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Our recruiting failures over the last 5 years at wide receiver are on painful display in this game. How many times has Brissett had all day to throw and could not find anyone who could get open?
You know, I really want to like Coach D. But the gawdawful performance in home ACC games the last three years ( about to be 2-10) is really discouraging. Why in the hell are you kicking a FG down 21 pts. to an offense you absolutely cannot stop?
Agreed on the not enough bodies thing. Given how frequently we have players transfer, I don’t think there is anything irresponsible or un ethical about recruiting over people. In this current era, the Calipari level of player loyalty seems a sound approach, given how Gott has been repeatedly burned by players transferring or leaving earlier. This ain’t the 60s anymore. We deride coaches with a “waiver wire”, but why not stockpile as many players as we can, and sort out who plays based on performance, and not promises made to recruits?
I think most of us who are taking a “wait and see” attitude on McLendon are not necessarily nattering nabobs of negativism. Rather, we remember the post Rivers transition in 2004, when we were assured that what’s his face (trauma blocked his name) definitely had what it took at QB. And then the gradual and horrifying realization over the next two seasons that Chuckles really didn’t have a succession plan for QB that built on what little success Rivers had. So I hope Jalen is all that, but, like this year’s poor placekicker, who seems to be able to boom FGs with regularity everywhere except in an actual game, I gots to see ’em om the field in a real game to actually know how they will do…the sterling credentials will only get Jalen the opportunity to show what he can do. Everything after that is on him.
according to WPC donor statistics posted on the monkey board some time ago, we had something like 39 donors in the entire WPC giving more than $12,000 a year. Let that sink in. In an era where more well heeled universities launch multi-Billion dollar fundraising campaigns, out of our over 100,000 living alumni, there are only 39 people who think enough about Pack sports to donate $1000 a month or more. One of those people is worth 100 people who we get to join at that minimum $120 a year level. And illustrates why the “we’ve got 20,000 people in the WPC, we’re in the top tier in the ACC in fan support” is such a myth.
That, in a nutshell, is one reason for our lack of success over the last two decades. When the world of college athletics went big money, we simply could not keep up. And it shows, from the “performance” of the womens soccer team (a stretch to call it a performance, more like a debacle), to the poor results we show in football playing peer universities. Until we have a MUCH larger group of large money donors, we will be perpetually in catch-up mode in the ACC. One guy at Virginia wrote a $25 million check to renovate Scott Stadium when they were actually doing well 18 years ago. What’s the largest one time gift we’ve ever gotten?
The latter simply better never happen again. A weak schedule is NOT an opportunity to have a special year (unless your team has no flaws), it’s a recipe for disaster because your team hits conference play less prepared/battle tested than your competition.
I absolutely agree, BJD. As a season ticket holder, I will be all over Yow’s butt with irate emails if they ever ask me to buy tickets for a schedule like this again.
On the other hand, next year after we get punked by ND and ECU at home and go 4-8 or 5-7, I might be wishing for another scintillating matchup with Eastern Kentucky…
We apparently are the balm for anyone’s season gone awry. This team has put itself in a very difficult spot. Decisively outcoached for a 2nd straight week. The contrast between 1st and 2nd quarter tonight was breathtaking. We had no answer for whatever adjustments Beamer and his staff did.
I feel about the football program about like I felt the season after Rivers left…when it became evident that Chuckles didn’t, in fact, have a plan for QB.
If UNC goes 10-2 or 9-3 with a New Year’s Day Bowl and we stay home with 5-7, how do you think in-state recruiting will go next year?
This was the breakout year… does anyone really think we will manage a winning record next year having to play FSU, ND, ECU, at Clemson, at UNC, at Louisville? THat’s six games right there we have very little chance of winning, even if we weren’t breaking in a new QB…and LOL at the people who think McClendon is some sort of potential Heisman winner that we’re keeping under wraps..
I don’t mean that Yow is going to can him if he goes 5-7… it just means that the long slow death begins, sort of like Amato’s last three seasons. Did anyone really think Amato was going to pull out of that spiral once you saw several Assistants leaving after each season.
So if he loses to UNC in Carter-Finley and goes 5-7, do ya’ll think he starts next year on the hot seat? It certainly will kill the recruiting momentum…
There isn’t a ref in college football who is going to throw a flag in that position. Why the Hail Mary on 4th and 6? I just don’t understand the thought process…
Doeren and Yow both deserve a fair amount of criticism, though, and I don’t think it is unfair. The nonconference scheduling wasn’t just unchallenging–it actually hurt our team, IMO. THey just were not ready for the ACC schedule.
Really, I don’t like the people who are all over Jacoby. Really our pathetic passing game is the result of years of underachieving recruiting and misses (by both TOB and Doeren) at the wide receiver position.
I’m out….somehow, I don’t think we have a Jacoby Brissette hurry-up downfield passing package…He gets sacked on 3rd down. You read it here first…
The comment by the Louisville defensive players that they knew exactly what play we were going to run based on how we lined up really gave me pause last week…and it looks like tonight is more of the same…
This game is a clone of last week…the defense starts kicking ass and taking names, and the offense implodes in a cloud of colossally stupid play calling..
we HAVE to take advantage of Motley’s limited mobility…and it does no good to let them pick up a 1st down or two and change field position….
And the inability to competently down a punt inside the 10 the last two games also irritates the heck out of me…
We just can’t seem to consistently execute against a P-5 defense…there are flashes of brilliance, which makes it all the more frustrating. I tell you what, Doeren goes 2-6 or 3-5 in the ACC, there will be lots of grumbling in this offseason. He’s in Tom Reed territory in terms of ACC winning percentage if he loses tonight…
