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The HC should be held accountable for everything. That's no mystery. The point is those guys weren't coached to fumble, but to avoid fumbling. Maybe what they don't have is the killer instinct, literally. The desire to beat the living daylights out of their opponent until the coach calls them...

I don't know whether it is "calling them out" to name them. If for instance we say that "We can't pass the ball" didn't we just name the QB? I don't want to blame the whole team if it is the QB. As for the WRs, I don't have a clue whether they can go fetch it, and nobody else does either. How...

Well, now in fairness. The fumble is on the player. The bad pitch is on the player. The bad snap is on the player. They know better. They are coached better. I would agree their heads did not appear to be in the game, and that is coaching. But eight times on the ground? My lord, if I remember...

The coach of my son's HS basketball team told me, when I asked him that question after he put three of his starters back in what seemed to be a safe win even as the other guys were closing it a bit with their starters, "When they quit, I'll quit. " Makes sense.

I have the same impression and when I was listening, I wondered if Candeto was hired for his skill set -- he was Johnson's QB -- or for his allegiance. Johnson has hired other former Navy players and while there is the advantage that they "know" the offense, and Candeto certainly for his...

Swinney doesn't have a rep for piling on. But more than one coach has put his best back in when he sees a momentum shift, and there was one ever so slight there, so he gets a pass. If he wanted to run up the score, he would have had that QB padding his numbers all game. And make no mistake what...

Whoa. Go to a neutral corner and remove the gloves. You're an attitude hunting a fight. My concern is the level of discussion and maturity on a football board that should not involve juvenile sexual insults. You're argument is something for another forum if folks want to get into it online. I...

The short answer, I am afraid, is that the team has completely lost its focus. That almost indefinable quality and mindset that drives one to compete on every play. That is on the coaches, all of them, and for the first time despite all the squealing on message boards through the years, I think...

Now aren't you the cheerful advocate.

What I had in mind has no training involved. It is his boss reminding him of his contract. Can't be that hard. And then we can just worry about the QB.

I saw Tevin Washington. I loved his option work. I saw Tevin Washington throw the ball downfield. Or sideways. Unintentionally, because knuckleballs have little wind resistance. But to call him a passer is to call Phyllis Diller Miss America.

Of all the directly football related complaints about Johnson, the recruiting and/or retention of QBs who can run his offense is the only legitimate beef in my unschooled opinion. I ran what was considered an option offense in HS. Thought I was good at it. Having seen Johnson's offense, and...

No way he is perfect for sure. And one who coaches for 30 years or so -- who's counting?-- will, I guarantee he has had more than "several" mistakes. Wouldn't you think? Now, the fake punt? There you have a winner. A bad coaching decision, though I grant we are looking at it in hindsight. More...

Well, this about that: I cannot recount how many times over the past years I have read the throwaway line "outcoached" when we lose. Generally it is written in all caps or with a series of exclamation points, and sometimes both, so you are an improvement there. Now, I am not on a first name...

Specifically, please.

Clemson dwarfs us? It would be a startling surprise if Clemson doesn't. I think that would fit the definition of news.

2015, too.

Yeah, ol' But has connections. To at least one outlaw recruiter and former Okie coach who is as dirty as a coalminer, and got UNC into football trouble it still hasn't recovered from. Right. Ol' Butch. We in NC know him well. Play Monty Python, and run away, run away.

Something that a GT grad might ponder as all the discussion about funding and resources and financial support for the football program vs. that at Clemson or other factory schools -- and I think Clemson is a factory school but one that does it ethically and by the book -- is this: Is it...

Well, there is this fellow -- what's his name again? Played somewhere in the offensive line. Supposed to have signed a $50 million contract with more than $20 million guaranteed ... and a $12 million signing bonus. Plays with New England I think. What was his name again? Mason? I surely thought...