Mark My Words...

TheTastyGreek · November 30, 2009

What the hell??? Care to elaborate?

I've been saying this, obliquely and directly, all week. He's not our head coach next year. And he knew it before the Arkansas State game.

eulessismore · November 30, 2009

I've been saying this, obliquely and directly, all week. He's not our head coach next year. And he knew it before the Arkansas State game.

Well, that might explain some of the things he's been saying in the last week or so.

CaribbeanGreen · November 30, 2009

Well, that might explain some of the things he's been saying in the last week or so.

Yeah. And it makes the Derek Thompson decision even more interesting.

UNT90 · November 30, 2009

He's staying, he's going...

Who to believe?

Green P1 · November 30, 2009

I've been saying this, obliquely and directly, all week. He's not our head coach next year. And he knew it before the Arkansas State game.

I've been saying this, even more obliquely and twice as direct, all week, broseph.

Edited November 30, 2009 by Green P1

Censored by Laurie · November 30, 2009

I can't watch another Robert Downey, Jr. movie and not want/mentally picture him in black-face.

November 30, 2009

This is the exact scenario I've been proposing if Dodge stays.
Look, it's clear that Todd Dodge has something. But, it's him that has it, or had it, not his high school assistants - offensive or defensive.
The worst lapse in judgement was ever letting Todd Dodge hire any other high school coaches. The sheer number that he brought on was absurd. Also, recall that the original secondary coach was a guy who hadn't coached in 13 years, but who had been out in the business world, Butch LaCroix. (Hey, Rick - I've been out in the business world for about 20 years. Hire me! )
At the time, many of us said it was arrogant, stupidity or both to have that many inexperienced coaches on a I-A/FBS coaching staff. Everyone else waited in the pumpkin patch with Linus, waiting on the Great Pumpkin to arrive.
Anyway, I think we've already got a guy on staff who can call offenses at this level in Petersen. He was Air Force's OC for several Falcon bowl seasons. He's coached wide receivers and quarterbacks. Make him the Co-OC/WR coach and kill two birds with one stone, moneywise.
Take OL coach Spencer Leftwich and make him the Co-OC Run Game Coordinator/OL coach. I'd hire Andy Brewster away from Cisco JC (surely we can pay more than Cisco JC) and make him TE coach...and really use the tight ends for a change.
On the defensive side, have Deloach and Buckels coach the secondary. Hire in Chris Hurd from Cisco to coach the linebackers. Keep everything else the same. Or, I'd even go for hiring Kenny Evans back in as co-defensive coordinator/LB coach. He can't be making that much jack up at the Division II Oklahoma school.
Dodge's problem was that he came in here and tried to run the thing top down with amateurs everywhere. It can't be done. You can't be so dadgum nitpicky and overbearing that you have assistants chewing out guys on the sideline for cussing during a game. It's ridiculous. Players need to feel that they can show emotion at some points in a game. Letting a guy drop an F-bomb during a game isn't the end of the world.
In the end, I predicted we'd go 3-9 and we went 2-10. I'm disappointed. I'm happy if we get a new coach. But, the only way I'm happy with Dodge staying is if the last vestiges of the original unwise hires is cleared away.
If we do something similar to what I've suggested, we don't have to spend a ton of money doing it either. So, whomever Rick's current board spy is, print out this post and give it to him the next time he summons you.

I agree with a lot of your suggestions but one I'm having a lot of trouble with is co-coordinators. I believe that I'd just as soon have two quarterbacks, one for running and one for passing, and use them interchangably. Who overrules whom? Who coaches a run/pass option?

Also, at this stage of our development, we need Division 1-A experienced coaches who have had some success. If we had three or four eight win seasons and lost a coach then I'm all for taking a chance on the Chris Hurds of the world but next year that doesn't seem to be an option.

My last disagreement with this post regards controlled emotions. Yes, football is an emotional game but dropping the F-bomb in earshot of an official gets the team 15 yards. So does excessive celebration, taunting, and any other unsportsmanlike conduct. That even includes fighting back when an opponent commits a foul on you. As hard as it is, you have to control your temper and your emotions.