Fire Holtz

[Dwayne From Minden]

And like I said, I don't think we will, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't if there is any way possible

[Amos Moses]

Here's the difference in the last three coaches we have had:

Dooley always looked like someone peed in his Wheaties
Dykes always looked he just ate a whole box of Wheaties
Holtz looks like he just want to dump out the box of Wheaties to see if there is a prize in it. Sorry Skip.

[upsetpuppydog]

I've seen us look this bad. We looked this bad when Dooley was here and we looked this bad in Dykes' first season. He had no game film on most of these guys and had no idea how they would play. He is not a miracle worker, but he has proven to be a decent coach at his previous jobs. I don't know about all the personality conflicts, but there is no way you fire a guy after 1 season under these conditions. If he's not happy here and doesn't want to be successful, I have no problem firing him in year 2 if there is no progress.

Holtz needs to at least play some different offensive linemen, these guys really suck. Our OL is all juniors and seniors, if we are going to use inexperience as an excuse at least play the freshmen and sophomores. 7 out of our 10 2 deep lineman are juco transfers, play some of the younger guys that weigh less than 300 lbs, they were probably never given a chance to prove that they are our best lineman, Holtz seems to have just handed the starting jobs to the juco transfers.

[hookdown]

What's happened to all those fans that thought Holtz was a great hire because he had all that experience?

The Holtz bandwagon is down to a bicycle built for two....

[George_Bullnard_Shaw]

Here's the difference in the last three coaches we have had:

Dooley always looked like someone peed in his Wheaties
Dykes always looked he just ate a whole box of Wheaties
Holtz looks like he just want to dump out the box of Wheaties to see if there is a prize in it. Sorry Skip.

I think you've nailed it.

[George_Bullnard_Shaw]

I am very close to jumping on the fire Holtz bandwagon. I am seeing 3 things that are really bugging me:

1. The lack of emotion and intensity from the coaches and the players. The coachs don't yell at the players for there screw ups and the players do not know what it takes to win. The players and the coaches make excuses for everything that goes wrong when it is lack of being prepared and players being lazy. Dixon looks like the only guy that gives a shit.

2. Tech needs a coach with some balls. Skip is way to conservative. 4 and 2 from the 50 first drive we punt. Why not go for it and get your team excited. The kids need to get excited and Hotlz is killing them with his lack of faith. uke:uke:

3. The lack of any consistency. This may come with playing young players but they should know their job. Do we practice blitz pickup? Did the D even practice the triple option? Safeties 10 yards off the ball every play when they are responsible for the pitchman. I don't think the coaches even game plan for a opponent.

I think I'm actually on the fire bandwagon but I want to give him a chance.

These 3 things are hallmarks of a Skip Holtz team and we saw it for 3 years at USF.
He is unapologetic about his conservative play, he aims to keep a game close and winnable as long as possible and win by a score or two. He actually did keep games close in his last year at USF for the most part but could never win them, often losing in a 4th quarter collapse, with BJ Daniels, an NFL caliber quarterback. He was often seen smiling and laughing on the sidelines after bad plays or blowing clock management.

What you are seeing, that is a Skip Holtz team.

[parisdog]

When you and most of your staff look down your nose at Ruston, you tend to have a much shorter leash when you can't fight your way out of a paper bag...

What have they done to make you say that?

[Dwayne From Minden]

Just talk around town...

Been hearing it since this spring, but when there is no W's or L's its overlooked

[DawgGoneMad]

Just talk around town...

Been hearing it since this spring, but when there is no W's or L's its overlooked

TOTAL BS! Looked down on is 100% from the good ol'boy fans who would have preferred some southern hillbilly coach. Truth is coming out now in the "FIRE HOLTZ" after five games. If this was Monken or Petrino we'd still be 1-4 and there wouldn't be a call for their heads. That's a fact.

[Dwayne From Minden]

Monken or Petrino wouldn't have started 1-4...

[Blue Dawg]

Monken or Petrino wouldn't have started 1-4...

Monken started 0-4.

[Dwayne From Minden]

Monken started 0-4.

But he doesn't have this team -

This team has better skilled players that should be avg more than 16 pts per game...

With avg 25 pts per game we probably have 2 more wins right now

[johnnylightnin]

Monken started 0-4.

What was USMs record last year? What was Tech's?

USM is now trying to recover from their "Holtz hire". Hope we learned from them.

[Guisslapp]

Monken/Petrino probably would have been out of budget even if we wanted them.

[T1]

We'll never know what another coach would have done. It would have taken someone spectacular to win more than 2 though. Monken couldn't have done it. Maybe Petrino.