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Spring Ball is here… Welcome to the New Age!

hmm, wonder if more kids will get a vid.

I always liked his potential, thought his HS showed a lot of dawg.
 
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With how positive everything is this spring. The new ring around campus about the new staff and approach. I feel like this team as a whole is in a much better position than last year. Real coaching is what these kids need. Spring ball will show that.
 
Block C said:
With how positive everything is this spring. The new ring around campus about the new staff and approach. I feel like this team as a whole is in a much better position than last year. Real coaching is what these kids need. Spring ball will show that.
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If there's as big a coaching difference as I expect, we're going to see it very early in the season. My caveat as always is the o-line, but it looks like we've made some strides there already.
 
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Mora really seems like he's won over the entire team already and continues to do so. I can see why a lot of his previous players speak so highly of him. Hell I'm about to reapply with 4 years of eligibility at 36 because he has me so pumped for the season to start.
 
Guru13 said:
You gotta be trolling right???
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Not trolling at all, just dejavu. If we can all agree that last season was a low point at QB, then we should expect the new guys to be dominating the spring conversation. If the comparisons to the old guy is luke warm and the new guy isn't jelling with WR's we know are really good, it suggests a suboptimal dynamic on a couple of fronts.

If overreading off-season scraps of information makes people uneasy, then what are we doing here?
 
SubbaBub said:
Not trolling at all, just dejavu. If we can all agree that last season was a low point at QB, then we should expect the new guys to be dominating the spring conversation. If the comparisons to the old guy is luke warm and the new guy isn't jelling with WR's we know are really good, it suggests a suboptimal dynamic on a couple of fronts.

If overreading off-season scraps of information makes people uneasy, then what are we doing here?
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You are right except you are missing one big piece. This is a new offense with new schemes, coaches, etc. All the players are on offense are learning it for the first time. Very early in the jelling department and old guy and new guy are basically starting at 0 in a new offense. This is also just base installation- the real growth will take place over the summer and that is when you will hopefully see separation and jelling.
 
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Honestly. If your morning agenda is to come on the Boneyard Football thread and just piss on the handful of guys that want to grab some positive feel for some hope for wins next fall, I'm gonna say: "you're a pretty sick guy ... Troll". Tell you what, come follow me tomorrow at Memorial Sloan Kettering, you'll find great opportunities to shatter hope there.
 
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SubbaBub said:
Not trolling at all, just dejavu. If we can all agree that last season was a low point at QB, then we should expect the new guys to be dominating the spring conversation. If the comparisons to the old guy is luke warm and the new guy isn't jelling with WR's we know are really good, it suggests a suboptimal dynamic on a couple of fronts.

If overreading off-season scraps of information makes people uneasy, then what are we doing here?
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Last year was not the low point at QB. Try Bones or Johnny M. TP and Steven Krajewski were big upgrade on those two, even given having no OL, no RB, best receivers out and no deception in the offensive scheme.

I'll take you at your word, not trolling. Just woefully poor interpretation of how to judge the process. When you say new guys, seems like at present there is only 1, with the other transfer and freshman from top high school program yet to arrive.
 
hardcorehusky said:
You are right except you are missing one big piece. This is a new offense with new schemes, coaches, etc. All the players are on offense are learning it for the first time. Very early in the jelling department and old guy and new guy are basically starting at 0 in a new offense. This is also just base installation- the real growth will take place over the summer and that is when you will hopefully see separation and jelling.
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We've been through 4 rounds of jelling in the last decade. It think we should be able to tell that there doesn't seem to be a huge jump in quality.

What we don't know is if there has been a steep drop in shooting ourselves in the foot. That alone should be worth a couple wins.
 
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SubbaBub said:
I have that more of the same feeling in the pit of my stomach. The idea of Steven Krajewski as a known quantity holding his own with the prospective upgrades is not the feeling I was hoping for.

Sounds like another off-season of multiple QB contender, which of course means we have zero QB contenders. And while I'm at it, it is nice to hear good things about Fitzgerald, Ross and Marion are both very good and that we aren't hearing more about them is also troubling.
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LOL. I thought I was the grumpiest one on the board since the coaching change?

Look, am I jumping on the optimism based on anything that is going to happen prior to what I see on opening day? Absolutely not. But is there any basis to take positive thoughts and turn them into a negative? Come on.

Waiting and seeing, however, ….
 
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businesslawyer said:
LOL. I thought I was the grumpiest one on the board since the coaching change?

Look, am I jumping on the optimism based on anything that is going to happen prior to what I see on opening day? Absolutely not. But is there any basis to take positive thoughts and turn them into a negative? Come on.

Waiting and seeing, however, ….
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I don't see a lot of space between us on this. I guess I recognize the happy talk as being a bit over the top. I believe Mora was a huge get and that the guys coming in though the portal have to be an upgrade over what would have been had Edsall stayed, but a flashy coaching hire to the worst program of the decade can only take you so far and to date that means the guy who got run out of Happy Valley based on a single performance is the current favorite at QB.
 
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