They're hanging on the word crashing, when the context of my post has almost been completely accurate. Hanging on to Bowen would be huge.
Goin from Moore, Keeley, Bowen, Paige, and only getting really Minchey as a backfill wouldn't be good. We will most likely have a very good class, but it could have been great.
Getting Bowen is huge.
Yes I have dogged Freeman rightfully so. He took over a really good D in 2021 and brought it down last year with moronic schemes at times. He took over an 11-1 team and had the worst loss in a big bowl that I can remember (game we were the more talented team but lack of coaching cost us and we had a 21 point lead). Then this season we go 8-4 losing to 2 of the 4 worst teams on our schedule.
I've also said I think Freeman has the chance to be a much better coach than coordinator due to recruiting and he seems to check his ego at the door. Rees is learning on the job and hurt us this year, and Golden is solid but he's having to correct some of the issues from last year's D. Freeman also struggled how to consistently have the team prepared and ready to play.
We are landing some high upside individuals later in the season that weren't heavily recruited.
I also like what i'm hearing on how we're going about portal this year.
You also have to realize the freeman lovers can't even acknowledge how bad he did this year, or how average our D was last year, or how bad our coaching was in the bowl game. ND has a chance to have some special years coming up if freeman and staff learn how to coach and prepare better.