Recent content by bluemountain

The offense will be fine - we will find a QB in the portal if Boyd, etc aren't good enough. On defense, we need the current freshmen to step up in a big way in addition to being smarter in the portal Speaking of which, we have missed the boat badly in terms of talent evaluation and $...

We also don't have the athletes to run a 4-3-4 or a 3-4-4. Relatively speaking, the defensive backfield was supposed to be the strength of the defense, so I understand the desire to get more of them on the field and fewer DL and LB's, where we are starting guys who were rotation guys at places...

Eh, I think this is overstating things a bit. It would be great to have Phil Parker as DC for 20 years, but Phil Parkers don't grow on trees. This year is a struggle, but with the lack of talent on defense it was always going to be a struggle. With the portal, even bad teams are only one year...

Agree with this. I'm a couple years older than Hauck, so I get his mindset. He probably has FU money and has a great legacy from his days at Montana. Why screw that up and put yourself through this angst when hunting season is just getting started? I also get why he took the job. He was...

Beckman. Lovie a close second. Hauck isn't even in the team picture compared to those 2

Agree. I've long said the most important job of a head football coach is to hire and develop assistant coaches. We are seeing this play out in real time with Dabo Swinney

We put our money into our QB, Iowa put theirs into their defense

Definitely feel better about our prospects after that game. Trimble needs to learn how to hold on to the ball when he is hit

360 yards in offense for the Bucks at halftime.

I loved Mike White, but he had to go - he was a walking rules violation.

Great list and mostly agree. I would add beating Minnesota in 2014, who was 6-1 at the time we beat them. And I wasn't too surprised we hung with UM in '22, although it would have certainly been an upset if we had won

Wow....that is so sad. As Wu said, he was well on his way to having a great career

Barnett is the guy you feed the rock to in the 4th quarter when the Defense is tired and worn down. Then occasionally throw in a play action pass to the TE to mix things up. Chances are we beat Duke if we had used Barnett instead of Valentine to bleed the clock in 4Q of the game

I heard it from a few people who were connected to the program at the time. It wasn't like Rick Majerus saying he would crawl over broken glass to get the UI job, but it was serious interest nonetheless. It may have never worked out given the lack of leadership in the AD and Administration...

Ever hear of a guy named Bill Snyder? He was very interested in the job and would have taken it in a heartbeat. He was coming off a 7-4 season at K-State that was nothing short of miraculous at the time