I agree with a lot of your post, but we absolutely were complaining about him early last year. Our offense was atrocious for most of that 4-0 run even though we were winning.
It took 38 minutes to score a point on Albany. Scored 10 through 3 quarters on a very bad ECU team. Decent enough performance against VT, but our D won that game. Turnovers by our offense against ODU led to that game becoming a shootout. And we had pick sixes against them and NC State to make the scores look more impressive for the offense than they were.
But we still had Fancher at QB, receivers dropping everything that did get near them, and a porous oline. ODU was a 40 point game also that we nearly lost because we couldn't stop the run on defense, in that first 4 games. Point is that wasn't on Trickett for the most part. He was the scapegoat for a lot of poor planning by Huff. Huff never set up a winning team like 2024 and he coddled Ali, the one shining star on offense, just like he coddled Turner this year. I think the biggest difference between Trickett and Doege is Huff set up Doege with the tools and he didn't interfere as much with his version of offense.
I have no allegiance to Trickett. I'm glad whatever we did, worked. I just feel like he got a bit of a bum wrap. I clearly remember being impressed with some of his originality at times and enjoyed when his plays were executed properly. Sometimes when we went stale during a game I always felt that was when Huff tried to make his mark on the game. We'd be rolling along and then nothing in the whole second half. Coincidentally, this year we were better in the second half, except GSouthern. I think Huff stayed out of it more. Remember he was the kid that worked up plays in grade school and always wanted to be a coach. I think he used our games to try out his stuff a lot, prior to this year.
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