Too many holes we are still trying to fill. That should get better next season. In areas that are weak now we should see growth. However the record will likely be similar. I think in 25 and a full roster of Heupel kid's we can possibly start to compete yearly. Depends on growth and development going forward.
2 of those "big 3" dominate cfb. 5games have been on the road. Only home losses in 2 years has been to the #1 team in the nation. If you said IN JANUARY 2021, that and 25-11 wasnt good enough after 3 years, you were completely naive or stupid as hell as to where this program was and still is to a degree.
Yep, Milton is robotic doesn't make many turnovers but he just cant win games like some QBs Bryce Young, Dobbs and QBs like that can carry a team. If Milton was on a 5 star loaded team and kept mistakes few he could win for them at a high clip but we are far from that. When Mays was out we had a hard time with Austin Peay much less UF. This team has very little room for error and injuries but they have happened. Besides the early season Mays, we lost our best receiver in Bru a leader at LB in Pili almost like a coach on the field and our best DB in Hadden and many other . It will be more of the same next year this team has a few players but if any get hurt we are playing with Vandy type players.
While I would agree with you generally, we're not going to beat anyone much less the best Missouri team in a decade scoring only seven points and turning it over three times with a pick six. The most glaring problems with this years team at this juncture are on defense, we've just lost too many key starters Pili, Hadden, etc. and it shows up when we play really good teams; we just get exposed. On offense, no WR on the roster can consistently get open except Squirrel. The knock on Milton two years ago was he was overthrowing wide open receivers. Well we aren't getting wide open much, and when we do Joe's hit the guys and too often they've dropped the ball. This O will not improve regardless of who the QB is until we get some WR's who can consistently create some separation and catch the d*%@ ball! Here's hoping Nico, Nimrod and the other young WR's can get it together!
Yes. The O absolutely stank it up vs Mizzou... then again it is hard to get in rhythm when the other team holds the ball for all but 4 plays in the 1st qtr because the D can't get off the field.... mostly because the game plan and play calling sucks.
Watching a guys film review the other day. He brought up the 3rd and 11 with mizzou in their own endzone. He criticized the playcall because Banks brought a blitz up the middle and gave up contain. He said this was horrible call but also said "There was no way banks knew he was going to do that even though Mizzou had been killing us with it all day" which goes back to your point sj. Banks gets out coached then gets the benefit of the doubt because "He doesnt have the players". Thats a poor excuse. This man needs to be held responsible or/and given the boot. His game plan was horrible. Our LBs were constantly out of position and getting caught flat footed due to thinking. That is on coaching. Mizzou didnt do anything new this game that they havent been doing prior. You had 9 games to review and coach this defense. You laid a giant goose egg center field. But people wanna put him on the Broyles award list. IMO the only reason hes on that list is because of Rodney Gardner.
I don't have the time, inclination, or football IQ to breakdown film and dissect why the defense played so poorly against Missouri, but my cursory assessment is we just didn't have an LB that could match up with Schrader. Herring certainly couldn't. He didn't seem to be able to read and react quick enough. We basically let one player beat us and that has to be on the coaching. I can't believe we can't take away one guy. Maybe that means someone else kills us, but we'll never know because we gave up 300 + yards to number 7. While it may have narrowed the margin, I don't think better coaching would have won us that game. The Missouri players just whipped our azzs in every phase of the game. But in the final assessment the Tigers are not 29 points better than this Vol team, so in that regard it is on the coaches, but in my view as much on Heupel and the O as Banks and the D. There was enough stank in this one for every one on the roster and the staff to share a whiff.
