With the college football season just days away, The Idiots are giddy. It's sort of like we're about to take a Stouffer's french bread pizza out of the oven. You know what I'm talking about, you can't wait for the thing to get here, even though you know the in the back of your head the second you take bite, there's a good chance you're going to get burned.
With that in mind, here's my idiotic analysis of the Greg Robinson era to date. This is what I know - there are 3 types of coaches in the college football world today - coaches who win championships like Pete Carroll or Urban Meyer - mediocre coaches like the departed Coach P who string you along but never win anything - and crappy coaches like Ron Zook who should stick to recruiting and water skiing.
While it's still too early to definitively say where Robinson will ultimately end up, it's not too early to look at what has transpired so far. To date Robinson has compiled a record of 5 wins and 18 losses, that speaks for itself. Year one was a complete disaster, resulting in one win and while no one would argue that the team was loaded with talent, P would have found a way to squeeze out 5 or 6 wins with that squad and drive everyone completely insane in the process. Year one for Robinson grades out as a Zook performance.
Year 2 brought a new offensive coordinator (thank God) and a new quarterbacks coach, and resulted in a 4 win season. To be fair, let's say Robinson and his staff he got what they could out of the talent that was on that team, especially in light of a season ending injury to play maker Taj Smith. Year two grades out as a Pasqualoni performance.
That brings us to year 3, which is hours from getting underway. By my count, since Robinson took over, both the offensive and defensive coordinators have changed, he has new o-line and d-line coaches in place, as well as a different quarterbacks coach and a new running back coach. At this point we have to assume he's more comfortable with this staff than the original. Hopefully he's seen what didn't work and made changes. However, for this season to be classified as any kind of success, Robinson has to pretend he's from Missouri and show me.
Show me the team is implementing your offensive and defensive concepts - show me that the young guys you are bringing in are difference makers, show me a quarterback who's progressing and a defense that's aggressive - and for the love of God man, please show me some freakin points. Show me that you can take a squad that on paper doesn't look that great and get them to play their asses off. Show me that in future years there's at least a chance we get coaching performances that are closer to Carroll than Zook. A repeat of last year simply isn't good enough.
With that in mind, here's my idiotic analysis of the Greg Robinson era to date. This is what I know - there are 3 types of coaches in the college football world today - coaches who win championships like Pete Carroll or Urban Meyer - mediocre coaches like the departed Coach P who string you along but never win anything - and crappy coaches like Ron Zook who should stick to recruiting and water skiing.
While it's still too early to definitively say where Robinson will ultimately end up, it's not too early to look at what has transpired so far. To date Robinson has compiled a record of 5 wins and 18 losses, that speaks for itself. Year one was a complete disaster, resulting in one win and while no one would argue that the team was loaded with talent, P would have found a way to squeeze out 5 or 6 wins with that squad and drive everyone completely insane in the process. Year one for Robinson grades out as a Zook performance.
Year 2 brought a new offensive coordinator (thank God) and a new quarterbacks coach, and resulted in a 4 win season. To be fair, let's say Robinson and his staff he got what they could out of the talent that was on that team, especially in light of a season ending injury to play maker Taj Smith. Year two grades out as a Pasqualoni performance.
That brings us to year 3, which is hours from getting underway. By my count, since Robinson took over, both the offensive and defensive coordinators have changed, he has new o-line and d-line coaches in place, as well as a different quarterbacks coach and a new running back coach. At this point we have to assume he's more comfortable with this staff than the original. Hopefully he's seen what didn't work and made changes. However, for this season to be classified as any kind of success, Robinson has to pretend he's from Missouri and show me.
Show me the team is implementing your offensive and defensive concepts - show me that the young guys you are bringing in are difference makers, show me a quarterback who's progressing and a defense that's aggressive - and for the love of God man, please show me some freakin points. Show me that you can take a squad that on paper doesn't look that great and get them to play their asses off. Show me that in future years there's at least a chance we get coaching performances that are closer to Carroll than Zook. A repeat of last year simply isn't good enough.
2 comments:
Points, points points and 1st downs, 1st downs, 1st downs.
We need to see a lot of them early and often, it is time that something clicks offensively with this team.
I think Robinsons' optimism makes him the laughing stock of collegiate football. If Pasqualoni was a faker than this guy qualifies as a charlatan. No O-Line. No points. They will win three this year.
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