Austalgia

They always do this. Tell them 27-17 and they will stop.

Now if we can just get the other Johntay….. Cook

And it’s been said there are portal guys always to fill spots . The developed 3 star or low 4 star is always cheaper than the open market bidding war you get in the portal. And what noone is talking about. Sarks offense is super complicated. He better change his philosophy to a plug and play system like a Gundy or Leach. These year to year piece together teams will have to learn his complicated offense that others couldn’t learn in 3/4 years.

Ok, Kobe Black back and this guy with the Florida State linebacker . I feel better. I won’t rant for at least 24 hrs.

Me too

Yeah, maybe we can throw it back at them .

New negative recruiting angle from foes. “You’re going to Texas? Better hope you make a splash your freshman year, or they will toss you aside for another and reduce your money.” Book it. “They dint care about you as a person or your career.”

Man, Thai guy for Miami a good play caller. Patient, run your offense. This guys gets it.

My vision isn’t narrow as much as I think our philosophy this year sucks, but we are talking about 2 different things. I was addressing allocation of finances to retention vs portal and trusting the process with what you got and having players mature and get better who know your system. We were still offering bags (so there is money) just not to existing players. If you want to talk about if there enough money period, there should be plenty of money. Get creative and manufacture 3rd party deals. We have one of if not the largest living alumni in the country. How you directly pay for this is not pay the players within the cap, use direct money to create staff to find or generate these opportunities so every player you want is making a million. Paying within the rules with direct money is lazy. Find a way around it like everyone else is, and I don’t think you have to cheat. Figure it out. We have resources to be the best at this too. I don’t know, maybe it will work out .

Valid point, but I’m not a fan of other teams. My original point in the post is that until this year we held serve, and were very good at retention . This year not so much . This is an objective fact. It’s even presented in the data above .

And at the least, we suck at evaluations if we “let” 20+ guys that were lauded less than 2 years ago not develop, or go because they aren’t good enough now.

And I don’t think it’s all doom and gloom btw. I’m actually not a big go get stuff you already have in the portal guy. I think our secondary looks great for next year. Our D ends, same, don’t like losing Umiozulu, but that’s what we do now , so hey. 🤷 I think we are good at running back, QB, receiver, maybe (if a freshman pans out) but thin. Interior d line good now . I can even talk myself into a pretty good o line (I know not popular) goosby, turntine or Roberson , Robertson, nic brooks , and brandon baker. Tight end I also think we are good . Linebackers we should have kept Lefau, and we dang better not lose Barnes. We just had a lot of depth and we are losing it, and apparently we don’t have the recruiting chops to replace it . 17 game season is what we want, right? We better get some lineman and linebackers . I hope your right in the late gets. And I hope they aren’t 4th 5th choices

Bo Barnes, Wisner, and Livingstone weren’t going to play a significant role ?

This isnt like previous years. You missed my point. We never lost this much, culture was strong. I pointed out the difference in your previous years stats. What’s left to get in the last 10 days? Players comparable to what we lost for more money?

We are bidding higher for what we don’t have. We could use that money at home. We have players that almost made the playoff, pay them and get them better. Don’t go crazy, I agree, but don’t tell them they are with less while throwing money at pipe dreams. Go ahead laugh when we go 8-5. We don’t have any linebackers or inside lineman. Laugh at that. And the future ones left at both positions . You guys treat other people like they are ignotant . Take and objective look at things. This isnt like previous years. See you missed my point. We never lost this much, cultural was strong.

Delta: never lost 20+ players going after the highest rated people in the portal. It’s like spitting in your players faces . Cultural suicide when you preach to these kids something and then hypocrisy ensues: of course they are leaving. Be family guys. But now it’s business

At running back, left guard, AND linebacker. We’ll give him an open tryout, and he can even go both ways and get double position NIL if he wants.

No, we don’t like to give our own players we’ve invested in a chance anymore . We rather bid for overpriced subpar players from other schools that don’t know our system . You don’t get paid 10 million a year so you wouldn’t understand!. It’s way too complicated for us fans.

Sark, Flood, whoever, it’s not uninformed or ignorant to see that there is objectively a problem at O line. When you have to rely on the portal, while at the same time lose all your floor and future at the position, there is something bad in the water. These guys measurables and athleticism are such that they ought to be better by year 3 in a college program. Too many of the young guys aren’t panning out (I could understand a couple ) Maybe it’s S&C , but this has to be identified and corrected. Sark and Flood can still be good coaches, and have blind spots. If you are married to your concepts and can’t adapt, sometimes you get stubborn. Maybe these pro style blocking concepts are too difficult to learn for these college kids in a couple of years. We need a more plug and play system? But something isn’t working, and it needs to be fixed.

🙏🙏🙏

Yeah, I think a lot of people played well. Ty Anthony Smith, Collin Simmons, Clark, Mosley (until he got hurt), the line did ok run and pass blocking (except for penalties), Livingstone and Endries can catch. Have to agree to disagree. Defense needs to be addressed, but hasn’t it been? That offense with a Muschamp defense could be special. Let the (way to early) burnt orange cool aid start to flow.

Merry Christmas to all. Watching football on Netflix. What a crazy new day we live in.

Great !

Ok, sorry. No, I’m not an insider. I wish our strength program maybe was a little better. I don’t want to guess if it’s up to par, but the law of averages says some of these large humans if developing physically and learning proper technique should be able to move people around by their 3rd or 4th year in the program . If not, we have a fundamentals teaching problem, our schemes are too complicated for college students to learn in 3/4 years, or our big boys aren’t getting strong enough! That is something Sark gets paid alot to assess. Maybe he should take a look at firing some of these peeps quickly if he wants to turn things around!. Although, I am on board with the defensive changes ( and I liked PK) the floor there was high. The floor for the interior offensive line doesn’t exist. Start there. Fix that glaring problem .