[d4cohn]

Our offensive line has a combined three years of college football experience.

OK Hulk, but why is that? Injuries which over the past two season have exploded compared to the previous decade. Poor recruiting at the position that left us with seven guys on the two-deep to start the season. Also, this doesn't have anything to do with overhyped WRs & TEs who can't get separation, safeties who can't tackle and are out of position too often, and a complete lack of ILB depth. Throw in a head coach who churns out "Remain Calm, All Is Well" propaganda while throwing his players under the bus and you have a recipe for continued failure if significant changes aren't made.

Well, the poor recruiting at the position occurred under the previous OL coach (now at Rice). Based on how the frosh OL have played compared to the upperclassmen even, I have more confidence that the current OL coach is improving on the problem (the same way DL was a problem under the previous DL coach that the current DL coach needed a couple of recruiting classes to fix). 

And technically as well, Coach Shaw did make a change in the S&C department too (albeit under very different circumstances). There, it seems the new S&C leadership is performing worse than previously in terms of injury prevention.

So those are three examples to me that Coach Shaw is willing to make changes (perhaps the quibble can be at what pace are those changes being made, and are they made promptly enough before they become a bigger problem). But I don't see these instances as Coach Shaw won't make changes even if he sees a problem out of loyalty or something.

[d4cohn]

Our offensive line has a combined three years of college football experience.

OK Hulk, but why is that? Injuries which over the past two season have exploded compared to the previous decade. Poor recruiting at the position that left us with seven guys on the two-deep to start the season. Also, this doesn't have anything to do with overhyped WRs & TEs who can't get separation, safeties who can't tackle and are out of position too often, and a complete lack of ILB depth. Throw in a head coach who churns out "Remain Calm, All Is Well" propaganda while throwing his players under the bus and you have a recipe for continued failure if significant changes aren't made.

Well, the poor recruiting at the position occurred under the previous OL coach (now at Rice). Based on how the frosh OL have played compared to the upperclassmen even, I have more confidence that the current OL coach is improving on the problem (the same way DL was a problem under the previous DL coach that the current DL coach needed a couple of recruiting classes to fix). 

And technically as well, Coach Shaw did make a change in the S&C department too (albeit under very different circumstances). There, it seems the new S&C leadership is performing worse than previously in terms of injury prevention.

So those are three examples to me that Coach Shaw is willing to make changes (perhaps the quibble can be at what pace are those changes being made, and are they made promptly enough before they become a bigger problem). But I don't see these instances as Coach Shaw won't make changes even if he sees a problem out of loyalty or something.