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Tell us how your team is doing addressing it’s issues.

Auburn:

1. Replaced our o-line coach and brought in one that is a proven teacher so that helps because it will be a new and young line next season.
2. Hired a special teams analyst on staff that was a move long over due.
3. Signed a punter out of Australia that is supposed to be a fix for our punting issues.
4. Have all the coaching staff signed up to new contracts and only have a couple of analyst positions open.
5. Got a new AD, praise the almighty Father.

Recruiting I’m happy in that we have commitments for our needs but need a couple more OL recruits to close.
 

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We still have mike stoops.
 

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Shockingly, it is worse than last off season.
 

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Trust me - it fucking works.
Uhhhh, not always:

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That’s on the coaches, the only reason you were leading that game was because of O’Neil.
He fumbles it from the get-go, doesn't matter what protection we were in. If he weren't a rugby player, he might have known to just drop on the ball rather than try and pick it up and kick it.
 

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Well let's see :

New OC is in place ( since the other took off for the Beavers suckers)
Bush Hamdan takes over the play calling, excited about this young man coming back.

Then we had a little shocker coach K was stepping away from call in the defense and Jimmy Lake will be calling the defense this year. Classy move by coach K so Jimmy can add more to his coaching resume.
 

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He fumbles it from the get-go, doesn't matter what protection we were in. If he weren't a rugby player, he might have known to just drop on the ball rather than try and pick it up and kick it.
And if he was in Max Protect rather than sending 3 guys to tackle the returner, who isn’t there, he might have gotten the kick off.
 

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Gamecocks:
1. Fired OC Kurt Roper, promoted Brian McLendon
2. Recruiting, currently #18 on 247, not sure how we close
3. Lost a couple strength coaches to the Viles
4. Hired a new QB coach, former Ole Miss OC Dan Werner
5. Took on a 10th coach, guy named Krantz elevated from QA

1. is obviously the big one. Muschamp promoted from within. Risky move, imo. We need a new offensive system, hopefully going to go for something Malzahn or Chad Morris like.
 

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Team Off Season Report

Tell us how your team is doing addressing it’s issues.


Does burning the whole fucking barn down count as "addressing it's issues"?
 

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And if he was in Max Protect rather than sending 3 guys to tackle the returner, who isn’t there, he might have gotten the kick off.
I blame Australia
 

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1. Kept the entire starting DL intact from last season despite a couple of them projected to be high draft picks.

2. Inked a top 10 class in the early signing period despite only signing 15 players. Eight of the 15 players are rated as top 10 at their position by 247 including the #1 Pro style QB and #1 DE.

3. Promoted staffer Lemanski Hall to DE coach in a move that has been common knowledge for months.
 

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Well let's see :

New OC is in place ( since the other took off for the Beavers suckers)
Bush Hamdan takes over the play calling, excited about this young man coming back.

Then we had a little shocker coach K was stepping away from call in the defense and Jimmy Lake will be calling the defense this year. Classy move by coach K so Jimmy can add more to his coaching resume.
Is that a paper change or is play calling really changing on the defensive side?
 

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1. Kept the entire starting DL intact from last season despite a couple of them projected to be high draft picks.

2. Inked a top 10 class in the early signing period despite only signing 15 players. Eight of the 15 players are rated as top 10 at their position by 247 including the #1 Pro style QB and #1 DE.

3. Promoted staffer Lemanski Hall to DE coach in a move that has been common knowledge for months.
You guys need offensive production increase next year. I saw how the numbers feel from 2016 to 2017 and it was almost cut in half. You need an upgrade at skill positions because it isn’t going to get easier.
 

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Is that a paper change or is play calling really changing on the defensive side?

Nope really happening.... Jimmy is an up comer for a Head Coaching job, the problem with his past interviews has been he really hasn't held a coordinator position, Coach K isn't wanting to go anywhere ( likes working for coach Pete) so he said he would step away from play calling so Jimmy can do it.

Classy move on coach K's end...
 

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You guys need offensive production increase next year. I saw how the numbers feel from 2016 to 2017 and it was almost cut in half. You need an upgrade at skill positions because it isn’t going to get easier.

IMO it starts at QB. Either Bryant needs to improve his passing game or one of the young guys needs to be the starter. With Feaster and Etienne we have as good of a 1/2 punch at RB as anybody in the country. Just need the passing game to complement them.

Some of the younger receivers started to emerge later in the season and honestly Deon Cain declaring for the draft is addition by subtraction. Cain gets a ton of credit for his "WOW" plays, but for every play like that he had two where his lack of effort cost us. I see Tee Higgins moving into his spot and he's already shown that unlike Cain he can make the tough contested catch. In another thread I posted about how I was looking forward to Amari Rodgers replacing Ray-Ray McCloud because for all his athleticism McCloud was never a natural receiver. Rodgers is just as athletic and is far more polished at this point than McCloud ever would be.

Another big addition this year that was missing this year was TE Garrett Williams. He was lost for the season in the spring with a torn ACL. He was never a starter but played in all 30 games his first two years and was the most effective blocker out of the TE group.
 

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You guys need offensive production increase next year. I saw how the numbers feel from 2016 to 2017 and it was almost cut in half. You need an upgrade at skill positions because it isn’t going to get easier.
Ain't but one of those Deshauns, brosef.
 

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We still have mike stoops.

I was hoping that Riley would start to phase him out by hiring a co-defensive coordinator or even an understudy of sorts (that would not listen to shit Mike had to say). The conspiracy theory freak in me thinks that Bob made a deal with Riley to keep Mike on for a given amount of time in exchange for the HC job.
 
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