Sunshine pumpers during recruiting season: "Stop criticizing the coaches. [Insert big-time recruit] was never coming here."
Sunshine pumpers during the regular season: "Stop criticizing the coaches. We were never going to beat [insert big-time opponent]."
On offense, I can buy that player execution cost us, rather than in-game playcalling. Sark was dialing up solid playcalls. But we were undone by the complete lack of a ground game, receiver drops and OL mistakes. Like I've said countless times, though, part of coaching is coaching up your players so they can execute your calls, or finding them through the portal. We did neither. Sat pat with our miserable O-line and desiccated RB room.
On defense, we prioritized bringing in players who could execute. The issues there were solidly in-game coaching. Bobo coached circles around PK, repeatedly punishing our soft zone and then exploiting our belated aggressiveness for big gains by A) shifting WRs to cause confusion on the backend and B) repeatedly sending out safety vales to the open flats when we sent blitzers. Our secondary has regressed heavily from last year without Barron and Mukuba on the field, and without Terry Joseph and Blake Gideon on the sidelines.