I still think the jury's out on his recruiting ability at this level given the covid weirdness! Some has been really good (Youngblood, Deuce, Jake) and some of the L's have been brutal!
There will always be brutal L's. The worst one is a kid that no one talks about and that's the Langolis kid out of Louisiana. If we view recruiting out of the prism of who we don't get, then people who want to will always have their fuel to be They literally have hundreds of targets to sign 18 or so high school kids. If they're able to land a couple of Diamonds in the rough like Deuce and the occasional big timer like Rubley they'll be fine.
Their first class was crap but they should get a pass for that.
yep. And I'm probably more concerned with the attrition than the actual L's. the dropoff when people get hurt has been brutal going back into the Snyder days - the first string can generally compete with most, but man our depth has sucked
(and again, I recognize covid is a factor)
Completely agree with you. Half of the DBs leaving within weeks of each other is a massive red flag.
This is really my issue. Klieman can get by on mediocre/sub par recruiting, but if he's going to do that, he needs to be a masterful manager of the roster. So far, he hasn't been even close to one. Either recruiting needs to get better, or he needs to be better at plugging holes, and keeping them plugged.
I don't think there's any chance that Klieman gets canned this year, but if he goes out and wins 4-5 games, I have a hard time seeing him ever getting this thing off the ground.
All that said, I expect him to have a pretty good season (7-8 wins) and get his act together on the recruiting trail and the roster.