First I want to say that I appreciate what Coach Molnar did. I believe he tried his best and there's nothing more you can ask. He was always very friendly to my family and I when I saw him. I liked him very much as a person. He had a rough deal. The University went cheap with the previous hire and it took an FCS power house and made them a crap CAA team in two years. Molnar had an uphill battle and it would not have been easy no matter who the coach was.
(12-26-2013 01:43 PM)Siborg Wrote: Intersting they fired 2 defensive coaches last week. I thought the D was the strength of their team....I'm not saying the D was good, but relative to its O, it was pretty good. Of course, I only saw them in portions of 4-5 games and one complete game against BG so UMass followers would know better than I.
I agree that defense was the strength of the team, which to me was really puzzling as the head coach was an offensive coordinator.
I graduated in 2007. That fall, I used my student ID to get into all the games cause I was too cheap to buy tickets. The next fall, I bought tickets at a discount rate through our alumni association (It was $5 per game as opposed to something like $13 for season tix). The following year, 2009, I bought season tix to support the program. I've been watching since the upgrade was ever thought possible. I'm not one of the Johnny-Come-Lately's that ignored the team before the MAC days.
That being said, I didn't like a lot of what happened. We've ignored our great history, which includes Bowl Wins, Conference Championships and a National Championship. We changed our uniforms are relied on a black look that made us look like Northeastern
We gave up on the prostyle offense UMass ran so successfully for such a long time and forgot how to score.
I get the spread is a big part of the MAC, but it's not a big part of UMass football. It was really stupid in my opinion to think we could come in with a brand new offense without the players to run it and try to compete. I want very much for the new head coach to go back to the old days. I want to use a fullback. I want to win the battles on both sides of the lines. I want to see UMass blitz you off the bus, as UMass74's blog used to put it. Basically, I want to see the UMass of days of yore. I don't want UMass to evolve into a spread team. I want UMass to beat Spread teams with UMass football.
I was really worried when I saw the firing, because I don't want the University to be paying for 2 coaches (or is it 3? I'm not sure if Morris is still on the books). I feel a lot better knowing that someone is paying the buyout.
Bringing Coach Whipple back would be a dream come true. I'd also be very satisfied with Coach Brown. But please, do this right. Don't hire someone who has never called a down in their life to be head coach again. Hire someone with experience. Someone who can come in here and turn this ship around. UMass has so much potential. I've seen how good they can be with my own eyes. I know that we are a laughing stock in this conference right now, and even though I've never played a down in my life, that hurts me so much. I want very bad for my alma mater to show you all what we can do.
