Totally on the coaching
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We beat Maryland.
We should just join the MAC. We beat a new MAC program at home (UMass), we played a middling MAC program even at home (Buff), and we lost to decent MAC team on the road (WMU). No matter how many people want to deny it, ignore it, pretend it's not true, we are a MAC level program.
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Old school football (50s & 60s) HCPP get ahead by a TD and try to sit on the lead and run out the clock. Modern college football, score quick, get the ball back, score quickly again. Keep trying to get in the end zone because you only get 60 minutes to play this game and scoring TDs is exciting and fun.
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As much as I thought we were outcoached today, that is a fair point.
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I am not disagreeing on the coaching front. Just looking at our first down play calling makes me want to throw up.
This thread just got to me from some reason. If I didn't see the game and strolled onto the boneyard at 9:00 p.m. and saw the headline "Totally on the Coaching"', I would have thought we lost.
We run the same garbage v. Rutgers and Lose, and I will be irate. I am no doubt concerned about the offensive play calling. Not the amount of runs, but the type of runs. I just saw someone say we ran McCombs on first down 86% of the time. And of those runs, I would guess the majority were straight dives.
Deleone probably was in the bathroom on that play and the Ryan Griffin TD, no way he could have called either one of those.
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I'm not exactly a football genius, but with such rediculously vanilla play-calling, could the intent have been to give Rutgers nothing to prepare for, get the win and open up the playbook next week? Otherwise the first down run up the middle over and over looks like to product of some kind of psychosis.
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Hope thats the case.....but what is the excuse for the play calling at WMU. Only started to "open it up" in that game after being down 17-0.
I doubt we would show nothing for multiple games just to "set up" Rutgers.
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There is a 0% shot that was the philosophy. Just terrible play calling in the 2nd half.
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There is no holding back for no one at this point. This is the offense Deleone wants to run. This guy must consider it blasphemous to throw on consecutive downs. He must also think that running into 8-9, man fronts on second down to set up third and seven is some kind of genius idea.
My only way to rationalize what he is doing is if he thinks Whitmer needed to get his feet wet before giving him more responsibility. When allowed to get into a groove this kid looks like a gamer. When you constantly have him hand off and then tries a pass, he struggles, as would ninety percent of all quarterbacks not in the NFL.
My only way to rationalize what he is doing is if he thinks Whitmer needed to get his feet wet before giving him more responsibility. When allowed to get into a groove this kid looks like a gamer. When you constantly have him hand off and then tries a pass, he struggles, as would ninety percent of all quarterbacks not in the NFL.
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