Have they really ever schemed to their roster? No. These coaches come in and install systems but don’t have the right athletes especially at QB where McSorley was it. Clifford was not Trace but they tried to make him so. And Allar ain’t Josh Allen! Same on defense in most cases. Every year just seemed hard.
To me, this is fundamentally what separates good coaching from poor coaching.
You can't come in and say, "I have a system, and everyone has to adapt to my system."
A good coach takes the tools that he has, and creates a scheme around those tools. Franklin and his various coordinators over the years always seemed to be trying to force a square peg into a round hole.
Manny Diaz was the obvious exception, and that's why I liked him and wanted desperately for him to stay at Penn State. Diaz seemed like he understood the strengths of weaknesses of what he had with his players and he created a scheme that played to their strengths and tried to compensate for their weaknesses.
