Ease up on McEntee

[businesslawyer]

+10000 ... what was hcpp thinking? We aren't making the big $$$ nor have been coaching football as long but my little sister would have known to run then punt, especially when McEntee had been shakey all game with turnovers. How could you not give that D a chance to close the game out? I wonder if that call was from hcpp or deleone...

Forte -- according to HCPP, and everyone else, DeLeone has control of the offense. I think that is how they always worked together.

 

[Carl Spackler]

We're talking about a walk-on junior QB that had never played any signficant time until last week, and split reps three ways in doing it. He then started and played nearly an entire game on the road against Vanderbilt as his first significant game time experience, where he felt the game pressure.

Guess what - he played like a junior walk on QB that had never had any significant playing time or pressure to perform, until playing a road game against Vanderbilt.

Talk about getting thrown into the fire. Got to go with what you got though. We were in position to win this game, and although the numbers, and face value of what happened look essentially the same as last year (good defense, special teams - terrible offense) - the changes are so deep and fundamental, that the room to improve from here is very very good, and the sky is the limit.

I don't know if McEntee is going to get more opportunity to play. He certainly sounded like a team leader after the game, which is a big part of what you want at that position.

As my emotions from this game calm down, I start to see things clearly.

The facts are that this offense needs to score TD's, and McEntee's first real go around as the guy under center in charge of leading that offense down the field, was very much less than stellar.

If the QB's are trully going to be graded as to production, McEntee just set the bar real low, and I'm interested to see what the other guys can do.

 

[freescooter]

As a point of reference I am a former college LB and know a few things. Game as changed in 25 years but the average FB fan can plainly see Coach PP and staff were a disaster. The game was lost on coaching which, I grant, is a rare thing. Id much prefer a younger coach whose is on his game and motivated, not a journeyman coach with a an average career. Take away PP's first 2 years after inheriting a great team from McPhearson and you have average results at best at a time when the Orange and BC were the only big programs in the NE.

Bluedogs, Come on. You may have been a college player, but you didn't follow Syracuse. In 14 years, Pasquolni had exactly 1 losing season. He had 107 wins, 56 losses and a tie. The Orange finished 9-3 in an 11 game season twice, 9-4 once and 10-3 once. Had his teams ranked in the final poll 7 times in 14 years. And the "great teams" he inherited from MacPherson had gone 8-4 and 7-4-2 in the 2 previous years, so it wasn't like they were borderline National Champs when he took over. I think were arguments to be made as to why pasquoloni was not a good fit, but to say he had "average results" at Syracuse just isn't true.

 

[Jimdish255]

Granted, the camera views weren't great, but he seemed to stay with his first option on every throw and threw it regardless if the receiver was covered or not. No excuses for McCombs though, he must have dropped at least 3 easy ones.

Maybe that's because his second option was get sacked.