Who Still Thinks Willie Taggart is the coach of the future?

[DELdaBull]

I have said this many times:

The team that showed up for the 3rd quarter can win a lot of games this season IF they can play like that for FOUR quarters/60 minutes.

[Hem]

Just a point of reference, we have 19 new players on our 2 deep roster this year.

[DELdaBull]

Now that I have thought about this question, no coach is ever the coach of the future. In the coaching profession there is only the coach of the present.

[raptorcj]

 

I was able to watch the 2nd half because I was in a Wedding it was the first game I have missed since 2005.

 

That being said, that game was in no way put away the entire 2nd half. Was it likely we would win? Yes, but it was far from over.

 

With the talent we have there is no way we should only win a game by 5 points, and have a QB that cant hit a WR.

 

You are correct that the coaches aren't to concerned with blow outs, however most teams blow out these teams with 3rd, and 4th string players in the game.

 

We couldn't do that with our first team in the game.

 

If you are not concerned after that game, I am not sure what would concern you.

yeah most teams that have talented upperclassmen get blowouts. we do not.

 

that game was over by the beginning of the 4th quarter when we had a 13 point lead. they went back to the prevent, which we obviously need work on as expected considering how young we are in the secondary, and gave up a couple of cheap meaningless TDs.

 

I am not concerned at all. Offense scored 4 Tds after scoring 11 all of last year. QB could be better but he is young and I didn't think he would compete for the Heisman this year anyway. RB is a stud and can score from anywhere on the field.

 

defense played a very vanilla prevent scheme for 3 quarters. it allowed them to gain plenty of yards and resulted in some cheap TDs. when they needed to they shut that team down

 

I wasn't expecting anything but incremental improvement from this team. maybe 5 or 6 wins this year. it takes time to rebuild a program especially with how little talent we had left. I think that's what we saw.

 

I like that bright side, but honestly I feel that anytime the opposing team is on our side of the field, that's when our team needs to shut them down. Esp when it gets to the red zone, it's really time. We allowed them to score those cheap TDs and get within an onside kick recovery of winning the game. Need to step on their throat instead.

[hm101]

Just a point of reference, we have 19 new players on our 2 deep roster this year.

Scary.

[Bear]

What is funny, is that we are defending a NEAR loss (36 - 31) to a FCS team

 

 

 

However, I still have faith in Taggart -- and White... I hope everyone starting has been warmed up for this weekend.

 

 

 

Seeing the play style against Houston and UCF gives me hope. Playing Maryland will be a good test.

[Bull94]

 

 

I was able to watch the 2nd half because I was in a Wedding it was the first game I have missed since 2005.

 

That being said, that game was in no way put away the entire 2nd half. Was it likely we would win? Yes, but it was far from over.

 

With the talent we have there is no way we should only win a game by 5 points, and have a QB that cant hit a WR.

 

You are correct that the coaches aren't to concerned with blow outs, however most teams blow out these teams with 3rd, and 4th string players in the game.

 

We couldn't do that with our first team in the game.

 

If you are not concerned after that game, I am not sure what would concern you.

yeah most teams that have talented upperclassmen get blowouts. we do not.

 

that game was over by the beginning of the 4th quarter when we had a 13 point lead. they went back to the prevent, which we obviously need work on as expected considering how young we are in the secondary, and gave up a couple of cheap meaningless TDs.

 

I am not concerned at all. Offense scored 4 Tds after scoring 11 all of last year. QB could be better but he is young and I didn't think he would compete for the Heisman this year anyway. RB is a stud and can score from anywhere on the field.

 

defense played a very vanilla prevent scheme for 3 quarters. it allowed them to gain plenty of yards and resulted in some cheap TDs. when they needed to they shut that team down

 

I wasn't expecting anything but incremental improvement from this team. maybe 5 or 6 wins this year. it takes time to rebuild a program especially with how little talent we had left. I think that's what we saw.

 

I like that bright side, but honestly I feel that anytime the opposing team is on our side of the field, that's when our team needs to shut them down. Esp when it gets to the red zone, it's really time. We allowed them to score those cheap TDs and get within an onside kick recovery of winning the game. Need to step on their throat instead.

 

I doubt that all it took was an onside kick recovery. there was 18 seconds left and they still would have needed a TD.

 

this defense is young and the scheme that was run for 3 quarters isn't meant to shut a team down. it's the prevent and it's meant to stop a team from scoring quickly. generally it allows a lot of yards and is meant for the defense to chew up clock while allowing a team to work down the field. I don't necessarily like it but many coaches use it in certain situations and maybe they really felt the players needed the work. they certainly used it a lot.

[Rizman]

 

 

 

 

You can't spend your off-season working on a defense to stop WCU. We won't play another team this year that runs that offense. Bresnehan was fine last year and will be fine this year. We have historically had an issue with those FCS teams that run "wacky" offenses. It's because you don't practice it, you assume that the difference in talent will prevail. Let's stop with the torches and see how we do when we're playing someone that we actually prepared for.

 

Taggart says QB situation is good  

 

Last year's poor start has Bulls ready for anything

 

These are headlines leading up to this game.......these came from the HC.  He doesn't deserve a pass for the kind of game that was played if he properly prepared them.  Jesus, if I had half of you as my managers I would have gone out of business long ago.

 

why is it so difficult to understand that the coaches might have been more concerned with getting these young guys experience in areas they might be lacking than they were with running up the score on an FCS team? maybe they were working on areas of weakness? they easily flipped the game in the 3rd quarter when they wanted to.

 

if you ever sacrifice long term success for short term success than you won't be in business for long regardless of who your manager is.

 

 

Because its not true. USF was in a fight to win, not give experience to young players. You give experience reps in blowouts, not games you are getting beat by a lessor talent.

 

 

You don't know what's true or not in that regard. Same with 94 but at least he put his theories in front of ?'s. Possibility is that we hardly game planned for WCU at all, focusing more on MAryland. Truth is nobody here knows. Truth is we're 1-0, which is quantifiably better than 0-1.

 

I agree TripleB, this game was so strange it was like the coaches did not want to show to much.  No one knows, but we sure will find out on Saturday.

[feardabull]

You can't expect to beat decent teams with just a running back and absolutely no passing game when your defense gives up 30+ points.

How was the WCU QB able to go 46-66 and throw for 374 yards while USF couldn't even break 200?

Because 40 of the completions were simple 6 yard passes to players on near sideline. When the defense played closer what a shock wcu stalled.

Simple question....why can't we do that on offense ?

Simple answer....we did....during the Holtz era.

I guess the near-300 rushing yards and 180+ passing yards on our QB's worst night ever doesn't work for everyone.

News break....Holz is gone.

Yes he is. As is the offense ur asking us to run.

[Skingraft]

I have said this many times:

The team that showed up for the 3rd quarter can win a lot of games this season IF they can play like that for FOUR quarters/60 minutes.

Fully agree... Sound as the Pound on this one