Its all about hiring the right head coach and staff. Tired of making excuses for every staff that gets hired here. We all see Kansas, Kansas St, Mizzou, Northwestern with an interim, Iowa St, and Wyoming. All of these teams are better than us and have better coaching staffs and head coaches. Recruiting is very important, but KU, KSU and Iowa St have mediocre recruiting numbers and manage to win games and make bowl games. They develop what they recruit. To than I will give Rhule more time, but if we are still sitting here two years from now with this same product, then its all coaching. Will say this again. We played 4 or 5 of the worst offenses in Power 5 football this season and lost those games. Our defense is fine, but against teams who were rated in the Top 60 in offense all beat us. Even teams rated last beat us. This was not a shut down defense, rather a bend but don't break defense that bent more and broke more as the season closed. Again, will give the defense a good rating, but not great. We can say culture and curses, but its all up to the current staff to rectify those areas. Its up to the staff to develop a QB and also pick the right transfer. Its all up to the staff to evaluate talent and bring in the right pieces to improve this roster. They clearly didn't like Casey, and chose Simms. This one decision cost this roster and team at least 3 wins. Yes, that decision to me was the biggest with hindsight. If your watching game film and you think that Simms is the answer over Casey, there was hidden motives behind that because on the field it is not even a question. We kept most of the roster from last season, but we didn't keep a QB who was the brightest spot on last years team..................Figure that one out.
