Article from last year's Oracle
11/25/2018 post game comments
“You look at us, we’re very fortunate to win the seven games that we won,” Strong said Friday. “You look at the last five, when you can’t score, you have to be able to stop people and you can’t give up the big plays.”
Marquez Valdes-Scantling, now a wide receiver who has had a fairly successful rookie season with the Green Bay Packers and led USF’s receivers last season, saw a tweet with a portion of that quote and responded with his own.
“You serious?? Is this a real quote?” he said in the tweet.
But that wasn’t the only part of Strong’s press conference that bothered Valdes-Scantling.
“Just overall, we’re not a very good football team,” Strong said after the UCF loss.
Strong’s simple sentence elicited an even simpler response from Valdes-Scantling, who responded with just two words.
“Pure disrespect.” he said in his tweet.
Valdes-Scantling wasn’t the only player who was watching the War on I-4. Former-USF running back Marlon Mack, who is having the best season of his young career with the Indianapolis Colts, took to social media to critique some coaching decisions on offense.
“Please Run More Outside Zone !!!” Mack tweeted about one hour after kickoff.
Mack didn’t specify an exact play he was referencing in his tweet, but it was clearly directed toward the fact that USF’s offense was consistently running plays up the middle with little to no success.
Question: would any of CCS's former players play for him again? I think that is a great measure of a coach.