If Herman wants to keep his job beyond 2021, he has to do something significant this year.
2021 has 2017 and 2019 potential.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (A heavy dose of "Uh oh")
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If Herman wants to keep his job beyond 2021, he has to do something significant this year.
2021 has 2017 and 2019 potential.
Those two booth idiots were on the wrong dude all day. The graphics people weren't much better. They identified Alvonte Woodard as a DB.
This. I mean, I know CDC doesn't have the stones to pull that off, but one can hope.
With COVID, there is no way they extend him even with a great season. Even Dan Mullen hasnt gotten one yet.
If he sh*ts the bed in 2021, I cant imagine he has a long leash which could make the perfect scenario of finding a new coach for 2022 with only 2 years left to buyout his current deal. That's much more manageable.
No way they let him coach through his entire contract. Lame duck coaches means recruiting suicide.
Yep. And quite honestly, even if he "wins" now, that may eventually prove to be as much of a mirage as '90 was for David McWilliams.
I don't necessarily disagree, but Mensa's "ace in the hole" might be an AD who's never shown much inclination to blow out coaches with until the end of a deal.
It will be a moot point imo.
I have felt this team wouldn't make the conference game, and Saturday only made me feel that's going to be the reality.
While the conference looks down across the board, at least a handful of teams will improve as the season goes along.
Herman will only improve as much as he allows himself to, and all of his tendencies showed up yet again in Lubbock last weekend.
Football is the lifeblood of the entire sports program. 3-4 year buyouts are unrealistic at this time and it doesnt even make sense for 2020 because we will probably win at least 8-9 games because the conference is putrid.
It'll all align because no way we win 8-9 games in 2021 unless he pulls off a miracle and player development is off the charts.
We're just buying time and this year will be good enough to recruit strong for '22, especially with Evers in the fold. If we get rid of Herman, next coach will have a much fuller cupboard than Herman did when he stepped into this sh*tshow.
May very well be. I know we neither tackle nor block well. That usually doesn't bode well for you over a season.
I saw literally everything against Tech that we saw in 2019.
I know people want to shout this team has "no quit", but the reality is you had to make a statistically impossible comeback against a bad Tech team.
That sort of thing bites you hard down the road against average teams.
Yep. I'm envisioning this team getting tossed around like rag dolls on what likely will be a cold night in Manhattan to finish the season.
This next month (TCU, OU, Baylor, @OK State) will tell us a lot, and I've accepted all of those will probably resemble what happened on Saturday, only the margin for error will be much slimmer.
Back-to-back games with Kansas and West Virginia appear to be our only break, but then again we have to go to Lawrence where we always sleepwalk.
I was under the impression that he graded out second best on the online last year. So if that is not good... help me with what is? If the scores are poor, that means 4 our of 5 were poor.
Oh for sure. I'm just really trying to ignore the possibility of us losing to TCU. You aren't helping.
The tackling issues aren't unexpected due to learning a new open field tacking technique, having no spring practice, and little contact in fall camp. More puzzling was the 2d half offensive stupor against Tech. Even if the defense gets leaky, with a 4-year starter at QB and a lot of skill weapons, this offense should be more than capable of matching scores with Tech and maintaining the 10-point lead.
Our offense in the 2d half looked just like the 2019 offense that finished near the bottom of D-1 for most failed drives. Both the play-calling and Ehlinger's level of execution seemed to go into a stupor, which then radiates out to the OL and receivers. Who knows if the play calling causes Ehlinger to go off-target for extended stretches, or the play-calling turns conservative because the staff sees Ehlinger has entered one of his funks? Probably some of both. Last year, we thought this issue was because of Sam's injury and Beck's predictable play-calling. But it's still happening this season with Sam healthy and a new OC that other QBs have thrived under. After seeing this offensive stagnation syndrome for a couple of seasons now, I'm scared it's become our standard under Herman.
Our offense in the 2d half looked just like the 2019 offense that finished near the bottom of D-1 for most failed drives. Both the play-calling and Ehlinger's level of execution seemed to go into a stupor, which then radiates out to the OL and receivers. Who knows if the play calling causes Ehlinger to go off-target for extended stretches, or the play-calling turns conservative because the staff sees Ehlinger has entered one of his funks? Probably some of both. Last year, we thought this issue was because of Sam's injury and Beck's predictable play-calling. But it's still happening this season with Sam healthy and a new OC that other QBs have thrived under. After seeing this offensive stagnation syndrome for a couple of seasons now, I'm scared it's become our standard under Herman.
Oh for sure. I'm just really trying to ignore the possibility of us losing to TCU. You aren't helping.
I'm trying to ignore the possibility of being in a dogfight with everyone on the schedule.
It's like you mentioned earlier in the thread, potential problems were visible even against UTEP (i.e. running game, pass rush) even though many wanted to pass it off as us just being vanilla.
I really don't know how anyone that's been paying attention for the last decade can still believe such foolish theories as "vanilla" and "holding stuff back for OU." Those are amongst the most tired rationalizations you can possibly read on here.
The only thing I can think of it's just hard for people to be real about their favorite teams.
It's like they never left the middle school lunch table.
LeBron is close but it's hard to know what he would do or how healthy we would stay back in the brutal days of real man basketball.
Would Jordan average 40 plus with todays rules.. Impossible to know.
Would Jordan average 40 plus with todays rules.. Impossible to know.
I saw Leitao pressure the QB on at least one occasion. I would try putting Leitao in at SDE on 3rd and passing situations.
I rewatched part of the game just to watch Ossia.... Should have drew 20 plus holding calls... many of them were blatant and obvious..
