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We don't know if any of our coaches came to RV or he went out and found them. Did he post the job and see who applied or did he act as a headhunter and go find the guy he wanted? I sure don't know and most here probably don't know either.

I think Cosh needs to get canned as well. How could we have gotten so bad on defense so fast?

Dodge was very good with the fans and like it or not, he played a rather large role in getting that beautiful stadium built that he never got to coach in. Would Bill Clark be worth a look? He has got to be sick of the UAB mess by now.

I remember it well. It was my first game at Fouts.

Karen Aston was a solid hire. She took a program that went 5-25 and brought them to 15-16 in one season. That is impressive whether you hate RV or not. She likely would've had a winning season every year thereafter, if she had stayed. She was hired away by a VERY wealthy university and led them to the sweet 16 and 24 wins last year. Aston should not be lumped in with RV's failures because she was the best hire he has made outside of Johnny Jones.

I miss me some tomato. Mangia here in Austin just doesn't meet the standard although it is the closest I've found since the Tomato burned down..

Any college football player who tells his coach he wants to ride the bench because someone else is better than him should have his scholarship revoked and be kicked off the team.

And she has done well at UT after being hired away. If a wealthier program poaches one of our coaches, I consider that a solid hire.

He did get Johnny Jones and Karen Aston right. He just keeps whiffing on football. And MBB lately.

I find it sad that we have alumni campaigning to be on the list.

Arkansas did this when we played them in '07. They wanted Houston Nutt gone. They had 3 NFL running backs on that team plus a dick playing quarterback and he was still hated.

A valid point on JUCO. Now another hypothetical. Let's say that Smith is able to impress us in garbage time of games we're losing like Dajon did last year(He hasn't done anything close to what Dajon did in his relief snaps last year). Then, he comes in and performs equally to Dajon's performance last year. He has one good game and then 2 turnover-filled bad games. Do we then sit him for good? He is a redshirt junior and not a redshirt freshman like Dajon was. We only have a limited time frame to develop him into a legit FBS qb.

But here is a wild question. Let's just say hypothetically that Smith was overrated out of high school and really isn't that good. How long to we just stick it out with him before we give up and say "you know what, maybe this guy just isn't that good." ?

This guy agrees. Honestly, I think Mac threw him out there knowing he would fail so we would all shut up about him.

To be fair, he did pull both McNulty and Greer after their pick 6s at Iowa.

Did YOU watch the game? Some of Smith's passes were so bad that the commentators couldn't even determine which receiver he was throwing to.

I'll give you Ivery, Wilson, and Garner, but Fernandes was a walk-on.

I'm torn between that Rice game and the 7 OTs it took us to beat a FIU team that would go winless that year. We put up a whopping 269 yards of total offense in a 7 overtime game. That may have been the worst things I've had to endure with my own eyes.

For reference, last year (2014) we were: Run Defense: 65 Pass Defense: 38 Scoring Defense: 88 Total Defense: 43 We have fallen a very long way in a very short period of time.

Yep, his last signing class didn't include Abbe, Byrd, Chancellor, Antonio Johnson, Zach Orr, Will Wright, Marcus Smith, and Mason Y'Barbo, He also signed the starting quarterback for our only bowl win and winning season under this current bum. Coach Mac outta kiss Todd Dodge's ass for setting him up so well. Mac had one winning season and he did it was Dodge recruits in a stadium that Dodge busted his ass fundraising to build. Dodge made ridiculous mistakes his first year or two on the job, but he learned from them and got better each year. Coach Mac just gets worse as time goes on. He also brought us our all-time leading rusher and this guy who coach Mac sent packing. He went on to do ok at FCS.

I think a lot of the same could be said about Dajon. Mac is quick to send the hook out for qbs that aren't from Iowa. You can say a lot of things about Coach Mac and Mini but one thing is for certain, Mini is the only qb outside of DT that didn't have to worry about getting pulled for poor play.

The craziest part is that the 2008 number was with an actual division 1 defensive coordinator and not a HS DC.

After watching the limited series that Smith has put in, it looks to me like Mac was telling the truth and that Mini does give us the best chance to win. Outside of one pass, nothing about D.Smith has impressed me so far. My gripe with Mini is that he is a redshirt senior that has a less than zero shot of being a pro quarterback but he plays as if he is trying to protect himself. This is the last season of his football playing life and he should be playing with reckless abandon. He should sacrifice his body to get a first down or a touchdown. I see some good things from Mini. He makes some good short-mid range throws, he is getting pretty good at escaping pressure when not facing a heavy blitz, and he doesn't try to force the ball into triple coverage like some others do. The things I don't like are his tendency to lock on to one receiver and a lack of heart. I don't mean heart like he doesn't care about this team but I mean in the sense of self-sacrifice, He is a captain, a redshirt senior, and the starting quarterback, he needs to show the others on this team that he is willing to do ANYTHING to lead this team to a victory.Having said all that, once we get six losses and a bowl game is unreachable, sit him and start figuring out who the starter will be next year.

haha, whoops. I should proofread before I click submit.