slowdown

Just love the improved team energy regardless of the mistakes so far this year. Great to see a coach trying to win after watching Strong and Scott attempt to break the opponents fist with their face for however many years that was.

Exactly. WRs have a responsibility to adjust. Come back and get the ball and try to make a move. Would have been a great pickup even with no YAC.

These throws may be a little off but these WRs have to make the play

Wtf was that. Guess that's what happens when you switch positions every year or your career. Nice makeup

Really pleased with the defense so far. Still expect some bumps but these guys are making it tough on a good offense.

Dukes has some athletic ability but does not seem to have the vision and instincts

Those were great plays at the perfect time. Something tells me we had another play like that in the bag and it was probably called in on the bad snap play, that would've been the down to take a shot.

how could we gauge how steady progress has been vs how it was supposed to progress to meet the original deadline? a project of this scale would have a very complex schedule that would be part of the contract documents, no one just commits to a date without a ton of asterisks, and a contractor who has been in business a while is a master at documenting every delay religiously. there are many different trades working, some independent and some not. "progress" could be made in some areas while a different path is being pushed back a couple weeks and we wouldnt know. a partial delivery of some material could cause a sub to justifiably only put half the workforce on this project, that's still "progress" but off schedule. not to mention external delays ( cant get such and such inspection because some office has Covid going around, etc) the project may have never sat with nothing done for 2 months at a time but multiple 1-2 week delays on certain paths would be impossible for us to see and still end up as months on the final product.

I don't think they would hire him to be the long term coach anyway. more like a gap filler who can keep players out of open rebellion while they flounder another year and come up with another horrible long term plan.

it only matters if he was a better fit than the other guy at Miss St. That doesn't mean he isn't good. Leach is QB friendly but he also has a habit of having multi year starters and doesn't get them hurt. If you ain't the guy for Leach, he may not be making a change for 3-4 years. No QB should stay to be a Leach backup.

Theyll figure out how to stop it, or more likely modify it, if and when it has significant negative impact to the top 15-20 teams. I don't think the NCAA is concerned if recruiting consultants and HS coaches are miffed that 2 and 3 stars are getting strung along more than they used to.

Already been mentioned above, he misread his talent and ability based on all his years of experience playing football as the dominant athlete on the field, to get out of the situation and create. As a 68 year old woman who has never played a down of football, you've never not thrown it away and made something happen. He has - a lot. It does either have to be coached out of him or hopefully at this point, was just learned the hard way.

Don't feel robbed at all. We made a boneheaded play and got tackled with 9 seconds to go, and didn't throw it to the ref to put it back in play asap. The review shouldn't have bought us a free shot that we didn't deserve

I think it is primarily about your second point. Most AD's just want to avoid scandal and survive multiple blown hires. Producing championship athletic programs is down the list You make the wrong hire by yourself and that could be your only one.

i dont think ive ever seen a defense give up chunks of yards so consistently

just depends how big do you want to fail

lol this defense is so awful, it looks like running against air. theyve at least come up with a few big plays but pretty sure theyve blown their load and will be gassed the rest of the game.

Read his bio, Spencer's career success has been as more of the big play and turn over creating variety, and less of the tough nosed win every down. Apply that philosophy to the talent and depth issues we have, you get what we got. We were always going to give up a ton of yards and points, but right now we don't make the 5-6 plays a game that allow you to win shootouts.

I mean, Temple kind of owns USF, this year not withstanding

I like how that only gets us to 9.

I think its similar in that then and now there are a lot of people who need talked off a ledge and a team that isnt THAT bad. Unfortunately I don't see this team anywhere near as close to popping in a big way as that team. I would also point out that as much as that is considered the turnaround, we had managed to go 3-5 in the conference the year prior, which still looks like an uphill battle for 2021.

and here's my captain hindsight question regarding that timeout, which couldve been justified anyway... is that not when McClain tweaked his ankle?

Come on. You know no one on here would have anything to say about mismanagement if we got in a 1st and goal but had no time left there.

Q didn't produce anything notable his first year.

I recall the defense in Skip's first year, under Snyder, being pretty solid, but yea overall the defense has not been good and in general we've never really had an identity since Leavitt left. Some might say we had that with the gulf coast offense but IMO that was just 90% one player defining the team.