eepstein0 {l Wrote}:HJS {l Wrote}:eepstein0 {l Wrote}:DomingoOrtiz {l Wrote}:Serious question, at what point are the absurd amount of injuries (and not just this season) on Hafley?
I can’t go this far. It’s not like they’re all hamstring injuries.
Mahogany ruined his 1st Round selection shooting hoops at home in NJ while on break. Not sure how that’s on the staff. Broken bones during a game isn’t coachable either. When shit goes bad, you want to blame everything on the coach. But, there is no need to make shit up when you have the McNulty hire, lack of OL transfers into the program and Shinkovec’s continued playing time… all just sitting there as obvious areas of critique.
The coaching has been poor to mediocre, but it hasn't been a 2-10 coaching job. I think it's really hard to evaluate McNulty with this OL.
Why must we evaluate McNulty. Like what awesome career path did he take that demands a benefit of the doubt. He washed out TWICE at Rutgers. Chris Ash (the other tOSU defensive coordinator who was accelerated to head coach) would probably blame his termination on him. But, he was a TE coach at ND... which clearly still carries significant weight at Backup College. You give DeGuglielmo a second chance... not McNulty.
Nothing pisses me off more than a college coordinator who refuses to adjust to the players he has. College is a steady stream of new kids in and out of the program. The job of the coordinator is to come up with a scheme that maximizes the hand you are dealt. It is what made HCRD so good at BC and what made Todd Fitch a trainwreck. McNulty knew going in that he had no OL... he knew going in that he had great WRs and RBs... he knew going in that he had a not-smart QB who had a history of scrambling, occasionally making throws and then getting hurt. The last offense you would put in is the one we deployed... slow-developing plays... between the tackles... double-move patterns... QB reliance on reading coverage. It is a 1990s offense that would be difficult to deploy if every OL returned from last year's team.
McNulty is undoubtedly under contract for another season. But, he needs to be demoted to TE/Special Teams Coordinator... and Matt Thurin can finally start his career as an insurance salesman. As a replacement, Hafley would be wise to bring in someone born after the Nixon administration.