A View From Someone on the Fence
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:30 am
In the past I always said you should put full support into the head coach. I said this about a lot of coaches at this University including Paluch and Brandon. After Saturday's embarrassment, it's getting very hard to continue to support Coach Brandon. Dumb penalties, no intensity, illegal formations, no adjustments: these things fall onto the head coach. I give him credit for not taking shots at his players (unlike last year) but if there's one person Brandon needs to blame for that "performance" in Oxford, he should find the closest mirror.
There's a very fine line between swagger and cockiness. Standing over a QB when your down by 4+ scores is classless, and something we don't do here. This isn't Marshall, this isn't "The U," nor is it USC. We are Bowling Green. Hard work, class, and pride are the things we are most proud of when it comes to our athletes. The kind of crap our guys were showing on Saturday shows they've forgotten that somewhere, and that falls on the coaches shoulders. I take enough crap from OSU fans on a weekly basis about being a Falcon, and stuff like that just makes it that much harder to support this program. I'll fight to hold up the fame of our mighty name, but if our coach isn't instilling into his players to be doing the same, then he needs to hand over the Sebo keys to someone else who can make the burnt orange and seal brown proud of this program.
I'm not ready to throw Brandon under the bus. I think there's a good coach inside him somewhere. We've seen flashes of it through his tenure here. However, the MAC as a whole is atrocious this year, and there is no reason we should not be able to be in Detroit come December. We have the tools, we have the facilities, we have the administrative support. The question will be: do we have the coach?
Prove me wrong GB.
There's a very fine line between swagger and cockiness. Standing over a QB when your down by 4+ scores is classless, and something we don't do here. This isn't Marshall, this isn't "The U," nor is it USC. We are Bowling Green. Hard work, class, and pride are the things we are most proud of when it comes to our athletes. The kind of crap our guys were showing on Saturday shows they've forgotten that somewhere, and that falls on the coaches shoulders. I take enough crap from OSU fans on a weekly basis about being a Falcon, and stuff like that just makes it that much harder to support this program. I'll fight to hold up the fame of our mighty name, but if our coach isn't instilling into his players to be doing the same, then he needs to hand over the Sebo keys to someone else who can make the burnt orange and seal brown proud of this program.
I'm not ready to throw Brandon under the bus. I think there's a good coach inside him somewhere. We've seen flashes of it through his tenure here. However, the MAC as a whole is atrocious this year, and there is no reason we should not be able to be in Detroit come December. We have the tools, we have the facilities, we have the administrative support. The question will be: do we have the coach?
Prove me wrong GB.