Other than sumlin, that list has some quality coaches. Strong, Miles, Malzahn, and Holgerson. It is just plain bad luck that Miles is coaching in the same era as Saban(Who I would say is the best coach ever). Otherwise, LSU would have dominated.
I am seriously not taking a shot at a&m. a&m has many many more resources than WV yet he does as well. I'll retract at season's end if Sumlin does well this season. It just seems that a&m is on a downward trajectory.
Holgerson does more with less---- we can have that debate all day and twice on Sunday.
Nothing whatsoever is comparable between the program you follow and ours. The coaches, the kids, what the coach started with, where the two programs are/were at year three under their coach, nothing.
Strong's first two years obviously didn't go well. But he's turned over the roster at this point and gotten what look to be good coaches now. We're optimistic in year 3 under Strong that he's righted the ship. Can you say the same for your program in year 5 under Rumlin? I disagree with your premise. I think our program is heading up, yours has reached its middle of the road equilibrium.
Would like to agree but can't. A&M has many potential loses on the schedule: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi, & Tennessee.
I haven't watched Okie lite this year, so you might be right. I was just basing on lose to Michigan directional school.
Not Lubbock this year. Just run it every play. They will have zero interest is tackling Foreman. If you try to throw it 40 times, maybe.
Even that is a wash, Strong flipped a roster that is now more than 70% underclassmen. Didn't have a QB, Heard is obviously a better receiver, Swoopes found a niche and David Ash had concussion issues while Rumlin had JFF to ride.
True. If we played you this year, it would be a very competitive game. I like your team better for 2017. I think Charlie will be safe come December, I'd put Sumlin at 50/50.
I would rather have TCU early than the last game. I'll go as far as to say, should Texas get to 5-0. Look out.
100% agree on the TCU timing, Patterson has a little Bill Snyder in him. Does not need the better players to win a game.
Hard to put Strong on that list when his time at Texas has been a disaster up until this season. I'm not sold on Sumlin, in fact I'd be just fine if he got fired today, but Strong hasn't established himself as anything yet.
Sure he has. A 10 win season at Louisville and a big time bowl win against Flordia got him the job. Not to mention a lot of his recruits from Louisville have ended up in the NFL. The jury still may be out for a little longer on him at Texas(although it appears to be trending up). There is little doubt though that Strong is a good football coach.
True but Texas has too much invested at this point to cut ties. Buechele seems like he has tools to be a good qb so that may help turn things around this year. Probably needs to win at least 8 games.
Seems to be duplicating his pattern at Louisville as folks have been saying would occur, all along! Trolls are those like BD that are rather clueless to the process.
