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These officials need to be fired.

cheers

missed a blindside block

this officiating is horrendous

How is that not a PI? I'm not sure I can watch this ****show.

WTF was that penalty holy **** what BS

I want to give Martin a shot. Ruder and Aune haven't shown much, though I will firmly stand that Aune is much better than Ruder, even if he's not that great. Some QBs are gameday QBs and Martin strikes me as one. We have weapons, just gotta get everyone on the same page and a lot of that is mental and Martin is a coach's son. At this point in the season, considering we are likely going to be 1-4 after this weekend, we're going to need a miracle to get this offense firing on all cylinders. We still have to play Marshall, Liberty, and FIU after probably losing it Missouri this weekend.

Even QBs need coaches and our best effort is...Blake Joseph? A completely unknown quantity that came out of High School coaching. Compare that to Graham Harrell in the ear of Mason Fine. Coaching is a mess right now, and it all stops at the top. Littrell cannot get his coaches on a cohesive page. QBs throwing to blank areas of the field when WRs cut their routes off early? That isn't just miscommunication at the field level, that's a miscommunication at the coaching level.

It's better than rolling to the right and throwing out of bounds every play. I agree it's a low bar.

I'll shit in your mailbox bud

He looks significantly better than Ruder. He would be 100+ yards if the ****ing receivers would catch the ball.

Sit down and watch

Running screen plays would help with this problem and I can't recall seeing even one screen play (not saying we didn't, just saying I don't remember seeing one).

Should have a future beyond college, he is the definition of a baller.

The penalty that happened before it was horsecock.

While I'd prefer Frost, both are probably pipedreams. I'd take either over the current head coach.

Defense looked pretty good all things considered. Offense has speed and talent. Oline size isn't ideal but better than when Mason Fine was under center. I think the pieces are there. I just don't think the patchwork coaching staff can put the pieces together. At this level, your staff is going to be patchwork, and clearly Seth can't work with that. Young splashy talent will destroy what we have already in the name of starting new. One of the best things SL did when he came here was capitalize on what we had (Jeff Wilson, and decent defensive talent). We have talent here. It just needs the right coaching.

Didn't he already interview for AD at Missouri? Is Wren even going to be here next year?

Threw for more yards, hit receivers in the hands that dropped passes, was more decisive (although not by much). They both sucked and I said as much. It is also clear this is a coaching issue.

Splashy has failed us. We have talent, get someone that can use it.

Nobody splashy. Get someone under the radar.

A number of the receivers dropped catchable balls. Enough to get him over 50%. Aune had fewer chances since Ruder played the second half. I have a very specific criticism of Ruder. He's done it in all three games. When he rolls out of the pocket and gets chased back he back pedals 10 yards and makes a 15 yard throw a 25 yard throw. He did it multiple times this game, multiple times against SMU. Incidentally, this is where most of his picks come from. It was highlighted in the first offensive snap of the game. He rolled right, nowhere to go, threw it right to a UAB defender (no receiver even in the area). I've heard Ruder described as a "film junkie" and all sorts of things. He can sling it when the conditions are perfect, both long and short, but it is football. Conditions are never perfect. He can have all the cerebral parts of the game mastered (he doesn't) and still fail if he can't navigate the pocket and throw to wide open receivers. I feel like the coaching staff has been trying to create mobile QBs out of natural passers. They aren't being taught how to ride it out in the pocket and instead are just being taught to roll out of it or run out of it. The QB coaching is garbage and our very talented passer room has regressed significantly. Almost like they were being taught by Quinn Shanbour. Oh wait.

He did better than Ruder, but not by a lot. It is a coaching issue for sure. That's part of why I wanted to see him on the field. To see if the offense behaved differently.

Aune did better than Ruder on the stat line. Neither were ready or well prepared by the coaching staff and that's why I wanted to see him on the field. Aune put up good numbers last year with basically the same offense. That's why SL didn't want to switch QBs. He knew it wouldn't make a difference.