Preview: LA Tech vs. UTEP - latechsports.com

[Bone_afide_Dawg]

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Last year, the Tech defensive player stomping the UTEP's players head while he was on the ground. This year, the egregious targeting of UTEP's QB by #21 Zach Zimos...

Tech is developing into a dirty, target happy program. This is not representative of the first class university that my grandfather, uncles, aunts, myself, been a part of.

Cumbie needs to fired this week, or at the very least be told by the AD, even the President, one more targeting this year, and you are immediately FIRED.

We must demand better..

I don’t think Tech is being coached to deliberately be this way as much as they aren’t coached to be disciplined and because the offense and general coaching is so bad the defense is playing too hard to be fully in control. If Jech had a disciplinarian type coach instead of some hippie-like freebie do-over type dude we’d be better off. Crumbie is who he is and Jech is who they are because of him.

[Bone_afide_Dawg]

There is no discipline on this team, and that points directly at the lack of coaching. Tipton, the "dead ball, personal foul" guy is gone, but he was just a symptom, the cause is the worst coaching staff in Tech history and one of the worst in the nation now.

I commented previously about Tipton being Jech’s dead ball personal foul specialist, so I know what you’re talking about but why do you say, he’s gone?

[Rama Jama]

I don’t think Tech is being coached to deliberately be this way as much as they aren’t coached to be disciplined and because the offense and general coaching is so bad the defense is playing too hard to be fully in control. If Jech had a disciplinarian type coach instead of some hippie-like freebie do-over type dude we’d be better off. Crumbie is who he is and Jech is who they are because of him.

You're right. I don't think it's deliberate from the coach. Cumbie seems like a nice person, he just is not HC material.

[dawg80]

I commented previously about Tipton being Jech’s dead ball personal foul specialist, so I know what you’re talking about but why do you say, he’s gone?

Tipton is entering the portal, at least, that's what I read somewhere. He wasn't on the sidelines last night that I saw.

[BCSDAWG]

O-line has been bad towards end of Skips era (coach Guge couldn't fix it) and the entirety of Cumbies career. I agree that we recruit some unathletic guys up front. They are big, but slow physically and mentally. Their reaction time and awareness is awful. Many times they will not finish the play and just stop.

Regarding our run game, it's atrocious. Our guys just block whoever is in front of them. We have no scheme of trying to move players and creating running lanes within the A or B gaps. Usually what we see is a RB having no where to run, it's just a clump of bodies at the line. The RB just goes up and try to push for 1-2 yards behind some fat lineman.

Reminds me of 7th grade football...

[BCSDAWG]

Our defense has performed well (yeah, relatively well) all year. The offense has sucked since day one, with the one anomaly being the MTSU game. The biggest problem is our horrible OL. Bunch of fat boys. Truthfully, with some exceptions, our players are simply not Division I FBS quality. Some of them could find success in FCS football, and some better suited for DII or DIII. And the whole coaching staff is in over their heads. Again, more FCS level. This Tech team would be better served in the SLC and even then, I doubt we would win the conference but should win 8 or 9 games. Nicholls is 3-4, with their wins over two SWACers and the winless NSU Demons. Nicholls lost to Incarnate Word 55-10!

NC State is 4-4, Tulsa is 2-5 with their only wins over us and those same winless NSU Demons. FIU is 2-6 and NMSU 2-5, and so too is MTSU. So far, the seven teams we have played are a combined 15-29.

...and isn't Cumbie 9-22 in his time here so far???

[Dawg Fan]

With Kennesaw State knocking off Liberty, my confidence of winning another game this season took a serious hit. I'll keep watching, but I could see Tech going 0 - 5 the rest of the way.

[dawg80]

Surprised KSU beat Liberty, not surprised Liberty lost. By that I mean, LU has been living on the edge with one "blah!" effort game after game and were bound to lose, and now will likely lose at least twice more...though 8-3 would be great by our standards. (remember LU had their Appy State game cancelled, so only 11 games). But, as for last night, KSU had been averaging 13 points/game, and were absolutely dead last in the nation in offense. Just goes to show you just how pathetic CUSA is. LU is supposed to be our "big dog." Ugh!

Yes, Crummy's bunch "running the table" and going 0-5 is likely. If there is such a thing, I would think Vegas has the odds very much in favor of Crummy's bunch finishing 3-9 with that 0-5 run. I suppose we better hope for it to happen, because if Crummy manages to win one more, finish 4-8, Tech will give him a raise and contract extension

[DallasDog]

It's more like getting run over by the table, but yes, every win means we get more Crumbie time, when he should already be gone.

[revf]

It's more like getting run over by the table, but yes, every win means we get more Crumbie time, when he should already be gone.

This is where I’m at. Both with the Saints and Tech.

More wins = more time for loser head coaches.

I’d rather lose to save my school.

[HogDawg]

Our defense has performed well (yeah, relatively well) all year. The offense has sucked since day one, with the one anomaly being the MTSU game. The biggest problem is our horrible OL. Bunch of fat boys.

Truth. We have the most "un-athletic" looking OL that I've ever seen. They look awful. They are so fat, they have zero speed, they can't protect the passer and they can't run block. I mean, all they do is occupy space. But they look seriously unhealthy out there. I just hope one of them doesn't have a cardiac arrest on the football field. It's really that bad.....

[Blue Dawg]

Truth. We have the most "un-athletic" looking OL that I've ever seen. They look awful. They are so fat, they have zero speed, they can't protect the passer and they can't run block. I mean, all they do is occupy space. But they look seriously unhealthy out there. I just hope one of them doesn't have a cardiac arrest on the football field. It's really that bad.....

But HD, young men in their prime have always had sudden cardiac arrests, so that wouldn't be weird at all

[SicemDawgz]

I’ve become so disconnected, I didn’t know we had a game. Doesn’t sound like I missed much. I’m ready to watch us start playing some sub 200 rpi teams in basketball that nobody’s ever heard of.

[dawg80]

I’ve become so disconnected, I didn’t know we had a game. Doesn’t sound like I missed much. I’m ready to watch us start playing some sub 200 rpi teams in basketball that nobody’s ever heard of.

Didn't miss much!? A Crummy win is as rare as a Bigfoot sighting!

[SicemDawgz]

Ok, that made me laugh really hard. Good one 80!!