Whoever called the plays in tonight's game against Ole Miss should be fired tomorrow morning.
Period.
2 possessions, two touchdowns, then the offense pulls into a shell and darn near loses the game. That's not the players' fault; that's coaching. I sat here at home on the couch and predicted 5 plays in a row, including the screen pass that was intercepted for a touchdown. If I can do that, you know darn well that Cutcliffe and his staff can do it.
I don't care whether Sanders or Fulmer made the calls; whoever it is doesn't play to win; they play not to lose, and that'll kill a football team.
SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE: Ok, we won the game after all. NOw, in the light of day, I've had the chance to calm down a bit and reconsider my hasty and intemperate words of last night. And after careful and sober reflection;
SOMEBODY STILL NEEDS TO BE FIRED!
No disrespect to Ole Miss, who played their guts out, but had we played any team in the top 25, we would be 4-2 and wondering what the heck happened to our season. Everyone in the stadium knew that on first down, Riggs would be running off tackle.
Hey Randy or Fulmer, a quick hint for you. If you run the same play on forst down for 2 frakin' quarters, it doesn't matter if you run it out of 57 different formations, you're not going to fool anybody.
Except maybe for Vandy.
The first two series showed that you had the players and the plan to whip Ole Miss. The rest of the game showed you didn't have the heart. A football team feeds on emotion; you coaches durn near starved your team last night.
It's a good thing I waited until I was calmer to write this.
SUNDAY NIGHT UPDATE:
Ok, I'm calmer now. No, really, I am. LAst week, after our thrashing of Georgia, I was disappointed by how the polls reacted, particularly the coaches poll, which bumped us from 17 to 14 while leaving the Bulldogs in the top 10, 6 places above us. That is patently ridiculous, right? Consider a similar situation ion the Big 10, where Wisconsin beat Purdue. Wisconsin jumped 5 places in the poll while Purdue dropped 7.
That's more like it.
So this is more proof of the bias against us at ESPN, right?
Wrong. ESPN and the folks in the coaches poll know our coaching staff, and accounted for it in their rankings. And when we played that horrible game agqinst Ole Miss, we confirmed their judgment. Don't cry about ESPN being biased. Look a little closer to home for the problem.
Posted by Rich at October 17, 2004 12:14 AM | TrackBack