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Understanding that most are upset/frustrated here are some questions to throw around –

There are a lot of people wanting to see DD change his offense. Is this really realistic or just wishful thinking? I have not always been the biggest DD fan but I do give him the credit for being able to make the adjustments he can, based on the personnel available.

For everyone want to put Phillips in remember the most popular guy on the team (from a fan’s standpoint) is usually the backup QB. Hopefully we have found a player with talent that was overlooked, but he is a true freshman walk-on.

For those who say everything will be OK. Why are your expectations so low? And please do not use the “well our facilities are so……” excuse, this only shows disrespect to the player we do have and have signed.

For the comments about who is or isn’t a die hard fan and we will be OK if we can just average 20K. The reality looks to be that we do not have a base large enough so that there will be 20K at each game come hell or high water. What do we do? Not to be a knock on DD but his style of play is not going to be the fan-friendly style that brings in the casual fan. As for those who want DD to be more outgoing and open up to the fan more, well it’s probably not going to happen and if he did there would be many who would complain about how insincere he was being.

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There are a lot of people wanting to see DD change his offense. Is this really realistic or just wishful thinking? I have not always been the biggest DD fan but I do give him the credit for being able to make the adjustments he can, based on the personnel available.

For everyone want to put Phillips in remember the most popular guy on the team (from a fan’s standpoint) is usually the backup QB. Hopefully we have found a player with talent that was overlooked, but he is a true freshman walk-on.

I used to think that DD was great at utilizing the personnel he had. Now I realize that he's going to run the same offense no matter what the personnel may indicate. We probably have the most conservative offense in the NCAA and defenses are never going to respect a one-dimensional offense, especially when most are bigger and stronger than we are anyway.

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I used to think that DD was great at utilizing the personnel he had.  Now I realize that he's going to run the same offense no matter what the personnel may indicate.  We probably have the most conservative offense in the NCAA and defenses are never going to respect a one-dimensional offense, especially when most are bigger and stronger than we are anyway.

The problem is: what kind of offense do you run with two freshman QB's who are so far from being prime time that there is probably no offense on earth that would make them look better? The second problem is: what kind of defense will turn mediocre athletes into stars? Let's face it, we do not have a Kennedy, Buckles, Spencer or Kassell on the defense at the present time. Perhaps some can grow into those roles, but they are not there yet.

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In my opinion DD has had plenty of time to find a qualified JC QB to hold things together in the interum. Let the freshmen QBs have someone they can model after. Don't throw them into the fire just yet.

Losses to LaTech and LSU are going to perpetuate the situation where we don't seem to have a unique game plan for OOC opponents. The Bowl game losses are worse than the regular OOC games. We don't seem to have an "Option B" plan.

If you look at other successful mid-major teams and coaches they have built a strong following for their teams by not "bad mouthing" the fans but encouraging them. Pat Hill at Fresno State says they'll play anybody anywhere. That's the kind of positive spin that draws almost 40,000 fans to his home games, win or lose. Kids like to play for someone that's uptempo.

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