Re: Fire DC's before bowl game? Blitzing and getting burned occasionally to me, is better than consistently giving a QB 5-7 seconds and a corner no chance. Bottom line is that the scheme was serviceble with Pelini, but without him it has been a trainwreck. Crisis causes change and its time for change. I sound like an Obama voter!
Actually, our penalties are WAY down this year. Of course, many years, the most penalized teams are champions (see LSU '07, Florida '06). When playing with fire and passion, sometimes penalites occur.
Yeah - but the "good" penalties are those caused by aggressive play - not by a lack of brain function. :geaux:
Miles should make his staff changes before the bowls to save recruiting... Miles will not make any staff changes (or the ones he will make will be scapegoats) and the crappy defense will continue next year... I have to agree with a previous post... there were alot of questions when it came to Bo's defensive scheme... Now that someone else is running it, its gone from questionable to terrible... Time for a change...
Re: Fire DC's before bowl game? Again though, what if you were to say the scheme was serviceable with Chevis Jackson, Jonathan Zenon, Craig Steltz and Glenn Dorsey, but with a freshman Patrick Peterson, and first time starters in Hawkins, Coleman and Riley/Shep it has been a trainwreck? Not saying the DC's are free from blame, but the expectations for this defense were simply too high this year. And the 2004 team I am referring to did not just get burned "occasionally", if you'll remember the Georgia game from that year Greene had 5 TD passes on just 20 or so attempts. They got burned repeatedly. Like I said, there is no wrong or right way to call a defense as long as the players execute and tackle. This can be attributed to poor coaching as well, so I don't mean to completely absolve Mall-veto but people are just looking for someone to blame. It was just a bad defense from top to bottom.
Re: Fire DC's before bowl game? The search for a new DC, not to mention the negotations, will take some time. Miles will probably not have the time to hire a new DC before the bowl game, so there is no point in dismissing the current DCs before then.
It would help. They cant really recruit from December 22 to January 1st so I would assume if we do not hear anything soon final decisions will be made during this time. The recruiting/visiting season starts today so we need to do something.
Re: Fire DC's before bowl game? That same scheme almost blew our NC chances last year. Woodson was a statue in the pocket, yet the pass rush vs. Kentucky was nonexistent last year. Run blitzing vs. Arkansas would have at least limited McFadden and would have pressured Casey Dick on a 4th-and-10 that should have won that game. For the record I have never liked that rush 4/drop 7 scheme, and unless you have lights-out DBs and D-linemen, that has not and will not work against teams than run the spread with great athletes. You don't win by sitting back and letting a Tebow kill you with a thousand cuts, you have to flush him out of the pocket, and if you get burned, you get burned. But I'd rather take a chance at a low-percentage long ball then get consistently beat with 5-10 yard high-percentage short passes, especially when CBs are always giving up a 5-yard cushion as they've been doing all year.
Re: Fire DC's before bowl game? EXACTLY! Glad someone else gets it, since Punk is MIA today... :hihi:
