So ... Miami

[Tony4BG]

Guess the D stayed in the locker room at halftime 34-7

[Hammer]

Having an unathletic QB and a freshman OL is a deadly combination.

[Hammer]

I don’t think you can blame the D for this

[TommyG]

They get down and just stop competing.
But I’m sure that’ll be fixed somewhat next year and by year 5 it probably won’t happen ever. Dave Clawson told me.

[kdog27]

Disgusting…. Let’s all go in on a lottery pool to write the department some checks

Doesn’t matter if they don’t change their hiring process.

[Schadenfreude]

I don’t think you can blame the D for this

Agree. Offense isn’t doing them any favors.

[guest44]

Another day, another blowout loss to a mediocre MAC team. Loeffler is on schedule. He is on schedule to be the worst football coach in BGSU history. Kingston Jr. ($120+ donor to the Falcon Club) must be proud of his guy.

Bowling Green fired Jinks so the next guy could go 6-22 and finish back to back seasons behind Akron (who has fired another coach already).

[zete]

I don’t think you can blame the D for this

Intercepting deep on 4th down is bone head at this level.... d backs getting torched.

[jpfalcon09]

Crazy how much the effort and attention to detail dropped off after the Akron loss. Coaches really lost control of the season.

[hammb]

This is the first game that I have watched the entire thing since the Murray game that I attended in person.

All I can really say, we're really really bad at football.

[roguewarrior]

This is the first game that I have watched the entire thing since the Murray game that I attended in person.

All I can really say, we're really really bad at football.

With enough talent to beat Minnesota. My son saw a kid he knows from AAU who starts on D for Miami on the field after the game…. He said “man you guys are screwed over there…. Why does he run so many tight ends?!? “ From the mouths of babes.

[guest44]

We use so many tight ends for the same reason Lloyd Carr attends some our games. We are trying to recreate 90's Michigan. One other school in the MAC tried that. Eastern Michigan went 0-12. BGSU now employs many of the people on that 0-12 staff. Meanwhile Clawson is scoring like 50ppg, ya know Jesus Clawson, the BGSU Football god. It's crazy to think that had Tom Brady chose different groomsman or had a smaller wedding, BG might not be in this spot.

[hammb]

I remember bitching about the insane personnel packages we used all offseason. Seems many though that it would change this year. It didn't.

Our OL is quite possibly the worst OL I've ever seen at the D1 level. Yes, in theory, putting extra TEs out there to block should help them in the run game, but it absolutely neuters the passing game. When your OL cannot protect your passing game needs to be mostly quick game. TEs do not win their routes in short enough areas of the field to be viable targets. It's somewhat ironic but multiple TE offenses rely on the ability to build a great play action game off them, which means the OL being able to block WITHOUT those TEs. That's how TEs get open; you fool the LB/S with play action and it helps those plodders find space. Well at this point any play action pass is essentially taking a month off McDonald's life as he gets murdered by turning his back to the LOS. This personnel CAN work if your TEs are athletic enough that you can split them out wide carrying less athletic defenders out in space; think 12 or 13 personnel, but still going empty spread. In my viewing I don't think we have TEs dynamic enough to consistently do that, and even if we did you're sacrificing speed/athleticism in favor of winning more 8-12 yard matchups.

I have zero idea if McDonald can play the quick game spread offense that our OL dictates, but to keep trotting TEs out there, running long developing pass concepts is just lunacy. Yeah, every once in while they might block it up well enough to pop a run or pass or two (and our big play was really all Terion Stewart), but we have no chance to put up sustained drives this way.

[Flipper]

MMMmmmmmm....smell that improvement....

[hammb]

MMMmmmmmm....smell that improvement....

SCHEDULE! Stronger! Clawson!