Recruiting under fomer coach Gary Barnett has been a question of debate.Some camps insist the talent brought in is sufficient to win while others get wide eyed at that assertion.
A Daily Camera article written by Kyle Ringo had a unique slant on that story, detailing the depth issues and how that has affected the won-loss record.
Well, the loss record.
0-5.
"One of the things I'm trying to get to a little bit in this whole thing is we have gaps in our depth chart that are two and three classes gone," coach Dan Hawkins said in Ringo's story. "I'm not talking about guys that are walk-ons. I mean gone. Gaps. Two or three classes."
Those gaps, that lack of experience stepping on the field, Hawkins told Ringo, costly.
"Normally in a good program you don't want anything more than one class of a gap."
The facts are there is always going to be natural attrition in any program but the issue at Colorado is the school did not, no matter how you look at or excuse things, keep those gaps filled sufficiently. A program doesn't have to be perfect but it does have to minimize those gaps and CU, well, didn't.
The price.
What's the record?
While it will take a while to rebuild the skeleton of experience on the depth chart, the process can be accelerated by some marquee talent that shows itself to be durable, lessening the need for the amount of snaps the backups take. Then, in time, with consistently strong recruiting efforts, the gaps get filled, there is more margin for error in games and the record becomes less likely to flucuate or nosedive, as it has this season.
I'm sure Barnett scratches his head at all the ways Hawkins has found to point fingers at his ineptitude and the new coach is likely shaking his at the mess he was left with, considering the expectations of fans, boosters and media.
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