First let me be clear about how I feel about Shane Beamer the person. He seems like a genuinely sincere person and a good guy who really wants to coach here and who is a good ambassador for the University and the State. I was not crazy about the hire (due to the lack of head coaching experience) nor was I opposed to the hire. I like him as a person as much as you can like someone without ever having met them.
After last night (and I began having reservations about him after the ODU escape) I now believe that he is not HC material. The "fake" punt in that situation yesterday was inexcusable. The risk vs reward potential was simply not worth the distinct possibility of putting a high powered offense in such an obvious field position advantage.
It wasn't like picking up the 1st down would have put us 1st and goal either. We would still have had around 50 -55 yards to go to score. The early atmosphere and crowd momentum was quickly sucked out of the stadium after that play and never really returned.
On "offense" (and I use that term lightly) I have no idea what we're trying to do. We were inserting different RBs in and out yesterday like people change underwear. If Sanders was OK why didn't he start? If he wasn't OK why play him and risk further injury.
Why can't we get a guy like Harbor with world class speed more involved in the offense. Why when needing 7 yards (or pick any number of yards) to pick up a first down do we continually run passing plays that are 2-3 yards short of the required number of yards to pick up said 1st down?
Why do we continue to try and run 180 pound McDowell (not taking anything away from McDowell) up the middle? How many games is it going to take for Sellers to learn to throw the ball away instead of taking a 3 - 5 yard loss?
How are we so undisciplined all over the field? Did we not commit enough dumb ass acts during the LSU game to learn anything about the foolishness of committing such acts? Do we even practice at all? How many offside penalties did we commit yesterday? 4? 5?
And speaking of penalties what the hell was with Beamer declining that penalty? Year 4 should be a break out year but we're staring right down the barrel of a 4 - 8 season. Beamer has the "resume" to do this having interned under such notables as Spurrier, Riley and his father but he just doesn't seem to have the "it" factor.
I seen it happen in the Army. You could send a soldier to all of the leadership schools that were available and yet that soldier couldn't lead ducks to water in a real leadership position. Again, yesterday wasn't about losing per se. We were 9.5 point dogs. We simply look like crap in virtually every aspect of the game and I don't see things getting any better.
After last night (and I began having reservations about him after the ODU escape) I now believe that he is not HC material. The "fake" punt in that situation yesterday was inexcusable. The risk vs reward potential was simply not worth the distinct possibility of putting a high powered offense in such an obvious field position advantage.
It wasn't like picking up the 1st down would have put us 1st and goal either. We would still have had around 50 -55 yards to go to score. The early atmosphere and crowd momentum was quickly sucked out of the stadium after that play and never really returned.
On "offense" (and I use that term lightly) I have no idea what we're trying to do. We were inserting different RBs in and out yesterday like people change underwear. If Sanders was OK why didn't he start? If he wasn't OK why play him and risk further injury.
Why can't we get a guy like Harbor with world class speed more involved in the offense. Why when needing 7 yards (or pick any number of yards) to pick up a first down do we continually run passing plays that are 2-3 yards short of the required number of yards to pick up said 1st down?
Why do we continue to try and run 180 pound McDowell (not taking anything away from McDowell) up the middle? How many games is it going to take for Sellers to learn to throw the ball away instead of taking a 3 - 5 yard loss?
How are we so undisciplined all over the field? Did we not commit enough dumb ass acts during the LSU game to learn anything about the foolishness of committing such acts? Do we even practice at all? How many offside penalties did we commit yesterday? 4? 5?
And speaking of penalties what the hell was with Beamer declining that penalty? Year 4 should be a break out year but we're staring right down the barrel of a 4 - 8 season. Beamer has the "resume" to do this having interned under such notables as Spurrier, Riley and his father but he just doesn't seem to have the "it" factor.
I seen it happen in the Army. You could send a soldier to all of the leadership schools that were available and yet that soldier couldn't lead ducks to water in a real leadership position. Again, yesterday wasn't about losing per se. We were 9.5 point dogs. We simply look like crap in virtually every aspect of the game and I don't see things getting any better.
, we would get killed by Kentucky, we would get killed by lsu before the season, so he made enough changes to be better than those expectations...