Mike Jackson

La Tech does enhance the game day atmosphere. I don't know exactly why, but they have always felt like natural rivals for us even before we shared CUSA. UTEP not so much in my opinion. When they are good they definitely are a better draw than SMU for road fans.

If we aren’t the worst in all FBS after this weekend games are complete, I will be very surprised. We also should b near the bottom in overall defense. One more defensive performance giving up yards in line with our season averages and Caponi has to go imo. This was the week to admit he made a mistake playing a 3-3 alignment in the box and go to a true 3-4 or 4-3. No excuse for rolling out a basically unaltered 3-3-5 to play an offense that wants throw the ball less than 15 times a game.

Very good theory.

If this isn't the worst defense in FBS, the worst defense in FBS can't be really trying to stop anyone.

Well I know all about the retiring La Tech Presidents tenure. If I am into La Tech academics I am thrilled. I was looking in the crowd to find the students with body paint spelling our Fortune 500 Partnerships. I didn't see any. Odd 🤷🏽‍♂️. 😂

Dang I didn’t even see that one and I criticized the down and distance errors. And I would never have even exaggerated using 0th and Goal as fake example. Wow 😂

Without major injuries and/or unexpectedly having late season conference opponent undefeated and ranked give us loss 7, Next season bowl eligibility is a must. Bowl eligibility just mean your program isn’t terrible.

What if told you can actually scroll past comments hashing your mellow or you could be in another space to “enjoy” the win. And taking time out to find a gif to express your displeasure with a comment takes away from your “enjoyment” 😂

Oversimplify? Okay let’s look at numbers. Rogers before this season had 319 pass attempts against FBS opponents completing 67% passes with a 2 to 1 TD/INT ratio. Stone Earle had well under 200 pass attempts with the vast majority being against FCS, completing a lower percentage and only topping 200 yards in a game twice. It was very clear that Rogers experience makes him better equipped to handle the speed of FBS defenses.

Good game call but great?…. Wasn’t he the same guy who benched him? Did he not call a totally unnecessary trick play on offense trying to protect a 3 score lead in the 4th quarter. “Great” is flirting with perfection and his leadership/decision was far from that. I think things are definitely looking up for the offense and Morris deserves a ton of support and credit for that. But you need to slow down throwing out the word “great”.

Man it was ridiculous how many times they got the down and distance wrong. What strange combination of play and penalties gets you 1st & 9? 🤣

Hell even that’s too steep for many I guess. As for me, I don’t expect trick plays when the offense has 3 score lead in the 4th and has executed well for most of the game. I guess we are both irrational malcontents. 😂

Hell, I would just settle for not running trick plays with a 17 point lead in the 4th quarter. 😂. Maybe then the defense doesn’t give everyone a heart attack. But hey they are “new” what do you expect? High School level game management? We aren’t Georgia remember?

So it’s high and unreasonable expectations to have a coaching staff that knows how to protect a 17 point lead? I wouldn’t have as passionate of a criticism of the defense IF they didn’t put their shortcomings front and center by running a stupid trick play at midfield. Protecting the ball with late in games is football 101. Unfortunately some high school coaches would need security for losing a game after making such a bone headed call. The call was maximum risk with minimum reward. As EVIDENT they still needed an onside kick, converted into a TD drive to tie the game. That play was maximum risk and minimum reward if executed correctly. If you don’t like to read valid criticism then log off, have a drink and enjoy the win. 🙄

I didn’t realize Louisiana Tech was a G5 powerhouse. I guess you missed the part where I said I enjoyed the win. Hell drop down to FCS independent right now with no playoff eligibility due to too many scholarships, we can win a lot of games then🙄

Exclusively on 3rd and 8 yards+ MAYBE. And that is only to have guys familiar with it to install it NEXT YEAR and run scout team when we have an opponent who runs it. Conversion of front types can be very ugly even on the pro level with a lot more practice time afforded to you. Long time Dallas Cowboys fans should remember.

Sorry to interfere with your bottom barrel expectations. I enjoy any win vs a FBS opponent. But come on dude a gif coming for someone not thrilled to be 1-2 winning a close despite horrible defense and a horrible unnecessary trick play is so Old Denton.

Wow, unnecessarily dramatic. I will take it but dang our defense and coaching arrogance in general doesn’t give me a lot of confidence of getting to 5 wins this year.

Hell yeah they should be. They chose this!!!! This could have been LAST YEAR letting a new younger head coach make stupid decisions and learn on the job. 🤷🏽‍♂️

That’s why you don’t put the ball in harms way unnecessarily. 🤷🏽‍♂️ This game is probably over without that turnover.

I am not in the “fire Morris before the end of the of the season” camp. But the qualifiers you had in this comment are ridiculous. There is an arrogance “re-inventing the wheel” mentality in this coaching staff. How many instances of it do you need to see to be a little pissed off? This university is not paying all these upper level assistants healthy 6 figures to “learn on the job”. They could have done this last year but their actions told us Seth deserved an additional year. 🤷🏽‍♂️. I think they hold on to this win. But to get to at least 5 wins this season they can’t be making some of these bone headed decisions.

Wow. trick play when totally unnecessary. Arrogance in this coaching staff is a cancer.

They need to sparingly use this alignment on 3rd and over 8 yards. We don’t have a beta year to work out the flaws and find personnel that can run this and be effective against the run.

Loved his tenure here but he 74. Let it go. 😂

Oh no looks like La Tech figured out weak run game defense.