It's a stupid take from an entity far removed. Everyone, except Prowler, sees this isn't just a decent team on the rise that's gotten a few bad breaks, and could be3-2 maybe. This team was lucky to get the OT win it got vs ULM. That simply doesn't calculate when you factor in the last 3 years recruiting. They were young last year. Yeah, young this year, but not as young, yet there's no progress being made. In fact they're going backwards. Those close to the program, Rob Pate, my skreetz source, are seeing the same things. No intensity, no fire, no sense of urgency. They're confused by the seeming "lack of talent" when we've had 3 great recruiting classes, and the one 4 years ago was still a top 20 class.
Here's the conclusion I've come to. Malzahn saw what was coming. Bad though it was last year, he managed to squeeze all the offense he could out of very little talent at QB, a bad attitude having RB in Dyer, and a TRUE Fr. laden OL. Loeffler would have trouble scoring consistently vs air. The critics were right. Malzahn was making it work. Set offensive records with Todd...the defense cost us at least 3 of the 5 losses from my memory, where we got leads, then blew them. Made the most of Cam, and won it all. And managed to win 8 last year with a QB worse than Frazier. People were pissed at the dropoff in offense last year? I'd kill to have that much now. Now? He's gone, and this is what we have. It really was all Malzahn IMHO. He left because it was in his best interests, even for a lesser job, because Chizik was eventually going to drag him down and ruin any chances he had at being a HC.