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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 1873130, member: 5685"] We have major talent issues but we also had coaching issues tonight. -IMO any coach not running a 3-3-5 or 4-2-5 in today's game is a dinosaur. It makes absolutely no sense to play a 4-3 especially if you do not have SEC LBs. -What was the game plan tonight? If you play an attacking style and get beat then there is nothing you can do. We certainly were not attacking tonight. If you play a passive style then teams should pick you apart when you lack talent, yet we gave up huge plays down the field. How is that even possible? I am not sure we had a game plan. -I don't think we have played many downs with a true Tampa 2 all season. We have aligned more like a 4-2-5 even against Colgate, with Thomas playing more like a DB. Which of course creates a huge mismatch vs the pass and takes the other LBs and Ss out of their base positions. Why not play a DB instead of Thomas so you can have the Ss play naturally? The 1st Q this caused a major issue as Louisville essentially had 3 WRs vs one DB and ran seam routes for easy gains. That isn't talent. -The Tampa 2 is supposed to have 2 or 3 deep and keep things underneath. We had single coverage deep quite. How and why? That isn't on talent. -Vs the pass the gameplan should have been one of two things. One would be to keep Jackson in the pocket and make him pick you apart underneath. Hope that you can hold them to a FG or that they fail to execute a long drive. It would have been a slow death but when you lack talent there isn't much of a choice. The other option would have been to blitz the out of him and hope that you can be disruptive. Either create negative yardage or TOs. If they score quickly who cares they would score anyway. The problem is that we did neither, which is on the coaches. -Vs the run the gameplan should have been to take away the edges. Their main advantage was their speed. If they ended up getting chunks by running up the middle and dancing around our guys then you tip your cap. That would be a talent issue. However that wasn't the case. We didn't try to force them inside at all. We looked like we had never seen a zone read O before, which boggles the mind being that Colgate ran it. Yes there is a huge talent difference between the two but that shouldn't cause confusion. That is on the coaches and scares me with USF up next. Talent is a major issue and will cause us to struggle all year on D. But the coaching played a large part in being down 21-0 after 5 mins and giving up nearly 900 yards instead of say 600 yards. We have a bad D but we shouldn't have one of the worst performances in the history of college football bad D. [/QUOTE]

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