re: What happened to hammer down?

When you see players all of a sudden play like they've never played the game before, it's a sure sign they've lost their focus.

That isn't always on the coach. Not year 1 in a 180° transition in coaching philosophy.

To act like this shite is on Morris is just ridiculous.

Otherwise you're trying to tell me that Morris's coaching techniques are what's causing our punter to fumble a godamn snap on his own goal line.

Or that John Chavis doesn't know how to coach a secondary and that's why our DBs are playing like shite this year. Same dudes that were making play after play just two years ago.

These guys have quit. And it's obvious. That isn't on Morris.

ETA: I've seen procedural penalties in the goddamn NFL. It happens.

Man, some people grasp at anything they can to justify acting like a shithead.

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Did Tulsa even beat anyone this year?

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UCA, but they scored more points than we did

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Bielema's 3-9 season was an omen for his tenure here.

To act like 2-10 won't be the same for Morris is downright dumb.

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That's a good point.

So, as you've pointed out, it appears Chad Morris can't coach football, and this is the proof. What's your plan?

Should I draft an email to Yurachek and tell him to go ahead and cut Morris a buyout check?

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Bielema would just stand there looking clueless.

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And hungry

The story about him being on vacation because he “forgot” a big recruit was visiting that weekend still astounds me

I put this in another thread, but it’s better suited here....

We are bad.

You can argue it’s so and so’s fault all you want...the bottom line is that this team was so far gone when Morris took over he would’ve had to of been a miracle worker.

This teams been done since blowing a lead to VaTech two years ago. Once something starts going against them, they lay the hell down. Those hold overs that are seniors now, or juniors are soft.

I fire people like that. It’s going to take two years for this shop to get put in the right direction. I’ll admit, I didn’t think it was that bad. When you look back though, we just didn’t see it or we didn’t want to.

The most worrisome part to me, is that there are groups of 21 & 22 year old men in this world who will throw in the towel at the first sign of adversity. Arkansans hire lots of former hogs in sales, etc. None of these cats even look like good hires to me, much less football players.

I still can’t blame Chad Morris. Should we have beaten Colorado State? Yea, probably. Here is the thing though and this is the way I look at it....It’s like a divorce and the Mom(Arkansas)got custody of their troubled children. Step Dad(Morris)comes in and has a new set of rules. Kids rebellious in nature, put up a wall and continue to do things the way they’ve been allowed prior to step dads arrival. At a certain point, the step dad says screw it, you can’t be changed so I’m going to wait for your asses to turn 18 and kick you out of my house and start over.

My thoughts anyway...we’ve got a group of kids that aren’t willing to change there ways and there isn’t much anyone can do about it.

I think people overestimated how easy it would be to change the offensive philosophy. After watching this season I think we need a mobile QB for this offense to succeed or an unbelievably accurate one.

One thing is for certain. The Online needs to improve. We could have Cam Newton back there and it wouldn't matter. Our QBs are getting murdered.

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The O-line needs to improve.

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AND that's the one area we aren't recruiting well.

In a year where we have 2 instate lineman going to other P5 teams.

But we beat out New Mexico and Mizzou State for Latham.

If we are going to chase players like that then we should offer Drew Vest.

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He has not adapted one bit

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You can't run ANY offensive if you can't block.