sluggo wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:21 pm
Paul C wrote: ↑Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:44 pm
http://www.furmansportsreport.com/2018/ ... ement.html
a few other tidbits in here besides the info on the efforts to secure a game on 10/6.
- Harris Roberts is back an could/should play on Sat
- some injury updates on Gilby, Porter, Weems
- OL Jacob Conrad has left the team. A bit of a blow to OL depth but he was replaced by Bo McKinney vs Elon.
THANKS SCOTT!
Jacob Conrad and Tim Coleman.
2 starting OL left the program in 2 years.
Not good.
Never good to lose Players that we have recruited and invested in, but, IMO, we can primarily break down Player departures into 2 broad categories - Program-related or Player-related. In certain circumstances, there is a 3rd category which I describe below.
Program-related would include things such as Recruiting ‘academically risky’ Student-Athletes and failing to provide them with the individual support they need to succeed despite their best efforts, or Coaches abusing Players (such as alleged at Maryland), or having a revolving door of numerous Assistant Coaches (such as VMI seems to be having), etc. So, things that are ‘fixable,’ but are not being adequately addressed.
Player-related would include such things such as homesickness, HTH-sickness, personal issues not related to Football, family issues, loss of desire to play Football, illness, unpreventable injuries and/or injuries not related to Football (such as might be sustained in a car accident), etc.
Now, when there is a Football System change - such as going from the air raid offense to running the triple-option or vice-versa, this might create a 3rd category of departure; a ‘Hybrid Departure,’ where a Player’s skill set or body-type may not fit the new system and/or he may feel that he doesn’t fit and/or just doesn’t want to play in the new system and/or feels that playing in the new system is not in his future best interests.
I have definitive knowledge that neither of these 2 OL departures fell into the Program-related category, so, while “not good,” also not a lot, if anything, that could have been done by Furman Football or Furman University to prevent them.
BTW - Did anyone see the exciting ending of that game where St. Francis of the not-fully-scholarship-funded-NEC almost upset Richmond of the ‘powerful” CAA? It was amazing that Richmond was able to overcome that crippling sack on their come-from-behind game-winning drive. That SFU RDE just flew right by Richmond’s BIG Left Tackle straight to the QB.