https://www.staugustine.com/sports/2...h-all-39-gamesWhy watch? This is the last college game before three, bowl-less days. Not only should you watch, but hope it lasts five hours ... LA. TECH 34-28.
https://www.staugustine.com/sports/2...h-all-39-gamesWhy watch? This is the last college game before three, bowl-less days. Not only should you watch, but hope it lasts five hours ... LA. TECH 34-28.
Hope it lasts 5 hours? Nah! it will only seem like 5 hours watching the boring Holtz/Smith offense.
Weak...son...weak...
Bait and response is the name of the game. Your calling me a little man...weak. You forget La Tech's tendency to lose at Hawaii. We're an even match-up for many reasons and yet most of those reasons are not the same. You can complain all you want about home-field advantage and yet we haven't been able to win much on our home field this year. While it's true that Michigan State paid us a quarter million dollars not to play here...that was some time ago.
Little man syndrome is a willingness to butt heads against the SEC year in and year out. Little man syndrome is all about claiming to be the big frog in the CUSA. Oh...I meant to say BIG DOG. My bad.
But when you add this with Mom starting fights/arguments in the stands with other players' families on more than one occasion, it's more than "emotions" after a tough loss
When a respected high school coach tells his players in attendance with him at our games "that's how you don't carry yourself" and points directly at #8 and explains all the bad mannerisms and characteristics on the sideline - it's a problem and it creeps over into other areas of the team
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
That's how confirmation bias works. It's why things like poor performance of the OL is ignored...WR drops are dismissed...the opposing parties in skirmishes validated...and all conference honorable mentions poo pooed.
If it doesn't fit the narrative, it's dismissed. If it fits the narrative, no critical interaction needed.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
I have faith that we actually will surprise once again. We will put up 42 or 45. J’Mar will look decent, mainly because his receivers and running backs will all be totally healthy. Then we spend every moment between the end of the game and April watching to see who the starter will be or whether we should expect another 5th year guy.
I used to buy into your thinking, but QB play is currently the biggest problem.
Here's the evidence. Skip has been here 6 years. 3 of those he had what I would consider good to great offenses, 3 not so much. J'Mar was QB 0 of the 3 good years, 2 of the 3 bad years. The other bad year (Skip's first) we had all sorts of problems, QB was one of them.
I do not know how we get around the fact that Skip's offenses and QBs put up BIG NUMBERS with 3 different quarterbacks in 3 consecutive years (Sokol, Driskel, Higgins). One QB was a third string transfer from Iowa, one was a guy who looked terrible as a freshman who our fans wrote off and then freaked when Skip didn't bench him for J'Mar (I was one of them), and the other was a legit NFL passer. Skip was good enough to great results out of Sokol and Higgins. What changed?
Current QB play is the biggest problem. What people don't want to believe is that there probably isn't a better option on the roster (at least one that would make us feel better). That brings us back to Skip: he failed at fielding a talented player at the most crucial position the last 2 years and it is costing big time.
How many successful QB's has Skip had that he recruited? You could argue that Skip developed Higgins, but he didn't recruit him. If Skip can't recruit and develop QBs, we certainly have a bigger problem than whoever our current QB happens to be.
I never said QB play wasn't a problem, but I think it's far from our biggest problem as our current QB is being mismanaged. I certainly agree about our fans not wanting to believe J'Mar is the best we have, but I think that has led to vilification that isn't warranted.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle