No, he really has not. Are our classes ranked significantly higher by the services? Are we landing more kids with multiple BCS offers? Other than Whitmer, has any P recruit really made a significant impact on the field of play?
I can't believe the depths some of you guys will go to to defend this guy and what he's done the last 2 years. I hope I'm proven wrong and we win 7 games this year. But I'd be very surprised.
There is no doubt, that P has failed in the past two years in the most important thing. Wins and losses. Consecutive 5-7 seasons. It's got to change, and we need to win, or his job security gets more and more tenuous. I don't think anyone is going to debate this (in the real world)......here? Somebody will find a reason to debate anything, no matter how ridiculous. This coaching staff needs to start winning more than they lose, or every day that goes by is one day closer to losing their jobs.
I'll tell you something else, there is no coach, at this level, anywhere, that is given the charge of building a winner, that doesn't know that if they don't win, they'll be replaced. So the real question to be asked - is whether or not we have expectations of winning. And the answer there - is a Hell Yes. It's time to win.
But Jimmy - to try to say the guy has failed in a blanket statement over the past 2 years is simply false. Failed at what? Winning more than we lose, and making bowl games? Yes. And that is the measure that he'll eventually keep his job or lose it. Wins and losses. But the expectations over the past 2 seasons needed to be realistic. We needed to compete for league titles, and try to get the post season. We did compete and we failed - so close - and that's always the case when you've got a team like we had in the past two years, and coaching like we had. A bounce here, a better play there, a different call over there, and we could just as easily have gone 3-9 consecutively or 9-3.
Consistency is key, and I have no doubt they're going to work on it - we were very inconsistent on the field past two seasons - but how do you do that? Get consistent? Practice - practice against competition that is as close to what you see on game day as possible.
You want to know how good a football program is, and how well they can compete, and what their potential is to be consistent and win against a level of competition - go look at the practice squad roster. Look at what our practice squad looked like going into fall 2011, to what it's going to be in fall 2013.
I"ll tell you what thought, I"ve been up close to our roster in the past, on occasion, and more recently, and I saw what our roster looked like in Spring 2011, and I've seen our full roster up close in years past as well. Some practices are open to the public throughout the year spring and fall. We consistently were able to recruit and produce a lineup of #1's on the roster that could stand shoulder to shoulder and toe to toe with anybody in the country. Our practice squad? Our #2s through #4s? Not so much.
I don't know how many people have actually been to open practices around here, I suspect not many. But those who have in the past, I encourage you to go out again in fall camp in August and watch again get on the field and stand and watch players move on the same ground level with the players. This 2013 UCONN squad from #1's to practice squad, is going to be bigger, faster, and stronger than any team we've ever brought to the field in over a 100 years.
There is no doubt, that our rosters, have improved dramatically, both horizontally and vertically in the past 2 years, for the level we want to compete at, and in that respect, the guy has been a success, and if he doesn't win and ends up out on his rear on the sidewalk, the program is going to be a hell of a lot better shape than it was when he got here.
It's time to win on the field though, the roster is set. No one (sane) is arguing this.
