How so?
I've been consistent with both.
Before I get into this though, I'll preface it with this: some of the problems when Muschamp took over were due to very different philosophies.
So.
1. We can't forget 2010. Even with his own recruits for his system Meyer failed with his system. So what did we lack? Well first of all we didn't have a decent QB on the roster and inherited Driskel (yes, Muschamp deserves blame for not replacing him but I think he hoped Brissett would be the answer or he could ride it out and wait for Grier). Our RB situation was awful for our new offense. Our OL had nbers, but sparse on substance. We very quickly lost some of our best experienced guys and were left with ones who were backups that not only were inexperienced, but not really qualified for the offense we were trying to run. Throw on top of it all that we had few if any receiving threats and you end up with a disaster.
2. So to summarize the top (which, I think is a rather fair assessment) we had a very young, first time headcoach who could create defense but relied on his offensive coordinators to make that side of the ball work. Weiss didn't give a damn and basically hobbled around if he managed to get off his cooler. Pease and Roper were promising hires but both were gambles having come from bonfires offensive geniuses (who really made those work? Petersen and Cutcliffe or Pease and Roper?). It is not Muschamp's fault that he got hired. That's completely on Foley. As stated above, many of the issues came from roster and philosophy not mixing. That's not Muschamp's fault. He was hired to run what he wanted (dominate defense, ground and pound offense). So the transition was terrible, and then we had 3 offensive coordinators in 4 years. Again, when your headcoach is a defensive mind and relies on his OC to design the offensive system and bring in players, you are always going to have a problem when you run the OCs like that. You get a roster full of people for different philosophies. In our case, Weiss was NFL pro, Pease was multiple, and Roper was slightly more spread. That can cause havoc on your roster.
3. Muschamp f***ed us on OL. How in the world do you preach "cobtrol the line of scrimmage" and after 4 years barely have enough guys to lineup at OL? Completely absurd and it's already hurting us. We are also in an odd spot at QB because Meyer left us Brantley, Murphy, and Driskel (and technically Reed and Burton), Weiss brought in Brissett, Pease brought in career backups in Mornhinweg and Staver, and Roper brought in Harris. Grier is the only anomaly because he committed back in Decemeber of 2012 and was recruited from day one basically.
4. So now that said, we have a new staff and we are severely weak at OL, will start a very young kid at QB, an overall unproven receiving and running back corp.
5. Thank God Muschamp left us with one hell of a defensive group.
