Here we come, football coming down the pike.
The Sentinel covered Scot Loeffler speaking at the local Rotary meeting....it's a good read about how fast college football has changed.
One (or one and a half) pieces of news.
On the recruiting front, Loeffler talked about the fact that when you take portal guys in, it reduces your high school players. Which makes sense. He points out that we only took 13 high school players this year due to needing guys out of the portal.
The news part is that he is planning to get more high school players this year. Here he says:
“This year, we’re having a huge high school year just because we think we have depth at a lot of positions, and obviously that will change predicated on people leaving but right now we’re taking a lot more high school kids and are back to our formula this year."
There's the news of the high school players...and the half-bit of news that "we have depth at a lot of positions."
Which remains to be seen. I hope it's true.
I have us with 12 HS commits, possibly not all for scholarships.
- 2 WRs
- 4 DBs
- 3 OL
- 1 LB
- 1 TE
- 1 RB
Despite his extension, Loeffler remains on the hottest of seats, in my opinion. We have shown we will buy Huger out and I think there's no doubt we would buy Loeffler out for one year. Further, the hiring of Simon and Chmiel I believe only puts more pressure on Loeffler, because those both look like home run hires and the fan base will be itching for the AD to use the same magic on football.
I have said all along that the best thing for the program is for Loeffler to succeed. In all fairness, he has hung his hat on trusting the process, and the process said this was the year. It will not be easy. A 7-5/6-2 would be a high end. 6-6/5-3 is what we had last year.
More preview stuff later. BG was picked 4th in the East and OU appears to be really set up this year. Getting to average was hard. But going from average to championship may be even tougher.
A team emerges like this every year, it seems. Let's hope it's us.
I agree that coach remains on the hot seat, but I will always call out that he has restored respectability to Falcon Football after taking over the program from its lowest depths in our history. Continuous improvement must occur on the road back to MAC Championship caliber results within the next two years. I love the new accountability at BG Athletics, but too many have held Coach Loeffler to unreasonable expectations in the past. However, the time is now.
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