jjjj said:
PlayerParent said:
uncfootballrules said:
As I said before - terrible loss. All aspects of the team were outplayed - offense, defense and special teams. D2, NAIA, whatever. We should not lose that game at home and it should not even be close. I hope I am wrong but it looks like it is shaping up to be another long season.
There are a lot of issues with this team but I think the biggest is that Earnest made a mistake with the coaching staff. Neither coordinator has much experience and it showed on Saturday. The play calling on both sides of the ball was downright pathetic.
Here is my idea for improvement. OK - I admit it is not a realistic scenario, but IMHO it would pay immediate dividends. Earnest needs to walk into the offensive coordinator's office and demote him. He then needs to pick up the phone and beg Dalton to come back as the offensive coordinator for a couple of years and groom Boyer, Grable, Armour whomever to take over for him. That would get rid of the "fast paced spread" offense that destroys you when you go 3 and out every time and only chew up one minute on the clock (or when you can't eat up the clock at the end of the game when you need to). It would also help to protect the defense by getting them off the field more letting the DC grow into the role at this level. Oh well - pipe dreams I know.
Irrevelant pipe dreams at that...Any offense (including an uptempo spread) has a 4-minute game plan to slow down the pace when it's needed. That was not the cause of the loss on Saturday. There were a lot of correctable errors made and I'm confident will be coached through...both by the players and the staff. In fact, the crowd could have participated more when the players needed us. There were several times that players would turn towarad the homeside stands for noise to help build some momentum and their efforts were not met with what we should expect of ourselves as true Bear fans! I like Mountainbear's post in another thread...let's move on and support this program! It will not be an overnight change, but the culture shift has begun. We need to stay the course and get it done, fans included!
So we are supposed to cheer the garbage this team has produced for years now? I'll cheer for the team when they give me something to cheer about and I haven't seen anything close to good football in many years from UNC. I realize people say good fans cheer no matter what but that's not my personality. That would be like cheering when I find out I've been demoted at work but at least I wasn't laid off--or cheer when I find out my dog got hit by a car but at least he wasn't killed. Come on, the fans were watching UNC get dominated by an NAIA team and the players thought that warranted applause . . . pathetic. These players need to realize that it is up to them, and them only, to turn it around. They can give up like they have for many seasons now and have plenty of excuses like not enough fan support, or they can power through like the 90's football team did, or our basketball team recently did. Those teams had no fan support either--until they started winning.
BTW PlayerParent, I'm not intending to personally bash your son, I know there are players on the team doing everything they can to win, I'm talking about what I perceive to be the team attitude.
That's a great post and that's pretty much how I feel. I felt pretty great when Collins was hired, but then he hired some not so great, imo assistant coaches. I've been pretty critical of Amour and I believe it's justified. He's brought in an offense that just because Oregon perfects it, doesn't mean we will come close. You guys ripped me good because I thought it was foolish to not try to hire Peterson back. We had a pretty good offense last year and he probably just installed half, if that into last year. We would have been in year 2 of his offense. We could be lighting teams up. I don't know if he would have left for Tulsa or not, but we should have given him his job back here. The guy could coach. As far as the players, it's mostly on them. I've already got my tix to CSU so I'll use them, but after that I don't know if I feel like spending a dime on another ticket.
Can ANYONE after 6 years of losing blame me??? I'll ALWAYS be Blue and Gold, but I work hard for every dime and right now it's not something I want to spend money on. I miss seeing Nottingham Field but man after 6 years of shit play I don't blame anyone for not showing up.
Look at the basketball team and you see this community wanting to support a winner. It could happen to football.