Date: September 17th, 2022
Time: 7:30 PM
Opponent: Furman (1-1, 0-0 SoCon)
Place: Greene Stadium (7,694)
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Lively bunch. I don't feel great about this game. Hopefully they prove me wrong. Furple looked pretty good against Clemson last week.
Furman favored by 2.5 points.
It is hard for me to understand what our offensive coaches are trying to do. The blocking scheme is just not working and Tyler gets pressured with only 4 down linemen. I still hope it is a matter of players learning a new offense and that the team improves. The defense is as good as always but the offense is just letting them down. Whatever the OC is trying do it is not working.
Our offensive line is either terrible or just can’t learn what they’re supposed to do. Poorly disciplined team on the offensive side of the ball. It’s going to be a long year.
(09-17-2022 10:48 PM)GoBucsGo Wrote: [ -> ]Our offensive line is either terrible or just can’t learn what they’re supposed to do. Poorly disciplined team on the offensive side of the ball. It’s going to be a long year.
Yes our best hope is that the team is learning a new offense and will improve. What hurts is that this coaching staff inherited a championship winning team with the majority of the players returning and all they were asked to do what not mess it up and keep it winning. That O line has to improve or we will be hard pressed to win a SoCon game this year.
No doubt the offensive line is a major problem. It doesn't help we have no rb depth behind saylors, and not much depth on defense. This will be a long season as GoBucsGo said.
I can't help but feel this was a disastrous "best friend" hire by Scott Carter. I feel bad for the guys who have worked their butts off and were a championship caliber team last year. The athletic department has let them down in my opinion.
(09-17-2022 11:01 PM)Buced_Up Wrote: [ -> ]No doubt the offensive line is a major problem. It doesn't help we have no rb depth behind saylors, and not much depth on defense. This will be a long season as GoBucsGo said.
I can't help but feel this was a disastrous "best friend" hire by Scott Carter. I feel bad for the guys who have worked their butts off and were a championship caliber team last year. The athletic department has let them down in my opinion.
If I were going to have someone fill in for my Sunday School class, I would definitely have coach Q do that but a football coach he is not. The OC literally has no clue what he is doing and the OL coach should stop worrying about next year and play the guys he inherited that can win. This is a complete embarrassment for these young men and should never have happened. No wonder they fired Carter and they should clean this house sooner than later as it is horrific.
Carter was a Quarles fanboy. He made the hire out of emotion and nostalgia and he screwed Billy Taylor yet again. Even Bartow was able to take a really good team he inherited his first year and not screw it up. Quarles has already turned this into a lost season. I heard Jay interviewing the OC before the game. He’s just a kid. Not at all ready for this job. Way in over his head. There might not be 2 more wins on the schedule this year.
Getting sacked 4 times by Mars Hill was an omen
Not good. Not good. At this point, Chattanooga will romp to the title and, with this second in a row showing, not good for ETSU. Mercer shut out Citadel yesterday. We can talk improvement all day going forward — but this is not another good sign for things to come, obviously. No good.
BIG CROWD (JCP)
The announced attendance was 9,836, the fourth-largest crowd in Greene Stadium history. It was the ninth ETSU game in a row to sell out.
This will take a major hit when it looked like ETSU football had finally buried the past and was headed to better days, a new era. For us old birds, the past frustrations are beginning to raise their ugly heads. SHAMEFUL
Does anyone have any knowledge about how our search for a new AD is going? This to me will be a critical hire. Dr. Noland and Dr. Sander have to really do a complete national search and hire a smart, competent AD who gets the situation and can run the athletic department professionally. I have to think that any new, competent athletic director will see immediately that something has to be done about the football program. The program is capable of being nationally ranked and deserves a coach that can keep it there. Are there any names out there?
(09-18-2022 06:51 AM)JWBUC Wrote: [ -> ]Getting sacked 4 times by Mars Hill was an omen
And literally did nothing to change up the line. How many times did we start 2 and 10? We had the ball to end the first half 2:47, all you have to do is get 1 FS. Nope, give the ball back and they score right before half. I heard the HV interview and talking about how he didn’t like it when the HC stepped in front of him as an OC at times and called plays. Why is that? Because it’s his d’m team. Now you may not have liked that but until your winning, even getting a few sustained drives, you better grab that bull by the horn and do the same D’m thing or you, and your OC will be hitching up a Uhaul. Enough of the nice guy stuff, you need to be a leader and that includes stepping in and showing your young OL coach how to shake things up. Gracious, this is your job not summer camp, step in and step up and take control. Coaches hurt feelings will be ok. Aside from the same soft underneath which plagues Billy’s defense, they played well and the DL, which has been a complete surprise to me and apart from the last drive at CID, played well. That was a tough QB to contain who played well at Clemson. The defense did their part and our offense looks like a middle schools coach runs it.
(09-18-2022 09:59 AM)bucfan81 Wrote: [ -> ]Does anyone have any knowledge about how our search for a new AD is going? This to me will be a critical hire. Dr. Noland and Dr. Sander have to really do a complete national search and hire a smart, competent AD who gets the situation and can run the athletic department professionally. I have to think that any new, competent athletic director will see immediately that something has to be done about the football program. The program is capable of being nationally ranked and deserves a coach that can keep it there. Are there any names out there?
Well hopefully Quarles can somehow figure out how to turn things around. I’m pretty sure ETSU is in no position to financially be able to fire a coach in his first season. We’re already paying 5 basketball coaches and 2 ADs.
I see a lot to be upset about all over the place but the OL situation immediately makes us non competitive. There’s an all American running back and all conference QB that have completely neutralized.
It’s just a shame to see all the momentum and growth around the program be squandered immediately.
(09-18-2022 10:15 AM)MTBuc Wrote: [ -> ] (09-18-2022 09:59 AM)bucfan81 Wrote: [ -> ]Does anyone have any knowledge about how our search for a new AD is going? This to me will be a critical hire. Dr. Noland and Dr. Sander have to really do a complete national search and hire a smart, competent AD who gets the situation and can run the athletic department professionally. I have to think that any new, competent athletic director will see immediately that something has to be done about the football program. The program is capable of being nationally ranked and deserves a coach that can keep it there. Are there any names out there?
Well hopefully Quarles can somehow figure out how to turn things around. I’m pretty sure ETSU is in no position to financially be able to fire a coach in his first season. We’re already paying 5 basketball coaches and 2 ADs.
I see a lot to be upset about all over the place but the OL situation immediately makes us non competitive. There’s an all American running back and all conference QB that have completely neutralized.
It’s just a shame to see all the momentum and growth around the program be squandered immediately.
Yes that is the painful reality of it but it really hurts watching what is happening. We as fans just feel helpless.
If we are paying 5 basketball coaches and 2 AD’s someone needs to answer for that as well. Who might that be? Citadel is the worst team we will face all year, by far, until we play Wofford so unless something changes with the OL and the OC, we will either need to add paying a FB coach to that list or accept what you have seen. Not to mention, the talented kids that are on Scholly will transfer if the adults in the room don’t step in, count on that. The school essentially handed what could have been a chip caliber team to a JV coaching staff. Let that sink in. Scott Carter, if your watching, thanks a lot for the buddy hire. We all wish you would have made a serious hire before exiting. Based on what I heard in the stands there are some might PO’d alumni and supporters.
I am not sure about how finances go with our athletics but I thought Harris and Carter were paid a lump sum to leave. Again, we can only hope the offense is still learning and will improve. But so far they have not. The new head coach only made two significant changes and those were the offensive line coach and the offensive coordinator. I still cannot figure out what they are trying to do and why basic blocking is unknown to them. Tyler, Jacob, Will and all of our talented skill position players deserve better!
‘81 I think you’re right about the payouts for Harris and Carter but that’s a load of cash for a school like us. We are still paying Ezell & Shay plus our current coaches. Scott nailed it with Coach Sanders but other than that I’m afraid history will not be kind. It’s just impossible to understand how a program can take such an apparent nosedive in one off season. I hope for the school and program that Quarles figures it out but he didn’t have the resume or the connections for this job. Scott so obviously had a man crush and acted on it.
(09-18-2022 07:09 PM)MTBuc Wrote: [ -> ]‘81 I think you’re right about the payouts for Harris and Carter but that’s a load of cash for a school like us. We are still paying Ezell & Shay plus our current coaches. Scott nailed it with Coach Sanders but other than that I’m afraid history will not be kind. It’s just impossible to understand how a program can take such an apparent nosedive in one off season. I hope for the school and program that Quarles figures it out but he didn’t have the resume or the connections for this job. Scott so obviously had a man crush and acted on it.
I totally agree. We fans and alumni have to figure a way through this situation. The best case is the players learn the system and get better but it is not looking good so far.
(09-18-2022 07:09 PM)MTBuc Wrote: [ -> ]‘81 I think you’re right about the payouts for Harris and Carter but that’s a load of cash for a school like us. We are still paying Ezell & Shay plus our current coaches. Scott nailed it with Coach Sanders but other than that I’m afraid history will not be kind. It’s just impossible to understand how a program can take such an apparent nosedive in one off season. I hope for the school and program that Quarles figures it out but he didn’t have the resume or the connections for this job. Scott so obviously had a man crush and acted on it.
Could not agree more. It is incomprehensible how many times the athletic department/university has failed to capitalize on success in our flagship sports. Every time, something always happens and they shoot themselves in the foot. To me, it's why programs like Belmont in basketball and App St. in football have gone on to be the programs they are today. Capitalized on their success