Perspective of years, including the stink bomb at Mizzou September 1983.I don’t think that’s the case at all for the majority. I’d like to hear what you see that makes you feel we are on the right path.
Perspective of years, including the stink bomb at Mizzou September 1983.I don’t think that’s the case at all for the majority. I’d like to hear what you see that makes you feel we are on the right path.
For clarity on this, let's look at that Team Talent Composite from 247 Sports
Illinois: 37th nationally
Akron: 124th
UConn: 101st
E. Michigan: 121st
Nebraska: 24th
Doesn’t work when LBs can’t get off a block. Or when DL stands straight up or just loses battle. Betiku had enough attention on him that others didn’t step up. Lack of strength, smarts and will are the issues. We praise Lou, but you are only strong in weight room. If not strong in pads and not taught leverage, then you have 2-3 win seasons. Enjoy the butt kicking vs real Big Ten comp. I’ll wait for coaching change thread.That’s fair but again, why isn’t it working? And why is it working for the other team on the field? We need to start having that conversation too. It’s very clear that Lovie as a Defensive Coordinator is only one part of our problem right now.
Betiku actually wasn’t doubled as much as you might think. He got one on one on the outside a number of times. And when he is chipped by a TE or a back, that means we have one on ones everywhere else along the defensive front. Why aren’t those players winning those one on one battles? Why did a MAC team come into our stadium and win those battles? We need to start having this conversation.
I’ll wait for coaching change thread.
Apparently you think Lovie has done a great job?You naysayers were just waiting with baited breath for this. EMU has bowled 2 years running and will again. Sure, let’s start over and then trash the next HC because that’s what you do best.
Luckily there are plenty of winnable games left on the schedule. We have the talent to do it, just need to play better. Purdue lost to the same team last year and went bowling. Purdue, Northwesten, Minnesota, Rutgers, and Northwestern are all beatable.
Luckily there are plenty of winnable games left on the schedule. We have the talent to do it, just need to play better. Purdue lost to the same team last year and went bowling. Purdue, Northwesten, Minnesota, Rutgers, and Northwestern are all beatable.
The thread should be called fire Lovie. All I ask is to be mediocre and that doesn't even seem possible.
Doesn’t work when LBs can’t get off a block. Or when DL stands straight up or just loses battle. Betiku had enough attention on him that others didn’t step up. Lack of strength, smarts and will are the issues. We praise Lou, but you are only strong in weight room. If not strong in pads and not taught leverage, then you have 2-3 win seasons. Enjoy the butt kicking vs real Big Ten comp. I’ll wait for coaching change thread.
So there was this Purdue team last year that lost to EMU. Their season turned out alright didn't it?
Still have a tiny bit of hope. Not sure why though.
It is correct he has a 5 million buy-out in 2020 and 2021????
Thats fair, Rod needs to understand what is transpiring on the field and make adjustments to that. That’s a solid, fair point although I still see it another way personally. The OL is SUPPOSED to be the strength of this team. If you can’t trust the strength of your team, who can you trust?
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It’s time for Lovie to go. Josh should be right behind him. He has yet to make the right coaching hire.
Call me crazy, but I was thinking the same thing.I wonder if the right play once EMU got close to the goal line was to just carry their RB into the endzone while trying to force it on the way in. They almost did that, but took him down around the 5 or something. We would have gotten another shot on offense with 20 seconds or so to go rather than hoping for a block/miss from 25 yards. Given our clock management today though, IDK if we would have put together a successful ~70 yard drive together at the end.
May as well get the coaching carousel thread started!Where would be the appropriate place to start throwing some names out there?