(08-03-2018 06:11 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(08-03-2018 05:46 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I really don't see how the talent level of the last few years, if properly prepared and competently coached, could ever win fewer than 5 games against the collection of creampuffs that are CUSA. What I don't know is whether there has been a significant drop-off in the quality of talent, recruited after 3 straight losing seasons, the last two really dreadful.

I don’t know why you think we have more talent than the rest of the CUSA... They consider us a creampuff and they’ve been more correct the last few years.

I don't think we have more talent than the rest of CUSA and I have said nothing of the sort. Where did you get that idea anyway?

They consider us a creampuff because we have been the most poorly prepared, undisciplined, and poorly executing football team I have ever seen in the last few years. Bailiff's reputation before Rice was that his teams played hard but sloppy. That's pretty much what happened at Rice, although I'm frankly not that certain how hard the last couple of his teams played.

I expect we are about on a par with the other creampuffs in terms of talent, and my expectations of a coaching staff are that they will have us prepared, disciplined, and executing a proper scheme. If we do those things, we should do no worse than hold our own, which is all I am suggesting.

I read somewhere that 30 players had to stay after practice and run laps as discipline. That might be more than in the 11 years of Bailiff combined. That's a good start. Not that many mistakes, but that much discipline. With that discipline, I would guess that the number of mistakes will go down. Set expectations and enforce them.