I could be wrong, but I don't think anybody's calling out the players, rather calling out Hawkins for relying on these guys to make plays, when he is supposed to have other guys to do that. Walk ons are great, but you can't build a program with them. You want your walk-ons to be your special teams lunatics, not your starting wide receiver.
Put another way, if your best wide receiver is a walk on, you've been doing a pretty sh*tty job of recruiting.
Or you've been doing a pretty sh*tty job of using and developing the recruited talent that you have.
If you go back and review my post on this site over the years I have been as strong a proponent of walk-ons and a solid walk-on program as anyone. Scotty was a walk-on and will likely get a look from the NFL if not as a late round pick as a free agents with multiple options (probably end up in NY since he knows a certain QB there who was a #1 draft pick.) I respect the efforts of the WOs and believe that they should get a fair shot at playing time based on their ability to perform on the field.
My problem is that Hawk has taken things to the extreem. Last year when we had a three WR alignment on the field at times that consisted of Scotty, Espy, and Ebner while Simmons and Simas were standing on the sidelines watching along with Wright who we burned a year of eligibility off of tells me that the WR coach was either doing a terrible job of developing his scholarship WRs, motivating his scholarship WRs, or selecting who he should recruit as his scholarship WRs. By the way, the HC can't claim that the WR coach wasn't doing his job since it was one and the same.
I stand behind the kids, all of the kids, who put on the uniform and go out on the field. At the same time it is absolutely impossible to support a HC who in 4 years at a school that was one of the top 20 winningest programs in the 20+ years prior to his arrival, has failed to record a single winning season and has multiple embarassing losses. I will continue to question strategy decisions, staff decisions, and personel decisions by this coach until either he is gone or by some miracle he has shown that he is deserving of a more respectful approach on my part.
If/when he is replaced, I will give my full and unconditional support to the new coach until and unless he proves himself not to be worthy of it, just as I gave my full and unconditional support to Hawk for the better part of three full seasons with hopes in the fourth despite clear signs like the games against CSU, E. Washington, Montana State, ISU, etc.