Well, since I'm new(ish) here and being a coach myself (not in college....thank goodness) I will just give my perspective.
First, I would DEFINITELY keep Carey. He seems to be alright but I'd say he'd need to take over play calling duties on the offensive side of the ball when things start getting dim!
Secondly, on defense, I don't mind Niemann but you have GOT TO get these players some practice at tackling. Everytime I looked up #11 was breaking an arm tackle from a defender (whomever that may have been) and getting a 1st down. *Now here is my coach view* That may be hard to do now that all these restrictions for contact in practice have come into play the past couple years. So I'd say good luck with that. The defense showed up big time tonight but I really don't think this game would've been even THIS close had Keeton been playing. We'd have gotten hammered....no joke!
Finally, again, as an outsider (and I am NOT gonna act like I am a football genius and know everything about whatever I see on the TV, but...) it seemed like we only ran 9 different plays. I am a football junkie and I have DVR'ed the game so I am gonna watch it (probably) 7-10 times (honestly) and checkout as much as I can actually see from the broadcast (wish I could find it on HUDL) but as someone above stated, what the hell happened to all those plays from last season? From the EIU game? Purdue? Yes, USU had a good defense....not disputing that at all. But this was one of the top offenses in the country. You're telling me we scored all those points off of the few plays we ran tonight? Aside from me thinking Simms was shaving points (but deep down I think it had a lot to do with his injury and his confidence coming back from it) that's all we had? We couldn't come out with anything different in the second half?
My votes?
Keep HC
Keep DC
Maybe it was just a brain fart few weeks for Cole? Jury is still out IMHO on Cole!
Just my $.02
With all that being said, sad for it to end this way but helluva season....12-2....I'll take it. Love my Huskies! Husky for life!!!
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