Report Card on Embree's First Year...

[4DemBuffs]

Well then, prepare for a turf war.

i'll cut you, man.

[The Guest]

i'll cut you, man.

I'm gonna make your head bleed for superfan number 99.

[4DemBuffs]

I'm gonna make your head bleed for superfan number 99.

is that bad?

[The Guest]

is that bad?

You'll have to ask Gretzky.

[4DemBuffs]

You'll have to ask Gretzky.

furk.

[Skidmark]

an incomplete is the only grade i can give them at this point.

there are signs of hope and promise of possibly better days ahead. but, if you look at the depth chart and you look at the rest of the p12, you'll find that there is still a ton of work to be done.

mora at ucla really showed us the difference between being a bit "down" and being totally off the radar. we've fallen completely off the radar but the staff is clearly working hard to change that. hopefully, their talent evaluation and development prove to be superior to some of the staffs in the conference. the stretch goal really needs to be to make a bowl game.

You mean there is more to grading Embree than just considering his 3-9 record?

That seems way too complicated.

[Hugegroove]

There has been lot’s of good points made in this thread. But I also like the fact that JE and EB display emotion, passion, and enthusiasm on the sidelines. (Something that sorely lacked with the previous staff) Both truly care about making the program successful. Yeah, they've got a ways to go, but they’ve shown they can recruit, coach, improve the culture, and care about their players. Knowing they had a ton of injuries last year, and such a brutal schedule, I have to give them at least a C+.

[JPinCO]

I agree with ^this^.

[MtnBuff]

an incomplete is the only grade i can give them at this point.

there are signs of hope and promise of possibly better days ahead. but, if you look at the depth chart and you look at the rest of the p12, you'll find that there is still a ton of work to be done.

mora at ucla really showed us the difference between being a bit "down" and being totally off the radar. we've fallen completely off the radar but the staff is clearly working hard to change that. hopefully, their talent evaluation and development prove to be superior to some of the staffs in the conference. the stretch goal really needs to be to make a bowl game.

Probably the most realistic and accurate post in the thread.

It took D2 five years to tear this program down to the condition that Embree and Co. found it in. Most of us here including me didn't want to see or admit how bad this team really was. Simply stated we had terrible talent before the injuries hit. A lot of the guys we had as key players were at best WAC/MWC level talents, and a number of those guys will still be with us this year.

Bigger than the talent issue (if that is possible) is that this team had not only accepted losing but embraced it, they looked for ways to lose, and usually found them.

Nobody was going to fix all of this in one year. What I look at is did we get appreciably better in the last year compared to the other teams in our conference. In my view we got much better. We are recruiting kids who other PAC schools want and who are at that talent level. The last half of the year we saw real signs of change in the attitude of the team including winning 2 of the last 3 including one on the road.

We still have a long way to go to compete on an even basis with the Oregons, USCs, Stanfords of the conference but we are a lot closer than we were 14 months ago. On that basis I give Embree a better than passing grade but Incomplete is far more accurate.

[DBT]

This thread is full of suck.

WTF?

[exxon]

I thought now would be a good time to review the first year of the Embree Hire since CU has completed a year on the field and had their first full recruiting cycle. This is still a work in progress but it is fair to give a interim assessment. This is my assessment and yes it is subjective...I am sure that others have different points of view.

Settle down here people.

Nobody here is trying to suggest that Ebree and staff have to fix everything in one year. We all know this is a massive rebuilding project. IMO it isn't unfair to grade his annual progress. Like BnG mentioned above, it's still a work in progress.

Plus it's the offseason. We'll probably have twenty more of these threads.