Cr1028

Took this for me to realize Stone Earle is in the portal again. I didn’t realize he had eligibility left.

Not only that, we only had 3 conference wins and those wins came against teams that were a combined 4-20 in conference and 9-27 overall.

Worse. We were in the conference championship game with 9 wins in year 2 under “Coach Taylor”. Mean Green Ryan Day still hasn’t met the success level of his predecessor’s last season (a season in which he was fired).

We played 2 common opponents. The beat both. We only beat 1

They beat 6 FBS schools. We didn’t.

Gotta admire the youthful ignorance and enthusiasm.

I have been rooting against him all along because I didn’t think he would be an improvement over Littrell. If we had hired a smash mouth defense-first coach I may have felt differently. We just hired a less experienced version of what we already had.

I’m not sure if you are serious or being sarcastic.

It was sustained until he lost half the coaching staff to higher prestige/paying jobs. Hiring that OC from FCS and firing Reff to bring in Bowen ultimately cost him his job. Things were on the way up once he had Bennett calling the defense but it was too late by then. Too many on here had already decided that the improvement wasn’t fast enough to merit the salary so here we are possibly sitting at home during bowl season again just 2 years removed from being in our conference title game.

The coach we fired to hire this one took a 1-11 team to 5-7 in year 1 and 9-3 in year 2. It is absolutely possible with the right hire.

Worse than Littrell. If we had to fire Littrell we should have ended up with somebody better than this guy.

Are you sure Rick? I mean yes he beat both Boise and Texas Tech in 1999. He also lost to a 3-8 UNLV, a 1-10 Baylor, a 4-7 Arkansas State, a 3-8 Nevada, and a 4-7 Utah State. I get that those are two exciting wins but would you trade that for the 6 bad losses and a 2-9 overall record?

I agree on that point which is why I view the 2013 team as the best we’ve had in the last 25 years. Defense wins championships.

Respectfully Darrell Dickey was one Big West season away from being fired. If the Sun Belt hadn’t fallen into his lap he’d have been gone at the end of 2001. And yes Dickey had tough out of conference games, but he also lost to both Troy and FAU during the 26 game conference win streak (they just weren’t in our conference yet). From 2001 to 2004 he only beat 3 bowl eligible teams. Here is a snippet from one of my prior posts on Dickey. I doubt anyone would say ULM had facilities advantages on us, even in 2001. ************ From October 13, 2001 to September 10, 2005, Dickey’s teams won 26 consecutive conference games. The streak was bookended by wins over the MUTS. The week before the streak started we lost to 2-9 conference mate ULM. The game that ended the streak was a loss to 4-7 Troy. The combined record for the 26 teams run through was 99-203. If you exclude the 26 losses from NT, their combined record was 99-177. Of those 26 wins, just three came against bowl-eligible teams. Additionally, we lost to future conference mates Troy at the end of ‘01 and FAU at the start of ‘04 which would’ve shrunken the streak to 13 games if they had been in our conference at the time. *************