Warning: long cat
Yeah I don’t know how I feel about that…Rangel didn’t look all that great, and we haven’t even seen Flores yet. Obviously everyone will key on Ollie, he’s likely to get injured at some point, and our defense just isn’t at ‘21 levels to roll with a fully one-dimensional offense.
If someone can beat the ‘back-foot throws into coverage’ out of him, and he plays up to his Bedlam-level potential…he’d certainly be more than serviceable. Obviously he knows our system and got us to ten wins, also he overall strikes me as a good ‘kid’…and that still counts with me in NIL/Superleague Land.
Gundy always goes with experience and we will be opening with an FCS Team that’s vying for the title this Sunday + Arky so a big step up in noncon and a lot more road games = someone getting ready to withdraw social security ‘under’ center suits me fine.
Weirdly I’m sad to see lil Gundy enter the portal. That designed QB run to the corner of the end zone against Aggy was creative, and the kind of ways to solve red zone woes when there’s 8 in the box eyeing Ollie but no respectable threat of a quick slant, effective screen or rub to the flat. I could use a JW Walsh clone in my life.
Gundy knows we aren’t Tier 1, and never will be. There’s still a ton of opportunity for a school like us to be an attractive option for players to commit or transfer to, develop in a stable system, practice their craft and win a lot of games.
The 12-team playoff presents a lot of opportunity to still be on the national stage occasionally and I hope all the donors ponying up to keep our core OL/RB/WR are rewarded with a successful season next year.
And I love gundy as our coach. I hate his track record with QBs, wish he’d get a new OC, that he apparently watches bullshit OAN, and can be a total bonehead…but he loves my school, treats his players right, cut Tyreek Hill immediately, and obviously has character, not a bowl of dried rabbit turds like a Ryan Day.