re: Sumlin's decisiveness

Oh for sure. Not trying to compare them at all, just talking about the biggest NCAA punishments that have been handed down recently

I'm sorry some of that may be true and I would not be shocked, but the AD and the HC have a contentious relationship in just about every major athletic program in the country. That's in large part because the HC doesn't really report to the AD, he reports to the BOR and in reality the boosters. So AD insiders criticizing the head coach is nothing but commonplace.

I'm don't think he is decisive. I think they are stubborn. They stayed committed to the run even after James White got injured. We were "handcuffed" by having only 1 scholarship running back, but they forced the issue. ESPN said we had the fewest runs of 10+ yards in the whole SEC.

Roger, what's the deal with Christensen? Is he staying? His unit was clearly the worst, and he made almost the same amount of money as Spav. His recruiting is also subpar. He needs to go.

I'm curious as to why the OL was so terrible though. Was it DC's incompetence? Laziness? Bashing heads with Spav? All of the above?

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The OL has been bad 2 years in a row. That's the offensive coordinator.

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You can't honestly believe this. BJ Anderson was a fraud who ruined our OL and lived off Sherman's players for his entire tenure at A&M. He should've been signing 3-4 OL every year, but he didn't. That's why we will have mostly freshmen and sophomores starting next year. On top of that, he was a worthless evaluator and even more worthless coach. Are you going to blame Spav for this?

Enter Dave Christensen. Our OL did not improve AT ALL throughout the year, and quite possibly regressed. Now, I'm not an OL expert, but the people who are coaches and former players all say that our OL technique is terrible. Furthermore, we would line up with wide splits that gave away 1) whether we were running or passing, and 2) if we were running, where the hole was supposed to be. That's not on your OC, that's on your OL coach. Have you even watched Keaton Sutherland this year? There were so many times when he had no idea who to block, as if he hadn't even been coached to recognize who to block. There were numerous times when we had 2 or 3 linemen blocking the same guy. That's coaching.

Now, Christensen liked to pull linemen, and we consistently pulled linemen and consistently failed. I don't know if trying it over and over and failing is on Christensen or Spav. But the stuff above is ALL on BJ and Christensen. Spav had nothing to do with terrible recruiting, terrible evaluations, terrible coaching, and terrible technique.

Ifedi is going pro, and Matthews and Cheek are graduating. You're replacing 3/5 members. Gennessy will be the only upperclassmen. Koda Martin will be a redshirt sophomore, Sutherland will be a true sophomore, McCoy (I don't think we burned his shirt) will be a redshirt freshman, and Lanfear will be a true sophomore (we burned his shirt for a few meaningless snaps). That's your probable starting OL unless London can play. We literally don't have anyone else besides JJ Gus and Elbert. Stuckey is apparently done.

Some of the generalities RK makes as well as omission of things he would definitely say if he knew, highlight to me he's not talking to people that make decisions. He's talking to disgruntled people that aren't part of the process.

And that's okay. Those people can have valid (and sometimes more valid than the decision maker) opinions. But they aren't always the most informed so you have to take it with a grain of salt.

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Got WORSE starting the same number of upperclassmen.

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And you think that's somehow Jake Spavital's fault?? lol. We lost a first rounder (Ced), a fifth rounder (Harrison), and a guy who got invited to the combine (Gramling). They were all Sherman's guys. We replaced them with Gennessy, Cheek, and Sutherland.

Dave was left with a mess at OL, but he didn't make our OL better in any aspect. In fact, we very likely regressed, though it's hard to tell since our OL was terrible from the beginning of the season until the end. They tried to simplify things by moving toward more of a zone blocking scheme midseason, but that didn't work either. And then they continued to pull linemen, which repeatedly failed. If Dave could have shown improvement in his unit as the season progressed, I would be in favor of bringing him back. However, the reality is that his unit was terrible and never improved. Their technique and alignments were especially bad, and that's 100% on Dave.

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RK makes as well as omission of things he would definitely say if he knew

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