“3 Loss” Malzahn
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seems like and 8-9 win ceiling Coach which is a failure with how easy our schedule was this season
He averaged 3 losses at Auburn if you take out Alabama and bowl losses, which I think is fair.
“3 regular season loss malzahn not counting Alabama” or “4 loss malzahn”. either works.
If we somehow lose to usf next week a fire thread is warranted.
It’s going to be a more interesting game than we would have hoped for because USF has found their QB. Their defense is awful but we just found a way to make a bad defense look good
Thing is… we should enjoy this, because if the team doesn’t get better over the next few years, this may be the last time for awhile that we have merely 3-4 losses… in the big 12
Disagree. While I hate some of the performances this year, Gus is recruiting very well, including taking us to a new level with local recruits who seem to appreciate his recruiting approach. We beat Tulane, Memphis and Cincy this season and Florida last year. So I would suggest let's not be rash.
I'd hate to be like Auburn, firing Gus and possibly ending up worse off.
Jumbo had a historic recruiting class..how's that working out.. don't matter how you recruit if you can't coach.
It's not a disastrous year (assuming we beat usf) but it's not a great year either. We're not going to have a great season again until we find a great QB again.
USF QB threw 21 straight completions against Tulsa yesterday.
Think we can get him to transfer to us?
Call Gus whatever you like, I’m guessing he’s now in the record books for “losing at HOME against a 3-7 team who had 0 completions/passing yards!
There is no excuse for the game, the team already had a wakeup game a few weeks ago, it was played at home, senior day, it was against a team you would want revenge for the previous year.
However, in ever facet of the play and coaching the team sleepwalked. There is absolutely no reason to not believe this type of game won't happen at any time in the future.
However, in ever facet of the play and coaching the team sleepwalked. There is absolutely no reason to not believe this type of game won't happen at any time in the future.
+1 way worse than the ECU game loss since this was at Home and the coaches knowing the stakes
even though I criticize Gus about some playcalling and player loyalty when a clear player is better. I want to keep him for the long run. He will be good building our program in a power 5 conference and overall I feel like he really believes in ucf and really wants to be here. let’s get a W next week!
There were people in this room who said that Heup can't coach. How's the wisdom of that working out?
Gus can coach, but I do believe that overall his game planning does need some tweaking. If we are looking for a coach who never loses a game, or even wins every game that he should win then we will be firing coaches very often. Moreso than inability, constant turnover is also the enemy of success.
Already resigned that we will be lucky to make bowl games next few years. Excited to check out new bowl venues though.
This season and this team is and has been roller coaster. Unexplained highs and lows no consistency.
And knowing what Navy's going to do on offense and defense and yet not able to do anything about either one. Everyone could see what was going wrong in ECU game and everyone could see what was going on in this one. Neither time did we have an answer. Is that players or coaches?
Our defense played well overall - this was an offensive failure today.
Maybe you just woke from a coma, but we aren’t going to the cotton bowl.
You’re speaking too rational for this forum.
He’s the best coach we can afford right now. At $2.3 million we will not get a Saban or Swinney type of coach. Miami paid $8 million for Cristobal and look what that got them. After a couple years in the Big XII we will be able to pay more, until then we need to keep things in perspective.
I don't think that too many people on this forum disagree about his game planning or that too much turn over in coaches is not a good thing.
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Having "it" as a QB means you can put the team on your shoulders and carry them. When you don't have a QB that has "it", you're going to have some perplexing wins and losses. It's hard to find QBs that have "it". It's not like you can just pick them out of a lineup in advance. Some have the potential to have "it" but never get there. Some have the drive but their physical skills/abilities limit them from having "it". Right now we don't have a QB with "it". That doesn't mean we can't have success, though. It will probably limit the level of success, though. We knew going into the season that yet another new QB was going to start. That in itself is going to mean growing pains. If you were to tell me we might be playing in the conference title game that's a positive in my book. I hope it happens but it's out of our hands at this point. We just need to regroup and pummel USF next week. I mean, yeah, we choked yesterday. Blame the coaches, blame the QBs (both of which looked "flat"), blame whatever. It's just one of those perplexing losses that happens when you don't have a QB that has "it".
Shouldn't need a QB to have "it" to beat a bad Navy team at home. Delaware beat Navy this year.
Majority of schools don't have a QB that has "it" and they manage to not have bad losses.
This game reminds of getting shutout by UAB at home under GOL.
“3 loss Gus” & “4 loss Gus” have a better ring to it….George 2.0 is even reasonable...it makes 2017 & 2018 (and even 2013) even more special…at least those seasons happened in our lifetimes!!!
And thank goodness they happened when they did because we have a 50 million per year BIG12 consolation prize waiting for us on 7/1/23!! That will buy a lot of tissue for us fans….JWB!!! WIN Saturday!!!
