Pros:
- Good recruiting
- Decent offensive scheme in theory
- Number 12 in the country at total defense
- Off the field behavior both in and out of the classroom
- Lack of toughness on both sides of the ball
- Inability to adapt to adversity from both the first half during the game and after a loss
- Changing the game plan to something that just doesn't even make sense, poor poor coaching after these loses, again inability to adapt
- Trying to play football with finesse instead of toughness, finesse is for tennis!
- Lack of effort, inability to inspire players
- Special teams
- Special teams
- Special teams
- Resurgence of a winning tradition built on toughness
- Recruiting different types of players, he would recruit Va Tech type players which believe it or not are much easier to come by (Tribble Resse would probably be better than any QB he has ever had at Navy). Run block recievers instead of uncommon athletes.
- Probably the best running game in history
- A toughness we have not had since Danny Ford
- A team with a refuse to lose attitude
- Ability to inspire players to play beyond their potential
Paul Johnson can win without big name recruits. Virtually everyone he recruited even 2 stars would be better athletes than the ones he has at Navy. He would win and that alone would attract even better athletes. I feel like he could bring Clemson football back to what it was built on.
Its such a shame for Bowden. He has all the capability to get the job done. Either he can't see it or its not worth the effort it would take to win. Why do I say that? Look at the way we played FSU and even South Carolina before last year. Those teams looked like champions. The ones that showed up on those weeks. Unfortunately its always a different team the week before and the week after. He has the ability to inspire. He does it every time his job is in question. Somehow this makes me even madder and is another strike against keeping him around.
