The JBoy Show with Mike Farrell talks Gus' OL Recruiting

At some point, you have to blame Greene for not giving Gus hard feedback on his performance. Chizik said this week Gus was surprised he was fired. Greene should have been riding him hard after 2018.

Yeah. It doesn't seem like Gus had anyone talking to him about external issues. He just focused on gameplan, and wasn't doing a good job at it. Greene is a young guy, and that can be an issue when dealing with Boomers.

All Gus had to do was turn on ESPN to know he was on the hotseat, guy didn't have a clue about a lot of things.

I am just repeating what Chiz said.

Also, these guys haven't been reading our board. Can't believe our recruiting guys are just now understanding the OL issues. We have been complaining about this since 2015.

Meaning...

... the Aufambly and paying for only what you want to see baws. Who also took to heart the Stat-Type fellows... flaws and all.

(Which iuch a costly-shame because honest discussion and reading less of his CTRL-V clippings might have saved him.)

who dat?

eta: was still running Gus through the flames

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Yeah. It doesn't seem like Gus had anyone talking to him about external issues. He just focused on gameplan, and wasn't doing a good job at it. Greene is a young guy, and that can be an issue when dealing with Boomers.

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I don't buy this.

Gus knew he was on the hot seat, but when a coach who has the contract he had, and doesn't want to leave a place he loves and has made a lot of money on, is going to act like he's done a good enough job...aka..."We had a solid year".

HE thought his buyout was his safety net...

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E and a couple of others have stated OL recruiting went through Gus.

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I have thoughts on this

We didn’t like recruiting going through Gus because we were over Gus. We had seen the results on the field of his offense and his influence and it wasn’t usually great. BUT, it’s ultimately the head coach’s responsibility to sign off on recruits. It’s even more appropriate since, for most of the time, it was his offense we were running.

With that said, there’s something else worth pointing out here. OL recruiting under Herb Hand and Grimes were vastly different in terms of talent. That, in my opinion, casts doubt on the notion that Gus was intervening to his detriment.

I do know that after Hand and toward the later years of Grimes there was a push to recruit SEC size and athleticism over experience at OT. I tend to think this was because the position wasn’t attractive to recruits. This became a vicious cycle. The strategy was that the position under Malzahn’s offense was easy to understand. There were two assignments to learn and the rest was technique. And if you look back on the OTs we have on roster they’re either new to football, the offensive line, or America in general

Bottom line is that OL was his responsibility and ultimately his failure. I don’t necessarily buy that it was all Gus’s recruiting but there was an obvious strategy involved toward the end that absolutely backfired. Also worth mentioning that all of the positions on offense weren’t developing well. And in my opinion, Gus had way more influence over those guys. Some of those recruits talked directly to Gus instead of the area recruiter or position coach. The only time that changed was with Morris.

I think the OL recruiting woes had more to do with Grimes. He was just so out of touch with kids today. That part is on Gus. He hired from such a small coaching tree.