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A very good small-time coach. And by all appearances, an affable fellow who can relate to kids well. Good on him.
I know nothing about his tenure at SD Ag & Mining, other than overall record, but I do know some about small college football. A good scheme, a couple great athletes, can make an outsized difference. Talent at coaching and playing diffuses greatly at that level. If you can concentrate some of that talent, you can win big, at least for a while.
Much has been made of DeBoor championship system, but it sure as hell appears to be a one-phase system.
Maybe DeBoor can transition to a successful big time coach. But the dynamics are very, very different than SDA&M or even Fresno.
The stress fractures are widening. Tick tick tick.
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I exagerate. But if you take out games against WSU, Peterson was like 8-16. Deboer is 5-0.
We are outplaying our overall talent level thanks to the QB - WR tandem that DeBoer has brought in / developed. That was his doing - and it has paid dividends.
The rest of our team looks good enough to win when everything is clicking smoothly, but we clearly don't have the depth of say, Oregon.
Next year will tell us quite a bit about how much this year was about catching everything just right. Looking ugly or not, we are the last undefeated team in Pac-12 history.
Will we continue to improve development? can we improve recruiting? will we find another star QB?
This year and last year could have been good, and yet somehow, this could be a Helfrich-esque facade. But i think him bringing in Penix, and having it click shows that DeBoer et al. have a system that can work, and they have a track record of making it work.
I agree though with your take mostly though especially as it relates to depth. We’ve gotta some dudes back in the lineup.
What's left when he's gone? McMillan, maybe? Some unproven QB? The same lack of running game and general mediocre OL? The same shitty defense that cannot tackle? (I'd like to think he makes some coaching changes, but teams that win ~10 games usually don't.)
It'll be a really interesting case for DeBoer. He's never struggled as a head coach, only had success. Not counting the silly 2020 "season", he's got a whopping 1 home loss in his career.
He's won enough to get a year to see what he can put together in our first season in the B1G. If he doesn't, I'll be calling for his head too.