maybe it's just me, but I saw this coach and this coaching staff roster build off 11 win seasons and the result was '04 and '05 and a roster that everyone said would need to be improved when prince got here. So, NO THANK YOU.
the short answer is that grandpa makes our fan base feel comfortable. that's it. he can do no wrong because the majority of our fan base can't think critically about snyder whatsoever.
I really don't want to give the impression that I'm a "Snyder can do now wrong" person. Truthfully, I think there's a lot of things he's done wrong. However, in response to point number one, the major issue Snyder had during his first tenure, especially at the end, was his penchant for putting too many resources into specific recruits and not having back-up plans, or not spending enough time with the backup plans. He also was a very late adopter, and you can probably argue that he was a non-adopter, of the 'early offer', which left our pool of recruits slimmed down at the end, which left the best athletes out there being mainly borderline qualifiers. Our stance was to sign a ton of these guys, especially JUCOs, and they'd never step foot on campus, meaning our recruiting classes would basically get cut by 25-30% by the time camp rolled around.
All things considered, I think Snyder has rectified a lot of that strategy, and we're actually doing a decent job of filling scholarships. Now, I'll hold ultimate judgement on that until February, but it's pretty clear his strategy has changed. Only one player in last year's class didn't qualify (Williams), which meant that, including transfers, we pretty put at least 23-25 players on scholarship last year. My math may be a little fuzzy, but my count was 24. Which is a dramatic improvement from before.
Again, I'm with you guys on the major point which is Snyder wasn't the best play two years ago. I also agree with you that our fan base struggles with critical thinking, and their inability to accept a different coach is detrimental to the long-term health of the program. But as I said, we're here, this is what we've got to work with, and a two year stint after a failed three year stint is the kind of coaching turnover that can doom a program to years and years of bad, bad football. Suffering through three of four years of meh and swinging for the fences is a better play than killing this now and swinging for the fences because you may have something tangible to offer in three or four more years as opposed to a whole bunch of crap right now.
