(10-12-2009 02:30 PM)thetastygreek Wrote: (10-12-2009 02:24 PM)untgeorge Wrote: [quote='untgeorge' pid='4708387' dateline='1255374966']
[quote='Tuffguy21' pid='4708108' dateline='1255369730']
Since we're here on the SBC board, away from the prying, judgmental eyes of the main Mean Green fan base... Where are you on the coaching situation, George?
I've been very surprised by some posters who've apparently given up on Dodge. I've obviously had my doubts and concerns for a while now, but given that we kept him after last year, even I'm not at a point where I think he should be let go yet.
But seeing Flyer and some of the other guys throwing in the towel on him... It caught me by surprise. I can't say I blame anyone who's fed up. What are you thinking right now?
I was against hiring a HS coach from the beginning. UNT knows it, I lobbied our AD, Chairman of our BOR, University President, and asst AD before he was hired. So far I have seen nothing to change my mind.
He made horrible mistakes his first couple of months, some of which he now acknowledges were mistakes. First he stayed in his HS job three more weeks, which should have been prime recruiting weeks. Second he brought in a staff composed of HS coaches, most of which had never coached a minute at the college level. Third he did not look at game film before fall training, he said this was done so that everyone starts on the same page at spring training, but also meant he and his staff did not fully understand our needs in recruiting. Fourth, partly as a result of 2nd and 3rd mistakes, he focused his recruiting on players he or his assistants had played against in HS (brilliant, right?). This recruiting class has bombed and is the source of much of our problems right now.
After his 1st season he admitted he did not understand the speed of the college game. Duhh, you didn't look at film, right?
Since then he has replaced all of the HS guys except two: the OC and the WR coach. Both need to be replaced as well. The other additions have been strong and have made a major impact on defense and recruiting. Other than OC and WR, the coaching staff is in pretty good shape right now.
It is and has been my view that any new coach is entitled to 4 years to get his program rolling and much as I hate it, a HS coach is entitled to the same. So he gets another year even in my book. And in truth we are showing improvement, at times significant improvement. Each game is burdened with a significant number of mistakes in on-the-field decision making, as might be expected for a team that is living with two consecutive years of extremely poor recruiting (including the year before his predecessor was fired). Of the 66 man squad which traveled to ULL, only 6 were seniors (per the announcers, I did not count them but they were probably right). His 2nd and 3rd recruiting classes are not very well rounded but include some really good players who are making and will make contributions. Considering all this in August, I did not expect any more from our team than I have seen, so I am not as disappointed as some who somehow thought that we would magically become an 8 or more win team.
Bottom line, to me, most HCs live and die on the basis of their asst coaches, and we have strenghtened our coaching staff immeasurably. Replace the last two HS guys with assts who have as much college experience as do the other assts we have, and I can live with TD. He is sitll learning and has a ways to go, but the way is a lot easier if he has good assistants.
This is surely more than you ever wanted to know. Believe it or not, I kept it relatively short. Thanks for the opportunity to vent.
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Don't understand the lack of respect........
