I admire your positive outlook in a sea of whining, but we don't know how recruiting will be until NSD. Defensive schemes and tackling look better. Offensive schemes, this board will debate endlessly whether it is the bad schemes or bad fit of personnel for the schemes Mehringer is running. Was listening to the pregame WCTC yesterday, and David Milewski made a couple of good points--perhaps RU should have slowed down the offense to give the defense time to breathe yesterday. Also, while Milewski did not say this, can he design more than 1 play in the last 2 games that involves a deep route? (Cue the Laviano can't throw posts). Laviano has shown an ability to throw and connect on deep balls. Yes, Carroo is gone and Grant is out, but we still have Harris. While it was not a deep ball (more like intermediate), he hit Patton right in stride, and he dropped the ball. The constant runs pounding it up the middle get tiresome to watch.
That said, my overall outlook is positive. I would not measure a beginning tennis player's ability by playing Nadal or Federer, and I will not judge the team and coaches by the Washington, Ohio State and Michigan games. Stanford looked worse than RU against Washington. So we have that going for us.
Still believe we have winnable games against Indiana (yeah they beat MSU, who looks down this year), Illinois, Minnesota, PSU, and Maryland (so what they are 4-0 against nobody), and throw MSU into the mix. How this team responds to the beat down will tell a lot about what kind of team this is.
Negatoids unite and start picking apart everything I said. [banana]
