It’s too quiet here

We rehire freeze and get the bagmen ready

quote:

---

Everyone has a better coach than us.

---

FTFY

I will either be pleasantly surprised or fully embracing the reality that we’re about to spend years wandering the woods again come September

Fire Matt Luke and hire someone who knows what they are doing and doesn't look like a deer caught in the headlights against fricking Cal.

Do that then people will be interested. Until then, I hope we fail miserably so everyone rooting for Luke because "he loves Ole Miss" feels like the moron that they are. Unless he has the same kind of success Freeze had in recruiting and on the field, he's a failure in my eyes

I wish we had thrown the checkbook at a proven coach but what’s done is done.
I do think Longo’s Offense with Ta’amu will put some points up. I’m hoping the problem
was Shea and not the scheme. Defensively, we can’t be worse. If Luke leaves the
coaches alone it might be somewhat enjoyable.

Yeah defense makes me very nervous. We usually have at least a couple of guys step up and break out. Just curious who those guys will be.

Didn’t it stall mostly with Shea though? Also I know Shea played against most of the big boys but Tamu just fits better and allows a play to develop. Shea just bailed at the first sight of trouble. Tamu is at least big enough to run the read option because he’s not a 6ft 200 pound QB that will shatter into a 100 pieces.

How do you get Taaum another year?! Did his coach lie to him?

quote:

---

Didn’t it stall mostly with Shea though?

---

No. The Arkansas and aTm games were both after Shea went down. We had a damn near un-losable cushion against Arkansas, but the offense stopped scoring and the defense let Arkansas back into the game and eventually let the pigs beat us, again. We were up 31-7 in Q2, but we only scored two more field goals the entire game and lost 38-37. It was 31-21 at half. The offense completely disappeared after looking unstoppable for most of the first half. The offense in the aTm game likewise completely disappeared in the second half, albeit for both squads. Even in the Egg Bowl, the offense took its foot off the pedal to a degree, and the defense started leaking points. Thankfully, the 31-13 lead we had with 8:23 left in the game was enough points, even if we did let State score 15 unanswered points in the final eight and a half minutes. This offseason would be downright bleak if we’d WAOMed our way out of the blowout we were putting on them mere weeks after doing the same to Arkansas. Our defense sucked, and it’ll probably suck again this year.

It seemed like Longoball would eventually hit a wall regardless of who took the snaps, with the exception of the Kentucky game. The offense would run out of tricks, and we’d stop scoring. Hopefully that’s not the case for 2018, but we can’t take our foot off the gas, ever, if we hope to win games.

I mean, I’m not just going to ignore a game because it was his first start, especially when he played really well until the entire offense forgot how to touchdown. He looked incredible for the entire first half of that game, but Arkansas’ defense adjusted, and we did not. I certainly blame Luke and Longo and our defense more than Ta’amu pretty much across the board, but there is no denying the fact that we blew a 31-7 lead against Arkansas in large part because the offense stopped working. If we’d scored merely 10 points in the second half after exploding for 31 well before halftime, we’d have won, but we didn’t, and Arkansas kept its streak against us. I like Ta’amu a lot, but I wanted to point out that the offense did completely stall under him multiple times, and it stopped working the same way it did under Shea, which suggests it’s the play calling and intensity moreso than just quarterback play. I do think Ta’amu ran the offense better than Shea did