The ULM Warhawks debuted camo jerseys for their season opener against Wake Forest and judging from their 17-10 win over Wake Forest they were a success.
Heck even the Duck Dynasty crew loved it.
The Warhawks took the lead for good when quarterback Pete Thomas scored on a keeper from nine yards that proved the be the winner for ULM 17-10.
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"It was a great call," Thomas said. "It may have been the call of the night. You've got to give it up to the offensive line. The passing game wasn't working too well, so we really had to lean on the run game, and they opened up a great hole and made it easy for me."
Wake Forest had seen Pete Thomas before, Last year Thomas was the starting quarterback for NC State and completed 27 of 43 passes for for 257 yards but the Deacs prevailed 28-13.
Thomas got a little revenge Thursday night.
"He was walking into a place where a pretty prolific quarterback just left the program." ULM head coach Todd Berry said. "I told him going in let’s take care of the football, and every thrown doesn’t have to be a completion or a bullet. Let’s make some good decision. I thought he handle those things pretty well.
As for Wake Forest the beginning of the Dave Clawson era looks a lot like the end of the Jim Grobe era, poor offensive production.
The Demon Deacons could only total 94 yards of total offense, -3 yards rushing for the game.
True freshman quarterback John Wolford was running for his life the entire game and was sacked seven times by the Warhawk defense. He completed 12 of 22 passes for 97 yards.
"We didn’t play very smart but obviously we got nothing going offensively." Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson said. "We didn’t block, get open and had no explosive plays on offense other than the one third down.”
It looks like a long year for Deac fans.
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Your Dead Man Walking Update: Auburn Continues Downward Spiral...
((HT: al.com))
First and foremost, let's look at Auburn OC's Scot Loeffler's press conference from the end of Auburn's loss to Georgia- where he says, pretty much, the same things he's said all season long...
Which has been a long season all along...
So, let's take stock in the situation... The idea that the President of Auburn University, Jay Gogue, decided to float the name of the OC who had a failed try in Nebraska before he ended up letting Teddy Bridgewater run his own show- to success at Louisville this season... If that is the number one candidate in President Gogue's mind... Gogue won't be around much longer, either... Let's take stock in alternatives as to what went down... and what is going down... Was it because Michael Dyer was given a different set of rules and then let go...??? Was it because the school and its coaching staff handled the deaths of three of their own so poorly that it split the team from the coaching staff that, probably, alienated one from the other...??? Was it because members of the university staff- coaching and otherwise- put too much weight and faith in religious content and influence when kids today (while interested to a degree) don't want to be pounded around the ears by it all the time...??? Was it because DC Brian van Gorder actually said, in a moment of honesty after the game what he said below...??? ((HT: al.com))
Was it because Willy Martinez is now the new DB coach when the entire college football landscape knows his history...???
Was it because head coach Gene Chizik is now poking his nose into Loeffler's offense when his history is defensive...???
And now Chizik "has a plan" for next season...??? He waited until Game 10 to start his freshman quarterback when he admitted that, after the Arkansas game, Jonathan Wallace was part of the plan after all...
Was it because an external security force was hired to keep an eye on folks for enforcing curfew...???
Was it because of a lack of accountability that was evident as far back as the winter and spring workouts IMMEDIATELY AFTER WINNING A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP that was clear to NFL Network analyst Heath Evans when he worked out on campus in and around the team...???
Was it because there is, apparently, a caste system of playing athletes who had stronger Fellowship of Christian Athletes ties than those who did not- even if the non-FCA athletes were more talented...???
The HQ asks...
Is that enough for you...???
Let us know...
And this university is going to have to make a kill-shot to figure out who their new head coach is going to be. But the larger issue will be... will the school pull the trigger after December 1 to trim the buyout max at $7.5-million...???
And if that's the case, then the school can't wait much later than that to get someone on the ground so the recruits allegedly in place for National Signing Day in February won't leave en masse...
And the new guy will either have to be economically feasible and a "hot coordinator" or a mid-major conference coach who is hot now as well (Dykes, Hudspeth, and Berry for a few...)
Good luck figuring this one out, y'all...
First and foremost, let's look at Auburn OC's Scot Loeffler's press conference from the end of Auburn's loss to Georgia- where he says, pretty much, the same things he's said all season long...
Which has been a long season all along...
So, let's take stock in the situation... The idea that the President of Auburn University, Jay Gogue, decided to float the name of the OC who had a failed try in Nebraska before he ended up letting Teddy Bridgewater run his own show- to success at Louisville this season... If that is the number one candidate in President Gogue's mind... Gogue won't be around much longer, either... Let's take stock in alternatives as to what went down... and what is going down... Was it because Michael Dyer was given a different set of rules and then let go...??? Was it because the school and its coaching staff handled the deaths of three of their own so poorly that it split the team from the coaching staff that, probably, alienated one from the other...??? Was it because members of the university staff- coaching and otherwise- put too much weight and faith in religious content and influence when kids today (while interested to a degree) don't want to be pounded around the ears by it all the time...??? Was it because DC Brian van Gorder actually said, in a moment of honesty after the game what he said below...??? ((HT: al.com))
Was it because Willy Martinez is now the new DB coach when the entire college football landscape knows his history...???
Was it because head coach Gene Chizik is now poking his nose into Loeffler's offense when his history is defensive...???
And now Chizik "has a plan" for next season...??? He waited until Game 10 to start his freshman quarterback when he admitted that, after the Arkansas game, Jonathan Wallace was part of the plan after all...
Was it because an external security force was hired to keep an eye on folks for enforcing curfew...???
Was it because of a lack of accountability that was evident as far back as the winter and spring workouts IMMEDIATELY AFTER WINNING A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP that was clear to NFL Network analyst Heath Evans when he worked out on campus in and around the team...???
Was it because there is, apparently, a caste system of playing athletes who had stronger Fellowship of Christian Athletes ties than those who did not- even if the non-FCA athletes were more talented...???
The HQ asks...
Is that enough for you...???
Let us know...
And this university is going to have to make a kill-shot to figure out who their new head coach is going to be. But the larger issue will be... will the school pull the trigger after December 1 to trim the buyout max at $7.5-million...???
And if that's the case, then the school can't wait much later than that to get someone on the ground so the recruits allegedly in place for National Signing Day in February won't leave en masse...
And the new guy will either have to be economically feasible and a "hot coordinator" or a mid-major conference coach who is hot now as well (Dykes, Hudspeth, and Berry for a few...)
Good luck figuring this one out, y'all...
Sunday, September 16, 2012
The Ess-E-Cee West: Chizik Needs To Apologize
The HQ was front and center (well, technically, not front and center, it was more like between the 30 and 40-yard line) at The Loveliest Village yesterday to see something we could only shake our head at and wonder just how far the talent has fallen on The Plains.
Do you realize that, right now, Louisiana-Monroe is only one highlight package away from being at the top of the Ess-E-Cee West Division...
Particularly, this group...
((HT: AuburnAthletics))
And, The Chiz will take the win...
((HT: goldcrim))
First, and foremost... had ULM won their second game in a row, realistically, they would be at the top of the Ess-E-Cee West. Western Kentucky, for that matter, is only a half-game back from the lead in East.
To that matter... for any member of the Auburn coaching staff to maintain that QB Kiehl Frazier is an "effective game manager" is just this side of "are you guys watching the same game we are?"
Frazier actually said in the post-game interview scrums: "I thought I took a step in the right direction. I made a lot of mistakes I need to get fixed, but I feel like I'm getting better."
Frazier started 9-for-12, but finished 1-for-6 which included poor decision-making, an overall lack of decision-making at times, holding onto the ball too long, not avoiding a sack by getting rid of the football, making ill-advised passes that were floating into coverage and could have killed a receiver, and throwing an interception right into a white jersey.
The only problem there was that Auburn was wearing their home blues...
It is evident, obvious, and any other adjective you'd like... that Frazier has not yet adapted to new-OC Scot Loeffler's power-system. Frazier is a zone-read option QB- this is clearly square-peg, round-hole stuff going on right now. Why the system wasn't created to suit Frazier's strengths is beyond me in a key year for this coaching staff...
Frazier is confused and is thinking entirely too much for his position... and when the world around you is moving faster than your brain is willing your body to function, you're in serious trouble.
Where's Clint Moseley, CJ Uzomah, or Quan Bray and the imagination that needs to go with finding the strengths of your athletes and (supposed 3, 4, and 5-star) recruits you felt worthy to be "All In?"
But Loeffler admitted: "He was able to do exactly what we wanted him to do" when the game was done.
Really...??? Okay... sure...
Thus... one play away from 0-3 and change-of-address kits for a coaching staff... which, still, may be in play at season's end...
Now, to the defense and new-DC Dave VanGorder...
Tackling and the skill that goes with it, obviously, is optional on the Plains (and a lot of other places these days, for that matter). Once again, the idea that a system wasn't created to allow for your athlete's strengths seems to be the order of the day...
One play in particular saw four down linemen line up on one side of the football before a snap- which forced the 'Stache to burn a time out to ask what in the blue hell was going on out there...???
Actually, the fans in the stands were asking the same question on both sides of the ball for the full 60 minutes- even moreso in the last 15 where the team that couldn't tackle or convert an important down-and-distance situation gave up a 2 touchdown lead and had to play a fifth period.
Coaches say the right things to make people feel better, but sometimes the Emperor needs that mirror just to prove that things aren't as they seem. Coach Chizik said the right things above, but when the team converted their first first down on a running play in overtime, all he did was have Frazier take the next set of downs to run to the middle of the field, summon Cody Parkey off the sidelines, and get out of Dodge...
Does that brim confidence in your quarterback to get a touchdown when you really need it in the future...???
You tell me... LSU might have your answer next Saturday night...
The obvious answer may come at season's end when everyone is gone from the coaching offices that harnessed a lightning bolt and won a title only two years ago. But in the interim, the entire Auburn coaching staff needs to issue an apology to their fan base for the display (or lack thereof) at home, against the Sun Belt Conference-toughened Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks.
(And who thought that would be a sentence that had to be written in back-to-back weeks in the Ess-E-Cee...?)
Second thing that needs to be done...???
Every starting position is now up for grabs... prove your worth, pay on Saturday...
Third thing... if I was on that coaching staff, having seen some disgusting displays of fundamentals (both physical and mental) at home...??? Take all the names off the backs of the jerseys...
Make the players earn them back...
And some may never do that...
But that goes back to the problem created Sunday through Friday, doesn't it...??? Anyone know the phone numbers to Todd Berry and Mario Cristobal around Christmas time...???
Do you realize that, right now, Louisiana-Monroe is only one highlight package away from being at the top of the Ess-E-Cee West Division...
Particularly, this group...
((HT: AuburnAthletics))
And, The Chiz will take the win...
((HT: goldcrim))
First, and foremost... had ULM won their second game in a row, realistically, they would be at the top of the Ess-E-Cee West. Western Kentucky, for that matter, is only a half-game back from the lead in East.
To that matter... for any member of the Auburn coaching staff to maintain that QB Kiehl Frazier is an "effective game manager" is just this side of "are you guys watching the same game we are?"
Frazier actually said in the post-game interview scrums: "I thought I took a step in the right direction. I made a lot of mistakes I need to get fixed, but I feel like I'm getting better."
Frazier started 9-for-12, but finished 1-for-6 which included poor decision-making, an overall lack of decision-making at times, holding onto the ball too long, not avoiding a sack by getting rid of the football, making ill-advised passes that were floating into coverage and could have killed a receiver, and throwing an interception right into a white jersey.
The only problem there was that Auburn was wearing their home blues...
It is evident, obvious, and any other adjective you'd like... that Frazier has not yet adapted to new-OC Scot Loeffler's power-system. Frazier is a zone-read option QB- this is clearly square-peg, round-hole stuff going on right now. Why the system wasn't created to suit Frazier's strengths is beyond me in a key year for this coaching staff...
Frazier is confused and is thinking entirely too much for his position... and when the world around you is moving faster than your brain is willing your body to function, you're in serious trouble.
Where's Clint Moseley, CJ Uzomah, or Quan Bray and the imagination that needs to go with finding the strengths of your athletes and (supposed 3, 4, and 5-star) recruits you felt worthy to be "All In?"
But Loeffler admitted: "He was able to do exactly what we wanted him to do" when the game was done.
Really...??? Okay... sure...
Thus... one play away from 0-3 and change-of-address kits for a coaching staff... which, still, may be in play at season's end...
Now, to the defense and new-DC Dave VanGorder...
Tackling and the skill that goes with it, obviously, is optional on the Plains (and a lot of other places these days, for that matter). Once again, the idea that a system wasn't created to allow for your athlete's strengths seems to be the order of the day...
One play in particular saw four down linemen line up on one side of the football before a snap- which forced the 'Stache to burn a time out to ask what in the blue hell was going on out there...???
Actually, the fans in the stands were asking the same question on both sides of the ball for the full 60 minutes- even moreso in the last 15 where the team that couldn't tackle or convert an important down-and-distance situation gave up a 2 touchdown lead and had to play a fifth period.
Coaches say the right things to make people feel better, but sometimes the Emperor needs that mirror just to prove that things aren't as they seem. Coach Chizik said the right things above, but when the team converted their first first down on a running play in overtime, all he did was have Frazier take the next set of downs to run to the middle of the field, summon Cody Parkey off the sidelines, and get out of Dodge...
Does that brim confidence in your quarterback to get a touchdown when you really need it in the future...???
You tell me... LSU might have your answer next Saturday night...
The obvious answer may come at season's end when everyone is gone from the coaching offices that harnessed a lightning bolt and won a title only two years ago. But in the interim, the entire Auburn coaching staff needs to issue an apology to their fan base for the display (or lack thereof) at home, against the Sun Belt Conference-toughened Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks.
(And who thought that would be a sentence that had to be written in back-to-back weeks in the Ess-E-Cee...?)
Second thing that needs to be done...???
Every starting position is now up for grabs... prove your worth, pay on Saturday...
Third thing... if I was on that coaching staff, having seen some disgusting displays of fundamentals (both physical and mental) at home...??? Take all the names off the backs of the jerseys...
Make the players earn them back...
And some may never do that...
But that goes back to the problem created Sunday through Friday, doesn't it...??? Anyone know the phone numbers to Todd Berry and Mario Cristobal around Christmas time...???
Saturday, September 8, 2012
TWTW: Louisiana-Monroe Upsets Arkansas
((HT: ESPNU/youtube))
The Ess-E-Cee loses to teams in the Big 10/12 and the Sun Belt in the same day. The HQ is working on the other upsets and they'll be posted post-haste.
But the biggest one of the evening, after the Oregon State win over Wisconsin in Corvallis, is immediately the La-Monroe win at Arkansas.
Todd Berry and the Warhawks caused a lot of laughter amongst the stars with the 33-31 overtime win over John L. Smith and his Razorbacks. The last time something like this happened, Arkansas lost to The Citadel and Jack Crowe got fired the next day.
The jokes are already happening...
Can Petrino and Jessica Dorrell come back...? We'll give them their old jobs back and give them raises, too...
Watch the game highlights. (Thanks KTHV-TV, Little Rock, AR A $100 bet gave some lucky guy $5,750 in return and the Warhawks go back to Monroe $500,000 richer for their efforts. They did the same thing to Nick Saban a few years ago... remember the billboards that popped up...??? ULM QB Kolton Browning went 42-for-69 for 412 yards plus the game-winning score. And ULM also won time of possession by 18 minutes. The HQ will recap the injuries for Arkansas as well as we go forward... SUNDAY UPDATE: Courtesy of TodaysTHV.com
The Ess-E-Cee loses to teams in the Big 10/12 and the Sun Belt in the same day. The HQ is working on the other upsets and they'll be posted post-haste.
But the biggest one of the evening, after the Oregon State win over Wisconsin in Corvallis, is immediately the La-Monroe win at Arkansas.
Todd Berry and the Warhawks caused a lot of laughter amongst the stars with the 33-31 overtime win over John L. Smith and his Razorbacks. The last time something like this happened, Arkansas lost to The Citadel and Jack Crowe got fired the next day.
The jokes are already happening...
Can Petrino and Jessica Dorrell come back...? We'll give them their old jobs back and give them raises, too...
Watch the game highlights. (Thanks KTHV-TV, Little Rock, AR A $100 bet gave some lucky guy $5,750 in return and the Warhawks go back to Monroe $500,000 richer for their efforts. They did the same thing to Nick Saban a few years ago... remember the billboards that popped up...??? ULM QB Kolton Browning went 42-for-69 for 412 yards plus the game-winning score. And ULM also won time of possession by 18 minutes. The HQ will recap the injuries for Arkansas as well as we go forward... SUNDAY UPDATE: Courtesy of TodaysTHV.com
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