(08-10-2019 10:07 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-10-2019 09:52 PM)RiceOL83 Wrote:  Reality here folks, Rice football is a smoldering dumpster fire. We aren’t good enough to be burning. Ok fine we scored a couple times today....against ourselves. That means absolutely nothing. Hopefully Bloom can turn this thing around before his contract is up but honestly just don’t see it. My personal opinion is that I believe his scorched earth I only want my players mindset was bad for the program that was already struggling. Took some guys that understand Rice and what it meant to play in front of a couple dozen fans and not let that be a downer. He chose the my guys mentality and maybe that will work in time. If it does then he will go down as a good coach and program builder. If it doesn’t work out he will be coaching oline for the Bills or Saskatchewan Roughriders in a couple years.

I think you may be able to get away with "scorched earth I only want my guys" at a football factory where there is plenty of talent around.

But at a place like Rice, where you are chronically short of depth, I think you have to try to figure out how to use everybody you have one way or the other. Maybe that means you have to make some changes in scheme. But I think you have to put your 22 best athletes on the field and see what happens, whether they are your guys or somebody else's guys. And your schemes have to be ones that let you get your best 22 on the field. I don't want to get beat with one of my best 22 standing on the sideline.

Completely agree. Use those older guys best you can and as they go you will have grown you base with your own recruited guys. Rice needs every able bodied player it can have and we turned away a bunch of guys. Those guys may not have won games but dang sure would have given us quality depth and a chance to be competitive.