The Snowflake Thread: Coaching

all the apologists basically keep saying, "but the players are just so bad..." It's the same sorry excuse we heard during the RR years. Good coaches and good coordinators have done a lot more with a lot less than what we have right now.

I think back to when Hoke was hired.  It was a bold call at the time that at first seemed to have paid off because even though Hoke himself wasn't necessarily a great football mind, he's a great guy, great recruiter, and could attract top coaches to handle the x's and o's. 

But to be that kind of Les Miles-type coach, whose role is sort of caretaker and general face of the program, you have to make the tough calls with your coaches.  I would never want to be LSU, ever, but you look at that approach, they cycled through coordinators constantly, trying to find something that worked, and they never had things as bad as this.

If Hoke cant do this right here and now, it speaks very poorly for him

...crickets.  It was bad in all three phases.  The defense didn't tackle well and got run over on the last scoring drive by Iowa.  The offense is still horrible.  Borges needs to go, but Touissaint really has no strength.  He gets taken down by extended arms, not even tackles.  Gardner has regressed every week since Indiana.  He seems to play scared and I understand that, but then the coaching doesn't help him either.  And Special teams gets nothing going, the punting is awful and the kick coverage today was the worst it's been all season.

In, pooprly executed game, and being the 11th game of the season, that's due to terrible coaching.  This staff needs to only look in the mirror to see where the problems lie.  If Hoke doesn't make major changes, hie job security will be very weak next year. 

A REAL OC and a REAL quarterback coach and an OLine coach are a must.

And, byt the way...get rid the legends jerseys, these kids are just not earning them.

1) I cannot remember the last time a defense produced four turnovers and gift 14 points to the offense and that team still LOST the game.

2) Three second half first downs! THREE!!!!

3) No attempt to work in Shane Morris when clearly every week our offense is inept.

All of this points to problems with our coaching staff in general and Borges in particular.

I've been saying this for a while, but if Hoke doesn't win 15 games between this year and next he won't make it to year 5.

There has to be a breaking point. If we get slaughtered next week I feel like Hoke and Brandon will have to see the writing on the wall. This collapse due to the offense's incompetence is going to kill ticket sales and donations going into next year unless changes are made.

The difference between us and Florida this year is two miraculous escapes against UConn and Akron. That coaching staff is going to get scorched, if not outright canned, for its failures. How can we not expect something similar?

FireBorges+++++++

The last TO before halftime was just an awful decision or at least poorly timed in relation to the game clock.  Iowa got a good return and almost made us pay for it.

Next week is going to suck...

They all suck. The offensive coaches especially.

I don't care anymore. Maybe a historically bad loss to Ohio State at home (38 pts is the benchmark) is just what this team needs.  Could force Hoke into making a change he'd rather not make at this time.

Gardner has been blitzed so much this year, he's like a shell-shocked soldier.  He's lost all confidence mentally.  He's beat physically just as much.

The whole point of Gardner as your QB is the damage he can do with his feet as well as through the air.  But he's lost his speed along with his confidence.  He's an empty shell at QB.

The coaches need to consider next year that it's now time to get Morris in the system.