he's a nutcase but loving the ride and the kids seem to respond. will be interesting to see if he can keep bringing in top recruiting classes. that team is still young and not that good, but improving.
Quote:that team is still young and not that good, but improving.
Very young. Pretty decent on Offense. True freshman RB got POW twice in a row. Is #5 in the nation in rushing yard total, playing 3 games, not 4.
Our D though -- is not good. Gave up over 40 pts to Purdue, over 30 pts to Idaho (Ohio allowed 26 at home to Idaho). WMU seemed to improve on D against Murray State, holding them to about the same yardage as Louisville did... but Murray was throwing a lot of bad passes too, and that's all they did once WMU got up over 14+ points on them in the 1st half. WMU's bend-but-dont-break will work against not-good-O teams.... but against CMU with their WR & RB back? NIU? Toledo? BGSU? Won't work well at all.
However, how much the young D improves during the season, depends on how good the D Coordinator is. It's a re-building year of course. WMU is the "potential ruiner" for BGSU, Toledo, and NIU -- as WMU's O can score their fair share of points, while their D is shaky & learning much more. If any one of those 3 teams goes down against WMU -- they're REALLY going to hate us (I see BGSU being the most likely target out of the 3; which would make Akron love us).
(This post was last modified: 09-23-2014 10:57 AM by toddjnsn.)
The WMU coaching staff have shown that they can recruit and the next several years will show whether or not they can also coach because college football requires both in order to win conference championships.
Actually, I guess the same thoughts apply to UT as well although our current staff has a couple of years head start on WMU.
