No scroll down the page there is a play button.For the podcast too?
Look at how many people were on this site arguing for this or that because thats what the NFL does and kids just want to play CFB to get to the league.We have been behind the ball trying to promote NFLU and tied ourselves to a dying scheme while college football evolved away from bro style offense. We had AD in newspaper saying they wanted a offense that gets players ready for pros while not saying they want to light up college scoreboards. We were very backwards in our thinking from top down.
And I know many will try to make it seem like they were alllll for spread for a long time but there have been MANY debates with guys talking about they love the fullback in flat plays and how quadtrine hill could pick up a guarenteed 3-4 yards or some ****, MANY fans supported this NFLU pro style bro bs while lesser college teams lit up scoreboards. They probably won admit it now but this board is almost 10 years old you will see many debates of fans sounding like those triple option fans of yesteryear. It is just sad we wasted a decade plus when we could of been cutting edge which was our original identity! Not NFLU. Heck Erickson was an original spread guy. **** man 2020 and we are LAST on the bus..
Listened to it. Funny how he mentions Golden era offense and how they couldnt get the defense synced up. Golden was D coach by trade but I remember him being open with offense and even doing tempo stuff and wanting to brand offense as "temp-pro" style offense. Using faced pace spread type and still being pro style for whatever reason. Would even have Morris throwing deep for cheap touchdowns when teams would jump offsides..
Golden did some decent things but was just soo corny and his putting his friendship before the school and hiring a guy who shouldnt be more than a position coach maybe as DC with incredibly bad results was his down fall. I cant believe this dude tied himself to dorito.
How is Manny any different in this regard?
Golden refused to make changes to any of his teams.
The OL sucked and the DL didn't but the DC, who needed to be assisted by Manny, gets to stay and the OC catches all the blame? Manny is still putting friends before the program.
The OL sucked and the DL didn't but the DC, who needed to be assisted by Manny, gets to stay and the OC catches all the blame? Manny is still putting friends before the program.
I don't think that the DC needed to be fired after last season. Defense was not our problem.
Incompetence or staggering ignoranceSo did Manny know Enos was going run that horrid offense when he hired him or did Dan switch it up when he was on the ground here? Did Manny just wake up during the season to the offense we ‘should’ run? His promises when he was hired didn’t match the scheme we got. How did that really happen?
I could definitely see this being the case. Part of me still feels like pEnos said some **** in his pre employment interview that he didnt deliver on as well. There was some very blatant tension on the sidelines way too early in the yearI don't believe Manny fully embraced the spread until this season. He knew what Enos ran...****, one of the reasons he pointed to for hiring him was because his offense gave Manny problems when they were both at previous stops. He was very familiar with Enos' system. But I believe Manny wasn't fully on board with a radical shift in philosophy. Almost like last year was a baby step towards the full spread. From pro-style, to "spread coast" (LMAO), to a guy like Lashlee.
Putting myself in his shoes, it was probably a "pick your battles" situation. Fix the urgent need where he can't step in to help while minimizing the number of staff casualties to avoid too much disarray.The OL sucked and the DL didn't but the DC, who needed to be assisted by Manny, gets to stay and the OC catches all the blame? Manny is still putting friends before the program.
Putting myself in his shoes, it was probably a "pick your battles" situation. Fix the urgent need where he can't step in to help while minimizing the number of staff casualties to avoid too much disarray.
But the VT game really exposed Baker.
I think Manny wanted to see a certain offense run and Enos sold him on running that offense but decided to run things his own way.
Remember the interviews, Enos said he was going to run a hybrid "Spreadcoast Offense". Then he went and did the offense he'd run at Arkansas.