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Post by elon_phan on Nov 10, 2013 21:49:15 GMT -5
Maybe I will throw my name in the hat. I am 9-1 in my fantasy league! Hired!
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Post by elon77 on Nov 10, 2013 22:25:02 GMT -5
In all the years I have been going to Elon football games I believe I was more disappointed after Saturdays game than any year that I can remember. At least I did see many many many of my best college buds, but the football was really ugly.
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Post by elonpride on Nov 11, 2013 8:17:18 GMT -5
In all the years I have been going to Elon football games I believe I was more disappointed after Saturdays game than any year that I can remember. At least I did see many many many of my best college buds, but the football was really ugly. I don't know. I don't remember EVER being as disappointed as when we lost to D-II Tusculum in Rhodes Stadium.
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Post by elon78 on Nov 11, 2013 21:23:50 GMT -5
I agree with Elon77. Tailgate....pregame atmosphere was great! Until the football game. At the Football luncheon today Swepson said the program was "on schedule". All I could think of was "how clueless is he". Two weeks to go and lets put this experiment out of its misery. I am hoping Blank isn't as clueless as the head coach. We should see in two weeks.
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Post by phightingphoenix1 on Nov 11, 2013 22:02:24 GMT -5
I agree with Elon77. Tailgate....pregame atmosphere was great! Until the football game. At the Football luncheon today Swepson said the program was "on schedule". All I could think of was "how clueless is he". Two weeks to go and lets put this experiment out of its misery. I am hoping Blank isn't as clueless as the head coach. We should see in two weeks. Why would we wait for two weeks? Cut bait and let it be known the search is on...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2013 22:07:46 GMT -5
I agree with Elon77. Tailgate....pregame atmosphere was great! Until the football game. At the Football luncheon today Swepson said the program was "on schedule". All I could think of was "how clueless is he". Two weeks to go and lets put this experiment out of its misery. I am hoping Blank isn't as clueless as the head coach. We should see in two weeks. Did anyone have the balls to ask him what "on schedule" means? On schedule toward total destruction?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2013 22:13:45 GMT -5
I agree with Elon77. Tailgate....pregame atmosphere was great! Until the football game. At the Football luncheon today Swepson said the program was "on schedule". All I could think of was "how clueless is he". Two weeks to go and lets put this experiment out of its misery. I am hoping Blank isn't as clueless as the head coach. We should see in two weeks. Why would we wait for two weeks? Cut bait and let it be known the search is on... You know, I'm usually for waiting til the end of the season to let a coach go, but what do we have to lose here? We're going to lose the next two games no matter what. Let's go ahead and get rid of the rot. BYW, I hope Blank puts a clause in the next coach's contract that he must have his primary residence in Alamance County. It's ridiculous that we have a coach that lives more than an hour away.
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Post by fc97 on Nov 12, 2013 7:25:25 GMT -5
If they let him go prior to the three year clause, if that exists, then we'll be paying big $$$ to let him go early. If they wait to the end of the year and that clause is in effect, then perhaps it will cost less or next to nothing.
Given the exit fee of SoCon, entrance fee of CAA; I don't see where we have a lot of money to throw around like this.
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Post by elon77 on Nov 12, 2013 9:32:32 GMT -5
If they let him go prior to the three year clause, if that exists, then we'll be paying big $$$ to let him go early. If they wait to the end of the year and that clause is in effect, then perhaps it will cost less or next to nothing. Given the exit fee of SoCon, entrance fee of CAA; I don't see where we have a lot of money to throw around like this. With the alumni disappointed like they are, there is going to be a lot less money to "throw around".
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Post by whoanellie on Nov 12, 2013 22:22:03 GMT -5
Late Hire means a lost recruiting class, Honestly Swep does all the right things except win obvious player development is sub-par, the recruits are almost no improvement from signing. OL has gotten better but what We are putting on the field just does not add up to Wins. We must have to pay more for a quality HC. and staff.
again there is no Defense for the Defense
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2013 4:26:14 GMT -5
Late Hire means a lost recruiting class, Honestly Swep does all the right things except win obvious player development is sub-par, the recruits are almost no improvement from signing. OL has gotten better but what We are putting on the field just does not add up to Wins. We must have to pay more for a quality HC. and staff. again there is no Defense for the Defense Just to further make this point, do you know why we have a good offensive line? It isn't that we have all 6'5" , 310 lb. guys that all ran the shuttle in record times. It's due to exceptional coaching! A good coach would come to this team and win immediately. We have a solid OLine and undoubtedly the best receiving corps as a group in the FCS. Between Kierre Brown, Doug Warrick, Andre Davis, Rasaun Rorie, Ricky Brown, and Jason Osbourne, you have absolutely the best after the catch talent Elon has ever had. Also, it doesn't take a genius to see that Quinn is MUCH better on the run than he is in the pocket. Being in the pocket gives him too much time to think and he tends to telegraph and try to aim the ball too much. On the run he doesn't think too much & the plays just naturally happen. More roll out or play action passing would also give Quinn the opportunity to read & tuck & run on occasion too. He's not a bad short distance runner. We have the talent to make plays. We just don't have a HC or OC that understand what our group of guys' talents are. We'd rather try to pound 4 short running plays down a good defense's throat than try a roll out to the TE with a read option for a 1 yard TD. Why? Because, in Swepson's words, "that's what we want to be. A physical team that can punch it in". BULLSHIT! I'd rather be a winning team! I know the players feel the same way. On another front, the first thing Cortez did when he reached the new world was burn his ships. This made his crew committed to making things work. A coach who coaches in one city but lives in another over an hour away isn't committed. And don't give me the crap that his house wouldn't sell. Take a loss, rent it, blow it up, i don't care, but committ! I hope Blank puts a clause in the next coach's contract that he has to live within 5 miles of the school. A good coach would scratch his head as to why this team isn't having a winning season. It's not about what Swepson wants the team to be!, The school should be the first priority. The program and the players should be the second, then somewhere down the line what the coach wants personally may be considered. A great man once said, "if anyone would be first [greatest], he must be last of all and servant of all". Swepson, regardless of whether he's here or somewhere else next year, would do well to think about that statement. Arrogance and conceit have no place in coaching other than helping to define what "bad" is.
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Post by phan13 on Nov 13, 2013 13:12:58 GMT -5
I'm not a football professional, but I've watched enough high school and college football to feel comfortable saying that this team has more than enough talent on both sides of the ball to have a winning record against the teams they've played. I've seen most of the games this year and I would boil all of the losses down to three things, all of which are primarily the responsibility of the coaching staff:
Little creativity/imagination on offense Lack of leadership/mental toughness on defense Inability to make in-game adjustments (basically being outcoached on game day).
Certainly the players are not blameless - they are the ones on the field - but I do not see the leadership, support and expertise that they need from the coaching staff. Even worse, the head coach's detached sideline demeanor, hands-off management style, and propensity to occasionally throw one of them under the bus in his interviews must have some of the players wondering if he even cares. I suspect that he has lost them.
It will be interesting to see how many players leave the program (via transfer or just decide to quit because there's no leadership and no hope) if a coaching change is not made.
One way or another, something's got to give before next year or Elon football will be the new laughingstock of the CAA.
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