Flipper wrote:hammb wrote:In my opinion we have underperformed our talent under Brandon every single year he's been our head coach. He's been awful at in game adjustments, poor at having his team prepared to play big games, and has done VERY little to develop players over their tenure here. If not for beating up some lousy competition his first 2 years here I don't think anyone here would be saying that he was a quality coach.
On top of that our team has gotten noticeably worse in quality of play & W/L record since he took over. Perhaps he hasn't ruined the program yet, but he likely will.
He is, quite honestly, among the worst 10-15 coaches in all of D1A, IMO. To take what we had and do with it what he has is inexcusable. We play with no heart, no intensity, no fundamentals, and piss poor gameplans. But that's okay because he's only under contract for 2 more years!
You're confused hammb, Meyer was the coach who beat up piss poor competition here. Brandon has won games against quality opponents. Even last year...we beat them OU bobkits at OU.
You must have one hell of a good cable package if you've seen enough of the other division 1A football coaches to know where Brandon fits in. Or maybe you're just engaging in your usual hyperbolic rants that don't require substantiation but sound good anywhoo
Personally, my concern is how he does here vs the conference and what other coaches did here before him. He's up on the other coaches after Doyt and he gets an "needs improvement" agaist the rest of the conference based on the last two years.
Seriously...you people complain too much. Buy a fricking Polyphoinic Spree CD and lighten the f**k up 8)
I'm too busy to get involved in a well researched argument right now. But off the top of my head the only real quality wins we've had in Brandon's tenure are '03 Purdue, '03 NIU, '03 NW, '04 UT, '04 Memphis, and I suppose I can grant '06 OU since they won the MAC, but I still don't think they were a real great team.
In Urban's time I would give him '01 & '02 Mizzou, '01 UT, & '01 NW as quality wins.
What's more when Urban was winning his quality wins we were supposed to be nothing. When Brandon took over this program was to the point where you expect to destroy most of the MAC and at least compete with the top teams. He maintained that for 2 years (although most of those losses were disappointing losses that should not have happened). Now he's taken this program to a point where we hope to win against all of the conference and cannot rightfully expect to beat any of them. Hell, we're going to triple OT against freaking BUFFALO.
Using Warthogs' standards, I guess he has not ruined the program. He's kept us in good standing, our kids still go to school, and still have discipline off the field. Our recruiting has been solid, we're still bringing in good athletes. On the field, however, we have gone from the top of the conference to the bottom half in 4 years. I consider that a VERY bad thing.
Yes, I have a tendency to be a bit hyperbolic. Yes, I complain too much. But I want more from BG football than just hoping to compete every couple of years. I would MUCH rather be hunting down new coaches every 2 years than settling for mediocrity.
