Give Butch Time - Great Reasons to Be Optimistic

[ChiroVol]

take those glasses off! no excuse to lose at home to vandy with 2 weeks to game plan! Butch needs to grow some nuts and sit dobbs after the 2nd INT .

And just who do you think should step in?....a hurt Worley or Ferg?...or the ABSOLUTE TRAINWRECK named Nathan Peterman? Good grief...Butch can't go shove the walk-on Page between his butt cheeks, squeeze really hard and produce a diamond like Manning, Martin or Kelly. The bottom line is WE HAVE NO DEPTH. I don't care what scheme you have or how long you have to prepare. When you have only one viable option at QB and his confidence gets shot because of bad mistakes and he knows the importance of this game and it's his FIRST time in this type of situation...and he is a TRUE FRESHMAN...give him a break.

 

[patrick]

let's hold off on how awesome our culture has become while losing 7 games this year.

Amen!!!

 

[patrick]

The positive is we now have a coach that knows how to build teams.

What "team" has CBJ actually built? CBJ followed Brian Kelly at both Cincy and Central Mich - CBJ did not build those teams/programs.

 

[utshawn]

take those glasses off! no excuse to lose at home to vandy with 2 weeks to game plan! Butch needs to grow some nuts and sit dobbs after the 2nd INT .

Who was he going to play, genius?

 

[Freak]

What "team" has CBJ actually built? CBJ followed Brian Kelly at both Cincy and Central Mich - CBJ did not build those teams/programs.

Isn't the consensus that the Cincinnati team he inherited was pretty much depleted of talent?

 

[Wylo]

if Randy Sanders (remember him?) can coach up Ric Clausen to play 2004 Auburn (one of the strongest SEC defenses that I have seen) to a tie through 3 quarters of the SECC game then it is certainly reasonable to expect Barcalounger and the rest of the Greatest Coaching Staff in America to be able, with two solid weeks of prep time, to coach up their hand picked freshman QB to a competitive level against iffing Vanderbilt.

Too much common sense in this post. Excuses coming your way soon

 

[Freak]

Dobbs played his worst game on Saturday night. I'm not sure that's debatable. But as for Rick Clausen, there's a big difference between a true freshman and a redshirt junior, in my opinion.

Who were the receivers in 2004? Meachem, Swain, Fayton, Banks, Fayton, Smith, etc.

We also had two thousand-yard rushers in Riggs and Houston that year.

 

[DiderotsGhost]

if Randy Sanders (remember him?) can coach up Ric Clausen to play 2004 Auburn (one of the strongest SEC defenses that I have seen) to a tie through 3 quarters of the SECC game then it is certainly reasonable to expect Barcalounger and the rest of the Greatest Coaching Staff in America to be able, with two solid weeks of prep time, to coach up their hand picked freshman QB to a competitive level against iffing Vanderbilt.

You do realize that Ric Clausen played his first two years under Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher, not Randy Sanders? Which is to say, much of his development came under two of the greatest coaches in the college game today. Don't think that might have something to do with the fact that R. Clausen seemed to play dramatically above his talent level at times?

The idea that you can coach a guy to greatness in two weeks' time is completely absurd. That's my main point here --- the gloom and doomers on this board seem to think that great coaching simply takes affect overnight. It's a process that can take years.

That's why some great coaches (Nick Saban, Jim Harbaugh, Johnny Majors, Don James, etc, etc, etc) have struggled mightily in their 1st year. It takes a while to bring in talent and coach them up.