🏈 Elliott's Offense: Three Years In

[MaineWahoo]

I’m just gonna repost my feelings from after Elliott’s first year. He had me for a second recently thinking maybe he was figuring it out a little but… naw.

Also what new coach gets zero recruiting bump when they come in at first and are new and exciting? That always happens at least a little bit. And he got none. Yeah the tragedy happened a year in but there was nothing happening before then either. Early major warning signs.

Continuing the discussion from 2023 Virginia Football:

@MaineWahoo

I’d have a little more optimism re Elliott if I hadn’t actually watched a handful of the games last year. It doesn’t bother me that we lost a lot - despite preseason expectations, it’s always hard in a coach’s first year and the whole o-line did indeed leave. But what bothered me is how inept the offense looked and how overall unprepared the team often seemed on that side of the ball. It didn’t feel like a scrappy team that was figuring things out but just wasn’t quite able to get over the hump yet. It often just felt like a mess, including bad time management and decisions seemingly coming straight from the sideline. (Assuming I’m remembering correctly - always possible I’m not)

But, you have to think Elliott will have examined last season thoroughly, and hopefully with more buy-in from the players and another year of installing the system, we might look like what I’d hoped we would have seen last year (few wins, but progress). I’m not holding my breath though, especially with Kitchings still theoretically in charge of the offense. That was the hire that made the least sense to me at the time, and nothing that has happened since has made me feel more positive about it.