ColoradoBear said:One thing I like about wilcox is the curb stomping we gave leach last year.Uthaithani said:
One thing I really like about Leach is that if aspects of the team aren't doing well, he'll say so. He doesn't make excuses or try to sunshine pump. His first couple years he would call the team out, and he went to work to improve things.
I never heard Dykes really speak up about the terrible defenses under his coaching, it always felt like he was kind of okay with lousy defense, or just couldn't be bothered. I sense a similar attitude from Wilcox vis a vis offense. I wish he would come out and say the truth - this offense is soft, its doing a disservice to a defense that's really working its tail off, this is unacceptable and I'm not going to rest until we have a worthy offense. Just say something that says "yes, I understand this is not okay and I actually care," instead of "this pile of poop is really ice cream - yummy!"
For that matter, I wish the people reporting on Wilcox would speak the truth about this offense, hold the coaches' feet to the fire instead of being Pravda for Wilcox. That doesn't help anyone.
Another is that generally having good D does not have a negative effect on the offense. Having a offense like Dykes most definitely hurts how he defense performs.
It is entirely possible that Baldwin is just a 'meh' hire since his competition was not that strong at EWU. We'll find out this year, won't we?
I feel like that given from where we are coming, some incremental gains in wins will lead to incremental recruiting gains. Nothing really huge expected overnight.
I'm pretty sure if Baldwin left, we could upgrade the OC with a supplement to the OC salary pool ( no more Mike Williams at AD).
IMO Baldwin is a good coach based upon his results vs Power5 schools with inferior talent at EWU.
So far last year and this he has not had the type of layers that his system needs. (1) a mobile QB who can also pass consistently. And (2) a good Oline.
Beau seems to be getting good recruits who can help him solve problem #2.
Finding a good QB is more challenging. IMO the tag-team play of Garbers and Mac is part of a strategy to solve problem #1. (I believe he wants to eventually settle on one guy. But Beau must give each of them enough playing time so he can make a rational informed choice.)
This year won't tell the story on Beau. 2019 will since he should have more of the type of players he wants.