That's right, the one year Tommy had a starting offense of upperclassmen they went to the playoff. Also, his WRs consisted of a glorified TE in McKinley, a converted QB in Davis, and a Northwestern transfer in Sko. That position group had a ton of heart, but it wasn't a team of world beaters. They weren't close to a Devonta Smith. It was a cluster when the season started, it's amazing we ran the table. After that year we had mostly freshmen and sophomores starting in 2021 and 2022. Go look at the last two classes that Long and BK put together for 2019 and 2020, tell me what happened to those players. Mayer and Kyren were the only stars, and there were two decent contributors in Tyree and Correll, if you can say that. That's IT. All the rest of the players either transferred, moved to defense, or have yet to pan out. Every one of them. That's two full back to back classes that were almost completely wasted. Estime, Alt, Fisher, Evans, Thomas, and Rocco were all from Rees' first class, that class had a bigger impact with starters than both of those '19 and '20 classes combined. There's been some decent contributors from the '22 and '23 classes already too.
Point is he didn't walk into a great situation, but he did well given the circumstances. He left Parker in a better position than Long left him, and Parker blew it.
