Maybe the administration needs to give Lovie a pass until he can recruit the right players. He probably just needs another 4-6 years so he can recruit more 4 and 5* talent on defense, maybe longer to wait until they are upperclassmen. Once stocked with 4 and 5 star talent, his defense will be a force! Just you wait and see!
I was thinking it basically says what some us have been preaching for a while now: Lovie has yet to show he can defend modern college offenses with collegiate players.
Your point that Lovies defense may not work at this level is valid. But it’s not truth and I think this is quite a stretch from what dude is saying.
Truth is that freshmen, outside of a few positions are usually not productive. Sophomores can be productive, but usually you get the most use out of juniors and seniors.
Whether or not lovies defense works at the college will he tested this year. There are no gaping holes in this defense (as far as a mid level college team is concerned). There is enough experience and depth For the most part. And this year will be an experiment: Can a mid level college team run a pro style defense? This year also will not definitively suggest that it’s not possible. But a lot of blowout losses will question whether we think it’s worth waiting another year. And, I think, more wins or mostly competitive games would indicate that it’s worth sticking it out another year as a do or die year.
But no one is suggesting we wait 5 more years being atrociously bad. Also, I would argue that to suggest losing is a foregone conclusion seems a bit of a stretch given how atrocious we were last year and how competitive we played many good teams for 3 quarters. I think experience will do well.
Also, we are several years deep into this experiment, why cut ties before actually getting to test the hypothesis. Especially when this year and next will provide quite a bit of insight and as long as we can show improvement ( and as long as the recruiting is good enough to be competitive), why not stick it out. The upside is very high. The cost is one year (or two)