BillySee58

Watching teams’ fan boards go into meltdown every time they play us never gets old.

Yup. Pretty much just spits out the score, team records, and the leading scorers in paragraph form.

Good to hear. Hard to see us winning at La Tech without him. I know we can hold people but his offense is huge when things get sloppy for us on O.

The thing I think most people are not considering with the Miami “what if” result is that had we beaten them we would’ve played Bama next instead of Drake. I don’t think that Bama game would’ve ended well for us considering what they did to Miami, and then that puts us at the same record we have now. Our record would be different and our ratings would be materially better than they are now had we beaten Bama as well, but that’s too far a reach at that point.

Wow. He almost topped Andrew.

Good win. Bad offensive half made this one a little more ugly than it needed to be but solid win overall. Really liked our offense when it started working inside out instead of the other way around.

We have more 2nd half points than 1st half points. Still 11 minutes left.

These are definitely letters from the alphabet.

Sure would be nice if Rubin Jones could take some pressure off of them. He hasn’t played a good offensive game in a while.

One of our worst offensive games in a while. Scott, Ousmane, and Jones have all smoked layups so far.

Yup, agreed on all fronts

Still think Earle wins the job. Accuracy is the name of the game and Earle’s accuracy numbers and ball placement on film is just a noticeable step above Aune. I don’t think Littrell is as married to Aune as people make it seem. Everyone was so insistent with stick with one QB and that’s what he did. While we were winning.

https://247sports.com/Player/John-Brunner-46050630/ Was a 3rd year redshirt freshman this past season.

The last two seasons La Tech and us have been about as equal as two basketball teams can be. In 5 games over the past two seasons the combined score of those games is 296-294 in favor of us. Just such high level, competitive basketball.

By your own admission that UTEP team was in a better situation than we were heading into that season. You’re being intellectually dishonest by condemning people for “defending mediocrity” for supporting the Littrell extension at 14-13 after year two when you yourself said he “inherited the worst possible situation that college football has to offer.” Seems pretty clear if you had been told at the time of the hire that Littrell would have the team you deemed “the worst possible situation that college football has to offer” winning 9 games and a division title in Year 2, you would not have deemed that to be mediocrity.

Yes and the original post I was responding to said “Yet, people still think Littrell is the guy and would happily give him another extension for a .500 season next year. This is seriously the most uninspired off-season we've had in years.” No one on here has been saying they would happily give Littrell another extension for a .500 season next year. Two pivots later we got the post you were responding to.

What am I defending exactly? I don’t think think Littrell is a good coach and I wish we had moved on. I also think those recruiting classes that were highly ranked from 19-21 have generally performed pretty well. These views can be held simultaneously, especially if I’m being intellectually honest and consistent. I’m not gonna bitch about the top of conference classes he signed being the problem when the truth is they have performed pretty well compared to their conference peers. Especially when the classes that were poor (16-18) were the actual upperclassmen on the bad teams and more directly responsible for the poor performances. But guess what? Littrell is the one who signed those classes too. He is still at fault. That blame is still being placed at his feet, which is part of why I think we should have moved on. And if you say that the conference being bad makes it a bad bar to judge things by, I half agree. That is the conference we are in and have been in, so up until this point I think it’s fair to judge them based on their CUSA peers. But going forward we do have to raise that bar which, again, is why I don’t think Littrell is good for the job going forward.

I like how people imply these recruiting rankings are invalidated because the teams were bad while these classes were true freshmen and sophomores. Meanwhile we had poorly rated recruiting classes making up the upperclassmen on these teams and no one points out how those poorly rated recruiting classes made for subpar senior classes. We were 5-3 in conference with bad QB play. The players from these classes have made an impact and a good amount have proven to be good CUSA players. Get them a QB and I do think we have the roster in place to compete for a division title. Are they going to be a good AAC roster is a very different question. Especially with the current lack of momentum we have in recruiting.

Agreed. But I’ll say in Hooligan’s defense, at the end of the day, straw man or not, it’s semantics. We made our bed keeping Littrell, now we have to lie in it. Standards have to be very high now. Margin for error on the field just got a lot lower with how stale things have become off the field.

Which football coach did we extend after a .500 season?

Is this a take you’ve legitimately seen on here or a straw man?

There was no commitment announcement from Walerius and Littrell. Assumed Linder was a walkon. Littrell tweeted out a commitment graphic for Nick Nakwasaah which Walerious retweeted. Walerius also retweeted the Columbia DE we just offered. Nothing from either on this kid. Honestly I’m still not completely sold this is a scholarship addition.

Maybe CUSA opponents but what I’m talking about has been more from these non-conference teams we beat like UMass, Wichita State, Drake, etc. I remember seeing those message board threads posted on here. Honestly I doubt most of those fans even know who Javion Hamlet is, outside of any research they did leading up to our game. Definitely applicable to WKU though. They know Hamlet very well.

I half agree here. On one hand, this year’s team has been noticeably better as a regular season team than last year’s team. Our current NET is better, our KenPom is better, our Simple Rating System is better, and our record is better. This year’s team has taken a step forward thus far. The odds of replicating last year’s end result are very low, and they always have been. The margin for error is so razor thin in March. If McBride misses that three at the end of regulation against WKU there is no round of 32 finish. If we are in a similar situation this year and that three doesn’t go in, does that mean we weren’t better this year even with a better record/ratings? You could make the case either way.