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Understatement of the year

Miguel

Miguel

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Collins after getting stomped at UNI, "We can't let this loss get to us. We have to find the positives and build off of them. We win as a team and we lose as a team, we just have to get better, period."

Here's my take away from this season so far. Exactly how bad is UNLV?
 
Miguel said:
Collins after getting stomped at UNI, "We can't let this loss get to us. We have to find the positives and build off of them. We win as a team and we lose as a team, we just have to get better, period."

Here's my take away from this season so far. Exactly how bad is UNLV?
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He's been "building" off the positives for 4 seasons now...What happened to his plan after his first game vs. (Lindenwood) lost in season one..."I need guys to buy into program, when I get my guys in here we'll win?"
 
Wow
This loss is no surprise...
...the only positive is we can't hear the "thud thud" of the bus running over selected players that mr collins tosses out.
This is no reason to panic, it is, however, another opportunity to examine the cumulative body of work this staff has amassed.
 
I do not understand the benefit to the school by keeping this coach. Couldn't you basically get the same results if the team just showed up uncoached and tried to figure it all out on their own? At this point, it really does make the school's program look like a joke, from the AD down to the lowest coach. This thing is now bigger than just having a bad HC, it is now about the school excepting and building a losing culture. I am sure every player on that team would love to win every game, but at this point, if they lose, it's expected, so it's probably not that big of a deal anymore. They have a built in excuse in the HC. It is sad to witness.
 
mountainbear said:
Wow
This loss is no surprise...
...the only positive is we can't hear the "thud thud" of the bus running over selected players that mr collins tosses out.
This is no reason to panic, it is, however, another opportunity to examine the cumulative body of work this staff has amassed.
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I only got a chance to listen to a few minutes of the 1st half, but I am not surprised by this loss or even the blow out at all. I had hoped the Bears would keep it a little closer, but there were a lot of factors going against them in this game, beyond just the poor coaching. Two of the biggest factors being that this was UNI's home opener on their turf where they rarely lose and the fact that they lo st two close games to FBS teams to open up the season. UNI was going to come into this game fired up. Not to mention, UNI is ranked 11th in the country. UNI is a very very good team.

Did anybody really believe we are ready to compete with the top tier of the FCS? We still have to face Montana and Eastern Washington on the road. Hopefully the team can keep those games a little closer, but I won't be surprised to see those end in blowouts as well. The real barometer for whether this team has improved will be the games against the middle to lower half of the teams in the conference.

No need to panic yet, no need to say this is the continuation of the culture of losing already. Definitely a need to build a bigger fire underneath the coaching hot seat. But lets see how the kids respond over the next few games before calling the season another lost cause after only 3 games.
 
No need to panic yet? How many years in a row have the members of this message board said the same thing after two, three or four losses? This acceptance and excusing of truly awful football makes us just as responsible as Collins, the latest ineffective AD, our clueless president, and everyone else associated with UNC athletics for the humiliation that we experience week after week until the season thankfully comes to an end. How many years will we sit by and let the once proud tradition of Bears football be crapped on? Losers beget losers and in the case of UNC football we are all losers. At best this season UNC will eek out a win or two against Idaho State or some other pathetic program. If so, Collins and Norton will claim "progress" and justify another year of putrid football and next year we will once again hope desperately that our team will not lose to a program like Houston Baptist or Pueblo or another NAIA school and then sit through another season watching actual football teams march up and down the field at Nottingham....

Oh my god am I sick of this shit.
 
You truly are some hardcore fans. Even after four years of miserable records, you are still making excuses for this coach and waiting for him and all of his teachings to come together. Is it ever possible that maybe a coach just isn't any good? If so, how can you tell? A losing record? Many years in a row? if that is not a measuring tool, then what is?
 
Coach Collins is the coach this season, or at least for the first several games this season. WIth that in mind, I want to see how he does with the players he has recruited under the system he is coaching in. I am not going to slate him for getting beat up by a fantastic UNI team and barely losing to a FBS team on the road. I do worry that we didn't hammer Houston Baptist at home.

We are going into Montana as huge underdogs so I won't freak out with a loss their either, though I would like to see us keep it close. At home against NAU and at home against Sac State are games we just have to win. If we come out of those 2 games at 1-6 then Coach Collins needs to be sent packing. This AD has proven with the womens basketball team that he can bring in well qualified coaches, I wonder what he can do for our football program?
 
Yes, I am a fan. A fan of the team and a fan of the players. I have been as vocal as anybody on this board about my opinion that Collins is not the guy to run this program. Nobody would have been happier if Dunn had fired him after last seasons debacle. But like Brian said, he is the coach for this season, like it or not. I don't see any way that is going to change before the end of the season, not even if we lose every game from here on out. So rather than waste my time calling for his head, I am going to continue to support the boys on the team and hope that they can start to show signs of turning this thing around.
 
303Bear said:
Yes, I am a fan. A fan of the team and a fan of the players. I have been as vocal as anybody on this board about my opinion that Collins is not the guy to run this program. Nobody would have been happier if Dunn had fired him after last seasons debacle. But like Brian said, he is the coach for this season, like it or not. I don't see any way that is going to change before the end of the season, not even if we lose every game from here on out. So rather than waste my time calling for his head, I am going to continue to support the boys on the team and hope that they can start to show signs of turning this thing around.
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For the boys and the boys only I say good luck with that.
 
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