I don't "hate" Beaty. I think he is worthless as a head coach and blame Zenger for the mess we are in.....with 50% blame to Big Lew.
I didn't say you hate him, I said you hate on him. Calling him a worthless head coach seems to be hating on him to my eye(and I'm NOT defending coach Beaty here, just giving my impression of your sentiments toward him), but if you don't think so, that's fine. I'll accept you at your word.
That said, I didn't even hate on DB's recruiting in a general sense. I specifically noted his lack of O-Lineman. After four years at the helm, there is simply no excuse to not have a decent offensive line.
I agree in part. I don't think he recruited enough OL during his 4 recruiting classes here either. He hasn't completely ignored it either. He has recruited 17 scholarship OL during that time and had another 3 walkons contribute significant minutes(in a good way). 12 were/are HS recruits, 4 were/are JUCO recruits(soon to be about 8 if all the guys planning on coming this summer make it here), and 1 was a grad transfer(with another coming now).
While I agree he hasn't recruited enough of them we still had enough to have a serviceable OL IMO. The biggest problem our OL had last year(and before) was too many mental mistakes with 1 or sometimes even 2 guys missing their assignments on plays or famously all 5 missing their assignment on those cut blocks on that quick pass over the middle that got a lot of media attention. I blame that on a lack of good coaching.
We also brought in a new OL coach who has a different OL philosophy than the previous OL coach which requires a different kind of OL than a lot of the OL we currently have on roster. That's been a big reason why they're bringing in so many new OL. We'll see how these new guys do when they get here and start practicing. I could be wrong here, but I think we'll have enough decent OL to have a serviceable OL with proper coaching. Of course, that assumes Ricker is a good OL coach, which I believe he is. It also helps that Ricker and Meacham are on the same page with their OL philosophy too.
Lot of moving parts here (new OL coach, lot of new OL, new OL philosophy, etc.) which makes me really curious how it all plays out come August and going into September when we see for sure where it stands. Really curious in Ricker's performance here the most actually.
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