You can say that it was coaching as there was talent and when not properly coached, players won't reach their potential. Leave it to Lil Boo Boo and Playsoft Riley.
This is exactly it. Just because a player has talent doesn't mean they don't need to be developed throughout their 3-5 year college career. If our players are hardly getting any better during their entire time here, they're likely not going to get drafted regardless if they were talented coming in.
Totally agree on the coaching. And I agree there was some talent. I just dont think there was enough talent or the proper culture especially under Reilly.
Its hard to disagree with your points here. 9 or 10 wins does sound nice. But many of those wins were done with smoke and mirrors. Squeaking out wins over teams that we should have been killing. And nearly everytime we played a team with a pulse they crushed us. I dont like what we have seen the last few years. But I didnt like the downward trend at the end of Bo's tenure or anything under the colossal failure that was MR either. I really hope the program starts trending in the right direction this year.
We have a roster full of talent now even though unproven in key areas, The only teams that Pelini had a whole roster of talent was literally 2009-2010 which was stocked with mostly Callahan's recruits. 2011-2015 had talented players but in no way did he have a roster full, same with Riley and he had almost nothing when he got the boot.
Agreed on prove it time for Scott. But no one is breaking their neck to be critical of Bo. Bo served up plenty of reasons. And yes many programs have to squeak out wins. However Bo made a living of doing that. Im not saying that I think Bo was a terrible coach. Im saying Bo had all the pieces he needed to better than he was. The jury is still out on Scott but the pieces he has to work with are getting better. Only time will tell.
What players of Frost's have entered the draft? Jaimes and Farniok were both Riley recruits. I guess he's had a transfer RB enter the draft and go undrafted.
Mills, or at least I think he tried to get drafted. That might be it actually.
What is really unfortunate IMO is that Frost burned that scholarship on Mo Washington instead of trying to land a solid RB like Devine. That JUCO bust coupled with Mo killed us. HOPEFULLY that is fixed now with the RB room we have.
Bo doesn't need to be employable anymore. Between the money he took from NU and now what LSU has to pay him, he can go play golf. That said, IF I were an NFL coach, I would hire Bo to coach linebackers in a heartbeat.
He should find a high school to coach so he can get back to screaming at kids with piss and spit flying everywhere.
Mmm no. His act is perfect for the NFL. He wouldn't dare act out on an NFL linebacker like he did on his assistants and players. Somebody would kill him. You know I think the dude might actually have it under control now. Failure is humbling.
