Shane may have brought Noland in because he didn't think both Doty and Brown were not where they needed to be after a certain point. He could just have been stacking the deck, too. Doty was obviously limited by his foot injury, too.
We had to play a back-up QB, who had fairly recent knee surgery, in the bowl game because the healthy 3rd string guy decided he just wasn't into it anymore after Rattler decided to transfer here.
Unless my eyes are deceiving me in my old age, Jason Brown's picture is no longer on official roster web page anymore:
https://gamecocksonline.com/sports/football/roster/2021?&sort=position
Hilinski also hit the portal but is still on the 2020 roster page.
Shane is about accountability and is not going to reward those folks that run out on their responsibility to the team (and him). That is one of the reasons we are going to get better.
It seemed like Satt was getting ready to work Joyner into the offense about the time Shane brought in Noland and that kept him from working Joyner into the offense more. Then Noland went down in the UGA game.
I don't know where the dividing line between Shane and Satt is on the whole "Pro-style offense" thing. Does that mean something like Bridgewater at the Panthers/Broncos or the stupid ineffective crap we all have had to watch the past several years? Has Shane been part of the problem on offense to a certain degree?
I also don't where the dividing line is between staff and players, either. However, Shane does. He also has probably gotten a lot of good advice from Frank as well.
The only thing I will say is it took Satt 3 years to finally get a winning season at Temple with Matt Rhule and that is probably one year too long in the SEC.
I will support whatever Shane does in the coming weeks. The moon is cheese. I don't know.