No sure what to think

[TheCusian]

Did Villanova spring that defense on them in a surprise move?

I got the impression that a lot of the looks out if that defense were a surprise. And they certainly didn't have a plan using an immobile freshman... Maybe the should have? Shafer just said the 3 LB's lining up behind the 3 down linemen caused them fits most of the game.

 

[baggerbob]

The greatest problem in that game was the 11 players on defense, only forced one, 3 and out in the entire game. The defensive line, linebackers, and defensive backs had a very bad game. That side of the field needs to be fixed fast, or we will have a very long season.

 

[AZOrange]

But my point is that we would need those type of athlete's to make what we are trying to do work. Maybe i'm alone, but I feel we would need the most elite of elite athletes to make our system fly.

Bingo...

 

[kcsu]

I call BS on the 10%. That's a coach making an excuse that sounds good. No way Wilson, whose in his 2nd year, only knows 10% of the offense. It's impossible.

I will hold off on cool kid for one more game against cmu if Hunt can play and we see the same mess than it is about coaching. I have major doubts about this guy.

 

[ClkWrkOrange]

I have major doubts about this guy.

Agreed but I'm far more concerned about Bullough and have been since the GTech game last year.IMO this guy has shown nothing that leads me to believe he's anything but completely incompetent.

 

[CIL]

3 TD's. I dint think so. He wasn't doing much and if not for the PTG TD, he would have led zero TD drives. Plus, he couldn't play defense and slow Nova down who was dominating the clock.

He led us to 10 pts in 3 drives Bees. We were driving in his 4th series when he got the boot.

 

[CIL]

I call BS on the 10%. That's a coach making an excuse that sounds good. No way Wilson, whose in his 2nd year, only knows 10% of the offense. It's impossible.

I doubt it's 10 percent too. Although it did remove any option, qb read, and draw plays we had in the book.

 

[JoeCollege]

I'm trying to be rational and get my head around this one as to what it means for the future. If one puts a lot and too much stock in this one game then the future looks bleak. But that's too reductionistic and simplistic as some things need to play out before this can be fairly assessed. This program (other than vs elite teams) seems to more time then not play to its level of competition. And I want to believe that Nova will be good, real good going forward with a lot of w's...

Doc, I no longer think I love you. It's full on mancrush time. I know it now. Well said all around. So frustrating.

 

[Orangello]

Not as upset as others here as I thought expectations were way overblown for this team which I picked to go 6-6. That said, I'd love to see them do much better but I think the combination of poor planning/scheming on O and D, lack of depth at certain key positions and a really tough schedule does not bode well for this team. Some quick thoughts:

1) God help us if Crume goes down. The lack of depth at DT and the inability to clog up the middle consistently is a major concern;
2) I thought Hodge played poorly in the middle consistently overrunning plays and missing tackles. Franklin looked very good and may be the answer long term;
3) Bullough is officially on the clock IMHO. The inability to contain, especially on 3rd down, is the single most disturbing take away for me in this game. Poor tackling and gap control were in large part exploited by the aggressive D scheme which Nova used to its advantage. Why in the world we didn't use a spy on Robertson the entire game is beyond me. Looking ahead, get used to being abused by any team with a mobile QB.
4) We are going to have a bubble screen go for a pick 6 at some point. The play is taking way too long to develop and is not going to work against press coverage. I want to see the number of times this play is called scaled way back.
5) We may need to look at alternatives at center. Miller was getting blown up a lot and that was not D1 talent he was up against.
6) The kicking game is solid. Kudos to Dixon and Norton.
7) Not sure why we didn't try to throw more timing and crossing routes and use the middle of the field more. When we did it, we seemed to have success. I understand the overall philosophy of Cool Kid to try and get a mismatch on the outside and let your athletes run in space but one of the other problems with the screens is that the sideline acts like a 12th defender and forces the play flow back inside.

Trying not to read too much into this one and lot of things can be fixed in the next 2 weeks but, I'm much more concerned with the D then the O at this point.