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[Falconfreak90]

And this terrible season is officially over. For everyone defending Jinks: he returns a lot of talent next year. He will get another off season to develop said talent. If you see a great coach in him, there should be improvement in 2018 because there is no excuse for anything else.

If we're not at least 6-6, upper half MAC in both offense and defense, and in the east race come end of season, I think the case will be closed.

I'm ready for the off-season, for NFL playoffs, basketball, and hockey. BG football is done for the year. End of year review thread coming soon.

WORD. Pressure is on now. He HAS to show improvement next year. He needs to shake up the staff on D.

[Schadenfreude]

Start now by firing Eliano as DC.

It wouldn’t surprise me if this happens. I guess we will know soon enough.

[Falconfreak90]

Start now by firing Eliano as DC.

It wouldn’t surprise me if this happens. I guess we will know soon enough.

How can it not? The D gave up nearly 40 points a game and couldn't stop anyone all year. The O looks good and will be a force.

[Schadenfreude]

Start now by firing Eliano as DC.

It wouldn’t surprise me if this happens. I guess we will know soon enough.

How can it not? The D gave up nearly 40 points a game and couldn't stop anyone all year.

I suppose Mike Jinks could take the view that:

-- Our lack of talent on defense is so profound that it would be unreasonable to expect anyone to coach that bunch into winners, but that Eliano and his subordinates did a reasonable job in coaching players to be better and in calling plays.
-- We have some talented true freshmen just waiting to go on defense once their redshirts come off.
-- Eliano is on the brink of landing more talent and changing horses now could disrupt that process, setting our defense back further.

I'm not saying this is a correct view. But this would be an argument for keeping our defensive coordinator.

The defense is certainly a mess. I would certainly feel better about it if had young players contributing on defense to the degree that we are seeing guys like Jarret Doege, Andrew Clair, and Matthew Wilcox contribute on offense and special teams.

The O looks good and will be a force.

I agree.

[hammb]

Start now by firing Eliano as DC.

It wouldn’t surprise me if this happens. I guess we will know soon enough.

How can it not? The D gave up nearly 40 points a game and couldn't stop anyone all year. The O looks good and will be a force.

Doege & Clair look like players. The offense, however, is going to badly miss Teo Redding. I don't think he's got a snowball's chance to be drafted, just not enough production. I don't even know if he's going to get a legit camp invite (will depend on his measurables). But his catch radius for a 6'1 WR is absurd. Unfortunately he's really light in the pants for the NFL at his height, but his catch radius alone would get him an invite to my camp if I were running an NFL team.

He bailed Doege out a lot this year. We've got some other talented WRs, but we didn't have anybody else that was "open even if they weren't" like Teo was this year. It actually surprised me (and shows just how bad the offense was before Doege) when I looked at his stats and saw he was under 700 yards on the year. If Doege had played all year he's over 1000 easily. If we had Matty Ice back this year the way Redding played he could have had a monster year.

I hope they can find somebody else with those ball skills.

As for the defense? Yeah, I'll just wait until I see SOMETHING, ANYTHING, to be positive about with the defense. To me, I'm not even sure it's the play calls, as much as it just looks like poor preparation. We're always a step late/slow to recognize anything. And that includes adjusting to things presnap that aren't even requiring innate talent. The whole group seems like they're confused as to what their role is on any given play, and as a result they're always in the wrong place at the wrong time. I know nobody wants to say it, but I saw a whole lot of lackluster effort on the defensive side as well. You must play defense with emotion, and I didn't see that last night, or any other night. Prime example was on one EMU TD Clint Stephens (supposed to be one of our better defenders) had the RB in his sights at the 2-3 yd line. The RB didn't make a move, he just put his helmet into Stephens chest and pushed him into the endzone. That's not lack of talent, it's not lack of scheme...it's lack of "want to". He needed to step up and drive into the ball carrier...instead he let the ball carrier come to him and he lost the battle before it even happened.

[Flipper]

Stephens practically jumped out of his way....