(10-26-2021 12:10 PM)emu79 Wrote: (10-25-2021 06:40 PM)Jerry Weaver Wrote: (10-25-2021 11:07 AM)Luckeyone Wrote: (10-25-2021 07:38 AM)emu79 Wrote: I would go with 7 wins. That means a .500 record in conference. We will still have folks on this board ready with pitchforks and torches marching to Cdc house. Of course those same folks will forget we went 2 and 4 last year. Actually if we have a hot November we can get a better bowl. CMU WMU and Toledo are all beatable team in terms of matchups.
I hope we win out, but of the remaining teams we play, if we ranked the teams 1-5 on rushing the ball and stopping the run, where would EMU rank amongst them?
Rushing - I’m guessing:
1) CMU
2) WMU
3) Toledo
4) EMU
5) Ohio
And rank the teams at stopping the run, I’m guessing:
1) Toledo
2) CMU
3) WMU
4) Ohio
5) EMU
I predict 3-5 MAC record and 6-6 overall.
I love Creighton and will not have a pitchfork; however, I’ll be vocal about recruiting strategies, coordinator and scheme changes.
My position exactly! Chris Creighton is my dream coach, but a 3-5 MAC record will indicate stagnation, something that cannot be ignored considering his contract extension. As the AD I would want to know what he is going to change.
Assumptions and projections are always dangerous. ILet's play the remaining 4 games and then discuss. Not that it really matters. CC will be our coach next year unless he finishes at 9-3 and then he may be gone. Honestly the only place with more waffling about Creighton than this board is a Waffle House.
Honestly I don't see that much "waffling" regarding Creighton. He runs a squeaky clean program, actively markets it and has truly elevated the program. He is my dream coach, I salute Heather for hiring him.
Having stated that, EMU just pushed a MBB coach who also elevated his program, out the door. While his program discipline and marketing efforts were far inferior to Creighton's, our AD suggested that if "you haven't won anything in ten years, maybe you need to do something else". He then gave the football coach a four year contract extension after EIGHT years of not winning anything.
Wetherbee also declared in his Heath hiring press conference that EMU players were tired of playing the outdated zone defense, insinuating that "we were doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result", the definition of insanity by Albert Einstein. I must admit that I totally agreed with Wetherbee.
I, however, must be fair when also critiquing the football team's performance. The program's game approach and strategy has differed little in the past six seasons as have the results. We are doing what we have been and getting the same outcomes, not a surprise. Questioning our football coach's direction and resistance to change is an issue of fairness based on established past practices with respect to Rob Murphy. It's not waffling, just an "old white guy" trying to be equitable.
Oh and bye the way, I mailed a $10K donation to Dan McLean today at EMU athletics. I doubt that would have happened if Chris Creighton were NOT our football coach. I DO love the guy!