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I'm not trying to bash, but I'm genuinely interested in people's thoughts on this.

I intentionally did not include a "maybe" option, even though I know a lot of people may put themselves in that category.

After ten votes, it is split 50/50. President Bush would like to have that approval rating right now.

Maybe Bush could lend us his Secretary of "defense" to prepare for the MAC slate. Get it? Defense? Man I crack myself up.

If Brandon can turn the team around, and show me he knows SOMETHiNG about defense, then I'll give him some credit. Till then its going to be requiring a whole lot of:

bump.

I said yes but it's starting to wane....

I'd like to see a third option that says it's waning.

BGFan wrote:I said yes but it's starting to wane....

I'd like to see a third option that says it's waning.

I made an executive decision.

I sense a lot of waning today.

I've said this before, but this thread seems a good place to repeat it.

I don't think Brandon was necessarily ready to be a head coach when Urban Meyer left. He probably needed a few more years of working as UM's OC to be prepped for the job. But when the Urban Legend left town, Krebs gave Brandon the job, probably figuring it was better to take the growing pains than start from scratch.

Those growing pains were largely overshadowed by momentum and a well-stocked cupboard. Now those growing pains are more evident.

I don't believe Brandon has finished maturing or developing as a head coach. When it's all said and one, I'm not certain he'll end up being a great head coach, but I'm certainly not ready to abandon hope yet.

Schadenfreude wrote:

BGFan wrote:I said yes but it's starting to wane....

I'd like to see a third option that says it's waning.

I made an executive decision.

I sense a lot of waning today.

I believe the term your looking for is whining.

I know the defense was terrible, but I still don't understand why folks are still soooooo blind to what is going on with the offense. We have a serious problem on offense too. It's a sad day when a coach can't recognize that 7 players are dropping back in coverage and it's time to RUN THE BALL. It's a sad day when a coach can not see how much the defense is getting worn down and they continue to pass the ball and eat up no clock time and send that same defense back on the field. It's a sad day when an explosive offense has 6 pts. at the half and a coach sends the team back out with the exact same game plan.

Yes, the defense needs to be fixed, but the offense is getting worse. It all started with the 3rd quarter at Wisconsin and then 4 turnovers at Ball State and then the debacle last night. When will the coaches reallize that every team now knows we will not run the ball and if they drop back seven or eight, we are still stupid enough to just keep on passing.

I was with you, 87 on saying that Brandon wasn't ready for HC. I believe he was "almost" ready but that he would take a couple of years to get "good."

The issue I'm beginning to have is that he doesn't seem to be LEARNING from his mistakes. I make mistakes daily, repair them, learn from them, and implement the learnings to getting things right the next time around.

I'm just not seeing that ability or even the desire to admit, "yeah, I screwed up. This didn't work. How can this be fixed." I don't see that attitude. And that is why I said, "No" to the above question.

BelieveNBG wrote:It's a sad day when a coach can't recognize that 7 players are dropping back in coverage and it's time to RUN THE BALL.

To clarify, I don't think the problem was that we weren't running the ball. It was that we weren't running the ball effectively.

On at least three plays, Omar took the snap and handed it off to the RB who headed right into the center of the pile ... while there were about 60 acres of blue turf to either side. Our offense, I believe, is built on options - whether it's handing the ball off, choosing a receiver, etc. - it just seemed like we weren't making the correct reads.

Rightupinthere wrote:The issue I'm beginning to have is that he doesn't seem to be LEARNING from his mistakes. I make mistakes daily, repair them, learn from them, and implement the learnings to getting things right the next time around.

I'm just not seeing that ability or even the desire to admit, "yeah, I screwed up. This didn't work. How can this be fixed." I don't see that attitude. And that is why I said, "No" to the above question.

Valid concerns, RUIT, no doubt. Only time will tell. I'm sure he's doing a lot of soul-searching today.

On at least three plays, Omar took the snap and handed it off to the RB who headed right into the center of the pile ...

I recall one play where we ran the option and it went for seven yards. Odd thing is that we never ran it again. Once again...sad coaching. We were not running the ball up the middle in hopes of gaining yards. They only ran the ball to set up the next pass play, because they can't get it out of their heads that there will be times when passing is not the answer. If they truly wanted to run the ball effectively, they would not have relied on those sorry plays and they would not have put the running on the shoulders of a guy with 2 bad ankles. They should have tried the freshman (Bobby Thomas) that carried the ball pretty well at Ball State and carried 3 for 22 yards last night. We seem to have these coaches that do not know how to adjust during the flow of the game. How could that not see that Pope was not effective? How could they not try someone else who had shown success the week before? How could they not have Omar tuck it and run? Who did they think they were fooling lining Omar up at receiver? How could they not repeat the option that had just worked? This play calling is getting ridiculous.

1987alum wrote: Valid concerns, RUIT, no doubt. Only time will tell. I'm sure he's doing a lot of soul-searching today.

I really don't have confidence he is, Carl. I hope I'm wrong, but I haven't seen anything in the past three years which would give me the inclination that he is capable of serious analysis in his coaching/football philosophy. I speaking of him on a professional plateau since I don't know him as an individual.