CaribbeanGreen

you just beat me to it.... UH is GOOD this year. Unbeaten save a 1 point loss AT Miami (FL).... ULaLa scored the last 21 points. This is a great win for the SBC. Cajuns are for real.

YEAH they do. NFL-caliber facility, too.

What a game....!

they're undefeated.

just hope the secondary can hold them to a FG try...

a hot at the end zone from the 25 and beyond? They lost yards on the first play -- that's not really shockingly bad coaching there, is it? Regardless of what you think of DD.

Fair enough.

Just saying, it's about as relevant. We all know we're struggling. We don't have to try and pin every little middling stat on DD.

Yeah, I know!! Well, at least we were last. That'll always be a very spare trivia question.

Hopefully Brandon Jackson emerges... I think he's got a little something. With an older, better OL and a developed QB (whoever the hell it is), I think BJack could have a nice year.

Dickey is gonna have a better result today... (note: this is surely in jest)

Oklahoma had 11. Typical Bob Stoops coached team.

Apples and oranges. OU/UT is in a 60k stadium with 50/50 representation. Auburn and The Swamp are packed to the gills with the home fans. Compare a Vanderbilt home game to a home game at Kyle Field or the Big House, different story. I do agree that there are rowdier venues in the SEC (The Swamp, Death Valley, and Neyland come to mind), but most of it depends on the game.

It's awesome... except that I had it on my desktop before I realized it says "MEAN GREAN"..

Ft. Lauderdale here. What IS the deal with Mandy? Don't tease and run on us!!

And you're saying you are one of those God-given visionaries who can "see things" and are one of those "achievers", yes?

Is this the same Eagle Man from back in the Paradise Web days of "Harry's Mean Green"??? If I recall, there was a very frequent poster back in those days by that handle who was in the middle of many heated exchanges who referred to scripture a lot.... ... it was nothing compared to loyal fan. Please tell me I'm not the only one who remembers THAT one fondly.

Alot of us have MEANT that, but we just say "oops, I missed", and hope she buys it. What? I'm so sorry....

I wish i could. That was HILARIOUS, by the way. Five smilies hilarious. I get it, I live in Ft. Lauderdale, my handle is CaribbeanGreen, take a cruise, right.... awesome. Good one. You've started 10 topics on this board in less than a month about how the sky is falling, DD is and always has been horrible, and how we're all screwed until we listen to your 10-step plan to creating a successful D-1 program. I think you should go on a vacation yourself. Maybe I'll send you some brochures from the ship. We get it. We know how you feel. I'm sorry you haven't enjoyed any of this. More than likely, some changes are coming. Hopefully we'll see you out at Fouts the rest of the way. GMG - Beat FIU!

If I recall (as stated above), much of the beef with Simon was personality conflicts with the AD's office, etc. Matt has skins on the wall, including a Super Bowl ring. He was in a bad situation... you know how some of us talk about how much better things are now program-wise than back in the mid-late 90's? That's what Simon had to deal with.

Agreed. Homecoming. Winless opponent. Coming off an embarassing loss. This is the quintessential nut-up week. If we don't show it this week, we shouldn't expect to see it this season.

Dude, enough is enough. Give it a rest. How many threads do you need?

Agreed. He had great success with the Screaming Eagles, and we all know that stint in the pros in Orlando was never a good fit....

I agree that this was a disaster, and would not be against change... but this post, Mr. Greek, was genius.

But that's the thing -- we didn't come out running the ball 80% of the time -- not at all. We tried to throw, tried to roll Woody out into space, etc. -- and PISS POOR execution failed us time and time again. This is in no way in defense of the coaching staff - tonight was a total disaster - but we missed wide open WRs, threw into double coverage, put the ball on the ground, etc. all night long. I really think we are underestimating the fact that this staff's biggest failure may be on the recruiting trail. We don't want to admit that, but we got physically whipped tonight. Can you imagine any sequence of play calling that would have worked out there? We'd have tripped over our own two feet. And as for the 9 years thing, you know my thoughts on that -- and I think my point here backs that up. From 2001-04, this "same old offense" looked pretty damn good when Kevin Galbreath and Patrick Cobbs and Jamario Thomas' Evil Twin were gashing defenses and Scott Hall was the most efficient passer in the SBC, hitting Johnny Quinn and George Marshall deep. Hell, we had the nation's leading rusher in back to back seasons doing this! God, just writing that paragraph made me recoil at what we're throwing out there now. Systems work -- but only when they have the right players. I'm not disagreeing with the assessment that the coaches are on the hottest of seats and should be - they should - but i think we're missing the fact that we may want to criticize them a little more for recruiting failures that we've dared to in the past. You could say "Well, a good coach meshes his system to match the players he has - we really have good players." Fine - I can see that point, maybe at the high school level. But THIS STAFF RECRUITS THESE PLAYERS. If they are, in fact, loaded with talent, then they were recruiting poorly in that they weren't getting system guys. I don't think that's the case, but either way, it's bad news.