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Message: [QUOTE="mgurtz79, post: 110610, member: 1006"] Excessive penalties are the coaches fault???? Explain that to me. Are they the ones who hit the guy late or out of bounds? No. Outside of benching repeat offenders (MICHAEL HAY) what are they going to do. Players are totally responsible for penalties, specifically of the personal foul/pass interference varieties. I'll give people the special teams play. It was lousy in all aspects and a coordinator should be hired. In terms of play calling if Hackett is so bad how does Shafer not get called out for a defense allowing 28.5 points a game? No one seems to call him out. The entire coaching staff needs to improve and deserve the opportunity to do that next year. If they don't then they can move on. In terms of personnel problems people had: On offense I hear Nassib can't complete passes. His stats said he completed 62% of his passes. That doesn't include the fact that I am guessing receivers dropped at least 2 passes a game. While I will be the first to admit we need to throw deeper (and that is not Nassib's strong point) I don't know if we have the receivers that can get open deep. The speed guys we have (Kobena and Graham) can't seem to catch so its a moot point. On top of that to throw deep you need some time in the pocket and that didn't seem possible very often. Bailey was a good hard runner but he was not Carter and Carter moved the pile. While we saw flashes with Jerome Smith (and here's hoping he can handle it next year) and Moore I don't think either of them gave Syracuse a better chance of winning and the fact that Bailey generally blocked well and could catch probably worked in his advantage. Also lets not forget the swoon started with the injury to PTG which lost its best player in the open field. Van Chew was never the same after the mid-point of last year and we do not have another receiver that has gained Nassib's trust (West dropped alot of passes). The tight ends were generally featured because they could be trusted. As for backup QB's being better. Do you really think Marrone would risk his job for something that stupid. I went to the spring game this year. Neither Kinder nor Loeb were even close to Nassib in accuracy or general passing ability. To me it seems like if the switch to a spread it will be with Broyld. On to defense We also seem to forget on defense we started a 1 freshman (no including Cameron Lynch who played about half of Vaughn's snaps) , 3 sophomores, 5 juniors and 2 seniors on defense. Of that group only 5 had started before this year. There were going to be growning pains. The first year they were here the defense got burned alot but you saw glimpses (Rutgers 9-sack game). This year the defense got burned alot but you could see some playmakers coming around (Dyshawn Davis). If Spruill can get stronger it seems fair to think the talent will make this defense much better next year. Overall while I feel they should have been a bowl team, although its not like they fell flat on their face. The coaching staff needs to evalute themselves and players and show improvement. Assuming we are in the Big East next year Rutgers (only loses around 4), Louisville (loses around 8), WVA (loses around 8), USF (has no seniors listed starting on their Depth chart) all return their key offensive and defensive players which means next year should see improvement in the top half (Cin loses a ton, Pitt depense on if Graham comes back and UCONN loses its best defensive players). I believe they should be competitive for a conference title despite a very tough non-conference schedule (Northwestern, USC @ meadowlands, @ Minn, Tulane, and I-AA TBA). [/QUOTE]

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