re: HIRE Matt Luke

We should have beaten them worse, no doubt. The play that ultimately allowed things to be so close came when Ta'amu lobbed the interception when scrambling left. If we just run that play or at the very least if he throws it away, we punt the ball and State has to go the length of the field. That would have burned tons of clock and it wouldn't have been nearly so tight at the end.

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which makes me wonder why all the Longo hate.

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I’m still lost with all the people defending Longo. Lots of people on Twitter are pointing to stats too like AJ breaking records and Wilkins going over 1000; only stats I care about are scoring points when you need to and getting 1st downs when you need them and we suck at both.


We’re 92nd in 3rd down %. We scored 7 points or less in the second half like 4 or 5 times this season alone. Even the announcers said we are dead last in the FBS in giving up leads.

Longo has 2 plays. Go route and dives up the middle. We have the biggest WRs in America but he won’t run a screen. We have really athletic QBs and a beat up offensive line and he refuses to roll the QB out.


The stats are cool but when our all world WRs leave that freeze recruited, the go routes no longer result in big plays. Without all those 70+ yard TDs Longoball is terrible. We would be 0-12 without AJ brown and DK with this offense.

See my edited original post.

We had 11 first downs.

2-12 on 3rd down

13 penalties for 121 yards.

And don't get me started on the penalties in the Aggy game.

We have got to be leading the SEC on worst 3rd down % and penalties.

Luke should go to South Bama and we should offer Leach whatever he wants to come here

GTFO

I give McGriff a pass. The defense is void of talent. He still got production out of a undersized walk on in Polk. The defense got better as the year went on. Given time to recruit his own players he'd be fine IMO.

Real talk, unless y'all completely skate on the sanctions, Luke would be a steal at the price y'all could get him at. Reeling in talent is gonna be tough, and the best way to get kids punching above their weight class is to get them emotionally invested. And there's no denying that OM wanted it more than us last night, especially after Fitz went down.

Plus, if the extra bowl bans come down, Luke might could keep most everyone in Oxford cause the players adore the guy.

Agree 100%. A lot of people on here are going to be upset when Luke gets a 1 year deal.

We will sell 10,000 season tickets if Luke is hired.

Go back to Bjorks interview on Head to Head. He ducked the question as to whether he would hire Luke at the end of season.

Bjork wants to pay a coach $5 million to take over (Taggert), of $4 million (Norvell or Strong).