Giving the staff some credit, though, we should acknowledge that they did their best to fill immediate areas of need, in attempt to prevent a possible backslide in 2019. To have won 7 games in the first place required trends that may not necessarily be sustainable -- capitalizing on turnover luck, outperforming our not great yard per play margin and such -- and the coaches recognized that counting on returning talent alone isn’t enough to prevent that.
So they went out and grabbed a new quarterback in Devon Modster, three wide receivers who are transfers or JUCOs, a JUCO running back, and a JUCO do-everything linebacker to help ease the losses of, well.