I think we are all beating a dead horse. The bottom line is that we need the athletes on the LOS required to get better and take another step. We don't have them. I don't like our offense. We should rarely ever need to run the QB, maybe in big games. I am for having a prostyle eye formation type of offense. If the the coaches don't want to do that, fine, but we still need a power run offense when it counts even if they want to run this misdirection spread/ read option thing all of the time.
If we have the athletes, then we don't need to get fancy. The pressure is then taken off the coaches because they need only to worry about technique, player development, and in game decision making. When you don't have the athletes I think it puts more pressure on the staff to game plan against our weaknesses. When you have the athletes you can do what the last two teams did to us. Nothing fancy, just kick your a$$ and telegraph every play.
If we had those players, then we wouldn't be discussing the strenght of the conference, and we wouldn't care where everyone else places, and the coaches, fans, and players would have the confidence that they could compete with anyone.
Wolford is supposed to be an "Alpha recruiter". We need him to recruit the players on the LOS that gives us this ability. Is he too late? Can he infuse a bunch of JUCO's this off season? What do we do about QB? Next year looks like a rough one. Wolford says he is building a program with depth.
On another note, why would we sign a new coach to a 5 year contract? I don't understand that. Why not a 3 year with options? Maybe even a 4 year with options and incentives? A 5 year does nothing but put YSU in a bad position. A good coach will demostrate change in a few short years, sometimes immediatley. With a 5 year deal you are stuck in two ways, long term and short term. If the coach is not getting it done after 4 years then you are stuck in a lame duck year but if the coach is good then he can leverage you with his senior laden team that performs well. I don't get that. Looks like we lack people with real world businees experience to me.