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Lack of Leadership

I was going to post this before reading Mark's breaking news when I got up to pee at 2:00. Then I thought, "Maybe I shouldn't pile on." But...

Outside of scheme and coaching style, I'll leave that to others, the elephant in the room is lack of upper class leaders taking hold of the locker room and getting people's minds right.

Would Kenyon Green, Demarvin Leal, Wydermeyer, or Leon O'Neil let it get this far?

We don't have anyone. I would say Anias Smith. I would hope Demani Richardson.


The only hope for this team is that this causes some younger guys to step up and lay down the law. I've heard, and pray it's true, that Evan Stewart is somebody that is taking over. McKinley Jackson? AJ Johnson? Edgrin Cooper? The new DB's seeing playing time? Fadil Diggs! Walter Nolan.

We are in dangerous times when you give a kid that comes from poverty more money than they ever dreamed of holding, when they don't have the life tools to manage themselves or their money. Maybe losing it, will knock some sense into the others? Not sure how that works.

I hope we hear about a team meeting, without the coaches, and see who will step up and take over.

It's a bad formula: $$$ / Immaturity and lack of life skills / no self governing.

This must be Jimbo's teaching moment. Hope he is up to it.

10 Things for Tuesday

This may become 110 things with all of the happenings going on. Any one topic could be lengthy at a minimum.
Players status
Coaches status
Jimbo status. Will he be retained, resign or step up and accept accountability and make the speech of a lifetime?
Makings of a hurricane Ian of a season and possible aftermath.
can we bring on Brady or Frost and shitcan Craig and Adazio & son?
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Travel to away games

I didn’t know this until last night, but apparently on away games we fly out on Thursday’s. This supposedly allows the team more time get acclimated and rested. I think it’s complete BS and a waste of resources!! They don’t need two nights in a hotel to get ready for a game! The fact is we haven’t been ready to play most of our games this year and it’s nobody’s fault but the coaches.

The culture isn’t right. I’ve heard other things that I’m not ready to share that are very concerning and pretty unbelievable. Things that should never be happening with any program.

OFFENSE and COACHING

This was posted on another site and gives a nice perspective.


barney94 said:
Ok. I am an offensive line coach and offensive coordinator at a 3a high school in Colorado. Im sure there are much higher level coaches on the board, but none of my guys are Power 5 prospects so I will chime in. A couple of points:

1. Offensive line coaches don't generally change run blocking schemes. Coach Fisher has power, counter, pin and pull, and inside zone schemes in. The o line coach implements those schemes and coaches the techniques necessary to execute them. (Footwork, hand placement, aiming point, combo and double teams, etc.). We ran the same schemes with Spiller and Williams before him under different o line coaches.

2. Oline coaches may have preferred pass pro schemes but Fisher has so much control, I bet he dictates that too. Plus at the Power 5 level they pretty much run all the protections anyway, and can change them at the line. Center usually makes these calls, but with Jimbo we know (or think we know) that the QB is responsible for this too. (More on that later)

Maybe Addazio is being too technical. Maybe he has changed some of the things I mentioned above and it's been a failure. But I doubt it.

I've been in Addazio's practices when he was at Co State. When we hired him I got on here and said it was a mistake because he basically coaches by fear and loathing. It's all F bombs all the time, and his son is even worse (and not as technically sound as Pops). I was ridiculed as being soft and told that our guys needed to toughen up.

Well, these guys are playing like dogs that have been beaten too much. Tentative and scared. Not aggressive. Nobody is having fun out there. This was a bad hire of epic proportion and I bet there's at least one parent on here who would agree if they could.

Now, back to pass protection. Who else looks like a dog who's been beaten too much? The quarterbacks, of course. King mostly.

He's not only got to execute the pass/RPO game, he's also got to check and change the protections to boot, with the knowledge that if he screws ANY of it up he's going to be publicly humiliated as soon as he gets to the sideline. Tough job. Probably messes protections up a fair bit, which gets blamed on the o line as well.

Coaching is teaching. It's not throwing fits and getting your way. For better or worse athletes in 2022 don't respond to that well. O-line, believe it or not, can respond to it the worst. These guys were always the fat kids or the huge kids and haven't possessed the greatest self confidence for the better parts of their lives.

To compound that, they have to learn the most unnatural position in sports. Be huge but play low. Be huge, but be quicker over 5 yards than everyone else. Have long legs but take short choppy steps. Keep your butt down but your eyes up. Hand placement. Step angle. And all that is run game! Doesn't even touch on pass pro which is counter-intuitive to aggressive run blocking. O line is more technique sensitive than any other spot except maybe QB. People are born knowing how to run. Nobody is born knowing how to fit a down block or how to vertical pass set.

For the most part an o line coach needs to be about 40% sensei, 40% professor, and 20% drill instructor.

We hired the DI from Platoon to coach these guys and his idiot kid to help him.

The massive regression of Robinson and Fatheree is enough evidence for me to think I have this right. Not to mention the snap technique change debacle.

Of course all this falls on the head man. He needs a new offensive staff and a new approach. I just wanted to chime in with some observations as I am as frustrated as everyone else.

Autopsy of the season

This season has been a complete failure by every measure- our most consistent player has been the backup kicker -

I hate blaming injuries because every team has injuries but this team is so bad it goes deeper -

honest opinions on the root cause ?
Jimbo offense is bad but was decent last year against Bama, Lsu , auburn - I don’t think all our problems go away with just different play calls

it can’t be just the scheme alone - is it all the o-line problem - that’s my best guess- dies the disaster on the line doom all our plays and render us a 20 pt per game team ( if the defense gives us short fields like it did vs bama and usc)

defense sucked with 3 man rush but has adapted and improved enough for us to win so games

the depth of this failure is bewildering

Aggies, We Need To Demonstrate Some Good Sportsmanship

. . . and congratulate The Anointed One, Quinn Ewers, on going 19 of 49 with three INTs against the worst pass defense in the Big 12. That's only the third time since 2000 that a college QB has thrown at least 49 passes with fewer than 20 completions.

On the sip message boards, there is a strangely familiar chorus blaming everything on the receivers.

Gallery Furniture guaranteed 60% off mattress.

Gallery furniture is still advertising get your money back on mattress purchase over $3k if the Astros win the World Series. It was double your money back earlier in season. I read he has around 10 million bet on the Astros with a payout of 75 million. To hedge his risk on the promotion.

You can guarantee 60% off. Make a $3,000 purchase and bet $1200 on the Phillies (+150) which will pay. $1800. Either outcome, your $3000 purchase will cost you $1200.
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