Painful is the perfect adjective, SF.
Wow....I think I may take a few days away and reflect on where we're going.
I sure hope this gets turned around....NOW. Or there will be NO MAC TITLE.
I'll still be at every game possible.
1995 Redux?
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That was a great post from beginning to end. I told my friends before the season started to enjoy this year because I thought we were heading for mediocrity starting next year. I hope we can turn it around, but we may be a year ahead of my schedule.Schadenfreude wrote:Part of the reason: I'm not sure what we have to look forward to next year. We lose some very good players on offense this year -- Sharon, Sanders, Warren, Pope. We have a couple of studs on defense -- Antonio Smith is breathtaking -- but I don't see anything resembling the fab five class of Lictensteiger we brought in a couple of years ago.
I’ve looked for every possible way you could spin the last three games, and I can’t come up with anything that mitigates the problems we have seen. Everything about BGSU this year plays to the strong suite of our opponents.
Opponents know the Falcons can’t stop the run, which allows them to burn lots of time off the clock, perfect trick plays, and practice focused passing attacks. Knowing the Falcons will be forced to pass due to a limited starting RB and the need to score quickly, they are selling-out to stop the passing game. Since most of the teams the Falcons play don’t have great QBs, such as Ohio, they will face more and more ground attacks which hook them, then throw over their heads. Nobody needs to worry about Omar Jacobs now, the defense is actually THAT bad.
I think overall that BGSU isn’t out of the running for anything just yet. But there are no signs that the new defensive coordinator has any answers to anything. The way teams are beating each-other in the MAC, there are no teams except for Buffalo that are unable to beat BGSU either at home or in Doyt Perry Stadium. Unless there is visible evidence of improvement each week on defense, teams are going to literally run past BGSU.
For what it is worth, after years of watching things fester with Blackney, I don’t feel it is out of bounds to discuss any and all topics related to the coaches. It was embarrassing to BGSU fans and alumni to have their team so utterly trounced in Boise. That Brandon admits to being totally out-coached in all areas actually makes it worse. I’m glad he recognizes the fact of what happened, not that there was any room to dodge the truth. However I have to wonder what the mentality of some of the coaches had to have been since last year. Did these men allow themselves to actually believe all the hype, and think they truly couldn’t be stopped? Did they think nobody would ever find a way to stall BGSU? Did they not think they might encounter a game where they had to come-up with something different to counter a well-prepared opponent? What made them think they could just write-off the defensive melt-down at WI as a fluke? I find these issues more disturbing than the final scores.
However, with the possible exception of the defensive coordinator, I don’t yet think we are at the “fire the coach” stage. But the season is young.
Opponents know the Falcons can’t stop the run, which allows them to burn lots of time off the clock, perfect trick plays, and practice focused passing attacks. Knowing the Falcons will be forced to pass due to a limited starting RB and the need to score quickly, they are selling-out to stop the passing game. Since most of the teams the Falcons play don’t have great QBs, such as Ohio, they will face more and more ground attacks which hook them, then throw over their heads. Nobody needs to worry about Omar Jacobs now, the defense is actually THAT bad.
I think overall that BGSU isn’t out of the running for anything just yet. But there are no signs that the new defensive coordinator has any answers to anything. The way teams are beating each-other in the MAC, there are no teams except for Buffalo that are unable to beat BGSU either at home or in Doyt Perry Stadium. Unless there is visible evidence of improvement each week on defense, teams are going to literally run past BGSU.
For what it is worth, after years of watching things fester with Blackney, I don’t feel it is out of bounds to discuss any and all topics related to the coaches. It was embarrassing to BGSU fans and alumni to have their team so utterly trounced in Boise. That Brandon admits to being totally out-coached in all areas actually makes it worse. I’m glad he recognizes the fact of what happened, not that there was any room to dodge the truth. However I have to wonder what the mentality of some of the coaches had to have been since last year. Did these men allow themselves to actually believe all the hype, and think they truly couldn’t be stopped? Did they think nobody would ever find a way to stall BGSU? Did they not think they might encounter a game where they had to come-up with something different to counter a well-prepared opponent? What made them think they could just write-off the defensive melt-down at WI as a fluke? I find these issues more disturbing than the final scores.
However, with the possible exception of the defensive coordinator, I don’t yet think we are at the “fire the coach” stage. But the season is young.
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