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Post by LostAztec on Sept 28, 2024 18:09:39 GMT -8
At least we scored 3 touchdowns this time. Baby steps. Everyone involved, though (players and coaches), needs to step up and improve. The second half was a disaster. O'Neill is not the guy right now. He needs to sit, learn, and develop. Ain't gonna happen because we are stuck with a boneheaded Coach. |
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Post by LostAztec on Sept 28, 2024 18:12:32 GMT -8
[quote author=" jp92grad" source="/post/1410481/thread" timestamp="1727569884" Clueless Lewis. That's a great tag ! Clueless Lewis. Love it ! |
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Post by LostAztec on Sept 28, 2024 18:14:06 GMT -8
Lewis is no Chuck Long. Long understood the deficiencies in the program but was not a leader of men . Many of the programs deficiencies Long identified have been fixed. Lewis is a man today’s players will follow. We just lost too much in the OL , the part of the team that takes the longest to develop. We lost this game like the others because the OL is not consistently competitive.CM mostly defeated them in the run game. The players we have on the OL are not good enough. No amount of coaching can fix that. I don’t see any MWC defense being worse than CM. After watching the first game in person I was concerned. After today I’m not sure where any wins are coming from. Three of our O-line were starters last year. They suck as a unit. |
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Post by jp92grad on Sept 28, 2024 18:20:25 GMT -8
[quote author=" jp92grad " source="/post/1410481/thread" timestamp="1727569884" Clueless Lewis. Lost me here? ? ? How did I show up here? ? ?---JPThat's a great tag ! Clueless Lewis. Love it ! |
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Post by LostAztec on Sept 28, 2024 18:22:54 GMT -8
That's a great tag ! Clueless Lewis. Love it ! Bad quote capture. Clueless Lewis. Ya gotta love it, baby. |
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Post by frustratedfan on Sept 28, 2024 18:23:56 GMT -8
We have yet to see a well coached game, win or lose, this season. I hope Lewis and Co. can make a strong comeback, as we are rapidly sinking back to who we were in the pre-Rocky era. Sorry to break it to you, but we have already sunk to the pre-Rocky era. For those on here that gave Phil Steele crap about his prediction of an 8th place finish for SDSU it looks like even he underestimated how bad this program would be. Wicker's "coach in waiting" hire for baseball has led us to back-to-back dead last finishes in the weak MWC. I just hope his hire for our football program won't do the same this year. PS.-I didn't realize Andy Trakas had another year of eligibility.  |
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Post by aztecterrier on Sept 28, 2024 19:05:07 GMT -8
Lewis' play calling cost us the game. Two trick plays the team didn't need to try cost us two scoring opportunities and that timeout when they were about to get a delay of game is the most boneheaded T.O. since Webber in the National Title game.
But at least it was fast.
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Post by sdsuballer on Sept 28, 2024 20:02:34 GMT -8
At least we scored 3 touchdowns this time. Baby steps. Everyone involved, though (players and coaches), needs to step up and improve. The second half was a disaster. O'Neill is not the guy right now. He needs to sit, learn, and develop. Ain't gonna happen because we are stuck with a boneheaded Coach. Agreed. ONeil is not the guy right now! Not the way Lewis wants to play call. Lewis style is more of a speedy and athletic QB. Right now even handing off the ball to the RB iis painful to watch. Right now we have 5 Qbs and could possibly have Josh Allen siting on the bench. Id like to take a look at least the FSU kid along with Kyle Crum. |
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Post by sdsuballer on Sept 28, 2024 20:19:18 GMT -8
Who goes first from Wicker's 3 of the last 4 hires. Terry-Hudson, Martinez, or Lewis. All three hires are awful. I wouldn't even hire them at my local HS. Only the two handpicked coaches from previous regime have panned out, (Dutcher and Numen Denis).
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Post by richpjr on Sept 28, 2024 20:24:09 GMT -8
Nobody should be surprised by what we are seeing. Lewis was 8 games under .500 as a coach at Kent State with a 25-33 record and is now 1-3 here. He did nothing to warrant the HC job here.
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Post by frustratedfan on Sept 28, 2024 20:33:15 GMT -8
Who goes first from Wicker's 3 of the last 4 hires. Terry-Hudson, Martinez, or Lewis. All three hires are awful. I wouldn't even hire them at my local HS. Only the two handpicked coaches from previous regime have panned out, (Dutcher and Numen Denis). My vote is for Shaun Cole, the head coach of our baseball program. He has "led" our baseball program to back-to-back DEAD LAST finishes in the MWC, which is a very weak conference for baseball. Absolutely no excuse for this abysmal record. Why he is still heading our baseball program is beyond me. That is completely on Wicker. He made Cole the baseball "head coach in waiting", and then promoted him to the head coach of the team. |
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Post by FULL_MONTY on Sept 28, 2024 20:48:39 GMT -8
Who goes first from Wicker's 3 of the last 4 hires. Terry-Hudson, Martinez, or Lewis. All three hires are awful. I wouldn't even hire them at my local HS. Only the two handpicked coaches from previous regime have panned out, (Dutcher and Numen Denis). My vote is for Shaun Cole, the head coach of our baseball program. He has "led" our baseball program to back-to-back DEAD LAST finishes in the MWC, which is a very weak conference for baseball. Absolutely no excuse for this abysmal record. Why he is still heading our baseball program is beyond me. That is completely on Wicker. He made Cole the baseball "head coach in waiting", and then promoted him to the head coach of the team. Wasn’t last year his first year? |
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Post by frustratedfan on Sept 28, 2024 21:07:05 GMT -8
My vote is for Shaun Cole, the head coach of our baseball program. He has "led" our baseball program to back-to-back DEAD LAST finishes in the MWC, which is a very weak conference for baseball. Absolutely no excuse for this abysmal record. Why he is still heading our baseball program is beyond me. That is completely on Wicker. He made Cole the baseball "head coach in waiting", and then promoted him to the head coach of the team. Wasn’t last year his first year? Yeah, you are right. My bad. Point is we have had back-to back DEAD LAST finishes in a very weak baseball conference. Wicker thought he could have the same success using the "head coach in waiting" in baseball as in basketball. So, Wicker made Cole a "head coach in waiting" on a program that finished dead last two years ago. Sorry, but I don't care if last year was Cole's first year, there is absolutely NO EXCUSE to finish DEAD LAST in one of the weakest baseball conferences in the nation. That is on Wicker. I still stand on my belief that Cole needs to go. No way a baseball program in southern California should finish dead last in a weak baseball conference. |
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Post by frustratedfan on Sept 28, 2024 21:16:04 GMT -8
Meanwhile in Boise, Boise State is dominating Washington State 38-17. Buckle up folks, this is going to be an ugly year for Aztec football.
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Post by aztecdan8 on Sept 28, 2024 21:20:59 GMT -8
Time for a real football game – Georgia vs Alabama. What we witnessed was really bad football and Coaching in the second half. If I was the AD, Lewis doesn't get on the plane home. Fire the guy, now. Before it's to late. This can be a FB program killer before we even get a shot at the Pac. Wicker doesn’t have the balls or juice to fire him. Yet. It’s too soon, as much as I’m convinced Lewis isn’t the guy. I was already seriously doubting him, the 2nd half today convinced me he ain’t it. Again. If Wicker fired him, would you trust him to hire a better coach? Heck no. Even if Wicker is still AD the next time a coach is fired, Wicker shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the decision making for a new coach. Assemble a panel if really smart football guys, former players, current players and let them choose. How many clueless coaching hire mistakes can he be allowed to make?? Oh yeah, he has an equally weak ass boss. |
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Post by richpjr on Sept 28, 2024 22:04:42 GMT -8
What we witnessed was really bad football and Coaching in the second half. If I was the AD, Lewis doesn't get on the plane home. Fire the guy, now. Before it's to late. This can be a FB program killer before we even get a shot at the Pac. Wicker doesn’t have the balls or juice to fire him. Yet. It’s too soon, as much as I’m convinced Lewis isn’t the guy. I was already seriously doubting him, the 2nd half today convinced me he ain’t it. Again. If Wicker fired him, would you trust him to hire a better coach? Heck no. Even if Wicker is still AD the next time a coach is fired, Wicker shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the decision making for a new coach. Assemble a panel if really smart football guys, former players, current players and let them choose. How many clueless coaching hire mistakes can he be allowed to make?? Oh yeah, he has an equally weak ass boss. While I have little faith that Lewis is the right guy here, no coach should be fired 4 games into their tenure. Honestly, I'd be hard pressed to rationalize firing him after one season unless the team completely quit on him. |
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Post by The Aztec Panther on Sept 28, 2024 23:51:45 GMT -8
The Lewis era is very different from the Chuck Long era.
Chuck always seemed in over his head, and clueless on how to run a team. And he was a terrible leader.
Sean Lewis has been making some baffling mistakes (in game decisions, primarily), but he doesn't seem in over his head, and he does seem to know how to run a team. He just needs to learn from his mistakes. (And there have been plenty of them to learn from.)
Remember, we lost most of last year's starters. This is largely a new team with little experience. Everyone involved has a huge learning curve.
If we see the same kind of mistakes late in the season that would be a sign of trouble (and the potential need to replace Lewis after the 2025 season if he doesn't get it together). Lewis seems a lot smarter than Chuck Long was, so I think he's capable of learning from his mistakes, and becoming a better coach.
We'll see.
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Post by sdsustoner on Sept 29, 2024 3:05:15 GMT -8
They played well enough to win. Everybody except the kicker I respectfully disagree. CMU outgained us by almost 100 yards (452 vs 364) on 88 plays vs 68 plays. We were even +2 in turnovers and still lost. It wasn't just the kicker, the entire team was terrible against a subpar opponent. It's all coaching. While that's true, the defense gave the offense three chances to ice the game in the 4th quarter only for Lewis to squander it with his coaching. At least we agree the coaching was by far the top reason |
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Post by sdsustoner on Sept 29, 2024 3:08:32 GMT -8
The Lewis era is very different from the Chuck Long era. Chuck always seemed in over his head, and clueless on how to run a team. And he was a terrible leader. Sean Lewis has been making some baffling mistakes (in game decisions, primarily), but he doesn't seem in over his head, and he does seem to know how to run a team. He just needs to learn from his mistakes. (And there have been plenty of them to learn from.) Remember, we lost most of last year's starters. This is largely a new team with little experience. Everyone involved has a huge learning curve. If we see the same kind of mistakes late in the season that would be a sign of trouble (and the potential need to replace Lewis after the 2025 season if he doesn't get it together). Lewis seems a lot smarter than Chuck Long was, so I think he's capable of learning from his mistakes, and becoming a better coach. We'll see. He is in over his head. His in-game decisions demonstrate it. |
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Post by sdsustoner on Sept 29, 2024 3:12:09 GMT -8
One positive thing is Trey White
Three freaking sacks to bring his season total to six.
He's a beast on the pass rush this year
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