Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which is scratching its head and actually liking it.
Nothing is as it seems. Really, you have three openings on the defensive staff, two hires, one co-coordinator, one opening and umpteen rumors about who might join.
You have two lawsuits and one seemingly inevitable outcome and one conversation that puts the seemingly inevitable outcome in jeopardy.
You have 26 players committed to the 2012 recruiting class, a rule allowing no more than 25 signed players, ample loopholes to allow for oversigning and just five more days before signing day.
Then there’s your basketball team, which was aiming for a top spot in the Big East and may now be battling for just a one-round bye — and really, isn’t this just two Gary Browne 3-pointers away from being a very different season?
And best, or worst, of, I have no answers. I think I’ve known what wasn’t going to happen at some points with this staff search, but I don’t know what happens next. I never know what happens in the legal process. Or recruiting. Too many variables attached to too many personalities there for anyone to ever know for sure, and the same late twists always come to define both subjects.
Basketball? What once looked settled is now jumbled and tomorrow’s game at Syracuse is either an elixir or ipecac.
Truthfully, you’d like something in between, no matter the outcome. Hope they don’t get too low with a loss or too high with a win, but you know as well as I know that we never really know. And that’s why we watch and write.
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, be creative.
Wayne said:
It seems to me that some of the “panic” about the staff hires originates from people stirring the pot on messsage boards. I wonder how many of those people have an agenda per WVU, Luck or Holgorsen. On the other hand, it is the silly season for college football fans.
I wouldn’t make fun of the establishment. I have friends who run and work for those things here and elsewhere. There’s a niche and people pay and enjoy to inhabit those places. Noy my cup of tea, but I think this story is the sort of thing that keeps those boards humming — and on some level, it is newsworthy, though the level is beneath obsession. Certainly, though, many have agendas. I just don’t see the premise for this panic. I mean, you couldn’t put players through a more dramatic change than what the offense went through this past season. Turned out OK, right? I hear the, “Well, we got Dana Holgorsen. There’s no Dana Holgorsen out there on defense!” There may be something to that, but to be perfectly honest, defense isn’t as complicated or as hard to teach as is offense. How many offtackle schemes can dream up out of all the formations? How many Cover Two schemes are there?
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