Unreal...this article will tell you everything you need to know about Charlie

[NewEnglandBull]

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ESPN Analysts Discuss Charlie Strong and USF Football During SMU Blowout

The team of Anish Shroff, Ahmad Brooks and Kris Budden got very candid about Charlie Strong’s program on Saturday.

Nick SimonSeptember 29, 2019 3:49 pm

There’s really not much else to say aboutUSF’s abysmal 48-21 loss to SMU, but one thing that did stand out to me sitting at home were the observations the ESPN crew made about Charlie Strong’s team while covering the carnage at Raymond James Stadium on Saturday.

I watched the broadcast back this morning and transcribed some of the quotes made by the team of Anish Shroff, Ahmad Brooks, and sideline reporter Kris Budden. Some of these comments were damning indictments of where this program is at right now.

In the first quarter, following Jordan McCloud’s second interception:

“For as much as Coach Strong says this team rallies around McCloud, I thought it was interesting after the second interception he’s just moping around on the sidelines. Not one of his teammates came up to him to offer any kind of encouragement. I talked to McCloud during the week and he was excited about being able to be more vocal with his team, which I saw after the first series. But since then, he’s been silent.” -Budden

“I’m disappointed it took a while for the teammates to come lift him up. It speaks directly to the leadership of the Bulls team because you have a young quarterback. You’ve seen how good he can be and yes he comes down and throws two costly interceptions, but the reality of it is he’s your guy. And I think Charlie Strong is going to stick with him if they’re going to stick this one out, so you better make sure that he’s motivated.” -Brooks

Let’s move on to the second quarter. USF is down 28-0 and everything is falling apart. Brooks and Shroff are contemplating if a QB change will be made at the half, as McCloud is both struggling and getting banged up:

“Here’s the thing, if you make the move just two weeks after you make the change, it screams panic and the optics of it don’t look good. Again, what was Charlie Strong’s big bugaboo at Texas? The big criticism? The way they handled the quarterback position.” -Schroff

Later in the quarter, freshman linebacker Demaurez Bellamy gets flagged for a facemask penalty:

“They get Bellamy and now you tack on 15 yards at the end of the play. Protecting the quarterback, penalties, errant throws, defensive miscues. It has been just a calamity of errors in the first 30 minutes for the Bulls.” -Schroff

Coming out of halftime down 34-0, Blake Barnett is in at QB as McCloud sits down after hurting his wrist. That’s news to the sideline reporter Budden, who got different information from the head coach himself just moments earlier:

“He told me that we’re going to stick with what we’re doing which was McCloud and that obviously changed within the last 60 seconds. He’s not a man of many words and he said ‘we’re getting our tails kicked’ and walked off.” -Budden

The following exchange between Shroff and Brooks stuck out to me personally. As SMU is driving to go up 41-0, they discuss Strong’s management of his programs:

“Everybody in college football knows just what a great defensive coach he is. That offensive component just has not been consistent in his time as a head coach at Texas and now South Florida.” -Shroff

“Yeah, and I think some of the noise from the outside from both fanbases (USF and Texas), you feel like there’s this management struggle. You don’t know at times whether Charlie Strong is fit to be a coach or not. -Brooks

Brooks continued on as the Mustangs plowed their way down the field.

“We asked him yesterday as a staff how does he manage the team. He said ‘I give full responsibility to my DC, my OC. I handle the players and things the relate (to them).’ There are a lot of different systems and niches that work. At the end of the day, he wants to win championships and they haven’t been able to do that despite having a really good team when he comes in here in year one. So there’s this outside noise and you begin to question whether he’s a good head coach or not because to your point, he’s been an outstanding defensive coordinator in his history as a coach and frankly, I don’t think that conversation stops.”

“They’ve been poor today defensively. Offensively, it looks like they’re struggling to find answers and now you’re back to a quarterback controversy despite him telling our own Kris Budden ‘listen, McCloud’s our guy.’ And I do believe he said to McCloud ‘hey, we’re going to put you on the bench. It hasn’t been your day.’ But now, what is the locker room thinking? What is McCloud thinking? Charlie Strong has some management things that have kind of hung over his head in his last two stops. That’s something that if you’re Charlie Strong, you have to correct in a hurry.”

As the game gets into the final minutes of the fourth quarter, the duo in the booth discuss the Bulls needing to reverse the trend and giving their young players confidence heading into the rest of the season and into the future, when they’ll have matchups with Texas, Alabama, Florida, etc.

Brooks fires off this one final bullet that I’ll leave right here:

“If you’re Charlie Strong, if his players lose confidence, it could be a situation where he and his staff lose a job.”

[jchem1995]

Wow thank you.

[Brad]

Heard it all yesterday....

 

However my favorite announcer call was at the end of the half when they said "McCloud is going to throw it as far as he can" then he threw it about 8 yards and the receiver ran out of bounds to end the half.  

[jchem1995]

“ you don’t know at times whether Charlie Strong is fit to be-a coach or not?”

wow, man just wow. I have an Idea. none of the coaches gets to cash their pay check, instead invest in USF football and give it to the IPF.

[Rocky Style]

Very interesting!

[Brad]

It's like walking around with a boog in your nose and no one has the audacity to tell you.  As long as we can pretend everything is alright, the longer the whole thing can stretch out.

 

[Brad]

Honestly, it doesn't tell me everything I need to know about Charlie Strong.  I'd like to know more about him than what announcers speculate.  I'd like to know why he looks so disinterested.  Does he think he can survive simply being a daddy to the guys?  Does he think the defense and BJM are performing below or above expectations?  What about the offense?  Any problem with QBs getting decimated behind the line?  How did the receivers group go from pre-season "best group" to simply vanished?  Why such bad hands?  What do you work on in practice, exactly?  Is Cronkrite okay?  Is the line and/or the offensive minds on this team the biggest problem this team faces?  Whey can't Cronk find  a hole?  Can Wilcox get more involved?  Why do we run up the gut so much on first down?  Have you thought about more imaginative effort from your coaches?  Or do you keep the clamps pretty tight on them?  What do you really want to do with your life?

[jchem1995]

8 minutes ago, Brad said:

Honestly, it doesn't tell me everything I need to know about Charlie Strong.  I'd like to know more about him than what announcers speculate.  I'd like to know why he looks so disinterested.  Does he think he can survive simply being a daddy to the guys?  Does he think the defense and BJM are performing below or above expectations?  What about the offense?  Any problem with QBs getting decimated behind the line?  How did the receivers group go from pre-season "best group" to simply vanished?  Why such bad hands?  What do you work on in practice, exactly?  Is Cronkrite okay?  Is the line and/or the offensive minds on this team the biggest problem this team faces?  Whey can't Cronk find  a hole?  Can Wilcox get more involved?  Why do we run up the gut so much on first down?  Have you thought about more imaginative effort from your coaches?  Or do you keep the clamps pretty tight on them?  What do you really want to do with your life?

Bless you my son. I sorry for saying your disconnected. You certainly are.

[jchem1995]

He’s not sold on Tampa. He’s been in real college towns with support. Tampa, it’s hard.

[Triple B]

31 minutes ago, jchem1995 said:

He’s not sold on Tampa. He’s been in real college towns with support. Tampa, it’s hard.

Couldn’t agree more about that ....