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HCSS's press conference...

I love SS, I have had multiple encounters with him and believe in him. He's frustrated, and rightly so. It may take time, but, I believe he'll get the job done. I'm a similar style coach and I'd be fired up too. At least he's not giving us canned answers, he wears his heart on his sleeve. I respect him that much more for that. I'm sure the players do too. I seriously hope it translates to the field.
 
talk is cheap at this point-
show us something these next few weeks-something
 
TheCusian said:
If you can't see the improvement in the O from last week to this week, I got nothing for you.

Results were awful - INTs unacceptable. But there were some moments when I thought they looked pretty good.
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we had moments under robinson also-

and if you think that dead horse was improved over last week- i have some awesome ocean front property for ya in oklahoma
 
TheCusian said:
If you can't see the improvement in the O from last week to this week, I got nothing for you.

Results were awful - INTs unacceptable. But there were some moments when I thought they looked pretty good.
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Results are all we have to go on. Are these good?

There were 45 pass attempts, 4 went to the other team, that's 9%.
5 were batted balls, that's 11%

20% of our offensive pass plays were bad results - directly resulting in 4 extra possession for NW and 4 scores.
 
With exceptional coaching we might have won both of these games. We should have beat Pstate . Not sure if any coaching staff could have beat NW last night. Still with a solid OC we would be 1-1 at this point. Our problems on O are many but an OC who is lost is lost and all of the talent in the world is not going to help if you cant game plan and manage a game which at this point he cant. I was worried about him from the start because of his complete lack of experiance and the simple fact that he has always been hired as a recruiter first and a coach second. At the coordinator level the first criteria is experiance especially if the head coach is new in his position and comes from the other side of the ball. McDonalds hire had warning signs all over it. Long term i actually think that he may grow into the position. At this point he is in over his head and our head coach doesnt have the experiance to step in and help him. I hope that McDonald starts to lean more on Perles and Lester as those two guys have much more experiance
 
Seems the Cool Kid has some Mad Scientist in him. Most telling comment in the whole press conference was from his saying from middle of the second quarter on they knicked the offense down to seven plays and kept running them.

From then on the offense wasn't solid (other than the picks). 4 TD's, 434 yds, 3o1 passing, 133 rushing. That's a solid day, far exceeded my expectations on that side.

And Fitzgerald didn't take his foot off the gas until late.

CK has to learn to walk before he can run. George D wasn't the Mad Scientist overnight.
 
I watched that and thought, wow this guy can't last. Think about the crazy beat downs to come -- Clemson, FSU? Maybe a What loss to Wake or someone (even Tulane). GRob used to beat himself up too. I hope they turn it around for his health, if nothing else.
 
I like looking good as I am falling down the stairs, does not change the fact that you are falling down the stairs.
 
GoSU96 said:
Seems the Cool Kid has some Mad Scientist in him. Most telling comment in the whole press conference was from his saying from middle of the second quarter on they knicked the offense down to seven plays and kept running them.

From then on the offense wasn't solid (other than the picks). 4 TD's, 434 yds, 3o1 passing, 133 rushing. That's a solid day, far exceeded my expectations on that side.

And Fitzgerald didn't take his foot off the gas until late.

CK has to learn to walk before he can run. George D wasn't the Mad Scientist overnight.
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Every offense needs those core 7-10 plays that they can run really well. Seems we may have found some that we can run sort of well when we weren't throwing the ball to the other team or ear holing their D-Linemen with the ball.
 
kcsu said:
With exceptional coaching we might have won both of these games. We should have beat Pstate . Not sure if any coaching staff could have beat NW last night. Still with a solid OC we would be 1-1 at this point. Our problems on O are many but an OC who is lost is lost and all of the talent in the world is not going to help if you cant game plan and manage a game which at this point he cant. I was worried about him from the start because of his complete lack of experiance and the simple fact that he has always been hired as a recruiter first and a coach second. At the coordinator level the first criteria is experiance especially if the head coach is new in his position and comes from the other side of the ball. McDonalds hire had warning signs all over it. Long term i actually think that he may grow into the position. At this point he is in over his head and our head coach doesnt have the experiance to step in and help him. I hope that McDonald starts to lean more on Perles and Lester as those two guys have much more experiance
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One man's opinion, but it is incredibly short-sighted to single out one coach, blast him ad nausem, and blame him for everything. Given your history, I am sure you will do this all week.

If you are going to point out "warning signs" after the fact, you might want to start at the top with the hiring a life long coordinator with no head coaching experience. This is not meant to be anti HCSS. He deserves the benefit of time and the opportunity to learn and adapt. But this likely going to be a big learning curve.
 
007 said:
One man's opinion, but it is incredibly short-sighted to single out one coach, blast him ad nausem, and blame him for everything. Given your history, I am sure you will do this all week.

If you are going to point out "warning signs" after the fact, you might want to start at the top with the hiring a life long coordinator with no head coaching experience. This is not meant to be anti HCSS. He deserves the benefit of time and the opportunity to learn and adapt. But this likely going to be a big learning curve.
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Don't think experience is the issue here. Bullough has lots of experience and his defense looked lost night. A very good team made us look very bad. The jury is still out on whether or not we actually are very bad.
 
007 said:
One man's opinion, but it is incredibly short-sighted to single out one coach, blast him ad nausem, and blame him for everything. Given your history, I am sure you will do this all week.

If you are going to point out "warning signs" after the fact, you might want to start at the top with the hiring a life long coordinator with no head coaching experience. This is not meant to be anti HCSS. He deserves the benefit of time and the opportunity to learn and adapt. But this likely going to be a big learning curve.
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Yes i will continue to point out what i feel is a major problem and that is McDonald. His poor game planning aside the guys are not organized at all which is a real danger sign. We have very good talent on the O side of the ball it just isnt being utilized properly. As to Shafer i think he will end up being a very good head coach and i also think that George can grow into a good OC. My point is simple. McDonald has been very poor as an OC his first two games. Yes there are additional problems but under McDonald this O for the fist two games has look out of sync, unprepared, and disorganized. That is
 
SUinNYC said:
Don't think experience is the issue here. Bullough has lots of experience and his defense looked lost night. A very good team made us look very bad. The jury is still out on whether or not we actually are very bad.
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The point of my post was in context to the OP who was singling out McDoanld. I do think that "experience" is a factor here on multiply levels. But, there absolutely are many issues at play.
 
007 said:
The point of my post was in context to the OP who was singling out McDoanld. I do think that "experience" is a factor here on multiply levels. But, there absolutely are many issues at play.
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Listen to Shafer. He says that he is going to start paying more attention to the game plans. Sounds like his hands off approach with the DC and OC may be modified going forward.
 
kcsu said:
Listen to Shafer. He says that he is going to start paying more attention to the game plans. Sounds like his hands off approach with the DC and OC may be modified going forward.
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I know HCSS is right about one thing, it does start with him.

There is no escaping the fact that his team has performed poorly on multiply levels. Your posts suggest that you believe this is primarily a function of how "lost" McDonald is. I think McDonald is one of several reasons.
 
I have faith in SS to right this ship. We took in some water...a lot of water from some pounding waves but these guys will bail out the boat and we'll be smooth sailing once again.
 
RUN THE BALL! Jerome Smith is begging for the rock and GM opens with tons of passes. I know teams will stack the box but you have to establish the run somehow. The short little option pass to Moore worked pretty well.

NW is a very good team but Bullough and that D got whopped around all game. That secondary should be ashamed. LB's were crap too.
 
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