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If a coach gets on you in the right way, that is you deserve the scolding and he is consistent with you and other players, it can be a real life learning asset. I had a tough coach who gave me no slack, well deserved because I was not a good player in the beginning. By the third year I had put...

Stollen signals can hurt you but has little or nothing to do with man coverage often getting beat deep, missed tackles, and not covering people at all in the middle of the field. Not to mention late subbing and late signals from the sidelines, not getting ready before the snap, and more than 11...

Agree with comments about the DL, especially the "long term" required to correct it. In the meantime I would like to see better performance in contested balls, better deep coverage, and something to stop the wide open receivers, especially in the middle of the field where we seem to have major...

Coach's can give Gleason a shot to find out what he can do under pressure. This will give Sims more than talk to think about.

No we would not win but we might have looked like a competitive football team with a much more positive outlook from everybody going forward. It is never good for the team's morale to endure the outcome from such a game. Being the joke of the week is not good.

We were massively complicit in the score run up as we had no plan or execution to milk the clock to limit the number of Clemson's possessions, especially after the game quickly got totally out of reach. When you go into a game where you have virtually no chance to win, you goal should be to get...

Agree that under center is not enough. It needs to be combined with quick hitting plays, more bigger personnel, and power formations. The mentality should be "here we come and stop us if you can": not here we go again to try to out cute you. We obviously need a lot of improvement in many areas...

Absolutely. The loss was very very likely unavoidable but the magnitude of the loss (and embarrassment) was on the coaches for time management of the game. Many of our 3 and outs consumed only one minute off the clock. More amateur hour from the in game coaching.

50-7 was easily doable but our time management expert coaches chose to not milk the clock (game was out of reach at 31-7) but we were running about 58 seconds off the clock with our 3 and outs, giving Clemson way too many possessions. I do not blame Clemson as they used 4 QBs and wanted to give...

That is a good argument if Clemson had not scored all those points early before anyone was legit tired.

So far we have no commitment for gaining critical short yards to maintain possession. We stay in the same formations (primarily for passing), stay in shot gun, do not seem to have power formations, do not load up with heavier personnel, and do not have any track record for success. This is...

If the ball crosses the goal line it will be ruled a touchback. In watching the replay it seems to me the ball may have crossed the goal, maybe when the second player was hit with it. That was a better call than the opponent's fumble into the end zone and then out of bounds which should have...

I agree that the OC play calling, for whatever reason, is not as annoying as last year and at times is downright good. I am still unhappy with the really good chances to move the sticks and we don't (such as the 2nd and 4, the second and 3, and the second and 1 which we did not convert and the...

It is apparent to me that the penalties are a discipline issue. The D cannot get lined up before the snap too much of the time. The ego celebration is interfering with our need to get lined up quickly and focus on our business. The OC has the players moving around before the snap and people...

Hindsight is wonderful! I am sure that 3 man line was the DCs attempt to adjust to having fewer people to rotate, but he couldn't sub when he wanted due to UCFs hurry up and we got gassed anyway while not having a meaningful pass rush, leaving a gaping hole on each side of the NT, and not using...

There is a big difference between "lots of time" on the clock with 3 TOs and "lots of time" after been forced to use up the TOs.

I disagree. You are down 21 but expect to close to 14 down giving you a much better chance to get back in the game. The last thing you want to do is leave enough time to give up another score to be back to 21 down and much much slimmer chance to get back in the game. This is not an isolated case...

My concern is not so much this one play but rather the thought process going through the coach's heads. The OC does not seem to have "move the chains" focus (does things like calling a pass in the red zone on third and 2 when you have two chances to make the yards running...much higher percent)...

The flips are: The coaches think we have the best QB based on practice but the others have not had a chance to show anything in games. (One of them may have much better skills in the red zone.) Also the way Sims takes big hits we would be better off to have a backup with at least some game...

Refs were bad but I believe the refs got this call right. Sims starting down just before impact, either a dodge or a late decision to slide and I believe the defender could not avoid this contact. Sims has taken some big hits as he does not seem to slide laterally to avoid head on hits. I hope...