Hard to tell a guy you are head coach and not trust him to build his own staff. If not you should trust to hire him as the head guy
Arnett is in over his head…
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Sooooo, the president of the university, who doesn’t know dick about football coaching strategy, talent evaluation, recruiting, staff management, or general X’s and O’s is supposed to not only hire the HC, but then tell him exactly what system he HAS to run on offense, make 50% of his staff hires for him? And wait, not only that, tell him that those 50% of the hires are temporary, 1-year contract situations and those guys better keep the resumes fresh….because whenever Will Rogers decides to move on or runs out of eligibility….THEN he as the HC gets to decide what he really wants to run? Am I hearing all this correctly?
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Our offense scored 40 points plus today I think you better look at our defense.
The team that beat Illinois in the bowl game barely beat Illinois in the bowl game.
The move has to be made at season end. The apathy of the fan base will absolutely require it. Imagine ticket sales next year if all we do is run this back.
It was said that we hired Arnett to keep the class together, but it's painfully obvious now this class wasn't worth being kept together outside of maybe four or five individuals.
Illinois had the #2 ranked D in the country, we beat them 19-10. COuld this team do that ?
This team most likely doesn't even make the bowl game to even try.
Which I honestly think Jr. would have done. I'd be willing to bet the run-plays we saw last year were cooked up by the staff and not Leach himself. Like I said, if Jr's successful then great! We have a name OC, and lots of buzz about the Leach tree. If not, let Arnett make the hire and it's all on him then.
Before this game, I gave Arnette a 70% chance of keeping his job.
After this game, I'm giving him a 60% chance that he will lose his job.
Selmon might have been just happy to take a paycheck instead of searching for a coach.
Even when we played other teams, if you compare our offensive performance against the defense performance, there is a huge difference between the two. Neither one is that great, I agree, but our defense has been the worst part of our team.
I think if you were going to fix our team, that is the place you need to start
I'm just dismayed at the lack of desire of continuity. The D was the question this year had the systems remained the same. Now we suck on both sides.
Absolutely. We scored more points against Alabama this year than in all three years under Leach, or close to it. It's our terrible defense that is the problem and that is 100% on Arnett.
I understand completely. We have absolutely no glimmer of hope on this team be it on offense or defense. The offense can put up some points, but never keep us in the game with good competition
Spurrier is a bum. He’s a career position coach. That would have been a dumb move
A team that we scored 41 points against. Also a team that faced 2 other Power 5 teams prior to us, who also scored in the 40’s against them. Please share how many points we were supposed to score today for us to “not suck”.
I’m not pro-Arnett given what we’ve seen the last few weeks, but I did see flashes of the old fire early today. He seemed to be upset with Brock’s calls on back-to-back plays, and I swear he signaled something in on one of them, and was yelling at Brock on both.
If he’s going to save his job, these next two weeks are when he’ll need to put in the effort to do it, and I’m hoping that includes taking back over the defensive play-calling.
If he’s going to save his job, these next two weeks are when he’ll need to put in the effort to do it, and I’m hoping that includes taking back over the defensive play-calling.
Man you’re starting to get close to the lunacy that ibdancin had during Joe’s last year. What exactly are you defending? Arnett was given the chance of lifetime without earning it and unsurprisingly he’s blowing it.
Do you honestly see something redeeming about arnett as a head coach or do you just think it’s wrong to fire a guy after 1 year?
I give coaches the benefit of the doubt more than most do but come on. You can’t sit there and watch that game and not see red flags.
Exactly. 3rd and 8 runs. Will passing for 4 yards on a 3rd and 12. Some of the playcalling is just damn ridiculous. And this defense isn’t stopping anybody.
we shut em down pretty good last year. It we are gonna make Jackson Fart look like a Heisman contender
The defense is the biggest problem by far, and that's almost all on the secondary.
The coaching staff is the biggest problem by far, and it’s all on the coaching staff. 9-4 last year and they returned a ton.
Which is an absolutely boneheaded reason to make that hiring decision. Especially with the transfer portal where bringing in a big name coach can attract a lot of players.
Except there's a different "they" in the office now
Those 4-5 (or however many are good) would have probably been the first to go and we would have been left with the guys that didn't have any other P5 options.
Even if we go 4-8 which I fully expect, we'll be on a better position to hire a legit coach this November than we would have been just after Leach died. That whole situation and timing (coupled with our less than stellar program reputation to begin with) would have caused a lot of potential coaches to just pass altogether.
Why let our current leadership hire another football coach? 14 years is enough. Time for new blood at the top.
Arnett would absolutely not be even “interim head coach” if he couldn’t even select his own staff. He’d more or less be co-head coach with whoever the OC was, and would have no mandate to lead or set a culture. And by the way, Spurrier’s offense at Tulsa is hot garbage, so things would be even worse than they are now if we went that route.
I swear, it’s like some of you have no real world working experience and/or have never played organized sports above coach pitch little league.