Purple Haize wrote:oldflame wrote:I find it mildly humorous that so many people have said they hope Gill will succeed and continue to be our coach while at the same time engaging in wild speculation about possible big name replacements. I don't think there is much doubt though that the team needs to show real progress this year or we will be looking to move on.
HCTG is everything that a Coach at LU used to be about. Guy should have been given a 20 year contract. But things change and that didn't happen. Still think he should be given a long extension but know it won't happen. So yes, I'm leading the wild speculation. Although Art Briles or Bob Stoops isn't too wild a speculation
I agree that HCTG is a great person and representative of LU. However, he has not proven yet, in any of his previous coaching stops, or here at LU, that he can put up the W's that are and should be expected. I honestly hope he can do it, because he is the type of person we want leading our program. He hasn't proven to date, that he is the kind of winning coach that we want leading our program.
The problems that I have observed, thus far include: Very vanilla/predictable offense, poor recruiting of OL and DL prospects, very average to poor special teams play, losing games to GW, Monmouth (absolutely zero excuse) and games that we had won and choked on like Richmond, ODU, Villanova. In fairness we have won a few games we shouldn't have, CCU, JMU, Montana. However the losses to GW and Monmouth, etc, significantly overshadow those wins. Finally, the significant problems that we have had off the field. The coach cannot keep up with every athlete, 100% of the time. However, some of these things could be lessened if the players knew, beyond any shadow of doubt, that such actions would mean an immediate release or punishment from the team.
Hopefully, we can turn these things around quickly. Several here have said that we need time to reap the benefits of going to FBS. While I agree with that to a large degree, TG has had enough years to significantly improve our standing in FCS and hasn't done it. I don't see much improvement, if any, from the Rocco years. Certainly not significant progress. IMHHHO.