I agree, you have to look at everyone. The players must step up their mental game. The players must also be ready to play from the start. As for Miles. I put the emphasis of my criticism on him because he is the HC. He makes the decisions. He is the one who has made time management blunders in nearly half the games the past two seasons. Also, Miles is the common denominator under these uber conservative play calling, tendencies. Each unit coach deserves criticism as well. Kids just are not getting it or they just not getting proper coaching. Chavis has really done a poor job making adjustments in the UW and Miss St games. He also coaches the LB's, which are the worst unit. I really do feel it is becoming the culture here.
I'll start off by saying I've been a Miles supporter from day 1 and have tolerated his screw ups in the past, we are all human right? However, I also pride myself on calling it like it is and right now I see him as a stubborn fool who refuses to change. One thing in life is certain, nothing stays the same, everything changes.......and if you don't change with it, you get left behind. I think at the moment he's getting left behind and better change in a hurry. Things currently driving me insane about this team: 1. Dive left, Dive right and some sort of vomit on 3rd down, punt, so old and so predictable. He will come out every game this year on the first series and do the same. He will probably "open the playbook" and go play action first play against Bama and they won't be fooled, then it's back to hand off left and right. I can't even begin to describe how this pisses me off, especially when he has a great offensive coordinator. 2. There is not enough room for me to write all the issues with players who should play more and those who shouldn't play at all. Is it because he thinks upper classmen have earned the right to play more at certain positions? I don't know, but if you can't clearly see Harris is a better option at QB and our MLB sucks then you are blind or a stubborn fool. I don't think Miles is blind. I think he's loyal to his old school football mentality.......to a fault. I'm sure Jennings is a great young man, but as a QB he's a decent backup. 3. Early departures for the NFL. Yeah it's great to lay claim we have all these players in the draft and we had all these underclassmen drafted or actually declare and NOT get drafted.......until the next season comes around. I think Miles needs to do a better job of telling these guys if they aren't a dead lock 1st round pick, stay and improve your draft status maybe even earn your degree if your football career doesn't work out. Now I feel better.........sigh.
Agree. Miles' mindset is that we are who we are, and we won't change for anybody. Problem is the entire game of college football has evolved very quickly the past 3-4 years, and the way he's made a living as a football coach is just simply an outdated concept. It's one thing to not give into fads and gimmicky shit; it's something else entirely to refuse to adapt when your model is ineffective. It's clear to anyone with eyes that our lines are as soft as cotton. Instead of just trying to will them into being tough, adapt to the personnel that you've got, for fuck's sake. Again, agreed, although I like to say we take a shit on 3rd down. There was this foolish hope in the back of my mind that the ULM game was simply a decoy, and that we'd turn it up a notch against MooU. But oh hell no. It was a god damn carbon copy on offense. I mean, you know, it's perfectly reasonable to think that what wouldn't work against a cupcake would suddenly sprout legs and take off against legitimate competition. I think that is what's got everybody so pissed off. It isn't like we went out there and just made a couple of mistakes. No, we got our sorry butts handed to us by a team with inferior talent, and that hadn't beaten us since the Clinton administration. We went out there and did the same bullshit that we did the week before, and paid dearly for it. We didn't leave it all out on the field; we got embarrassed.
I hate that we have all this awesome "talent" but not a very confidence inspiring team. The team should be greater than the sum of its parts. Regrettably, if you sum up all the parts, the value of the team is eclipsed. I know I am not a coach, much less the coach, but it seems to me coaching is what changes the equation and helps the team to eclipse the sum of parts. It has been a long while since I thought we were in the proper position. Even when we win, and we have won a lot of games, very very few have been really "feel good" wins. Beating up crippled sisters of the blind would not be considered feel good, nor would fourth quarter heroics make me feel good either. Feel good is when you stomp a good teams ass.
