Author Topic: First Commitment for SBU Football 2016 Class  (Read 1559 times)

jaghatai

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Re: First Commitment for SBU Football 2016 Class
« on: October 31, 2015, 11:28:48 pm »
Unfortunately, I don't think Priore is the man to take us to the next level.  He did a very good job getting us to where we are.  But it is becoming painfully obvious that he is not cut out for this level of competition. 

If he is a quality recruiter, then he has players who are talented enough to play at this level.  If you have CAA-level players, but can't win in the CAA, then you need a better coach.  If he's a quality coach who is capable of coaching at this level, then he should be winning games.  If he can't win games because the players he has aren't CAA-caliber, then that is on him as a recruiter, and also his fault. Since leaving the Big South, we've gone 5-6, 5-7, and are well on our way to 2-9, so something is wrong.  In my opinion, he's failing at both aspects right now. 

As a recruiter, he's relying WAY too heavily on transfers.  This creates a lack of leadership on the team.  Our two captains, prior to this season, played a total of 28 games for SBU in their career.  How can you expect them to lead a team when they've barely been on the team themselves?  Plus, good luck developing chemistry.  If you can recruit kids (or if you transfer them in, you do it early, not one-year rentals), actually play them.  The kids he has brought in, since they never see the field (always getting replaced by transfers), look awful as they haven't played a snap since high-school. That's a recipe for failure (see our current situation at WR, RB, TE).

As a coach, he's been failing horribly.  Can't seem to adjust to teams that can stop the run, doesn't have a "plan B", can't seem to run a 2-minute offense or find a big-play threat, tons of penalties, poor special teams, etc.  And these problems have been getting worse over the past three years.

I'd love to be wrong, but we just got hammered by Elon (who has only won 8 games in the past four years...), and it doesn't look like we're going to win again this season.
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