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I think the conference has gotten better in the last 3 years. Tulane & ECU were garbage 3-4 years ago. But with coaching stability and better recruiting those teams have greatly improved and will have much success in the future, provided they can keep their coaches. The same can be said of Tulsa, although they've taken a step back recently.

i think both of these things are true:

(11-26-2022 09:12 PM)BearcatDave Wrote:  Thing about this years team is we were a couple of plays away from being a one loss team or a 5 loss team. 3 losses is respectable. Not what we wanted but respectable.

(11-27-2022 07:51 AM)Former Lurker Wrote:  A decent season. The disappointment stems from the idea that we spent the prior two seasons thinking that this program had transcended its conference. This year, we found out differently. It’s one of the better programs in the AAC, but needs to take a big step forward if it’s going to be in the top half of the B12.

(11-27-2022 08:08 AM)Edgebrookjeff Wrote:  I think the conference has gotten better in the last 3 years. Tulane & ECU were garbage 3-4 years ago. But with coaching stability and better recruiting those teams have greatly improved and will have much success in the future, provided they can keep their coaches. The same can be said of Tulsa, although they've taken a step back recently.

i'll add one more: i think we've taken a pretty significant step back. That's not unexpected. You lose Cobi, Sauce, Cook, Myjai, Pierce, Ford, and Des, few can expect to replace all that high end productivity with comparable pieces. We clearly didn't.

The unexpected part was the poor tackling, and lack of adjustments, and creativity, especially on the offensive end. i know that they said Gino called plays last season, but this was likely the first one where he had to make the adjustments as well. in that regard, this likely was the first season where he had full control of the offense. And as the cliche goes, the biggest growth occurs from when you are a rookie to your second year. The poor tackling is simply baffling. What used to be a hallmark of Coach Fickell's D is simply not there anymore. it's like some of our defenders are afraid of contact.

The expected but frustrating part: OL was poor and the penalties are infuriating. Hopefully the OL part sorts itself out with better personnel. Similarly, i'll give the new OL coach sometime to get his feet wet and gel with Gino. That said, it was and continues to remain poor.

There are no more words for the penalties. At least some of the dumbest ones will leave if/when Pace declares for the draft.

(11-27-2022 07:47 AM)Patmog Wrote:  

(11-27-2022 07:13 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(11-27-2022 07:02 AM)Edgebrookjeff Wrote:  We have the 2 maybe 3 fastest guys on the field and at no time did they try a slant or a post until the last drive. The last play of the game I believe was a slant pattern to Scott, that hit him in the chest. If he had caught that ball there's a good chance he could have scored. I'm hoping that it was tipped or deflected.

They had those routes in the route tree. Evan just didn't pull the trigger.

We sit in the north end zone and could see from behind the plays that players were open on slants and Pratter didn’t throw to them. However, I didn’t see them trying to go over the top on a post or fly pattern at all. They never tried to stretch the defense, thus it just kept playing up until there were 10 players near the box and 1 deep safety most of the 2nd half on defense for Tulane. Pratter and Bryant BOTH have/had the tendency to lock on one receiver and not look around the field to see alternatives.

I'm glad to see there is someone on here that watches the same game that I see.

In their defense, the reason why BOTH QB's lock on to one guy is that is more often than not all they have time to do. I swear there was one play in the first half that I thought we were running a screen because Huber just brushed up against his guy and then watched him run on by. Luckily he only deflected the pass.

And when we did get a guy behind them, Tulane's DB was beat but he looked back when the receiver looked back and layed out to deflect it away at the last second. Our guys would have never turned around and just tackled the guy for a PI.

It was pointed out to me that Tulane was rushing 3 and dropping 8. That was why Prater had so much time to throw, and Montgomery room to run. That also pretty much takes away the deep ball. Not sure if they changed defenses in the 2nd half, but I never saw 10 guys in the box.

“i'll add one more: i think we've taken a pretty significant step back. That's not unexpected. You lose Cobi, Sauce, Cook, Myjai, Pierce, Ford, and Des, few can expect to replace all that high end productivity with comparable pieces. We clearly didn't.”

Don’t forget the good players who were out injured yesterday, they were some of our best. Van, Coreleone, Renfro and yes Ben Bryant.

One great success this year was solving the place kicking problem.

Any thoughts on why Kiner was essentially a bust? Ford was simply not replaced at all.

(11-27-2022 11:44 AM)Bcatbog Wrote:  Any thoughts on why Kiner was essentially a bust? Ford was simply not replaced at all.

Probably for the same reasons that Prater is a bust.

Played Mickey Mouse competition in high school and their abilities were overrated as a result.

“i'll add one more: i think we've taken a pretty significant step back. That's not unexpected. You lose Cobi, Sauce, Cook, Myjai, Pierce, Ford, and Des, few can expect to replace all that high end productivity with comparable pieces. We clearly didn't.”

Don’t forget the good players who were out injured yesterday, they were some of our best. Van, Coreleone, Renfro and yes Ben Bryant.

One great success this year was solving the place kicking problem.

Any thoughts on why Kiner was essentially a bust? Ford was simply not replaced at all.

(11-27-2022 11:54 AM)BrooklynRocket Wrote:  

(11-27-2022 11:44 AM)Bcatbog Wrote:  Any thoughts on why Kiner was essentially a bust? Ford was simply not replaced at all.

Probably for the same reasons that Prater is a bust.

Played Mickey Mouse competition in high school and their abilities were overrated as a result.

Had Praeter not been the local boy / 4* talent, I think we would have had a different QB come in when BB got hurt this year. I heard many people not affiliated with the the program say that Bryant was the clear cut #1 QB coming out of camp and the competition wasn't that close, even though the coaches & players made it sound like they were evenly matched. Everyone said that Lichtenburg also had a great spring season / fall camp and probably deserved some playing time this year. Hopefully we're able to keep him on the roster going into next year, after the other guy went into the portal already.

Love these two dudes! So happy for them and appreciated watching their careers blossom at Cincinnati.

Chamon Metayer, Brady Lichtenberg and Marcus Peterson all pushing for Gino to be the guy.

(11-30-2022 12:41 PM)Cat-Man Wrote:  Chamon Metayer, Brady Lichtenberg and Marcus Peterson all pushing for Gino to be the guy.

This reminds of the wvu campaign to hire coach stew after their big bowl victory. A cautionary tail to be sure. Keeping him on staff may stem some of the transfer portal tide. Giving him the big chair is something different altogether

Man, we've got to keep Corleone around if he's thinking to transfer. That kid is a monster and he's just a frosh.

Good for Len!

Just watched this weeks edition of Bearcat Insider. Say what you will about Kerry Coombs but he had a really good interview with Dan Hoard. The kids are lucky to have someone like Kerry to guide them thru this mess and into the bowl game. I completely forgot that he was also here when BK left the kids high and dry. He said this year is still difficult on the kids but the atmosphere is no where near as toxic as it was when BK left. He said a lot of other good stuff. Makes me want to root for the guy to at least be retained by the new coach. Check it out if you get the chance.

(11-30-2022 10:36 PM)Cat-Man Wrote:  Just watched this weeks edition of Bearcat Insider. Say what you will about Kerry Coombs but he had a really good interview with Dan Hoard. The kids are lucky to have someone like Kerry to guide them thru this mess and into the bowl game. I completely forgot that he was also here when BK left the kids high and dry. He said this year is still difficult on the kids but the atmosphere is no where near as toxic as it was when BK left. He said a lot of other good stuff. Makes me want to root for the guy to at least be retained by the new coach. Check it out if you get the chance.

it would immediately make me question the new hire if they didn't...