BrownBullsFan

If we win Saturday, he will not get fired, because the team will be riding at 3 game win streak for the first time in the CWT era and they will have confidence they never had.  We will find a way to beat at least one more team at home and beat UCF.  I do think we will get slaughtered in at least one of the remaining road games.

The glass half full in the last 2 games is way better than the glass half empty.

Yes, you can say they only played one really good half of football in each game, they needed a trick play to score a TD in both games, and the defense has looked underwhelming on several drives in both games.

But glass half full.....We have found a way to win against opponents that were as good as us.  We started making clear 2nd half adjustments.  The defense made stops when they had to.  Our offense RESPONDED when they needed to.  We opened up the playbook and the game plan was head and shoulders better.  We are throwing the ball deep earlier in games to soften up the secondary.  Also, the widely criticized WR bubble screens that were terrible against Maryland have looked genius when they work and setup the deep ball on the bubble screen fake.

These are things we had to do to be successful and anyone that has criticized Taggart in the past (me included) is blind if you can't accept the fact that the last two weeks were better than we've seen in 2.3 years.  The truth is that Taggart is actually a decent head coach once he moves on from what is not working.  See Allen, Tom.  See offense, spread.  See playcalling, aggressive.

Winning does feel almost weird at this point, and a loss this weekend would be a huge step in the wrong direction, but as of today, things really do look like the glass is half full.

My guess is they will ease him in at some point, now even more likely with Ben Knox being done.

Temple will lose to ECU on Thursday night.  Book it.

I can definitely agree with that.  Glass half full, we are probably one game behind the pace of where I realistically thought we'd be, 2-3 instead of 3-2.  Maryland was very winnable and the effort at home games have been at the least, very encouraging.  These next two are obviously crucial.  They are winnable but can't be overlooked by any means.  Somehow, some way, get to that UCF game at 5-6.  I think the most likely path to do that is to win 2 of the next 3 (most likely UConn and SMU) and then hope to pull an upset in 1 of the @ECU, Temple, and Cincy stretch.

They are obsessed with us 1000x more than we are with them.

It's kind of pointless to tell the media what you're going to do.  Clearly, the Syracuse secondary was the weakness and he decided to open it up.  He fooled anybody looking into the press clippings.  We stopped judging CWT in press clippings in year 1 after the broken bus, so don't start again now.  Wins and losses are the only thing that matters.  We are a running team and he reserves the right to change that any week he deems necessary.

It's fine that the majority want CWT out, I get it.  But, if you can criticize all day, surely you can see when he did something right.  

UConn did not lose to James Madison.  All three losses have been respectable (Navy, Mizzou, and BYU).

Hard to count someone you don't play.

Of course it wasn't, we got the ball back with a minute left to tie the game.  Even if the Flowers long pick on first down doesn't happen, I don't think it was likely that we tie the game, but definitely not a garbage time TD because we had an opportunity to do so.

I know you are probably kidding about the Philbin thing, but he is built to be a career NFL OC.

Frost is their OC, not head coach though.

I think Chip Kelly is going to Texas if he gets fired and Charlie gets fired.  Also re: Schiano, I'm not a huge fan of the guy but everyone that says they will stop watching or going to games if he is the coach?  But what if we start winning?  In my book, possibly winning > losing.

Not only did he warm up on the sideline, he knew he was going in.  The game plan was for him to play the 2nd drive of the 2nd half all along.  Taggart answered that question in the post game news conference and Joey Knight tweeted it.

It'll be funny if Syracuse is wearing white jerseys.

No Reilly Gibbons on the two deep either, must not be ready.

This thread is awkward.

MEANWHILE IN ORLANDO

I'm not exactly a CWT supporter, but CWT isn't the one dropping deep passes and also not reading one progression then running every time a pass play is called.  I think the setup of the play calls can be better, but there are plays out there to be made as well. 

Take Memphis and the points for $100 on friday and be happy either way

The way Hayden Moore came in the game as a backup and just slang it, man, I wish we had a QB that can do that.

Will anybody in the American be able to stop Navy's triple option offense?  It will be tough.

 

 

Meet your new HC, Greg Schiano

No joking guys

It's amazing how years of losing can change your opinion of a guy. I'm not too Opposed to Schiano.. He gave us hell every year back in our prime.

 

I'd stop supporting football. Call me a bad fan or whatever -- don't care. I hate Schiano way more than I love USF Football. I especially hate Schiano way more than I love post-CWT and post-CSH USF Football. I'm not going to sit around and watch that dolt come up with more lumberjack gimmicks.

 

I'd just start going to more soccer games.

 

I disagree...I hate losing way more than I hate Schiano

 

If any of these guys (Kean, Wilson, Robles) were that much better than what we have, you can bet your ass you'd see them in the game.

 

You know what?  We will never know how good they could be in an actual game unless they get a chance to play.

 

 

Go Bulls!

 

They get a chance to play every day in practice.  If they can't execute in practice, it doesn't magically happen for them on gameday.

I think everyone understands our QB play should be much better, but we also need to grasp the fact that it can be way worse (i.e. Matt Floyd 2012-2013).  We have a guy that is trigger shy and doesn't read the field very well coupled with a play-caller that doesn't know how to get his QB in rhythm and timely dropped balls by WRs.  It's like pouring gas into a volcano.