re: What players were you most wrong in terms of your preseason expectations?

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The one that immediately stands out to me is Nuss. I still think overall he's playing well considering the playcalling, etc., but my goodness I thought he'd have a much better deep ball than he has shown. So many overthrows or misses. All the deep shots are really short to mid-range passes that go for big YAC, like AA against A&M.

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Yea originally i downplayed his deep ball not being great at the beginning of the season but as the season progressed it's clear he flat out struggles throwing deep accurately despite the arm strength. This has led to teams sitting on our intermediate routes not scared of being burned deep

As I have for many years, I bought into a lot of hype.

OLine. Thought Campbell and Jones would be studs.

WR: I was one of the few here that wanted Lacey back as I thought he would improve. Nope. Still drops a lot of passes, runs lazy routes, then acts like he won the super bowl by shooting everyone in sight. Done with him.

Nuss: I was on the "Nuss can win awards with the right coaching" until last game. His antics after the TD, followed by him consistently running away from a pocket and into sacks/tunrovers, constant throwing into double coverage off his back foot, etc... He won't improve with more starts. This is what he is. He is a poor man's Jarrett Lee and he plays scared out of his mind.

OC and DC. I was on the Baker hype train up until we ran into mobile QBs. Now it seems we are the only program in the country that can't scheme for this. It is hilarious.

OC is literally one of the worst play callers I have ever witnessed, and I lived through the Hallman years. As soon as something works, we immediately don't do it and go back to passes into double coverage on first down. He won't help Nuss (not that he can be helped) with this play calling.

Won't be duped again by BK or this staff. I know to expect 3-4 losses a year no matter how good of a team he may field.

Chris Hilton

None. I was mainly annoyed with other posters for pumping up the retention of sage and major. Everyone puts on their P&G glasses this time of the year and it's always the exact same crap.

Next years class is ranked 4 on On3 and 6 on 24/7 just like other recent classes yet you have people on here calling it th3 greatest. Still no freaking top ranked DTs either. It's insane.

Fat, lacking leadership and accountability and the biggest disappointment of the season has to be number 66

Offense:
Chester lacks football smarts to read defensive fronts needed from a center
Jackson lacks vision/instinct to fine running lanes and always runs toward contact when running around would gain more yards
Hilton just can’t catch deep balls
Nuss has horrible footwork and his deepball is off target
Defense
Gilbert/Burns both take bad angles and over run plays or hit wrong hole, poor tacklers
Penn expected to be leader but same as safeties, poor tackling and bad angles, gets blocked and stays block
Jones just refuses to set the edge and misses too many tackles

Hilton & Jackson

This is such a depressing question. Even some of the Steady Eddies from the two previous seasons have been underwhelming in '24.

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I expected more out of him too but since we haven’t seen it I expect he comes back next year. My preseason expectations for Nuss next year is heisman contender. JD5 had plenty of criticism here 2 years ago then was a runaway heisman on a 3 loss team last year.

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The difference is that JD was a little hesitant in the new offense but in year 1 wasn’t a turnover machine and his “bad decisions” were safe decisions.

Nuss is dangerous with the ball and has not improved since he’s been here.

Even in his best games before this year, he made questionable decisions in the SECCG (got away with some)and bowl game (another red zone pick)

Nussmeier
Will Campbell
Emory jones
Harold Perkins