re: Help Me Out Here

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We are gonna suck so hard in football this year. So much for Butch being our Ron Zook

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I'd hoped that Zook was exactly who Butch would turn out to be if he proved a failure. Zook is painted as the worst coach ever but he wasn't as terrible as his reputation (just not very good and definitely not elite - iow mediocre). However, more importantly Zook recruited like gangbusters and left behind a decent roster for the next hire which I'd always believed Butch would do (ugh, was I wrong there).

For all the roster rebuilding Butch did, he burnt through it almost as quickly and the damage he was allowed to do last season set back a lot of the progress that had been made. I don't think we're as bad off as we were when Kiffin and Dooley left/were fired but we're also not as well off as we should've and could've been had things not been allowed to go into a total meltdown last season.

It's a damn shame that we're barely ahead of where we were roster wise. Particularly infuriating is that the OL was never fixed and that is a unit that desperately needs depth and physical maturation to even be competitive. We still don't have enough warm bodies there. Of all the positions it takes the most time and work to fix -- for it to be where it's at makes me sick to think about.