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Snuffy Smith

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I take that to mean his destination was already decided prior to entering the portal.

Is that a safe assumption?
It is really going to be impossible to prevent this in today’s CFB. These guys are all connected in far fewer than 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. All it takes is a couple of calls texts to a friend of a friend to gauge the interest at more than one target school if someone has decided they want to make a move. None of that is a direct violation of any “rules”. (If there is such a thing as rules any more)
 

gtgilbert

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Maybe an O line coach.
Until we have a more stable situation at QB, it's hard to fault any O coach or grouping. the 23 OL was much maligned, but with JC Latham, Seth M and Booker there will be at least three high draft picks. I wouldn't be shocked if Roberts and Proctor are regarded highly next season. 24 might not be quite as talented as 23, but who knows.
 

BamaMoon

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Until we have a more stable situation at QB, it's hard to fault any O coach or grouping. the 23 OL was much maligned, but with JC Latham, Seth M and Booker there will be at least three high draft picks. I wouldn't be shocked if Roberts and Proctor are regarded highly next season. 24 might not be quite as talented as 23, but who knows.
The last two seasons did a psych job on us.

Both seasons I do not believe we were ever as bad as some people thought we were.

I don't think we can over-emphasize how detrimental it was to have incompetence at the top of the offense. It trickles down fast!
 

Bamabuzzard

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Until we have a more stable situation at QB, it's hard to fault any O coach or grouping. the 23 OL was much maligned, but with JC Latham, Seth M and Booker there will be at least three high draft picks. I wouldn't be shocked if Roberts and Proctor are regarded highly next season. 24 might not be quite as talented as 23, but who knows.
We also tend to forget the HC (Kalen DeBoer) came out early in the season and publicly said we would only run approximately 10% of his offense this year and the rest of the offense wouldn't be installed until the next offseason. Think about how much that restricts the play-caller. It restricts the number of plays the OC can call, the options for adjustments the OC can go to, and overall puts the guy in a bind if the QB has the number of limitations our QB had. It's like dealing him a hand of crappy cards and then getting upset with him because he lost the hand.

My guess is Sheridan isn't the best OC in the country and NFL teams aren't busting his door down begging for his services. But when you restrict the man's playbook to 10% of the offense, and basically hand the guy a set of 10-15 plays for THE SEASON, what do we really expect?
 
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gtgilbert

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We also tend to forget the HC (Kalen DeBoer) came out early in the season and publicly said we would only run approximately 10% of his offense this year and that the rest of the offense wouldn't be installed until the next offseason. Think about how much that restricts the play-caller. It restricts the number of plays the OC can call, the options for adjustments the OC can go to, and overall puts the guy in a bind if the QB has the number of limitations our QB had. It's like dealing him a hand of crappy cards and then getting upset with him because he lost the hand.

My guess is Sheridan isn't the best OC in the country and NFL teams are busting his door down begging for his services. But when you restrict the man's playbook to 10% of the offense, and basically hand the guy a set of 10-15 plays for THE SEASON, what do we really expect?
Completely agree with all that. I'd add that the reason we could only install and run a very small portion of their offense was due to the limitations of the QB. Once they watched the film and when through spring where they tried a lot of things that could not be made to work they already knew the limitations they would be working against.

I really, really, really hope that they'd been doing at least some more broad concept install in the packages/reps that the other QBs were getting in practice.
 

bamaslammer

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I don't think so. I guess the post spring portal will be next. Might have a few more leave, might have a few more come in. I think it's stupid really. I know everybody wants to start but my thought on that is force the issue. Be too good to bench. Don't look for a crappy team bad enough to start you. If you get to your third year and it's not happening then fine, go find a place to play. It's unlikely someone like that has an NFL future so go get what glory you can.
 
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