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re: Most overrated football coach in the SEC
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:25 am to thunderbird1100
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:25 am to thunderbird1100
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Do you not see the huge dropoff there in 2022? We had a ton of talent leave after O left, and frankly a lot of them either werent playing or loafing around too when he was here.
To go from #4/#5 roster to #12 is a massive dropoff. Kelly had to rebuild the team in year 1, and by year 2 things were getting better, but it was a ton of mercenaries that had to get it done there which will have very mixed results. We still were quite a bit below the scholarship cap this past season. We'll finally be at 85 this upcoming season after being WAY below it in 2021 and still below it in 2022.
Tons of talent leaves every year, that's college football. The transfer portal works both ways.
If you aren't using all your scholarships, that's just Brian Kelly being a bad coach. You grab some 3 stars who are "projects" if nothing else.
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Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:28 am to 3down10
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Tons of talent leaves every year, that's college football. The transfer portal works both ways.
If you aren't using all your scholarships, that's just Brian Kelly being a bad coach. You grab some 3 stars who are "projects" if nothing else.
We had 39 players on scholarship when he got here, no that's not a typical "tons of talent leaving", thats absurd huge outlier amount leaving. The fact we even were able to get to like 70-72 scholarship players in year 1 was a miracle. He did hit the portal extremely hard, but you arent going to convince 4 people at the same position who are all good to come in at the same time, which is what we really needed in some cases. Thats just not how the portal really works. Sure he could have taken 30 players and gotten close to the scholarship limit, but a lot of those would have been pure fluff and useless to get. We also had a very small freshman class coming in which wasnt his fault either.
This post was edited on 4/23/24 at 10:33 am
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