Urban Meyer & Steve Addazio, Florida
Absolutely inexcusable! Addazio needs to be gone yesterday! Actually can we make it retroactive to a week ago? I was at the game so I didn't realize until someone called us that CBS actually showed like 5 replays of Bama's entire defensive coaching staff jumping up and down yelling "jump pass" to the players! And we still run the play and surprise, its picked off! Then our coaching staff just gives up in the 2nd quarter. We are down 24-0, 3 scores, and we kick a FG to cut it to ... 3 scores!?!?? And then we kick another FG to cut it to ... 3 scores!??! We stopped trying to win midway through the 2nd quarter and that is inexcusable!
More thoughts to come later and some video evidence but let's leave this out there for thought - in the past season and a half, our offense has looked really good in one game - against Cincinnati, when Tim Tebow set a BCS record for most passing yards. Who called the plays for that game? Scott Loeffler, our QB coach, as Addazio was assuming the role of "acting head coach" for the game due to Meyer's health problems. Ironically we'd actually be doing much better if Meyer was taking time off as was once mentioned and Addazio were interim head coach because then he wouldn't be calling the plays. Of course as soon as he wasn't able to recruit the players Meyer would, that would go downhill very fast but it is ironic.
Mark Richt, Georgia
The seat is now white hot for Richt. Wow. Blowing a 10 point lead against Colorado and their lame duck coach Dan Hawkins (who no one expects to coach a game in the PAC 12 next year) is downright awful. I still think Richt gets one more season to turn it around but I'm not as sure as I was after last week. They are all but guaranteed a losing record at this point for the first time in Richt's career. What if they go 3-9?
Derek Dooley, Tennessee
Seriously? 13 men, not even 12. And when LSU was in such an obvious state of disarray (as they usually are in late game situations). All they had to do was keep the guys they had on the field and they walk away with the win. Instead the Mad Hatter's neverending string of crazy luck continues for one more week at least...
Les Miles, LSU
Les started the game of "anything you can do I can do worse" before Dooley one-upped him. Is there any coach who has more Zookish late game management skills? I think we may have to name a clause after him for blowing a game with horrible clock management! Somehow he continues to get insanely lucky (if you ever see Les in Vegas, make sure you put all your chips on the same number he does on the roulette wheel!) Yes LSU somehow won the game but certainly not because of anything they did right as they did their absolute best to give it away.
And that's just the SEC ... wow what a week of terrible coaching!
Bronco Mendenhall, BYU
See Gerald's post below.
Turner Gill, Kansas
55-7 loss to Baylor? Baylor? Wow.
Lane Kiffin, USC
Worth at least of an honorable mention. We knew they weren't very good ... so did the voters who had them #18 at 4-0 ... but we didn't expect the first loss to come to a Washington team that had been embarrassingly bad against Nebraska.
The Gators proved to me on Saturday that they had the talent to be on the same field with Alabama. The defense had a few lapses, but did a good job containing Alabama considering the fact that the offense gave them nothing to work with and Alabama was able to stick to its game plan all night.
ReplyDeleteThey have the talent. But the disastrous turnovers proved that they came into this game like a deer in the headlights because the coaches did a horrendous job of preparing them to handle a hostile environment.
The fact that they were able to move the ball almost at will between the 20s in the second half showed that Brantley can be very effective when he is allowed to play to his strengths. Of course, once they got in the red zone, Addazio went right back to running those same ****ing dive plays. The last time I saw one individual work so feverishly to sabotage the Gators' chances for victory, Jack Childress was wearing pinstripes and blowing a whistle.
I hereby move that we start referring to the Gator offense as the "Take a Dive" offense for as long as Steve Addazio is offensive (in every sense of that word) coordinator.
The Namesake, Illionis
ReplyDeleteI can't believe we missed it - I guess because we didn't watch the game and we saw Illinois actually played Ohio State close but from Pat Forde, espn:
Ron Zook (17), Illinois. The Zooker's Illini played an inspired game against Ohio State, but he got overly conservative while trailing 17-10 late in the fourth quarter. On fourth-and-7 from the Buckeyes' 13-yard line with 4:40 remaining, Zook sent in the field goal unit. The Illini made the field goal -- and quite predictably never got back into scoring range again. Ohio State drove for a touchdown on the following possession.