(01-21-2020 01:37 PM)JMU_71 Wrote:  

(01-19-2020 04:38 PM)#20fromalongtimeago Wrote:  You mean like the last play of the game? Oh, never mind. Carry on.

Cig coached them to grab the facemask, Percy to trip on a likely touchdown and the refs to miss multiple calls including a illegal blindside block on NDSUs touchdown, holding on Green on several occassions etc. One play does not decide the game.

I support Cignetti and his staff and believe we upgraded from the previous staff and system. However, we got beat by NDSU and they are the better team in 2019. Yes, we got outcoached, outplayed, out executed and we lost. The time management at the end of the game was poor. We need to make tweaks to coaching but the foundation is there.

Brace yourself because I believe next year will be a better team. We may have had more talent in 2019 but our team will be better in 2020.


I agree with you for the most part. So many folks say that a team is only as good as their O-line, the upgrade in coach at that position cannot and should not be over looked. Wrobo is a fantastic coach and he is light years better than either of the last two O-line coaches Houston had. Hethermen is at least as good as Trott--I think he's better. Montgomery ran a sound offense this past season and I thought our offense operated much better in 2019 than it did under Donnie in 2017 or 2018. Cig doesn't give bombastic speeches and he doesn't say "Go Dukes" after every comment--so what? We had great results this year. We came up short in the Natty--bummer--it sucks--it happens. Time management needs to be improved, but like someone else said, that definitely was not Houston's strength either.

It remains to be seen if we'll be better next year. We need to find/develop a QB and WRs.

And I do not believe the replacements for Daka, Carter, & Holloway will play at the level those three played this year. Those three were true studs and were known to be coming into this year. I think the defense will be good, but I just don't see anyone stepping into their shoes playing at the same level this year as they did last year.

(01-21-2020 09:06 AM)Dukester Wrote:  I'd be shocked if that was the case.

Somehow when I state the obvious it's as if to some I'm ripping on Cig. In reality I'm lowering the bar for him/giving him a mini pass for next season. Sorry - but the returning talent level and experience level is just not as good every year, and next year's returning team is not as strong as the prior 4 years. I'd project our regular season next year to be 9-3 or 10-2.

Now if we're not back to top (few) by the end of 2021 we'll have slipped a lot.

For 2019 I'll stand by the most talented team in JMU history lost to a NDSU team that was no more talented than we were.

100% you’d be wrong.