It is difficult to overstate how putrid our defense really is.
Having tried to do so REPEATEDLY, especially throughout today’s game against TAMU, I’m not even gonna keep trying.
Unless you somehow harbor hopes of a drastic and lasting surge of across-the-board improvement over the remainder of our schedule, one that commences at once and carries us to Atlanta for December’s SEC Championship, you can pretty well FORGET about a full-on return to Gator Glory anytime soon.
That defense isn’t “a work in progress” but rather “a sinking ship” ...see me as “one of the rats” because I am so quick to recognize this and “desert” them, well, my only defense is that I see no point in deceiving ourselves:
There is an enormous amount of rebuilding and reCOACHING to be done yet. Strangely enough, I THOUGHT that in Grantham we already HAD the right man in place to do just that—AND that the process was already well-underway!
Apparently not.
What do you suppose will need to be done? Do we already at least have the Coaches to accomplish it? Or in addition to pending recruiting upgrades, are major changes required on our staff? Grantham got too much of the credit for the improved “pressure D” I think last coupla seasons; I fear we must be careful about not blaming him alone too much now. The main point is to examine what we might DO about it all now! I suspect this is more a recruiting challenge than anything else: At the very least, we need to find out for sure what our Defensive coordinator and co. can re-establish if given outstanding “raw-material” to work with once more. I doubt Mullens’ offense will be a “trouble spot” from here, in any event.
Oh, but that WOEFUL defense! You watch the handful of elite teams (SEC and “SEC-STYLE”, like Clemsen) play now and they are similarly strong, dominant on BOTH sides of the ball!
Is anything LESS THAN THAT ACCEPTABLE TO US??!
Having tried to do so REPEATEDLY, especially throughout today’s game against TAMU, I’m not even gonna keep trying.
Unless you somehow harbor hopes of a drastic and lasting surge of across-the-board improvement over the remainder of our schedule, one that commences at once and carries us to Atlanta for December’s SEC Championship, you can pretty well FORGET about a full-on return to Gator Glory anytime soon.
That defense isn’t “a work in progress” but rather “a sinking ship” ...see me as “one of the rats” because I am so quick to recognize this and “desert” them, well, my only defense is that I see no point in deceiving ourselves:
There is an enormous amount of rebuilding and reCOACHING to be done yet. Strangely enough, I THOUGHT that in Grantham we already HAD the right man in place to do just that—AND that the process was already well-underway!
Apparently not.
What do you suppose will need to be done? Do we already at least have the Coaches to accomplish it? Or in addition to pending recruiting upgrades, are major changes required on our staff? Grantham got too much of the credit for the improved “pressure D” I think last coupla seasons; I fear we must be careful about not blaming him alone too much now. The main point is to examine what we might DO about it all now! I suspect this is more a recruiting challenge than anything else: At the very least, we need to find out for sure what our Defensive coordinator and co. can re-establish if given outstanding “raw-material” to work with once more. I doubt Mullens’ offense will be a “trouble spot” from here, in any event.
Oh, but that WOEFUL defense! You watch the handful of elite teams (SEC and “SEC-STYLE”, like Clemsen) play now and they are similarly strong, dominant on BOTH sides of the ball!
Is anything LESS THAN THAT ACCEPTABLE TO US??!