Rojas Leaves

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:30 pm

"I managed good, but they sure played bad" I think Yogi Berra said that, H2Oville rocket thinks it was Caey Stengel..I think they share the same brain so the distinction is meaningless.

I don't know that he means to come accross that way, but GB sure does come accross that way a heck of a lot. He did it to Magner at the MCB (when discussing the INT on the WR option) he did it to Omar after the UT debacle in 2004 (voicing Omar's complaints about the slippery balls) and he's done it again here.

You can't do that stuff deliberately and expect people to follow you

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:34 pm

Flipper wrote:You can't do that stuff deliberately and expect people to follow you

Deliberate or not, I think it is hard to get people to follow you when you make comments like that.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:46 pm

I don't care for the way Brandon talks about players in the media. I don't think it's right to specifically call out players, especially not in the tone he generally does. I don't remember the quotes specifically but in both the Omar & Partridge case I got the impression tha the was blaming them for not stepping up and helping the team win. In both cases I thought they were BG's best player on days where the coaching staff had gotten embarrassed in how they did their job.

Coach Brandon blames the players. He blames Urban Meyer. He blames the schedule. Rarely does he ever seem to feel him or his coaching staff are at fault for anything.

I don't like that in a coach. I think it's a horrible message to send to your team, and I think that it's an awful way to lead. A great leader would take responsibility for the failings of the group, Brandon pushes that responsibility off.

I think he's an awful head football coach. In the past I thought he was mediocre, but I really do think he's awful. The way some things have been handled and not addressed speak volumes to me on his total lack of ability to do this job. He doesn't recruit well. He doesn't develop talent. The offensive coordinator has done a terrible job. He has taken a top 25 program and turned it into a bottom 25 program in 4 years. I don't think he could lead a dehydrated horse to water.

The administration has voiced it's unwillingness to make a change at the headcoaching position. As such I expect us to be among the worst teams in college football for the forseeable future. I have no faith in this staff to change that. If I were a player, especially a freshman, and I felt this way about the staff (and I'm sure a good number of them do), I would leave as well. I would not want to play for a coach who I had no confidence in. You can call them pansies, or gutless, or whatever, I don't care.

When I look at the BG football program I see a sinking ship. If I'm one of the players on board, I would take my chances with swimming away rather than going down with the boat, but that's me.

I'd agree that some of the players could stand to improve and that would help us win, but at this point we are trying to win despite our head coach, when we should find a coach we can win because of.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:58 pm

UK Peregrine wrote:And I don't know how you can simply throw out blocks. The fact is he didn't get the kick off fast or high enough to overcome any shortcomings BG may or may not had in the blocking scheme. Where the blame lays, I don't know and really don't care.

I took out the blocked kicks because of the abomination that are special teams were. Yes, I think that the CMU block probably was Sean's fault because it was such a short attempt (he should have kicked it higher). But I didn't see it, so I won't judge. And there is still some belief that we only had 10 guys on the field when the attempt at OSU was blocked, so that is hardly his fault. Just trying to say that we failed miserably in every facet of special teams that I only was trying to judge Ellis on his FG attempts that actually made it past the line of scrimmage.

Ellis was 26-28 on PATs. I know one miss was in the Buffalo game when he was hurting and Rojas came in and kicked PATs.

moneymaker02 · Post by **moneymaker02** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:39 pm

i would just like to add that we should never have tried a 50 yard field goal against osu. did suisham ever attempt that long when he was a freshmen?????

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:44 pm

Can't say I'm surprised. I think I'll take a break from the football forum until the banquet...

UK Peregrine · Post by **UK Peregrine** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:22 am

moneymaker02 wrote:i would just like to add that we should never have tried a 50 yard field goal against osu. did suisham ever attempt that long when he was a freshmen?????

I doubt Shaun tried one that long his freshman year, but I don't know for sure. He supposedly hit a 57 yard field goal in high school, so who knows he could have tried a long field goal. He was 3 for 8 his RS freshman year with the longest field goal made being a 28 yarder though. His longest made field for his career at BG was a 52 yarder.