Here's the thing. Strong came here with defense as his calling card. We already know he has nothing to do with the offense. The offense is the only area that has had any improvement, so Strong therefore has had very little to do with the improvement. And he has not helped the defense any. The only improvements come when Strong is forced to go against his original judgment.
Can this team beat OU again? OU was really overrated at no.2 at the beginning. The current Ohio State's coach is the best one, why did UT try to get him? Other big universities got their big name coaches, and UT replaced a big name coach with Strong (A strong name, haha).
Can't agree more with this. I was so disappointed with the defense. San Diego State did a better job at stopping the Cal offense. I have been a big Strong supporter because I thought the team was left a mess at Oline and defense after Mack left and that's not even mentioning that the culture was a mess. Michigan St had no problem with Notre Dame's defense which shows that the defense was not good in game 1. I'll wait and see how the season turns out but that Cal team is not good and this is not a good sign. The big 12 is a mess too and that doesn't help. The Longhorn Network curse continues.
This explains so much. Yea but he has proved to be a good leader for the team that they can all get behind. This coordinators are just not getting it done. They originally blamed the seniors that were here for the drop in quality but it's proving to be an issue with the defensive coaching staff. The reaction to this board is hilarious. I said last week that this was one of the worst defenses in UT history last year and there is no expectation that it'll be a good defense in the big 12 and no one here bought it. Last night was Manny Diez/BYU all over again. Greg Robinson wanted to keep his Job and Charlie set him packing despite Robinson sending so many D-Backs to the NFL. I don't know if Charlie's defense at Louisville was due to the fact that he played in the AAC/Big East but something did not carry over with Vince Bedford. That BYU team was way better than this Cal team. Huge disappointment for the fan base. Charlie's job should be safe. Calling to have him fired is ridiculous based on his recruiting and the absolute love his team has for him as a leader. He needs a better defensive coordinator, period.
Good work in predicting win over Notre Dame and loss to Cal. But you undervalue judgment in a leader. A leader makes the decisions. With bad judgment, the leader will make bad decisions, which Strong does. It's up in the air now. He has this whole year IMO. Cal won't get him gone. It is one straw on the camel's back though.
At what point does Charlie fall on the sword? He's had a revolving door of assistants. Is he bad at coaching or bad at picking assistants? Some of the blame has to eventually fall on his shoulders. I like that he's a good recruiter. Recruits and their parents love him. He's turned the culture around and is coaching these players to become good men. But he also needs to coach the recruits to become good football players if he wants to keep his job at UT. I think he has to have an 8-win season this year to keep his job. Anything less and he'll be on the hot seat. Even if he did survive this year, I don't see him lasting long given his coaching bloopers.
Thanks. I got a dick rep about the UT defense discussion but haters gonna hate. I think his decision making will be at stake right now. He starting working with Bedford at Florida and 10 years ago and has been with him since. It made sense that he take Bedford with him to Texas. It's not working and he has to make the difficult decision. Mack fired Greg Davis despite having worked with him for 14 years. Let's see what Charlie does.
What's a dick rep? I was curious if Bedford went back to Florida. So weird that the defense is not performing. Florida was amazing.
Someone who's too chicken **** to post their disagreement with him on the message board so they post their insult in his rep, not leaving their name, because chicken ****.
Yeah, I agree with this completely. His coordinator choices call his decision-making into question, but you can't question his loyalty. For the most part, I really like the coaching staff, but what concerns me most about both Strong and Bedford is the number of simple, mental mistakes that have occurred since they arrived: clock mismanagement, busted coverages, unwillingness to play younger and better players, and just general tactical unpreparedness. On this last point, look how bad the defense was tactically against Cal; instead of gameplanning to beat their screen and fade-heavy offense, Bedford went about the gameplan in his normal way. It kind of seems like hubris.
The mic guy/girl during the Cal game was one of the most annoying things I ever had to listen to. With that said, our defense is crap and we didn't deserve to win that game. Strong deciding to punt with 2 min remaining and only 2 timeouts was terrible as well. Rest of the year will be interesting in the big 12 where no one can play defense anyways. Hook em
I think they've been over willing to play young guys. He's been starting sophomores and freshman since he got here which I think has been a problem but it was suppose to have paid off by now.
One thing about Greg Davis, we all hated him but did you notice the team sucked after he left. They were bad with him for one season before he was fired and now he's at Iowa killing it, weird.
You're going to have to be more specific because I really don't understand where you're going with this.
I think playing young guys over upper classman in his last 2 years have hurt the team. The idea was that it would payoff starting this year since the guys he started playing as freshman/sophomores would be a lot better but that does not seem to be happening. It was annoying to hear Charlie say that the defensive problems were a quick fix. It can't be that simple or it would have been fixed in the offseason.
Wonder if he is looking at it from a scheme perspective and thinking he can get more involved and get that fixed. Hoping that is the case but tackling has been and is still a huge issue with this team. Haines and Hall are huge liabilities as our last line of defense.
Lol I got those before and I didn't even realize it was trolling until reading this. I thought the implication was that my post was so good it gave him a boner.
