Should Taggart be fired this year?

[charsibb]

You have to show some progress in year 2 to get the fans on board and that hasn't happened. 4-8 isn't an improvement over 2-10 when the difference is a result of scheduling an FCS team we can beat and beating Tulsa who is horrible and wasn't in the conference last year only due to a fluke second half offensive outburst. Taggart doesn't have a long track record to say that he will definately right the ship. He was 16-21 in 3 years coaching in the Sun Belt. Not much to go on. He had 1 bowl year where WKU went 7-6 and beat 1 team with a winning record that was from the Sun Belt. If anything he digressed in his last season at WKU. In his 5 years of coaching he has beaten 4 teams with winning records. 3 were Sun Belt teams and the other was Cincinnati last year in a game won without an offensive touchdown. We have scored 24 or more points only 3 times in Taggarts 21 games. Once was against an FCS team and once was done without an offensive TD. We are coming off of 2 blowout losses against a team that we beat last year and a team that we put up a much better effort against last year. These are not signs of progress.

 

These statistics made me lose my lunch.

 

You owe me $4.00

[Gismo]

If we had the same record, but our QBs had say a 60% completion percentage and we got more 1st downs and scoring drives, then there is some hope for the future. But our offense is so bad, it appears hopeless.

[George_Bullnard_Shaw]

 

I am going to go a route here that will probably get me blasted.  But so what.

 

CWT needs 5 years.

 

Like it or not, this is a complete rebuild.  This is not a situation where a general contractor can replace flooring in a  building and put up some drapes and think it is good to go.  Not when the foundation is rotting and mold in the walls.

 

In order to build a sustained program for years to come, the team need to be gutted.  Just completely torn down and rebuilt with the limited talent that was left.  Very limited talent.

 

Presently the youngest team in college football right now is Tennessee who are playing 23 true freshman in rotation.  USF is second with 19 true freshmen within a 2 deep rotation.  Elements of the previous coaching staff's lack of talent players are still around (see the Bull's offensive line play).  I mention TN because the situations are similar here.  After 3-4 years of horrible coaching (Holtz vs Dooley) the product that was left was a complete disgrace to the teams from previous years.  Year one of the new coach is bringing in freshman and trying to complete a rebuild with those freshman while trying to root out the give up attitude from the previous coaching tenure.  Now the process for TN will not take as long as USF since they have the financial support and media coverage while not being pinned down in the G5.  But I believe the end result will be the same.

 

Now, after year 5, if there is no conference title, then time to go.  USF has issues.  Just look at the product on the field and the people in the stands.  Winning changes everything.  But in order to win the team must be completely rebuilt.  The foundation to this rebuild should be the offensive line.  But, it looks like CWT is going for skilled players first and glossing over the OLine problem.  

 

Fix the Oline fix the offensive issues + get the defense off of the field = win games.

 

Win games leads to greater attendance which leads to OCS which leads to P5 in about 10-15 years when expansion comes up again.

 

I'm not going to blast you but in 5 years there might be 5 PEOPLE in the stadium. We need Ws.

 

 

This!!

If we give him 5 years and his system doesn't work it will be the end of the program. 5 years of handing off to a running back, low scores and few wins will make it look like the program was nuked from orbit. You'd be betting the house on him if you give him 5 years. There has to be significant signs of improvement next year.

[Ghost]

No. 

[BullsFanInTX]

You think it's bad now. Wait and see what happens if Taggart gets routed by SMU. He's done if that happens.

[raptorcj]

I don't think so, TX. Now, if we get owned by SMU and then pasted by UCF too, Tags might not make it until next season.

[NCBull]

If we get routed by SMU...

*snap*

[bullsfan1983]

SMU isn't routing anyone. They have by far the worst offense in the country. They are the only team that hasn't scored 100 points this year. They have scored 49 total while allowing 48 points...per game...by far the most points per game allowed.

 

SMU has the worst offense of any FBS team in at least the past 10 years. They also have the worst defense of any FBS team in at least the past 10 years. This is probably the worst team of all time and it isn't really close. If we somehow lose this game Taggart should be gone 5 minutes after.

Edited November 5, 2014 by bullsfan1983

[raptorcj]

^ Man, I hope we win vs SMU, I'm not sure I'd even bother coming to the board if they lose. #nuclearmeltdown

[snarling Bull]

If we lose to a winless team,  USF football should be an intramural sport only.