How did we lose Chris McCLellan?

He saw what many were blind to see.

 

Even "kids" can tell when a staff is out of their league.

 

Hated losing him.

 

Unlikely that anyone knows the real story, but you'll get plenty of "coaches bad lololololol"

 

Well DL coach was let go for one

two, he was relegated to second string behind Cam Jackson last season when it was clear in 2022 he was our most disruptive DT as a true freshmen

three, the staff had him add on bad weight going into last year. Look at his built in 2022 and in 2023, looked like a diff player

Four, probably already saw the writing on the wall and got the heck outta dodge

 

You did warn us of serious tooth, err, I mean program decay!

 

Somebody is gonna have to do some serious deep cleaning!

 

Guess we should've given Princely's thoughts more credence. I for one, didn't.

 

Neither did I.

 

Lots of guys want to win, it ain't happening here.

 

TBH, I thought he was self indulgent and talented but wasn't putting in the work and thought he knew more than the staff. I also believed we had a slew of players waiting to show what a real edge DE could do. Oops.

 

Agree, that's what I thought as well.

 

Tbf to the coaches, we didn't have enough depth at DT, so he got way more snaps than he deserved his frosh year and the coaches got transfers to start, not be depth, and the transfers got prioritized, and Lyons was coming on to get snaps when he didn't take a single snap McClelland's frosh year. McClelland saw he was getting limited snaps at either position. I don't think there needed to be any back story here. Mizzou's defensive coaching staff was a hot commodity last year, and then LSU raided them for this year. We could have used him this year.

 

Exactly, wanting to win carries mucho weight.

 

McClellan definitely showed some “pop” his freshman year. With some development he probably could have been a great gator but we will never know.

 

Fair enough if it’s one or two guys.

There were just way to many from day one leaving for “lesser” programs.

Coaching change year ya can see more but after that it’s not just about money or “not getting snaps”

 

Just for perspective though, frosh Boireau is averaging 50% more tackles per game on half the snaps that McClellan had his frosh year, which was a year teams challenged us down the middle as well because Dexter was playing too many snaps.

That a frosh can come in on limited snaps and lead the DT group in tackles this year does speak to the development or abilities or motivation of our DT position group.