Rough opening to post game press conference!

[FortWayneFalcon]

Just for the record, 40 carries by guys lining up at QB, 5 carries by guys lining up at RB. I think there needs to be a little bit better balance.

This is a perfect example of coaches over thinking in the heat of the moment and taking the kids out of game. There has got to be dozens of HS coaches available that can see through this flawed coaching plan that we could buy for next year.

[falconfan1999]

I will no longer support or defend Coach Brandon after this. His teams have failed to perform in every fourth quarter at home this year. Fortunately, we were able to hold on and actually beat one of those teams. The schedule couldn't have been any better for us this season. Our coach failed us and now he has the audacity to start off a press conference by so callously ripping on the very people who actually paid to watch his team piddle away yet another winnable game. Coach Brandon, do us all a favor and hand in your resignation.

[BGDrew]

Well.........not a whole lot to add to this conversation. I'm never attending another BGSU football game where Brandon is the head coach. I can no longer support a program with such a terrible leader who obviously doesn't care about his fans who have given their vocal, emotional, and financial support through some terrible football.

I'll never be embarrassed to be a Falcon, but I'm embarrassed for our seniors who gave 4-5 years to this program and have had to put up with this joke of a coach. I'm not going to tell anyone how to spend their money, but since it appears our coach is all right with disrespect and mediocrity please consider supporting other sports and academics at the University. While you're at it, feel free to drop GC a line:

Greg Christopher: [email protected] | 419-372-7052

[CiContention]

You know, I left with about 5:45 to go in the 4th quarter because I figured in 11 degree windchill weather, with a 5-10 minute walk to my car, and a 10 minute drive home, that with a 14 point lead, with the ball, in enemy territory, and only 5:45 to freaking play, that a win was pretty freaking safe, Gregg Brandon.

Congratulations on determining who the "true" fans are, and rewarding them by alienating them with one of the most incomprehensible defeats in college football.

You know, Gregg, for a team that runs 40 Quarterback Draws over the course of a game, for a team that does not allow a single point in the first half, you'd think that stopping Buffalo from scoring 20 4th-Quarter points would be a task that one could accomplish, given the sheer magnitude of time your offense-with-a-lead eats, and the sheer amount of incompetence it takes to squander such an advantage.

The kids played their hearts out, Gregg Brandon, but not for the fans, and Gregg, they didn't play for you. Because like it or not, these kids that are graduating this year, they're not your kids -- this isn't your team. You don't have a monopoly on anything but this sad, pitiful legacy of defeat and the only meaningful game plan you have mapped out is how to take a program that Urban Meyer returned to a perennial powerhouse in a mid-major and how you can systematically destroy it.

You want the fans to show up? Win meaningful football games.

You want the fans to show up? Don't ever talk about the importance of whether or not our asses are in the seats ever again.

So far as I am concerned I trusted you to do the simplest of things for 5 minutes of football tonight without my eyeballs glued directly on your QB-Drawing, Screen-Throwing abortion, and you could not even accomplish that.

This is not an automobile industry. This is not the stock market. This is not politics. This is not even college. This is football. It is not that complicated. And you are not that special.

Shut up. Win games. Or go away.

[San Fran Falcon]

"That crowd was pitiful" - Coach Brandon. Probably not how you want to start off the press conference after this game.

I haven't read anymore of this thread yet. Did that fucker seriously say that? If he did...any shred of support I had for that dick just went out the door. Something tells me he has another job waiting for him if he's making a-hole comments like that.

[zete]

It would have been tougher to face 30,000 fans after a loss like that. More POed people isn't not what GB needs right now....unfortunately for him , i think he is at the end of the line in the eyes of the people he HAS to please.
Furthermore, losing to EMU, MU hasn't really set the stage for "The Showdown in the East" this game didn't have teh jucies flowing like the Missouri (Brad Smith), Minnesota (this year), NIU (the Burner), Miami (Big Ben) games of the past.
Coach, I hope your house is priced to sell.

[Rightupinthere]

Let's be fair. Brandon was NOT ripping the fans who showed up. He was ripping the people who didn't show up to support his team.

Direct quote pulled from DD's post earlier.

--Who's pitiful?: Traditionally, Gregg Brandon opens a losing postgame press conference by simply taking questions or explaining what went wrong. Tonight, we got a bit of a different experience as the first thing Brandon did was lash out as the fans:

"That crowd was pitiful and I'm so disappointed. The fans that showed up, that's awesome because they're the true fans. Our kids deserve so much better than that. To be in a championship with so much on the line and that kind of crowd disgusts me," Brandon said highly emphasizing the "disgusts me."

I agree with him. The only difference is that I believe the kids deserve a better head coach. I have full confidence that Brandon is a fine man who cares deeply for these kids. This isn't about him as a person. This is about him as a head coach.

I won't stop supporting this program because in doing so, I will stop supporting these student ath-a-letes. I will always support BG students and alumni.*




*With certain caveats regarding objective behavior.

[Warthog]

RUIT, I can't argue with your sentiments. They are pretty much right on. My biggest issue is that the coach, once again, deflects all blame from himself and tries to make one think the reason we lost that game last night was because of how few people showed up. I didn't see any fans miss an XP. I didn't see any fans calling QB runs play after play. I didn't see any fans playing the worlds softest defense the last 11 mins of the game after stuffing Buffalo for the first 3+. I didn't see any fans treating the football like a live grenade on an on-side kick. I didn't see any fans making the decision to go for it from the two yard line in OT and running one of the most telegraphed plays in the playbook that we had run at least 3 times already earlier in the game. He needs to look in the mirror and accept responsibility for how this team has woefully under achieved this year.

To blow a de facto MAC East championship game like that and the first thing he has to say is that the crowd was pathetic is reprehensible. How about focusing on football coach? Sure looks to me like you could have done a little more of that all season.

[Rightupinthere]

RUIT, I can't argue with your sentiments. They are pretty much right on. My biggest issue is that the coach, once again, deflects all blame from himself and tries to make one think the reason we lost that game last night was because of how few people showed up.

I completely understand where you're coming from and I don't blame you for limiting your support for the football program. In another thread I stated that GB threw the fans under the bus much like many of his other victims. I've seem to remember he has blamed himself ONCE for a loss - and at that, I just don't think he believed his words. This loss goes squarely on the coaches. Period.


Finally, I was just telling everyone that I wasn't going to stop supporting the program. I really don't give a sh*t what you do.

[BGorDeath]

All I can say after last night, thank God its basketball season and I don't have to watch that kind of garbage for at least eight months.

[Warthog]

RUIT, I can't argue with your sentiments. They are pretty much right on. My biggest issue is that the coach, once again, deflects all blame from himself and tries to make one think the reason we lost that game last night was because of how few people showed up.

I completely understand where you're coming from and I don't blame you for limiting your support for the football program. In another thread I stated that GB threw the fans under the bus much like many of his other victims. I've seem to remember he has blamed himself ONCE for a loss - and at that, I just don't think he believed his words. This loss goes squarely on the coaches. Period.


Finally, I was just telling everyone that I wasn't going to stop supporting the program. I really don't give a sh*t what you do.

Just for the record, I don't think I personally ever said I wouldn't support the team. I love Bowling Green and I love football too much to deprive myself of that just because the coach is a tool. I wish we had a different coach, but I will still support the team as best as I can. (Which does not include spending $34 for tickets at UT. I'll watch it on TV)

[San Diego Falcon]

I emailed GC and he responded "F___ off, go root for Buffalo"

[cw08]

I emailed GC and he responded "F___ off, go root for Buffalo"

Thanks, I needed that.

[bgsufalcon24]

I emailed GC and he responded "F___ off, go root for Buffalo"

I know where you're going with that and your intentions are good, but that's wrong.