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(01-04-2021 05:23 PM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  

(01-04-2021 01:58 PM)84Monarch Wrote:  

(01-04-2021 12:19 PM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  Taylor Heinicke
Jeremy Cox
Rick Lovato
Oshane Ximines
Travis Fulgham
Rashaad Coward
Tim Ward
Zach Pascal

All were recruited by BW between 2011 and 2015 and played in the FBS era. I don't think that reflects bad recruiting. Just saying.

From your posts I gather you are very knowledgeable and have inside info at times. All of the NFL players mentioned were FCS recruits who were able to play up when we moved up.
Their coach, however did not make the same transition they did. Recruiting suffered, our schemes were simplistic by FBS standards. Put simply BW was elevated to coach a level of ball he was not prepared for. He was given more than a fair chance and failed. Both he and the program suffered because of it. We have all been there. His was just more high profile than most

It is hard to argue with any of your comments. It's just that I found it somewhat ironic to specifically put the knock on BW's recruiting when a reasonable number of his recruits are on NFL teams right now.

I readily admit that recruiting did not improve as it should have when we moved up to FBS. BW was slow to make the necessary adjustments in staff and quality of recruits, with the success of the 2016 season misleading him to believe all was ok. The 2017 and 2018 seasons were indicators that changes were needed, but the VA Tech game likely blunted the urgency of the situation. I don't think BW (like probably most of us) saw the disaster of 2019 coming.

BW believed he would turn the corner in 2020, and he might have if given the chance. I think we all agree that he earned a long leash. If it were my decision, I would probably have given him one more year. With the subsequent shutdown for Covid this year, he would have had until 2021 to put a competitive product on the field. Would he? We will never know. The decision was not mine, and I will not argue the decision that was clearly justified.

I am pretty darn excited about our future with Coach Rahne and his staff. They are young and FBS experienced. I like the discernable uptick in recruiting and transfers, hope we can be in the stands for the spring game, and look forward to watching a successful 2021 season from my seat in S. B. Ballard Stadium.

I like the way you think. I think his loyalty to the Maine guys, specifically OC Scott had a great deal to due with his downfall, IMHO