2012 we played a tough schedule
Was it on the coaching staff when we beat them on the road? Can't have it both ways.
AQnd by the way, this thread is about talking about how talented our football team is. That is not B.S.. It's too bad we can't really have that debate here. Let's look for easy answers. Marrone was 25-25 What was his record after two years? Did he fall back in his third season? Were some fans on this very board calling for his head half way through his fourth season. How quickly we forget.
So what? The other teams have better burst than us as well.Nobody, huh? OK, then.
C'mon man you accuse of me strawman arguments you and I may disagree on the issues, but you aren't a bomb thrower nor am I. It is obvious the coaching staff pulled wins out of their a$$es last year. We aren't elite with talent, but this roster has 6-7 wins on it with better coaching.
Marrone made the mistakes that Millhouse always called out the punting/4th down stuff where he was wrong. Marrone's game planning, preparations were never questioned. He was frustrating because he left some stuff on the field but the guy didn't get the support from the AD and left for the NFL. I owe Marrone an apology and have given it to him many times this year. Shafer is NOT Marrone he hires his buddies and already committed to Lester instead of saying he is the OC now and that is all I have to say until after the season is over. Shafer is Frank Spaziani good man who won 8 games his first year, 7 games his second year, 4 games his third year, 2 games his fourth year.
Maybe you will be making another apology. And maybe you won't. There are some things I dislike about SS. He has no idea on clock management. If he says we are looking for the diamonds in the rough instead of highly rated players one more time I may jump off a bridge. But his kids play hard and don't quit and that is something you can build on.
I won't be apologizing to Shafer he is in over his head. He lost me after ISIS that was an unbelievable blunder for a D-1 coach to make. Every time SS opens his mouth he sounds like a MAC HC and not a P5 HC.
You also would have said you weren't be apologizing to Marrone. Things change.
I never said that about Marrone. DM deserves an apology because it is obvious the SU powers sold him a bill of goods and never delivered. DM only screwed up with NFL mentality as it pertains to 4th down/punting his game preparations were never questioned.
The punting has to get a c, because of 2 returns for touchdown, by out kicking the coverage. Its not how far you kick the ball, but the field position you force your opponents into, the Duke punter had us pinned back all day.
His Big East record was 11-17, for 4 years, and Temple replaced West Virginia year 4. Played 5 OOC games every year, 2009 Minn-L, PennSt-l, Nortwestern_w, Maine-w, Akron-w. 2010 Akron-Washington-l, Maine-w, Colgate-w, Boston College-l. 2011 Wake Forest-w, Rhode Island-w, USC-l, Toledo-w, Tulane-w. 2012 Northwestern-l, USC-l, Stonybrook-w, Minnesota-l, Missouri-w. Big boy games 3-8, others 9-0, and we won 2 mid tier bowl games. Record against Big East and Big Boy schools 16-25, others 9-0. We were still lower tier after 4 years, but we were better, we joined a much better conference, with a lot less talent, so people haven't been realistic to where we should be.
Can' compare schedules and teams like they are static situations. Last year MD was hurt (Diggs and others), and we weren't.
When you are backed up and are in full protect your linemen cannot get down the field. Duke doubled our gunners. Punter is told to kick it as far as he can in that situation. That is not on punter. The Duke punter was not kicking from his end zone.
top half of the league? At rb and wide out? Really?
dasher said:
How can you judge that? Our TE's have been nonexistent this year, partly due to injury, partly due to playbook. What data do you have to assess Acosta's performance?
Acosta has single handily turned SU recruiting in the state of NJ. His positional work hasn't been great since our TEs have been non-existent. Acosta has been the main recruiter for our NJ kids.
