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Message: [QUOTE="BlackKnight76, post: 74399, member: 65"] 1. 100% agree 2. I'm fairly certain Hackett has a lot of control on offense. He calls the plays. Marrone may review them or w/e, but I think the playcalling is on Hackett for better or for worse. As for getting a new OC, I'd be down with that if it was a proven guy (Friedgen? pipe dream maybe?), but I'm willing to give Hackett more time. He's a young OC, I just want to see him open it up and let Nassib take shots right off the bat, which I think would open it up for Bailey. 3. 100% agree 4. I want to clear up this week's trendy knock on Marrone- that he doesn't let the kids have fun. I really couldn't care less about his demeanor on the sideline. Watch Belicheck right now, he barely moves. Watch Saban, he's fairly stoic. Doug is who he is, he's not going to force a new personality because people somehow equate sideline demeanor to winning. As for the kids, go watch the post-game celebration after the Wake game...after the WVU game...after Northwestern in 09...after all of the big road wins last year...after the Pinstripe Bowl. Nothing keeps these kids from having fun, except for losing. Off the field, these guys are more than welcome to do the normal college stuff (short of going to turning stone on a night where they have curfew). Go to Chuck's on any weekend night except for maybe the night before the game, there will be players there, both of the "party" and "non-party" camps that have been discussed here and at the tailgate. Go to an off-campus house or a south campus apartment party...same thing. Doug doesn't go around campus monitoring where these kids are, he lets them do the college thing. Are there guys who don't go out? Yes, and that's there choice. Are there guys who probably party too much? Yep. Might there be a fraction forming? Yeah, but I think it is because of this losing streak. There were no rumors of locker room issues until the last week or so. Why? Because winning cures everything. Any locker room at any level will have issues after losing. It's natural. Blaming it on Doug losing the team, or on a group of players is dumb. If we go out and beat Cincy in a few weeks, everything will be hunky-dory. [/QUOTE]

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