BillySee58

Yesterday I was looking back at the QBs’ stats from last season and noticed Aune was the primary QB for 4 games, and in those 4 games he threw for 1,299 yards (325 yards/game) and had 12 TDs/2 INTs. Then we have the MTSU game where he was yanked for good reason, but otherwise he produced when he was handed the keys. He just has to cut down on the fumbles and get that completion % up to keep getting us positive yardage. In those 4 games mentioned, Simpson had 360 of his 517 yards on the season. 453 of Simpson’s yards came from Aune passes while only 64 came from Bean passes. Aune and Simpson have good rapport and with that being our new number 1 receiver, that’s something I expect they can both build on. Simpson at the Z position is on the far side of the field where it’s a longer throw, and Aune showed the arm strength to get him the ball. It feels like Littrell is looking more for the prolific passing attack than he was looking to cater the offense to Bean. Just better make sure he gets that consistency from Aune, or a transfer, because we won’t be able to switch to that running threat anymore.

I think that’s more with regards to the next year and filling spots on the 85-man limit. Renewals, or the decision to not renew for the next school year, have to be done by July 1st. His scholarship for this school year was renewed at that point. https://www.ncaa.org/student-athletes/future/scholarships

Correct. It’s a bubble for sure.

The scholarship renewals are for the entire academic school year

Guessing he must not have liked what he heard about where he stood heading into spring. Working in 6 scholarship QBs and getting them all reps was going to be a challenge. 5 still will be a challenge but the path seems a little more clear.

He said he has turned down offers every year https://media.podserve.fm/media/episodes/user_523/939/Phil_B_1-18-21.mp3he

This is why I said they had plausible deniability and my hope is just that proper vetting process occurred. It was a widespread issue and lawsuits alleged at least 31 players were accused. This is still ongoing, which I think a lot of people don’t realize. Baylor is still being taken to court over withholding documents and met with an NCAA Committee just a month ago regarding the matter. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30518346/baylor-bears-officials-scheduled-appear-ncaa-committee-infractions-sexual-assault-scandal The month before that Baylor was given a court order to overturn documents from the law firm Pepper Hamilton. They have clearly attempted to drag this process out as long as possible. My point is now that we have hired two more assistant coaches involved in the program at the time, we better have done our homework that their names won’t pop up here as more information may come out in the immediate future.

Hiring 3 of the assistants coaches at Baylor during the sexual assault scandal and tying our program to that is something I am not particularly happy about, but I really hope Littrell and Baker did a very thorough job vetting them. I’m sure this will get down-voted plenty and that’s fine, but I challenge those of you to actually read up on the scandal instead of just dismissing and feeling miffed about merely brining it up. My takeaway is the failure in that situation really occurred at the top, with university officials and Mccaw and Briles, and after that it’s pretty unclear, like at the assistant coach level. There was definitely plausible deniability for guys like Bennett and Gush, and I hope that’s the reality as well. But at our level I hope proper vetting was done. From hearing Bennett speak, it sounds like Littrell really admired Bennett and convinced him on taking the job and convinced Wren on offering it. It obviously took a while, so hopefully that time was used to vet him, admiration aside. Same for Gush.

Yes he was. At UNT we tend to freak out when someone does well and treat them like the only coach capable of winning here. We gave a Mccarney a big raise after HOD, which you could argue he earned, but at the same time no one was coming to poach him from us. And even if they were, so what? Same with Littrell possibly leaving. We’d have a ton of good candidates coming off of a 9-win season and a coach showing this can be a stepping stone job. As for why we paid Bowen so much for bad results, the hope was he’d be better but as JayD says, we could’ve landed a much better candidate for what he was paid.

Littrell was the highest paid head coach in CUSA last year and Bowen was the highest paid assistant. We didn’t have an OC, but we could’ve taken away $300K from Littrell and given it to an OC and Littrell still would’ve been the highest paid HC while having the highest paid OC and DC in the conference as well. We have plenty of money to go around where it isn’t going to the HC at the expense of the assistant pool or vice versa.

I don’t agree that he was outperforming Simpson, Shorter was out, and Greg White had already left the team so he was really only outperforming guys like Detraveon Brown and Damon Ward if you think about who was still there on the outside. Not going to speak on players not taking it as challenges these days beyond saying some still do but obviously the focus is usually on the ones who transfer.

Not true that pre-spring interviews occurred or not true that he was informed he was still behind Simpson and Shorter?

@Unclementioned the pre-spring interviews. I would imagine he was still behind Shorter and Simpson and his interview indicated as such, or else I agree it wouldn’t make much sense for him to leave.

I’m not the one policing Vito’s posts. Just don’t understand why reporting on players transferring would be seen as anything other than the standard.

Football is the most high-profile sport from a coverage standpoint and he’s covering relevant topics regarding the sport. Pretty standard procedure. Brune covers it too, and I would expect any beat writer of any CFB to do the same.

How else could he relay this information to his readers that would make you not come away with this impression?

Scholarship receivers: - Deonte Simpson - Jyaire Shorter - Bryson Jackson - Damon Ward - Detraveon Brown - Caleb Johnson - Zhighlil McMillan So currently 7, counting Loronzo Thompson as a DB at the moment. Also half-expecting Khatib Lyles to get moved back to receiver should he stay. Especially with all of the depth we have at tight end.

I know this is sarcasm on how narratives can be framed, but at the end of the day RB is pretty low in terms of VAR (value above replacement) type discrepancy. If we aren’t good enough it’s going to be much easier to tie the failures back towards defense and quarterback play. As long as that gets taken care of it should, Siggers will be an afterthought like Bussey was this season.

Exactly. A lot of sour grapes going on to convince themselves that this wasn’t as big a loss as it was. Siggers was running the ball better than any of our backs once he got back. Would he have been our best back next year? Obviously can’t know for sure but there is an easy argument to him being our best back, AND we have a good group still. Both can be true.

Cal, Texas Tech, and Baylor all scheduled for home and homes and Missouri I think was a 2-1

Skladany was 65 in 2013

Don’t you have to go return some videotapes?

Yeah he’s proving me wrong as well. Doing a great job of cutting and being productive offensively.

Looked good today. We were able to respond really well to UTEP’s punches, especially when they’d go on a run after we worked hard to climb back. We always had another run left in the tank when we needed it.

4-2-5 base is what I’d expect, from his previous stops