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(10-13-2018 10:39 AM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  

(10-10-2018 09:15 AM)ODUBB35 Wrote:  The 2018 ODU Football team has clearly underachieved this year, and the coach's have to share some of the blame. There is simply no excuse for a team who can beat VT to also lose to Charlotte, FIU, and get blown out by Liberty.

Next year we will be younger, less experienced, and likely less talented. It will show if the coach's are worth their hire or if the slide continues.

Perhaps some if not most of this is just stubbornness on Bobby's part.

I find it curious that, despite numerous changes in coordinators and position coaches, our defense has many, if not most of the same shortcomings as it has always had; despite substantially better talent.


In spite of some posters on here that believe the coaches have some secret or higher insight that prompts their decisions, football is NOT rocket science.
Most people who have played at any level, or just those experienced fans that are students of the game, can make valid assessments.

On offense, some of Bobby's decisions have been almost inexplicable, starting with the SB experiment
I am almost certain that Brian Scott did not make the Shuler Bentley decision.
My conversations with him were such that his passion for for David Washington at QB was absolute.
Additionally, even in that Spring game, Colin McElroy looked much better than SB.

The SW experiment was even more bizarre, as in the Spring Drayton Arnold looked by far the best, with BL next, and SW a shaky distant third.
Numerous sources had SW behind even Fitzgerald in the fall.

Except in the rarest of instances, you play like you practice. Again, this is not rocket science.

My gut tells me that these decisions, along with the repeated inexplicable game decisions (3rd down calls, fakes etc) are Bobby's alone.
I also would love to hear the rationale behind the dog house occupants Drayton Arnold and previously Colin McElroy.
Apparently Brian Scott had to strongly lobby Bobby to replace SW with BL for the VT game.

Bottom line; if logistics don't allow for the dismissal of BW, then BW needs to take a step back and let his coaches do their jobs, and if they cannot, instead of micro managing the deficiency, get coaches who can.

From what I have heard, there are definitely some micro-managing issues. You have to trust your players.