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Well hopefully the defense makes it on the bus for gameday.
Worst record of any USC coach this century. I believe they've had 5.
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But but they scored 27 points.
kevin wilson is an offensive genius.
he has more creativity in his little toe than arbuckle has in his entire body.
i really have no idea why ou is paying guys like wilson because they're obviously not using him in any meaningful way.
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Better winning percentage than Kiffin and Helton, and currently tied with Sark.
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The offense is just limited by what it has. WRs that mostly can't separate. RBs that are injured or checked out. Barnes and Ott want out. Everyone else is injured.
not buyin what you're sellin..
mateer is mostly garbage but if you take away his decision making and call short quick hitting routes....he's capable of making those throws.
we saw that briefly today.
unfortunately....arbuckle who is also mostly garbage...doesn't stick with what mateer does best.
he actually/apparently called a deep fade on 3rd and 2 at midfield.....a throw that mateer just can't make....ever.
i know x is dinged up but a 3 yd run on first down is better than an incompletion on a throw mateer can't make....especially when we needed to run some clock in the 4th quarter.
yeah...we seem to be screwed at rb. but x was out there...and never touched the ball in the 1st quarter. why not? well we only ran 6 plays but still no excuse.
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This is the ultimate example of “multiple things can be true.” The offensive talent isn’t nearly where it needs to be. The quarterback isn’t good enough to make the WRs look better than they are. The head coach hasn’t helped things with his staff decisions and by directing so much of the NIL money to the defense. And the OC isn’t doing his part to mitigate some of the deficiencies.
One specific thing I’m wondering: Sategna legitimately does have elite speed (for a football player, I hate when people say world class speed as if a WR or DB could run in the Olympics). How can you not find more ways to get him the ball in space? Maybe they try and Mateer just misses him. I know they have occasionally tried screens and Burks just can’t block. But man they have to figure something out. Speaking of Burks, there might not be a bigger bust. I have no idea how he has fallen off so much since Purdue. He can’t separate, can’t get open, can’t make guys miss when he does catch a pass. And I don’t want to hear about injuries. He’s been healthy all season. Football players get injured all the time and once they are healthy, they generally don’t come back as a shell of themselves. But that seems to be what happens to our guys.
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Getting some help from Tennessee and Michigan today. Would be nice if Mizzou manages to stay in the top 25 but that might be unlikely. I don’t know how much separation the committee felt there was between us and ND coming into the day. Our resume is way better, but the eye test favors them because they are good on both sides of the ball, and the committee usually emphasizes that. It will be crazy on one hand to drop behind them after a ranked win while they played another awful team, but their logic is hard to predict.
watching bv's postgame presser....he seems annoyed/frustrated with some players who are soft
he said x had a sprained knee against bama....came in monday and said "put a brace on it...i'm playing"
bv said that's what carl albert players do
he said x had a sprained knee against bama....came in monday and said "put a brace on it...i'm playing"
bv said that's what carl albert players do
Fitting. You avoid the part about when you mentioned that Hardy always dominates, our defense not being elite, and that we may go 6-6 this year. But as soon as anything negative is said about Riley, you hop right back in.
But you're right. Apparently my numbers were off. I guess it was that his first 3 years that were worse than any other USC coaches this century. Somebody had recently shared that.
But his team has improved for the first time I his career, which is wild considering it's his 9th season. OU got worse every under him to the point that we needed Heisman QBs to avoid mediocrity. USC had been getting worse every year until this year. I don't think I could name another P5 coach whose record got worse 4 straight seasons in a row and still kept their job. He likely would have been ousted if not for the buyout.
They have fired multiple coaches including Clay Helton because 7-8 win seasons don't cut it there, but that's exactly what they have. If not for Nebraska blowing a lead after QB1 had a season ending injury, they'd be in 7 to 8 win pergatory for the 3rd straight season.
It's been a decade and he has yet to build a program up. Maybe he should change programs every year so that he can inherit a more well rounded roster and try to bring a Heisman winner with him each time. He'd never win it all, but he'd likely win 10+ games before getting bootstomped by an SEC team.
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We did a better job throwing a few deep balls that forced the safeties to make mistakes and get us a couple plays for Sategna. We didn't even try throwing those passes for like 5 weeks. We need a true burner outside that can win some one on ones. We haven't had that since Mims.
