re: Is Wommack attending a Come to Jesus meeting today?

Well, he did create a lot of neat names for each position.

I call him the real bandit because he is stealing the U of A's money as of 5:38 today.

It’s about execution …

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I may be wrong but I could have sworn I watched FSU run 3-3-5 quite a bit. Got pressure on a 5 man oline very well with it.

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They switched to 3-3-5 this year. They talked about it several times on TV yesterday. Joe Tess and Jessie are flat awful, but I do recall them discussing the change.

My .02 on the issues with the defense, particularly against the styles of offense that have completely dominated us. I have coached in offensive systems at the high school level that ran somewhat identical systems- zone read/RPO offenses.

1- Our box is too light. Most of these coaches are box counting (Gus especially.) We are lining up with 6 or less in the box on most plays. The offense has a built-in advantage with the 7 or even 8 players involved in these kinds of plays (5 OL, QB, RB and sweep).

2- We are lining up pretty much straight up regardless of formation strength or personnel. We have our nickel and dime backs split too wide without a formation need. We run a lot of 2-shade/2-5 techs with a LB in each B gap. So if the offense runs to their strength, they’ve got us right where they want us. Which leads to my next point…

3- we lose contain and option responsibility. Nobody sets the edge and it doesn’t even look like we have keys. Someone should be responsible for QB, RB and the sweep on every one of these zone reads or RPOs.

When we finally made an adjustment and put 7 in the box, we finally held up decently against the run unless we lost edge containment or missed tackles, which was a whole other issue itself.

Good observation. You’d think a highly paid coordinator would recognize at least some of the same.
So it’s either piss poor basic coaching or piss poor scheme.

It is mostly coaching, but there were definite effort issues as well. Which that could really point back to coaching as well

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I thought it was pretty telling that the coaching staff doesn’t have a lot of faith in the team, especially the defense. I base this off the numerous times we went for it on fourth down when it wasn’t necessary, yet. And the fact that we didn’t attempt fgs when we had the chance. It was either panic or they knew

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The first playcall of our first possession in the 3rd quarter was a “shot” play that failed miserably. This was coming off the first good defensive stop of the game. I knew then we weren’t going to win and were in desperation mode, down 10 with about 27 minutes left to play.

We got impatient on offense several times and shot ourselves in the foot, but that call just exuded a lack of confidence to me. And also there’s apparently no thought to complimentary football on this staff.

The shot play was fine honestly, it backed the safeties up a bit. I was a little shocked that was the only real shot play we took all day and that we avoided running the ball after it

Even at Washington, DeBoer went for it often on fourth. It’s the same as Lanning, they both tend to be very risky on the analytics side and we saw that last year.

Deboer said he will get things fixed. That begs the question: If he could fix things then why wasn't it done over the last eight months? He made a big mistake in hiring Wommack who makes Golding look like a genius. I don't think he has the balls to do what needs to be done.