly on the offensive side of the ball, just to be up to adequate numbers. Diaco is recruiting like hell, as did Pasqualoni, simply in a numbers game to catch up where Edsall had let it fall off regarding the NLI yearly signing cycle. Nebrich, was one of those players that was left in that mess, as was his primary recruiter, and relatively new coach hired by Edsall - and left behind by Edsall - Moorhead.
Perhaps that's ok with you, the way that Edsall left, erased anything good I have to say about the guy, except that he knew how to build a team that could win games at Rentschler field.
Good lord, all I did was compliment a player and a coach, about finding a way out of the mess that Edsall left behind, and do well for themselves and you come out of the woodwork at me. Have a nice day counselor.
