Coach Grantham

Really, do you think he is going to read this dribble, much less respond to it?

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I'm all for a little Grantham bashing, but he was trying to stop 4th and 18, not a Hail Mary. We had 2 guys in position to make the play. They just didn't knock it down. Now, we shouldn't need to score 45 every game to win. That's on Grantham.

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I actually think this is all on Grantham. It should be drilled into your DB's that the first thing you should do on 4th down is NOT intercept the ball, you lose yardge, risk fumble on return... It's simple risk vs. reward.

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I'm all for a little Grantham bashing, but he was trying to stop 4th and 18, not a Hail Mary. We had 2 guys in position to make the play. They just didn't knock it down.

Now, we shouldn't need to score 45 every game to win. That's on Grantham.

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This. The failure on that play is not on Grantham; it's on the players for not just slapping the ball down instead up trying to intercept it. I repeat myself but: we took a timeout before the play and Grantham huddled the defense on the sideline. Question: did Grantham reinforce to the secondary to knock the ball down and not try to INT? If he did, then the failure is absolutely on the players. If he did not, then part of the blame goes to lack of coaching a fine point of the game at a critical moment.

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The failure on that play is not on Grantham; it's on the players for not just slapping the ball down instead up trying to intercept it.

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IMO this is Granthams fault. There can only be 3 scenarios:

1. His players listen to him, swat the ball, and win the game.

2. His players don't respect him (or aren't disciplined) enough to listen to him, and try to intercept the ball.

3. He didn't even bother to tell them to swat the ball.

2 and 3 all scream horrible coach.

I put it on Grantham that we gave up 37 to begin with. Yet another case of his defense giving up 300+ yards on the ground.

The defense played it like they should have. A prevent defense on 4th down is a good call. This was about the execution, which was pathetic. That's probably a mix of bad coaching and inexperience. I don't think our safeties have had a lot of experience purposefully batting balls down to win the game. That's still not much of an excuse, but it could be one. It was mostly just a lucky play that the ball got tipped exactly where it needed to be for the score.

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.......In a year where he is "earning" the highest salary ever paid to a coordinator in school History.........

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I know you'd hate to fit this into my "MO" but this is what is so damn crazy. Say what you want about Bobo but I think we can all agree he's pulling a helluva lot more weight than CTG and he's paid peanuts in comparison

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say what you want about Bobo.

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I slammed Mike for years regardless of the fact that he is from my hometown.

If I'm being honest with myself there are others offensive coordinators out there that are better, but it's hard to say that he isn't doing his part when we average as many points as we have been in the past couple of years.

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A fat, lazy, useless OL that is more concerned with stuffing their faces at ECV than blocking worth a damn

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Well Theus was quoted as saying:

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We came out a little sluggish the first half, I think they kind of caught us by surprise. They came out with a lot of energy and they were playing really hard

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Are you fricking kidding me? Going against a top 10 Auburn team in their stadium and not only do you come out "sluggish" you're "surprised" that they come out with a lot of energy. Jesus.

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Theus quote

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My only statement about this statement is that apparently the team doesn't understand or isn't being taught the importance of the 6 p's of life. Proper planning prevents piss poor performance.