Originally Posted by PawDawg
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Lets say the defense allows 14 of the 21 points that the Special Teams with long drives...
That's still a double digit win -
Special teams were CRAP TASTIC - defense did what it needed to do to get the win -
The difference in this and Middle game? - the offense DID NOT turn the ball over in the red zone and had NO empty trips in the red zone
At Middle that did NOT happen
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
I have to believe part of our interior Dline's problems is due to Wallace being out
I noticed. We were terrified when we had to make the last punt. I don't understand how we can be that bad on special teams! OK, let me throw defense in as well- how is this even possible? Didn't Holtz say we had more depth that ever before? I am thinking he was wrong, but if it is true, then this is on coaching. I can't even imagine how awful the rest of the season would have been if we had handed that one to them last night. How many points will we have to score to beat S. Miss?
I have to wonder what happened to our Kicker, before he was booting them out of the endzone, now he was not able to do that once, but kicked a 54-yard field goal. Was that Holtz's plan to give them chances to run it back?
He is being COACHED....
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
I know that anytime we brought at least 5 in the pass rush, good things happened. At one point, Santos was on the field in an obvious passing situation. He blitzed, blew up the middle of the pocket, and it ended up being a rushed, incomplete pass. There are two ways to defend, GATA or drop back and cover (which we apparently can't do).
The first kick off was almost to the middle of the end zone. Normal people don't return from that deep. The second one was into the end zone. The guy was just crazy.
RK TEAM YDS YDS/G PASS P YDS/G RUSH R YDS/G PTS PTS/G 1 Texas Tech 2657 664 2191 547.8 466 116.5 238 59.5 10 Middle Tennessee 2642 528 1763 352.6 879 175.8 188 37.6 11 Louisiana Tech 3160 527 2190 365.0 970 161.7 235 39.2 12 Southern Mississippi 2631 526 1534 306.8 1097 219.4 209 41.8 43 Western Kentucky 2750 458 1950 325.0 800 133.3 219 36.5 51 Arkansas 2217 443 1232 246.4 985 197.0 180 36.0 111 Texas San Antonio 1348 337 963 240.8 385 96.3 87 21.8 112 Rice 1682 336 816 163.2 866 173.2 101 20.2 115 Florida Intl 1676 335 924 184.8 752 150.4 87 17.4 117 UTEP 1653 331 874 174.8 779 155.8 73 14.6 119 North Texas 1644 329 1025 205.0 619 123.8 117 23.4 126 Massachusetts 1426 285 1018 203.6 408 81.6 94 18.8
All I know is that several times when our offense was on the field, I saw Baker roaming around by the offense's side of the bench, watching the game. He should've been over with his guys doing what he was hired to do! What's he trying to do, figure out how to stop our offense?
The answer: We should have held WKU to fewer points than Rice and Houston Baptist. That said, I realize WKU scored more points on us because they had to, but still.... This defense looks exactly like 2012. Are you guys sure that Baker isn't Spangler in disguise?
Yes....and failed miserably.... as usual.
Spangler seemed like a decent coach, as can be exhibited by our exceptional defense in 2011, but it is hard to have a great defense when your offense is receiving the most attention and is off the field so quickly. The up-tempo style hurt him in 2012, along with the loss of some of our 2011 playmakers.
I'm confused. Is it the Butcher or the Baker calling the shots on defense?
It's time to close the doors to the Temple of Janus.
I keep having flashbacks to 2012 when winning and losing was matter of the offense scoring more than the defense gave up. A lot of people saying to fire the DC. But who is going to replace him mid-season? What assurances do we have that someone already on our staff can do a better job for at least the remainder of this season? The argument can be made that we have nothing to lose. But do we really? We aren't a P5 program with enough loose changes in the athletic dept's sofa to lure a good, up and coming coach from another program mid-season. Suppose we fire the DC now and the interim or - God forbid - new DC is worse. Our remaining opponents are a combined 9-20. Take out USM's 4-1 record and our remaining opponents are 5-19. It's likely our 'Dogs will be bowl eligible with 3 games remaining on the schedule. ESPN's game predictor has Tech with at 79% to 91% chance of winning all remaining games except USM. And the USM game ESPN has us with a 45% chance of winning. We're reasonably looking at an 8-4 or 9-3 regular season and a third straight bowl appearance. At this point, stay the course BUT start looking in earnest NOW for a replacement.
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