Gritshack

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why would we all of a sudden turn incompetent and listless in a search to find someone who can adequately pilot our football program on and off the field?

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LSU also hired DiNardo.

Saban was hardly a "find." Everyone knew he was good. Good programs hire bad coaches all the time. Look at Michigan with Rich Rod and then Hoke.

Not to mention if you guys had fired Les, people may not be lining up for the job considering the success he has had. That does have a bearing on who you can attract.

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I said choosing 8 win teams, or bowl teams, or even top 25 teams is arbitrary. One team could play 4 or 5 10 win teams and the rest that are bad and another could play a lot of good/not great team

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fine...cut it arbitrarily in a way that makes Ohio State look better.

not our fault your crappy fans aren't loud enough so you had to resort to cheating. I'm not surprised by the wittiness of your banter btw. About par for the course. Quit stinking up our forum with your corndog odor.

I thought troll threads were against the rules.....

his MO is to not let the other team's best guy beat him. He'll put enough guys in the box to consistently stop fournette and see whether Harris can do it.

I think a couple of things are the problem. Some definitely Spav's fault, others maybe not.

1) we run WAY too many screens. Screens work when you have aggressive defenses blitzing, etc. and you catch them by surprise. When you run a screen every third play, they cease to be a surprise.

2) Way too many lateral plays that develop slowly. The hitches out to the wide receivers work if one blocks well and the other is a good runner capable of making the first guy miss. Some of our guys like kirk are good at this....others are terrible (RSJ). Quit throwing these to the guys that aren't good at them.

3) Most of our passes are outside of the tackles. We aren't attacking the middle of the field much at all. We are usually against nickel or dime defenses and we could be making some hay over the middle. Also, the threat of middle passes makes it less likely for linebackers to immediately step up when we are running inside because they also have to respect the fact we might throw over them. Since we basically never do that, if they step up for the run fake, they aren't hurt, so why not step up every time and crush our RB the times he does have it.

4) Why in the HELL does our QB run the zone read RIGHT BEHIND THE RB he just pulled the ball from? Usually it's a dive inside, and the QB runs outside. We seem to fake outside, pull the ball back, and run to the same place. What the hell? If you are going to run this play why don't you do a zone read with a counter action where the RB goes to one side and the RB goes the other?

To me what this boils down to is that it doesn't matter if the inside LB's crash down on the run, because we aren't throwing over the middle anyway, and nearly all our passes are short and outside the tackle boxes. You don't have to respect our deep routes.

We have excellent playmakers and they aren't being schemed into mismatches which a good offensive coordinator would be doing.

Also, i think our wide receivers coach isn't getting much out of these guys. Our route running is poor and needs to be worked on a LOT. Some of this was evident in the pro's with guys like EZ unable to make the team based on his inability to run routes. He had 5 years to get better at it and he didn't. That needs to start today.

hard to get excited about Mangino the Hut. There is no doubt he's an offensive genius but he's soooooooooo huge. I wonder if he's a recruiting liability, etc.

yeah I don't think A&M can score many points. Allen is clearly fried and probably needs to take a break due to injuries (physical or mental, hard to know which).

We probably need to start the true freshman to see what he really has, but we are so dysfunctional right now I have no clue what's going to happen.