can we all use a bit of common sense, please....

No melt would be more concerning

Win 3 or more of the remaining games, the melt goes away. Winning cures a lot

Houston
Rice
LA Tech
Nebraska
Kansas
Kansas St.
Missouri
Memphis
SMU
Colorado St.
Southern Miss
Arkansas




Bring it the hell on!

Why the hell not, it's wins we want...

Upvote, great post.

But I'm just not quite ready to be rational yet. Hopefully reading yalls comments will get me there.

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i honest to god am shocked at people who want BB fired I really am. that's some new level melt shite there.

we got our fricking asses handed to us. it happens.

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I'm not on the "fire Bert" bandwagon (yet). However, losing 56-3 in year 4 as a ranked team is profoundly unacceptable and should not be tolerated.

I like Bert. I think he's a genuinely good dude, if not a bit immature in his public persona and how he carries himself at times, and he knows how to win. That much is evident in his track record as a player and coach. However -- and this is not me calling him Nutt 2.0 -- he's also shown that, like we became accustomed to with Nutt, he'll derp it up at twice a year and come into a game completely unprepared. Toledo, Texas Tech, Louisiana Tech and Auburn come to mind. Note that only one of those is an SEC team, which doesn't lend itself to finding silver linings. Also, at a certain point, he just is what his record says he is here. Like I've said before, I throw out 2013 because he inherited a trash fire, and it's always unfair to judge a coach on his first year (look at guys like Saban and Nutt). Even doing that, he's 20-14 overall, 8-12 in the SEC, and he's got multi-year losing streaks against Bama (understandable), A&M, and Mississippi State. I posted this in another thread, but he's 1-14 against Bama, A&M, Auburn, and State since he's been here. That's unacceptable.

I'm also worried that he's asleep at the wheel when it comes to recruiting and roster management. Our talent and depth situations at offensive line and linebacker are reaching near critical mass next year, and defensive line isn't looking too good, either. In 2017, our offensive line is basically Ragnow and a bunch of question marks. Our linebacker situation is essentially Greenlaw and a bunch of question marks. Our defensive line is Agim, Beanum and a bunch of question marks. Going into a season with no confidence your offensive line and defensive front seven is not a good place to be, especially in this conference.

I'm still in his corner, but I'm rapidly losing my patience and ability or will to be an apologist. I'm not breaking any news here, but how this team responds in these remaining 4 games will speak volumes about the viability and future of Bert and his staff. Here's hoping they come out of the bye week with the fire of Mt. Doom and start thrashing teams.

The meltdowns that some of you are having are pathetic. We're t-goddamn-Flagship. Have some self-respect!

Some of you need the hell slapped out of you, for your own good.

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I like Bert.

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I think everyone but the die hard Petrino apologists and the Bring the Gus Bus Back Home cult members know that we will have Bert for another year or two at least. And he has made some very good hires among the coaching staff.

Robb Smith does a pretty good job against pro style offenses. Enos had a major impact and his ability to bring out the best in the Allen brothers is probably why we have won as many games as we have. Rhoads has improved our DB play quite a bit.

There have been some misses though like you said and those have put us in a really horrible spot this year and going into next year. Smith is clueless when it comes to stopping a spread/read option team and everyone but us and LSU is using that right now. Shannon and Pittman did not live up to their billing as great recruiters/developers of talent. Our ST play continues to be lackluster and now it looks like a lot of our kicking woes could have been solved if we had let the kid who can actually make FGs play at the start of the season. And our lines...

Both the O and D lines look like someone put a bunch of names in a hat, tossed them into the air while shouting "Whee", and then started them in a given position based on where they landed. We have DEs playing DT, a DT playing LG, a graduate transfer who wasn't good at his previous school, and a bunch of who the hell knows next year.

Bert needs to clean house and get after it this off season or he will come into next season on a seat that is very warm.