1. I believe it's difficult to compete in 13 games with half the player talent that we have against the top tier teams we competed against. We basically had half a team of blue chippers. If you are a good player, you can' t play the entire game as a one deep lineman or DB, you just get tired, I don't care how much conditioning you have, not to mention avoiding injury. We didn't have a full team this year and it changed the way we approached games.
2. The cupboard is bare. 2023-24 Recruiting will make it better for Auburn. Coach Freeze had to make a decision and went all out in recruiting. (No A&M comparisons please). He can coach and he will have his hand in the offense this Fall.
3. The team/program culture is changing, all were exposed, some received the change favorably, others didn't accept it. A coach's system takes time (1-3 years) to implement.
4. There will be some coaching changes in the coming week that isn't public yet, that reinforces the culture change. This is a total rebuild.
4. We didn't compete to our potential in at least 4 games this year, resulting in 4 losses. How do we rectify this? see 1-4 above. It's happening and we will be a lot better off this coming year than we were this past year. I think people don't realize how bad we really were when Potato was shown the door.
WDE!