It’s simple
Our upper class players, 3rd year or more?
They’re from the 2017, 2018, & 2019 recruiting classes. The classes that Bobby didn’t recruit lines and left Scott NOTHING on the lines or on defense. The team that was 2-10 and left for dead groups. Mid major grad transfers and such. Patch work.
Scott has recruits from the 2020 & 2021 classes, first year players. To expect a full rebuild and have all these size and talent issues fixed with first and second year players is ludacris.
The defense? I mean Greedy Vance, Puryear, Perry, Dorian Jones, and Dinkins are all his guys. They’ll get older. We’ll get more recruits. Those guys look solid and imagine them with more bodies? Monty Montgomery and Clark were out 2 best on that side of the ball, both out. But overall, his recruiting looks fine.
Offense? He was left Malik, Tutu, Dez, and Hawkins, but nothing else. So we had to replace them, Watkins and Bruce look amazing. Ford and Melton at TE are great. Brown, Gonzales, and Luke on the front line. Mitchell and Cooley in the backfield.
I mean just evaluating the guys he’s brought in as recruits and have developed, he’s doing fine. I think we all just won’t acknowledge this build was hard because Bobby quit. He left some decent guys, but the 2017, 2018, & 19 groups were a mess and left no depth.
We are young and got a 6-6 year. If he builds up this roster, it’s going to be solid. This isn’t the Big East or CUSA where a coaching change alone can make you a contender. In the ACC, you have to build.
This isn’t what we want to hear, I know the whole “it’s year 3 and I’m mad!!!” Is the cool thing to do, but we’re way better than we were when he took over. Young talent on a 6-6 team, they’ll get older and more of his guys will be on the way in.
sUcKs showed the right way. We all laughed and all assumed they’re just the same team as when Stoops arrived, but they’re not. They’re now a top 30-40 team in the country and can compete with most anyone. They build depth and developed talent. They were slow. They were patient. They kept red-shirting talent. They build a foundation. And now they’re a well oiled machine. Last night we saw them with their balanced and stocked roster take on a young and patchwork roster with freshman talent and mid-major level upper class players.
Now is CSS the long term answer? TBD. But we’ve made progress. This isn’t Petrino or Krag where it’s getting worse. Let him build a foundation, then decide. If not? We’ll lose transfers and install another system for another rebuild. We may get someone worse? And it’ll be less attractive of a job with the roster the way it is and an admin and fan base that threw out a coach in year 3 after they went 2-10 before he arrived
