By himself, probably not but a huge difference is who he is surrounding himself with. The staff is much improved. And Freeman goes out of his way to look for support and advice which is huge is his development as a coach
Off the top of my head from Bama: Kareem Jackson, Josh Jacobs, Matt Jones
I honestly think we'll have to wait and see, maybe sometime around mid-season we should have a better idea of how good of a HC he is on the field. What I think we shouldn't do is take the Fiesta bowl game that he was literally thrown into on a few weeks notice and use that as a barometer for how good he'll be. Plus, even if we did, he technically outperformed Kelly when it comes to big games like that. The players came out of the gate faster than I've seen in years, they just weren't able to sustain it. I think that can be attributed in part to Quinn's Oline coaching, which made us quite one dimensional on offense with no run blocking. I like his hires in the off-season, they should allow him some room to grow as a HC, the rest I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Need the substance to back this up!!!
That's a heck of a bold statement, hope it to be true. He sure isn't a good LB coach.It wasn't super pro ND. She said his goal was to get a good degree, but his goal since he was 5 is to be a first round draft pick. Thats a bama type post to me.
Y’all actually read that novel???
Love when Whiskey puts someone in their place.
LOL. I hear ya. In all honesty, I didn't even bother. Then someone quoted only a couple of parts of what Whisky posted. I said to myself that's pretty damn good. So eventually I did read the whole thing. Normally that long of a post, I'm just waving as I go by.
As a head coach, he started recruiting '23 recruits in December '21 (just over a year to signing day). He's been recruiting '24 recruits since (probably before) March of '22, 20 months to the late signing day. Meaning he's going to be able to have a bit longer to develop relationships with the '24 class than he did with the '23 class.
Long posts, Whisky posts,…I tend to skip them all
Please delete if not allowed, I'm still not entirely sure of the rules. But in this video around the 12min mark, Tim Heyde says in the last 20yrs ND has had 120 3 stars and only 7 of them went on to the NFL at all.
Which topic are you referring to in this thread?
Need to be 7-1 heading into Clemson. BYU is the only team that should even have a shot of giving us any trouble after OSU and before Clemson. But we have a bye leading into BYU so really no excuse there either.
You want to pull the offer of the best pass rusher in the country while he's still committed to you?
We didn't recruit ALohi out of HS, and Love was a 4 star, but you may be right.
If the player is looking around and being honest about it keep recruiting them. Now if the player and players family is clearly lying to the coaching staff, that's when it may be worth dropping. As far as we know there's nothing concrete that says Keeley and Bowen are lying to the coaching staff.
