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Nobody really played up to their potential yesterday.

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To be fair I doubt many teams we play this year end up only hitting one 3 pointer against us either. MSU didn’t play great, makes it even more frustrating.

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Do you really believe with how intense BP is that this would still be a problem if he were the HC all season?

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I don’t really think intensity in practice has any correlation with losing the ball while fighting for extra yards in the heat of the moment, no.

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It's almost like we should have fired Pitman last year (which was already too late) when there was less competition.

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To be fair no one else fired their coach either so the other schools with coaches on the hot seat are probably saying the same thing about their AD. It wasn’t just HY waiting until revenue sharing was implemented.

I get everyone’s point about there being so many other openings but I guess the question is this - would you rather stick with BP knowing what you’re getting to an extent or go with a high-risk, high-reward option like Bob Chesney at JMU knowing not many other P4 schools are going after him? It may fail but Indiana took that risk with Cignetti and made a lot of better programs look silly.

Golesh and Lashlee both lost today too. It’s hard not to be reactionary to every coaching option during the season without finding some warts.

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What’s crazy is a lot of those guys on defense are P4 transfers and the offense is G5 and FCS guys. Really puzzling

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I think I’d rather have a productive FCS starter like Andrew Armstrong over a part-time starter or someone buried on a depth chart at a bigger school like Crutchfield. Just seems like they hit more often.

His awful record against their rivals and in big games is what did him in. I think the Richt comparison is pretty accurate. Though it’s going to be hard for them to get past Ohio State and Michigan no matter who the coach is.

That seems to indicate the funds weren’t there for Pittman because they didn’t think he was a good enough coach to leverage them but that they plan on opening up the floodgates for a new hire.

It doesn’t matter how many other schools there are to compete with IMO. Everyone and their mother would have hired Napier over Cignetti. We need an AD that can evaluate the right fit and look down the road at who can be successful, not just the flashy names that everyone is after. Those aren’t a slam dunk either.

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You think basketball would get the funding it does if we hired the basketball equivalent of Sam Pittman?

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Do you think Tyson would donate the way he is if he wasn’t best friends with Cal? He certainly wasn’t under Muss. Our basketball NIL isn’t coming from the average fan.

Same amount of scholarships I believe. That’s why most schools offer more women’s sports like soccer or volleyball without a men’s equivalent to make up for the massive football rosters

In his defense, the people asking the questions need to be more specific and phrase questions better instead of just asking him to vaguely talk about his record in close games like they’ve asked 100 times before. Ask about actual decisions he made in the game and what all went into it instead