Caponi fired

[meaniegreenie]

On 11/16/2024 at 3:12 PM, Mean Green 93-98 said:

Funny thing is, the defense had probably their best performance under Caponi last week.  Then they turn around the very next week and have possibly their worst.

I think this is part of why the firing happened.

I posted in the game forum that the team had always kept their composure and played hard until the end and not 10 minutes later they started losing control on the field.  I think after giving their all the previous week to only get let down by the offense and then come out and have the O not do much to help again, they were starting to disintegrate (and I don't blame them). 

If something like this didn't happen immediately, EM was facing losing the whole team for the last two weeks.
And with the portal, he might be losing many of them permanently.

[meaniegreenie]

On 11/16/2024 at 8:14 PM, Side.Show.Joe said:

I'm glad Caponi is gone. His firing is long past due. 

My problem is that most people knew during Morris' first year that Caponi wasn't the answer for our defense... except Morris. Morris let Caponi go into his first season at UNT without the players to run his 3-3-5 defensive scheme, and so UNT finished dead last in defense that season. Morris allowed Caponi to continue force feeding us the 3-3-5 going into year 2, and Caponi brought in a bunch of transfers, but the results have still sucked, even after we implemented more traditional schemes. And to make things worse... Morris has a habit of passing up points and going for it on 4th, which hasn't been successful against teams that can actually win games. Plus, Morris has no jumbo package for short yardage situations, which makes it easier for defenses to scheme against us on 4th down attempts. All of that to say, Morris is also a big reason why our defense sucks. Morris' decision making tends to place our defense in tough positions. Who is going to rein him in. 

And he has no clock management discipline.

[MeanGreenTexan]

18 hours ago, peanuts104 said:

So the solution is to *checks notes* fire the new coach so we can get a new coach that will have to rebuild a roster after we lose all of the talent on our roster?

Get a grip people.

Bring the right guy in, and they'll stay and/or bring in guys who will be able to backfill well.

[97and03]

On 11/18/2024 at 9:06 PM, peanuts104 said:

So the solution is to *checks notes* fire the new coach so we can get a new coach that will have to rebuild a roster after we lose all of the talent on our roster?

Get a grip people.

Morris brought in 77 transfers this year. Would a new coach be such a radical change? 

[peanuts104]

12 minutes ago, 97and03 said:

Morris brought in 77 transfers this year. Would a new coach be such a radical change? 

Could a new coach do that? Are we forgetting how well recruiting was last year? Landing some decent DFW commits with Coach O?