You can't just look at wins and losses. When we went 8-4 in JM's last year, we had a healthy JLJ. Last year, JLJ was not healthy. I really like Kam Bryant, but I would bet most of us would take a healthy JLJ over a healthy Kam Bryant. Last year, we had a lot of things working against us, including a new HC getting OTJ training while trying to coach a team that probably had a lot of loyalty to the former HC. Looking back on last year, it was bound to be a train wreck.The Rock wrote:Perhaps. I'm sure we put our best 11 on the field, just hard to believe as many seniors were on the team last year, had half as many wins (with more scholarships) as the year before playing the same teams.AppSt94 wrote:I can answer that for you. There were times last year were we were playing defense with 7 Freshmen on the field. We were also still playing with 4-3 guys playing out of position in a 3-4. Now playing so many Freshmen against FCS competition does not necessarily translate to better Sophomores playing FBS talent weekly.The Rock wrote:I'm not bitching. I tried to have an objective discussion with statistics, but instead you started an alternate thread asking an illogical question to try to prove your point when there is no right answer. Young teams can win. Veteran teams can lose.WVAPPeer wrote:Answer the question or start your own bitch thread ---The Rock wrote:Sorry to de-rail your last thread with statistics and thoughtful observations. Glad you could start another hypothetical riddle of a thread.
I don't mean that as pointed as I'm sure it comes across, but again I feel strongly that youth isn't our only problem.i see too many questionable calls, and ideals from the coaching staff to blame the age of the players.
I do support Satterfield, the team and the university, and hope I will be eating crow this time next year, but with no previous head coaching experience or proven track record for building up a team and based on his performance so far, I don't feel convinced Satterfields long term plan (whatever that is) is going to succeed.
I have a question for you:
We graduated how many seniors last year? We had significantly more experience last year, and yet lost more games than the year before when we were less experienced. Why is that?
I don't know either. Bottom line is we are all speculating as the reason. Only time will tell but I don't think we say undoubtedly the only reason we aren't winning is because our players are sophomores instead of juniors.
If playing an entire year at FCS level doesn't prepare you for being competitive at FBS level is that a coaching issue? Shouldn't the FCS at least give you enough experience to learn fundamentals such as tackling? I saw quite a few missed tackles last weekend, which happened to not be against an FBS team. If we are improving week to week, year to year, How could our defense allow an FCS team to score 50+ on us after a year of these sophomores playing 5 FBS teams? (Georgia, Michigan, southern miss, ga southern, south Alabama)
Obviously experience will help, but I still think our defense and offensive coaching isn't setting them up for success. I think there is poor game planning and scheming before the games and poor play calling and adjustments during the game, and talent and experience cannot overcome a lack of preparation and coaching.
Now, this year...I've got no definintive answer. Yes, we're very young, and so is our coaching staff. We went 4-8 last year with an FCS schedule and are 1-5 this year with an FBS schedule. I'm not seeing the improvement that I had hope for, and losing to LU is acceptable, but I wouldn't consider being 1-5 out-of-this-world shocking.
