In Reply to: Not Sehorn, but posted by TJJ on January 08, 2025 at 14:20:52
I also didn't say excellent, I said quality, which at least in my mind is that the offseason is going a LOT better than it could have gone.
To answer your question, I've been a season ticket holder (at least miniplan) for most of the past 40 years (including season tix as a student) AND I have lived in the Bay Area for the past 28 years, and still have season tickets, flying down for games.
As to your actual criticism of what I posted, sure.
I didn't blame NIL at all, at least explicitly, tho WRT to the recruits who flipped late - yeah, you can say that I said that.
Foster did a lot of good things his first season, and yeah, I do give him some slack due to the way he ended up in the job and the timing - as indicated, we could have been totally f*cked, given that the portal was closed when Kelly left, so our players could freely leave, but we couldn't get new ones, and we were in full scramble mode to just hold onto a team and get a staff together.
And then to try to navigate that early schedule and not lose the team (see Bear Alexander at SC redshirting himself to transfer), and get better?
Yeah, I think we did pretty well CONSIDERING THE CIRCUMSTANCES last year. We could easily have mailed it in and not won a single game.
We also could have won 4 more games with a slightly better offense, especially in the 2nd half (LSU/Minn/UW/SC were all winnable with a decent 2nd half offense,. IMHO - and I put 99% of that blame on EB/Costello).
And, while I am a softie in that I probably would have given Bieniemy one more year to get it together, I was extremely critical of him pretty much ALL year and am ecstatic that Foster fired him and made other immediate moves to address the offensive coaching issues we had (OL had some talent issues, but with 4/5 guys who played last year and led the Pac 12 in rushing returning, it should have been a LOT better, even with the injuries, not practically dead last in FBS in rushing).