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Originally Posted by Braincase
I disagree. On the phog board, there was a huge thread from a bunch of ND posters that talked about the recruiting issues that WIllingham had created. By the time Charlie got to his third year, after coming in late his first year, he had tremendous issues with his offensive and defensive lines. He had recruited well, but he had no upper classmen linemen in his ranks to fill after his Bowl teams graduated. The guys that Willingham recruited either transferred or couldn't stay academically eligible. He had to play underclassmen or scrub upperclassmen on his lines and they couldn't get it done. As it was ND, he also couldn't go out and get JuCo players either. So he went to KC... and turned Matt Cassel into a Pro Bowl quarterback. He didn't get along with Haley (who did? God knows they're loving him in Pittsburg) so he went to Florida. The QB got hurt, and the offense didn't perform well.
Kansas is never going to become a football juggernaut. We might get to a point where we can compete. We have to get some horses in the stable, and that doesn't happen right away, and it sure as hell doesn't happen when you change coaches every two years because you have a delusional fan base that thinks KU can become K-State in two years. How long did it take Snyder to build that program?
In the meantime, we just have to be who we are. We'll build where we can, and hopefully catch a few breaks. We'll have to recruit better, and we're sure as hell getting better talent than we ever did under Gill. We've stolen a couple of recruits, and we'll start to get a few things going our way. We're two games into the conference season, and Rome wasn't built in a day.
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There's always player attrition when you change coaches. All you're doing is making excuses for him.
Notre Dame in it's illustrious history was never bombed into submission on a weekly basis by also rans the way they were under Weis that year and never got much better. His only success there was w/ an experienced team built & developed by someone else.
http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data...ly_results.php
That '07 team couldn't execute fundamental things like snapping the ball properly or tackling.
I'm not suggesting KU should fire him two years into a rebuild b/c of his current record there. I'm suggesting he never should have been hired, he's never going to turn it around b/c he's a terrible HC and eventually that's what is going to happen as a result.
It's hard to win at KU but it can be done....by someone who knows what they're doing.