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Post by Bornthrilla on Nov 2, 2008 14:29:39 GMT -5
OK, somebody explain this to me:
Louis Muldrow is a true freshman running back. He get's one carry yesterday and breaks off a 13 yard run. He gets one pass thrown his way and takes it for 31 yards (our longest play of the game).
... And our coaching staff decided not to give him any more touches the rest of the game.
Silly me, but I thought you were supposed to use your best weapons; not stockpile them on the bench.
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Post by Aggie One on Nov 2, 2008 15:52:24 GMT -5
As I have told you in person and written countless times on this web site, we continue to pick coaches and staffs that have the "senioritis" affliction in the worst sort of way.
They will always invariably give favor to seniors over underclassmen no matter how good they are or their level of productivity on the field.
It is a disease that most all HBCU coaches cling to like a security blanket. It does not serve them well and is the major contributory factor in not developing depth and experience hence about once every four years or so they will have a killer team then have to begin all over again from scratch.
It's a constant problem especially with older coaches.
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Post by aggiechamp on Nov 2, 2008 17:20:53 GMT -5
As I'm sure you know, HBCU coaches are not the only ones who are wedded to senioritis. It fact, senioritis is not unique to football and HBCU's. In other places, it called "let's dance with the one that brung ya" or in other places its called "experience." In fact, most teams seek to have senior laden teams to rely upon even when there are super talented freshmen waitng in the wing. I believe that they do that at the PWC in Chapel Hill. I could be wrong about that. Let's give the new coach a chance to be just that, "the new coach."
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Post by Bornthrilla on Nov 2, 2008 17:58:19 GMT -5
The new coach is supposed to be trying to help us win ball games, not just trying to get a senior RB a record.
Iron Mike had 20-some carries for about 60-some yards. Our offense only had around 160 yards in total offense.
Obviously, what we were doing wasn't working.
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Post by aggiechamp on Nov 2, 2008 18:20:28 GMT -5
Well, how do you know that he is not trying to win the game with the senior runningback. More basic, how do you know more than the coach that Tomlin deserves more carries. Are you in practice every day? Does Tomlin perform better than Ferguson in practice? Does he make every block, does he catch every pass? What makes your judgment superior to our new coach on this point? All you see is a run here and run there. And yes, there is nothing wrong with helping a guy who has carried and been loyal to your team to get the record as long as it does not hurt the team. Can you show me where Ferguson's efforts have hurt the team? If not, I say let him run.
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Post by aggiemaniac on Nov 2, 2008 18:29:51 GMT -5
I TOLD YOU!
louis muldrow is the truth! IDK why they are hesitating to give him the ball! my quote is...."if you wanna win? PUT LOUIS in"!
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Post by titan8 on Nov 2, 2008 18:38:27 GMT -5
I agree with Bornthrilla regardless of the record for Ferg we need to play folks who give us the best chance to win. Louis is a game breaker from anywhere on the field. I guess we have to wait until fall 09 to see his true potential.
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Post by popdad on Nov 2, 2008 19:25:37 GMT -5
I remember Mo Hicks was only used a little bit here and there, until somebody got hurt. When we all saw what he could do, it was baffling that he was the third backup.
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Post by aggiechamp on Nov 2, 2008 19:51:50 GMT -5
So we know better than these coaches. Maybe! But we aren't there on a day to day basis. Let's say that Louis Muldrow is the truth. My question is, Is he ready for it and who's better to judge, the coaches on a day to day basis or us. Last time I looked, none of us ( at least none of us that I know) has won an A&T football game and Rags had won several as a player and a coach. At this point, I trust his judgment more than I trust mine. The point is, I trust him to do the right thing. Ibelieve if he believe that Muldrow was quote unquote, the truth, and he met the other untangibles that go with being a great individual, student and football player he would play him. Finally, I know this is heresy, but sometimes the best doesn't necessarily get to show his or her greatness on his or her, or for that matter, on our schedule. Sometimes, the great and the ungreat must wait their turn.
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Post by popdad on Nov 2, 2008 20:03:53 GMT -5
Ease up Champ, you make very good points, I for one am pulling for the success of Rags and his ability to coach this team as he believes it should. And none of us here know the reasons for things happening and why. But we all will continue to call things as we see it, and be wrong about it if we have to. Some of us are natural critics, but our opinions doesn't mean we believe that we can out coach the coaching staff.
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Post by Maxell on Nov 2, 2008 20:49:03 GMT -5
Sometimes, the great and the ungreat must wait their turn. The time is now! |
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Post by Bornthrilla on Nov 2, 2008 21:15:35 GMT -5
Speak for yourself, popdad. I am starting to believe I can out-coach this staff right now.
I sure as hell would be doing something other that maintaining the status quo when my offense is getting only 162 total yards and has two turnovers and gains only 8 first downs.
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Post by aggiejazz on Nov 2, 2008 21:39:22 GMT -5
Who in the heck is Muldrow?......The BCU defense doesn't know anything about Muldrow but as soon as Ferg comes on the field he gets their full attention.
Now, you may have a point that maybe there should have been a few more plays with Muldrow but if he would had broke off a couple of more nice runs, I'm sure BCU would had given Muldrow a little more attention. A team has tendencies and BCU defense was playing against them. A&T has the same regardless of who they have in the backfield. Let Tomlin or Mldrow play the majority of the game and watch the opponent adjust after halftime.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Nov 3, 2008 9:08:58 GMT -5
The bottom line is that we only had 161 yards total offense and Muldrow accounted for 43 of those by himself.
If a guy is producing about one-fourth of your offense, why would you decide to phase him out?
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Post by Bornthrilla on Nov 3, 2008 9:16:06 GMT -5
... And this is not a new argument I am making. Ever since we found out Speedy was ineligible in the summer, we all knew that we were severely lacking speed in our backfield.
If Night Train or Silent E or Muldrow can provide that explosiveness we are missing, then that is exactly what we need to utilize.
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