just aweful

[ktrain]

we can safely say we are aweful...heart breaking

[TG1996]

The offense, the defense, or the spelling of "awful"?

[ktrain]

saw that coming...all of them

[TG1996]

Sorry, man. Just had to find some levity somewhere in between jamming these nails in my eyes.

[ktrain]

I have never seen a team with such promise play so awwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeefully

[ktrain]

I think we lose every game that we start the score with a field goal.

[debtzoomba]

We have all kinds of momentum to start the game--get a turnover down to the 3 yard line and then run the smallest player on the field into the line 3 times. Hello...Jordan Hopgood-Wildcat--where are you? That's awful playcalling.

[60yearsofsicsic]

Clawson has got to start getting some heat... I am not saying his job, but people need to start questioning play calling especially in the redzone with RB's that are 175 LB... He left 14 pts and momentum on the table

[AyZiggy97]

Clawson has got to start getting some heat... I am not saying his job, but people need to start questioning play calling especially in the redzone with RB's that are 175 LB... He left 14 pts and momentum on the table

Clawson said in the post game that the team has regressed since Marshall. That much can, or maybe even should, be hung on him. But on balance, this year is not of Dave Clawson's making. Willie Geter is perfectly big enough to get a yard on two rushing attempts, if the offensive line creates an opening. They couldn't run last year with a 220 lb running back.

Seeing as how Clawson isn't responsible for the recruiting of what would be this year's juniors and seniors, and his guidance of what was an overachieving 2009 team, he deserves time. I appreciate his candidness, in contrast to his predecessor.

[falconfan1]

ziggy97, very well stated. We have many injuries in key spots, players in new or relatively new positions, many holes in our fifth, fourth and third year classes and the obvious youth in key spots.

Certainly we have some good fifth and fourth year players on the field. But not enough of them and several who have been in the program that long have not played as large a role before this year

Don't need to use the above as excuses. We must play to our potential. But I consider the above to be facts so they must be considered as we move through this coaching staff's tenure and the accompanying rebuilding process.

Go Falcons!

[jpfalcon09]

Clawson's coaching skills will be put to the test next year with a majority of the same players coming back. Honestly, they may not win a MAC game this year if this keeps up. Yes, they're young and yes they have injuries but giving up 49 points to a MAC foe is unacceptable. What is most disappointing is that the team was showing improvement from week to week and since the Michigan game, that's gone kaput, and that falls on the coaches.

[Flipper]

It falls on the players too..the coaches don't teach them to miss blocks, drop passes, take penalties and miss tackles. The players have to suck it up compete. They don't seem to be too competivie right now.

I blame that damn Miley Cyrus...but I blame her for just about everything.

we're paying the price for much of the 2007 and 2008 recruiting classes blowing out..we're paying for the scholarship restrictions due to low APR scores. We're paying for it an it sucks.

[Drago]

First off, I don't believe our talent level is much below Ohio's. We may be a little young in some spots and terrible on defense, but we should still move the ball. I was worried about this when we hired Clawson. We were a team built for a pass first option spread. Clawson's first spring all he talked about was how running the ball was going to improve our offense. My concern then and now is we don't get the athletes to run the ball in pro style formations on a consistent basis. Last year we couldn't run and this year we are brutal on offense. Our only win is because Marshall couldn't hold onto the ball. In my opinion, we haven't moved the ball against a respectable defense since last years Troy game and Missouri from last year. Every other decent defense has basically shut us down. Last years team moved the ball against bad MAC defenses. We still have only beaten one team with a winning record the past two seasons. We've been bad on defense for years now, but I thought it was a mistake to move away from the offense that made us a consistent bowl contender.

[kdog27]

Clawson has got to start getting some heat... I am not saying his job, but people need to start questioning play calling especially in the redzone with RB's that are 175 LB... He left 14 pts and momentum on the table

I agree with you. At some point this coaching staff has to stop getting a free pass every time this team looks like crap. We don't win close games, we have little emotion, we are inept in the redzone, our playcalling is usually a joke and I didn't think it was possible but tackling is worse then any Gregg Brandon team I watched. We have gotten worse every game since week one IMO. Marshall and Buffalo were just nice enough to suck too. And seriously OU is terrible too!

I also thought 7-6 last season was an underachievement but everyone made it seem like we went 11-2 Coach Clawson handles the media well, other than that I continue to be unimpressed.

[JoeFalcon]

The issues have been noted, and they won't be rectified this year and possibly not even next year.

I love Jovon Leacock and Willie Cooper and their contributions, but it speaks volumes about our personnel situation that they're playing such pivotal roles as first year walk-ons who we didn't even really know about until shortly before the season began.

Futilly trying to jam Willie Geter up the middle instead of getting him outside along the perimeter doesn't much help things, either.