While today has certainly been an eventful day from a personnel standpoint, I for one, am excited about the future and not at all down on losing the players that we have or the coaches. Gbayor and Coach Knighton are the two that probably sting the most, but its a DL coach and a linebacker with very little eligibility left. Same goes for Butler and Ervin. None of those guys are All Americans or first team all-conference even. The defections only open the door for young players and better coaches to come through. White's defense certainly had its shining moments, but they also had quite a few failures as well. Over the last two years, how many different times did we see the offense give us the lead, only for the defense to give up the easiest drive of the game immediately afterwards to hand it right back. I don't think I am saying anything groundbreaking when I say that the Frost mentality of pooping your pants when the lights are the brightest has carried over to this regime as well. Purging some of these players and replacing them with guys that aren't used to losing is nothing but positive in my personal opinion. The staff will hit the portal hard, McGuire is likely replaced by Mozee (who is an even better recruiter) and the defense will continue to grow with a youth infusion (and likely a few portal additions as well). We won 6 games this year and bottomed out last Friday night. There is nowhere to go but up from here.
