MMW

We have as much chance as Aragorn did storming Mordor.

I would think we are in discussions. Doesn't mean they will go anywhere or we will ever hear about them. The left over BE schools are sitting on a nice pile of cash. Hope we are offering it up the P5 leagues.

This is how I see it also. We are not going to win a shootout.

Translation....no.

How could I have missed that? Somebody better let coach know.

That was an awesome game when we beat UL. The weird thing about it is that Amarri never had a game like that again. Where did it go?

I think that is what they said on the radio.

I think I saw the guy with the unitard last night at the game.

Let the guys learn the system and the wins will take care of themselves. Would you guys rather they win a few more games this year or focus on learning the system?

Why is he your guy? I want to look forward to next season but I am having trouble. Classic concern troll....

This is a rebuilding year. There are things that I have seen that I like. Work in progress to be sure.

Can you recruit players to play in a system you are not currently running? You have to make the transition sometime. Some of these players will fit with the current system and some won't but they are all gifted athletes so presumably they can adapt over time.

We are going to get crushed. People need to wake up with this optimism. We just got blown our by FAU and a AA team. Miami will eat our lunch. I think this would be counter productive. We need to get better at the offense we will be running in the long run. Besides, there is no offensive scheme that get's our team a W over Miami next week.

Good post. I see it too. We are not there yet but I see game plan and I like it.

Our beat guy is named Knight?

What's crazy is that we wouldn't be having this conversation if the football team did what is was supposed to do. Win two football games, at home, against two cupcakes. If I was DW, I would be in CWT's office constantly asking what he could provide to assist CWT and the rest of the team to be successful. I guarantee that it hasn't and won't happen. CWT has probably already gotten the DW cold shoulder, which is what poor leaders do when the chips are down............distance yourself (teflon) so the stink doesn't get on you. I'm sick of it. You should apply for the job whenever it opens next.

Regardless of the recruiting angle the record speaks for itself. If you are happy with what Holtz did to this program you are lonely.

Well for starters he would win games... Yea, 3 games his final season, it was a real embarrassment of riches.

When i played i would get it in my head that whatever happens my guy is not going to make the tackle. Silly looking back but it worked for me.

I think the qb position might be a microcosm of the team in general. They are not playing well but Willie does not have a lot of alternatives. I don't blame him for the lousy qb play or for the rest. The guys will start buying eventually. Things will click.

I know the law, it's been grilled into me at my current job by the corporate attorneys. Nothing will get the attention of the feds faster from an employment perspective than retaliation. But how was Woolard responsible fro the allegation? I don't follow. Did he contact McMurphy? Did he give the story to the players to carry out? I'm not sure what you are mean when you say "responsible for the allegation". Woolard didn't choke a kid. Leavitt did plateau. I am grateful to his contributions but he was not getting us to the next level. If you were happy with the level that Leavitt consistently proved to be his high water mark then pine away. I am not sure what people are so upset about. At any point this off season or over the last couple of weeks you thought we would be good or go bowling your expectations were very far off. We are rebuilding, we are going through Skip detox we are not good right now. We will not be good for a couple of years. We can all hope for things to click and for us to go on a run towards the end of the year.

this was the head scratcher to me and agree it was the turning point. Running wide would have been my last choice. Is there a thing as being too close to the goal line for a fade? We have got some huge wr's/te's so why not utilize them there ... I think we ran wide because we tried up the middle a couple of times and Shaw did not have the power. If he weighed 20 more lbs he would have scored on the first down run IMO. I would not run a fade with our QB's. It is a solid call for that situation, just not for this team. I still think we should have tried up the middle but I understand the call. Then they should have ran up the middle with Pierre. Probably. It almost seemed like they were trying to reward Shaw...idk.

this was the head scratcher to me and agree it was the turning point. Running wide would have been my last choice. Is there a thing as being too close to the goal line for a fade? We have got some huge wr's/te's so why not utilize them there ... I think we ran wide because we tried up the middle a couple of times and Shaw did not have the power. If he weighed 20 more lbs he would have scored on the first down run IMO. I would not run a fade with our QB's. It is a solid call for that situation, just not for this team. I still think we should have tried up the middle but I understand the call.

Willie will sell them on the chance to start and contribute right away. These players were recruited mostly by Skip and are not necessarily suited for Willies scheme and expectations of them. Most of the problems I saw yesterday was from poor O-line play. Pass blocking to be more specific. Yes our QB's are lacking but they are also running for their lives back there as soon as the ball is snapped. There have been some improvements from week 1 in other areas of the that I don't hear discussed much. Our special teams have improved, our defense has improved and started to show some swagger last night. We are running successfully on first down even when they knew we were going to run on. That is called "imposing our will" something Willie talked about. We'll get there.

Someone already wrote this but this is ground zero for the program. We will look back at this in a couple of years and realize this was all part of the process. It will mature us as a program and fan base.