I tend to agree with McCallum’s views on this. His positional breakdown was very solid. The proof of overall is in the wins and losses. We’ve had spot talent for a long, long, time, but have never been able to put it together.
I have a couple of addditional thoughts:
– I think some of our positional coaches are quite good — Ledford and Kitchings in particular. I also like Hux far more than most and think his experience is needed and valuable given all the young coaches.
– I wasn’t sold on the Drink hire, and last year did nothing to make me feel any better about it. Signing the QB though is very promising. While the cynic in me says that we’ve had nothing at QB since Glennon, that there’s no one we’ve put out that a good QB couldn’t beat out, and that with Rivers, Wilson and Glennon, NC State has shown QBs that you can make the NFL from here, I also know we really had nothing in the pipeline from Canada. Drink gave us something this past year and has signed a good recruit. That is a clear step in the right direction.
– Grey and I are going to have to agree to disagree regarding special teams. I see nothing special about our kicking game. Our coverage on kicks is the high point, and that is definitely good. I still like the Beamer plan.
