Travis

When your tactic is the long ball against a good team, all you are really doing is just clearing the ball over and over again and letting them reload. 1. You will never score (enough) that way and 2. Eventually the other team will get one in. if hedlund wants to actually win one of these, he has to change tactics for the team completely. He won’t do it. But we will always get the same result. Always.

This isn’t about being overmatched... I hate being right but I say it every effing year. This style of play of hedlunds will never work on the big stage. Never. it isn’t even about taking shots. It’s about not having a style of play that really even lets you create one. he wins so he stays. But he will never win a big game. Never. update: down vote all you want, but I have said this for literally the last ten years and I have yet to be proven wrong. And even if one time they get lucky, i still stand by what I said... this style doesn’t work. It is literally the easiest to defend. It’s trash kick ball with low percentage opportunities. to debate this honestly makes me wonder one’s soccer knowledge. What team on any competitive level has won a tournament with this style?!?!

All I’d like to see are two new coordinators on O and D.

He didn’t do much at SMU. Never should have been there.

Sloppy soccer. All long ball. All low percentage chances save for about five minutes of actual decent play. this kind of play infuriates me as a soccer coach. anytime you touch the ball you have to do it with purpose. This kickball stuff ain’t pretty.

Ugly game so far. Update: and just when I say that they score.

I am wearing women's panties for the game. Oh! You mean do something different.

This years SMU wasn’t filled with juco. It was filled with transfers. And same with la tech, no? transfers are a bit different than juco.

Can you think of a single school that went heavy on JUCO and it actually worked?

Outside of our home opener, our offense has looked shaky for much of it. Even when we had a healthy team. There should be no excuses for reeder.

Yes. This is very discouraging. I even have a plane ticket to home for the game Next week and I might just pass on the game.

Reeder does not get a pass. Not with who we had returning.

I still can’t believe our secondary on that last TD. What a joke of a defensive effort.

You can finally count me as one who thinks we need a new DC. I also still want a new OC too. But this game is on our defense.

Here is my hot sports opinion: NYSH isn’t all that great. You are basically just buying overpriced way too bready sandwiches. Yes. I said it.

Bees are likely trying to load up their food weight before winter. Odd that you haven’t noticed them before though. If there is a hive near you, it likely has been there since spring if not earlier.

Well what’s the fun in this then if you aren’t going to let me build an argument through reduction fallacy of your own argument?! You say you want me to enjoy the rest of my Sunday but then you also say this. You disappoint me and are a murderer of joy.

Mattykins, I am on point. If you think we have a responsibility to go to games and support the program - whether we want to or not - is exactly the point I am making against. Why would anyone want to waste their time at a bad show? Ain’t no one got time for that! thus, I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to put their time or money into this. The onus is on the athletic program and not the fans. Also, you only need to look to this season to programs being poorly attended (both past and present) and see that they can still build a quality product - SMU, App State come to mind immediately. But it is that way almost everywhere. Even here in Boise we see that with BSU. Also, social contract theory is bullshit. And so are flat earthers. Lebron James is a moron. And DD was a terrible coach. And I think the whole Ray (Tune’s dog) bit is entirely overplayed this season.

Then you will be forever frustrated and, by all means, go that way if you choose to. I think that is the sad part. I want you to be happy Matty! But we don’t live in a place where are have to do anything with our leisure - otherwise it wouldn’t be leisure. Since we vote with our time and dollar, if a product is unacceptable, I understand why people will go elsewhere. And if there comes a point where I feel that, I will disappointedly go that way too. I choose to still be at the games (when I am in Texas) or watch them here from Idaho and I don’t miss games. But, I also understand the value of consent and that if a program wants a big followership, they gotta make it worth the peoples while. It appears that most of society sees it that way too for college sports as we dont live in a forced society - unless it involves taxes, drugs, wars, surveilling our own people, protecting bad cops, or having to get the governments permission to marry, drive, fish, collect rain water, run a business, build on your property, have a lemonade stand, what I can smoke or vape, or which kind of straws I can use.

Yes. I used the word that no one should be obligated to go to games to which you said you disagree. We vote with our time and money. If they put a poor performance out there, I can understand why people will use both elsewhere. To suggest otherwise is both humorous and sad. we don’t have a program where people show up regardless.... honestly, every program still has this problem. Look at TCU. The responsibility of this program is on the department alone. It is purely a product for consumption. Again, to suggest we have some sort of responsibility to it is quite amusing to me.

You disagree? So they are obligated to be at a sporting event? Nah. That’s not how this works. Thankfully.

We have to give fans a reason to come out to games. We don’t have the luxury of losing and still having a fan base that will continue to come... yet. Therefore, we gotta show something more. Also, these losses of ours aren’t just losses. They are really beating us badly. if we want butts in the seats, we have to give them a show. The fans aren’t under any obligation to be there.... that’s up to the program for that.

If la tech wins out they could be co champions, yes. But not co champions with us. If la tech wins out there is no way we win the west or share the west. .

I don’t blame the fans.

At least the west is up for grabs right now. Gives us something to play for.