the REAL Brandon comments:

[BelieveNBG]

I just listened the the radio show from last night and I must say it was no where near as bad as what the other poster stated. I was actually somewhat pleased with the things he stated.

For one, he did not say recruiting was the only way to fix our woes. He did say that we are not kicking the ball where it needs to be and recruiting is the only thing that is going to fix that problem. I think we all know that we need to recruit kickers.

He said the offense was scaled back because it takes more preparation to be able to throw the ball deep and AT will need to be weened into those types of passes.

He said the game plan was to be in the game in the 4th quarter and we accomplished that, but we did not accomplish finishing the job.

He stated the the turnover was huge and the defense not getting the stop was huge.

He said he has been stressing to the players that we are not going to score alot of points and have the blowouts that they are accustomed to and they have to do better with defensive stops and ball security.

Omar is still day to day. He has thrown some balls and looked fine, but he can not play if he can not protect the shoulder. They will decide later in the week.

Last, Brandon did not sound like someone that had given up. He read some letters of support that indicated we can still reach our goal of winning the MAC. He talked about first things first...which is Kent and what we must do to win that game.


Note: I am certainly no Brandon supporter or basher and I am somewhat neutral, but I will say that I in no way had the same interpretation as others about the show.

[Dayons_Den]

The comments in question were not on the Coach's Show from Fricker's.

I believe they were made on his weekly 5:30 Monday appearane on Norm the Worm Wamer and Mark Benson's The Front Row on sports radio 1470 The Ticket.

[BelieveNBG]

Thanks because I was totally confused when I heard the Brandon show and was all fired up from the previous comments from the other posters. I then heard nothing that would fuel/ignite/spark a fire. Nope, not even a flicker. Anyway, someone must have gotten to the coach, because he totally toned it down. Maybe the Brandon Show was used for damage control last night and from the sounds of the posts on this board, it's a little too late for that.

[hammb]

Dayons is right. The comments that have most of us so up in arms were on the 1470 interview at about 5:30 PM. I wonder if somebody has a tape of that? It was a REALLY bad interview. My roommate & I both heard it and were talking about how awful it really made our coach sound. Then I log on here, and there was a pretty lengthy thread about it already...

[TG1996]

Dayons is right. The comments that have most of us so up in arms were on the 1470 interview at about 5:30 PM. I wonder if somebody has a tape of that? It was a REALLY bad interview. My roommate & I both heard it and were talking about how awful it really made our coach sound. Then I log on here, and there was a pretty lengthy thread about it already...

The complete difference in the two shows makes me really wonder if he just said some things in the earlier interview that just plain came out wrong. Not saying he was misquoted or anything, but that he was carrying over frustration from the weekend, and in spouting off about a second straight week of rough seas, he turned some incomplete thoughts into bad quotes. Not saying he should necessarily get a pass, because even some of what you say wrong is a window to what you really think, and I could certainly see some PC cleaning up for the "official" university show, but I think it definitely tempers some of the "this guy doesn't even care" comments following the first interview.

[Schadenfreude]

He said the game plan was to be in the game in the 4th quarter and we accomplished that,

Against Akron?

[Rightupinthere]

He said the game plan was to be in the game in the 4th quarter and we accomplished that,

Against Akron?

Ummmmm, yeah. I spit out a little of my coffee at that sentence. I hope that's not the same attitude he has with Kent.

[hammb]

He said the game plan was to be in the game in the 4th quarter and we accomplished that,

Against Akron?

You missed the part where he said we aren't good enough to blow teams like Akron out. Unfortunately we're also inexperienced at grinding games out, so we failed when we needed to make plays in crunch time.

It's not all his fault though because there is parity in college football this year. You see it in the MAC & you see it in the Big 10.

Another reason it is not his fault is because we have 2 recruiting classes suffering from a coaching transition.

[FliccGirl]

I doubt it was meant as "that's all we can hope for." It may have been meant as a "let's not do the same thing as last week" because, well, we weren't in the game in the fourth quarter against Western Michigan.

[Warthog]

Another reason it is not his fault is because we have 2 recruiting classes suffering from a coaching transition.

I thought it was four classes?

[Jacobs4Heisman]

Another reason it is not his fault is because we have 2 recruiting classes suffering from a coaching transition.

:ZZZZing:

It seems our coach has become rather adept at playing the poor boy. That's a quality I'd rather not see pop up in leaders of young men.

[MACMAN]

The truth is and I think he has been eluding to it, that the team is rebuilding. Not so much that we dont have the right people on the field, and on the team. But its more a matter of leadership by players. That some times the best followers do make or become leaders on the field, and with out those leaders to keep on field tone the result is what we have. That being a lot of what the F is going on.
It makes sense, GB has not changed he is still the same coach using the same techniques that have worked. Our D coordinator has changed, and we lost some D leaders on the field. It just maybe that, that combination has been more the issue than any one thing.
I guess we will never know exactly, but I sure hope it gets fixed this week.
I hope to be able to stop by practice again today, but my life is full of unkowns so we will see what pops up.

[BelieveNBG]

I was actually quite surprised at the lack of leadership on offense. The offense is certainly one of the best in the country and one would not think that Omar going down would have this type of outcome, but no one has taken the reigns and lead, As talented as they are, balls are being dropped, protection isn't there, fumbles, not fighting to get the ball, and not stepping up as a big time receiver and demanding the ball. I know we have a team first attitude which can be good, but in times like these, somebody needs to step up and take charge.

[Falconfreak90]

I was actually quite surprised at the lack of leadership on offense. The offense is certainly one of the best in the country and one would not think that Omar going down would have this type of outcome, but no one has taken the reigns and lead, As talented as they are, balls are being dropped, protection isn't there, fumbles, not fighting to get the ball, and not stepping up as a big time receiver and demanding the ball. I know we have a team first attitude which can be good, but in times like these, somebody needs to step up and take charge.

I think that is one of the most important keys so far this season....it seems as if everyone is waiting for someone else to step up and take charge. It seems we aren't seeing that same fire and attitude like Harris, Magner, Patton, Hewitt, Burkes, Newson, Mruczkowski and others have shown over the last few years.

[Flipper]

Yes...I agree completely with the last two posts. (freak and BelieveNBG)

My hope for this weekend is that AT is far enough along on the learning curve that everyone, from the staff, to AT to the WR's feel comfortable opening this thing up. We have soem weapons, lets use them.

Waching the Akron game reminded me of last year's frustration against NIU. Omar threw the short ball a lot in that one and NIU had no problem bottling us up.

The next week against Temple we opened things up and started moving the football again.