2023 Offseason

[guest44]

BGSU loves Boston College....Boston College does nothing but lose and fire coaches.

[Falcon Commander]

Steve Lubischer has committed to BG out of the portal.

He was a dual threat QB out of high school, going to Boston College. But it seems like he immediately switched positions to defensive back, as he is listed as a DB in his commitment, and shown as a safety in other places.

If nothing else, a depth signing from a P5 school with 22 games of experience under his belt. Not huge stats, but not shocking from a guy who switched positions. I guess we’ll see what happens with him in fall camp.

TIGHT END!

[Flipper]

Across college football...there's a sudden influx of guys hitting the Xfer portal as the spring semester ends. Colorado had 13 guys leave yesterday (bringing their total to 31).

That revolving door is inevitably...in my view...going to lead to more simplified offensive and defensive systems as the turnover rate will make coaching anything too complex impossible

[mbenecke]

Good thing our system is simple and easy to pick up, right? Right?

[JohnFloyd4Life]

Put the new Boston College guy at QB.

[mbenecke]

Put the new Boston College guy at QB.

Ironically, we had a different former BC guy join the QB room this offseason in Daelen Menard. Lol

The QB room is actually in decent shape for the first time in a long time, I think? We haven't seen many of them play yet, but Menard/Bazelak/Orth are all seniors with eligibility beyond this season, and Lucian Anderson III is a bit of an exciting young prospect. If we could ever get to a point where our young QBs develop and stick around, I would be curious what they could do.

[kdog27]

Across college football...there's a sudden influx of guys hitting the Xfer portal as the spring semester ends. Colorado had 13 guys leave yesterday (bringing their total to 31).

That revolving door is inevitably...in my view...going to lead to more simplified offensive and defensive systems as the turnover rate will make coaching anything too complex impossible

Yup and we’re running an offense a 9 year senior was just average at.

[mbenecke]

Across college football...there's a sudden influx of guys hitting the Xfer portal as the spring semester ends. Colorado had 13 guys leave yesterday (bringing their total to 31).

That revolving door is inevitably...in my view...going to lead to more simplified offensive and defensive systems as the turnover rate will make coaching anything too complex impossible

Yup and we’re running an offense a 9 year senior was just average at.

Matt McDonald played in 4 college seasons (3 if you don't count his 2 games at Boston College in garbage time and only 2 if you don't count his 5 COVID "season" games). BG had the 4th best passing offense and the 4th most efficient offense overall in the MAC last year. You can rag on the kid's funky throwing motion all you want, but he got a whole lot better as his career went on. And he gutted through some TOUGH injuries. So I'm not calling you out, kdog, but in general, Matt McDonald deserves a bit more respect for guiding this team to some real highs (Minnesota! Marshall! Toledo! Getting to a bowl game!) during an extreme low point in program history.

[Flipper]

McDonald was a class of 2017 recruit...he maybe played 4 seasons...but he also had a couple of years of practice/learning ahead of that. That said...he was better this year than previous years and probably deserved to be the all mac 3rd team guy instead of DJ Irons

[jpfalcon09]

Jakari Robinson was invited to the Stampeders camp in Calgary.

[kdog27]

Across college football...there's a sudden influx of guys hitting the Xfer portal as the spring semester ends. Colorado had 13 guys leave yesterday (bringing their total to 31).

That revolving door is inevitably...in my view...going to lead to more simplified offensive and defensive systems as the turnover rate will make coaching anything too complex impossible

Yup and we’re running an offense a 9 year senior was just average at.

Matt McDonald played in 4 college seasons (3 if you don't count his 2 games at Boston College in garbage time and only 2 if you don't count his 5 COVID "season" games). BG had the 4th best passing offense and the 4th most efficient offense overall in the MAC last year. You can rag on the kid's funky throwing motion all you want, but he got a whole lot better as his career went on. And he gutted through some TOUGH injuries. So I'm not calling you out, kdog, but in general, Matt McDonald deserves a bit more respect for guiding this team to some real highs (Minnesota! Marshall! Toledo! Getting to a bowl game!) during an extreme low point in program history.

My shot was more at the antiquated crap system than anything. Where has it got us? 6-7 best season. Not good enough!

[roguewarrior]

McDonald is not and was not the reason our offense rarely moved consistently, and put our defense on its heels most every game. You could have plugged him in Kent or OU’s offenses and he would have been fine. The best? No. NFL caliber? No. Good, smart, dedicated hard working kid. Beating a dead horse, this offensive scheme is laughable in this time….. a complicated albatross in this age of college football. SL is not a bad guy. Someone needs to punch him in the throat and convince him to give up on this scheme.

[Falconwriter]

McDonald is not and was not the reason our offense rarely moved consistently, and put our defense on its heels most every game. You could have plugged him in Kent or OU’s offenses and he would have been fine. The best? No. NFL caliber? No. Good, smart, dedicated hard working kid. Beating a dead horse, this offensive scheme is laughable in this time….. a complicated albatross in this age of college football. SL is not a bad guy. Someone needs to punch him in the throat and convince him to give up on this scheme.

This is why he was available to be hired -- and why he got hired at BG. He's never going to be an innovator or anywhere close to running a cutting edge offense. He's solid in many areas, but not exceptional. And likely won't ever be exceptional. He's a nightmare hire for that reason; not bad enough that you get rid of him right away, but not good enough to win you anything, either.

And he'll never, ever give up on this scheme. It's comfortable for him and, like so many coaches out there, he's not the type of reconfigure how he runs an offense, even as he sees the world of college football passing him by.

[hammb]

McDonald is not and was not the reason our offense rarely moved consistently, and put our defense on its heels most every game. You could have plugged him in Kent or OU’s offenses and he would have been fine. The best? No. NFL caliber? No. Good, smart, dedicated hard working kid. Beating a dead horse, this offensive scheme is laughable in this time….. a complicated albatross in this age of college football. SL is not a bad guy. Someone needs to punch him in the throat and convince him to give up on this scheme.

This is why he was available to be hired -- and why he got hired at BG. He's never going to be an innovator or anywhere close to running a cutting edge offense. He's solid in many areas, but not exceptional. And likely won't ever be exceptional. He's a nightmare hire for that reason; not bad enough that you get rid of him right away, but not good enough to win you anything, either.

And he'll never, ever give up on this scheme. It's comfortable for him and, like so many coaches out there, he's not the type of reconfigure how he runs an offense, even as he sees the world of college football passing him by.

Was at my buddy's draft party last night and somehow we got on the subject of Scott Loeffler.

It blows my mind that the man has continued to turn pure mediocrity into promotions.. I guess I should give him credit for frequently taking dumpster fire situations and turning them into stinky, not on fire, dumpsters, but that's about the best I can say for him. And he even did it here. Major props, took a 2 win team all the way up to 6 wins and only took him 4 years to do so. By this rate we should be winning 10 games by 2027!

[Flipper]

SL said earlier he'd have 10-15 new players in by Memorial day...I wonder if he had 10-15 specific guys, or that come hell or high water he'd find 10-15 guys to fill the roster.

One last thing re Matt McDonald...that man took a ton of punishment physically to play here...including at least one concussion. I hope he's able to enjoy life as he gets older, because trust me...lingering injuries really suck when you get older