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Post by LostAztec on Nov 9, 2024 22:41:11 GMT -8
If Oklahoma can fire Howard Schnellenberger after one season, we can to. Yes! Let’s fire him and everyone else until we go 9-3 their first year. This team is bad. It doesn’t matter who the coach is. 5-7 should be a resounding success Losing at home to New Mexico is not a resounding success. We might win against USU.Might. 4-8 sounds like a resounding success and proof of progress since last year. smh |
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Post by sdsustoner on Nov 10, 2024 5:39:26 GMT -8
And he was forced to play 15 unwinnable games against P2 schools over his 5 year stint there, just so the program could get a "payday." I must correct myself, only 14 of the 15 games (all played on the road) were against teams currently in the B1G or SEC. ASU is "just" a P4 school. So we got a head coach who could help us compete vs MAC schools in the future. Fantastic! |
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Post by richpjr on Nov 10, 2024 7:09:50 GMT -8
This is the most ridiculous poll I’ve seen on this site. How can you judge a new coach on 9 games before he’s had a chance to recruit all his guys in? I was hoping for .500 this season but not expecting it. We’ve only seen bits and pieces of what this offense can be. Granted the New Mexico game was pathetic but to yell “fire the coach” now just doesn’t make any sense. Seconded. It takes a good coach at least 2 years to get everything settled, and the right people in place. Lest we forget that a good amount of our players hit the portal? Give him at least a cycle more to see how he works the portal and go from there. He came in, inhereted a massively mismanaged program personnel wise, and has tried to build a house out of $#!+ and straw. Patience folks. I would be shocked if we fire a coach after a bad first season. It's not fair to the coach and we don't have the money to do it even if we wanted to. My problem is I don't think he is a good HC and I have very little hope he turns things around. The 2 or 3 years he will get is just wasting time before starting over yet again. I hope I am wrong... |
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Post by North County Aztec on Nov 10, 2024 7:10:10 GMT -8
There’s a massive amount of frustration that is growing by the hour. Aztec fans have been patient; four years of Craft, three years of Long. Then the big let-down after a 12-2 season with Brady. Lewis will get two more years no matter how bad it gets and how much we bitch.
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Post by jp92grad on Nov 10, 2024 9:00:40 GMT -8
The bigger issues with the program right now are they do not really look to be improving that much and most the players that are doing anything could be gone next year (graduation, Portal?). This all means they will more then likely be starting all over again next season.
Offensive line- Basically will be all new faces on the 2 deep with maybe a couple returners
WR- 1 starter, one very questionable starter/player may return otherwise zero experience returning.
TE-1 returner will limited playing time that lacks true size to play the position, others zero experience returning.
RB- Anybody's guess on who returns (if any)
QB- A player to small to really play the RPO system wanted here and back-ups with very limited experience.
What or how is it going to be any different next year with how this year is playing out?
What does Lewis need to do to improve this program in the next year, questions need to asked.
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Post by aztecjake on Nov 10, 2024 9:45:46 GMT -8
Minus what he brought with him, sounds about the same as Lewis inherited to start this season. I heard that approximately 50 players on the roster from last year either gradraduated or transferred out.
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Post by junior on Nov 10, 2024 10:10:03 GMT -8
Meet the new coach…same as the old coach.
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Post by standiego on Nov 10, 2024 10:48:24 GMT -8
who could they bring in ?
is the UNLV OC available
Who can bring in players from the Portal with SDSU limited NIL money
who might be better at QB the current QB or the Red Shirt Freshman ? are not going to be able to keep both
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Post by Den60 on Nov 10, 2024 11:10:45 GMT -8
The bigger issues with the program right now are they do not really look to be improving that much and most the players that are doing anything could be gone next year (graduation, Portal?). This all means they will more then likely be starting all over again next season. Offensive line- Basically will be all new faces on the 2 deep with maybe a couple returners WR- 1 starter, one very questionable starter/player may return otherwise zero experience returning. TE-1 returner will limited playing time that lacks true size to play the position, others zero experience returning. RB- Anybody's guess on who returns (if any) QB- A player to small to really play the RPO system wanted here and back-ups with very limited experience. What or how is it going to be any different next year with how this year is playing out? What does Lewis need to do to improve this program in the next year, questions need to asked. It seems we see new faces weekly on the O-line. Our top two TE's this year are both transfers. |
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Post by aztech on Nov 10, 2024 12:44:19 GMT -8
You guys need to look at the big picture. Going back as far as 2000 we've never had a competent AD. IMO good ADs wouldn't come here since our presidents couldn't give them the money work with. So despite how well we did in football we couldn't generate profit without our own stadium. The coup de grace was they didn't know what a good affordable coach was anyway. The best hire was Brady Hoke's initial time here. I can't figure out who hired him between Jeff Schemmel getting fired and Jim Sterk's hiring.
Regardless we're now stuck with a guy who got us Snap Dragon which we're thankful for, but like our previous ADs, still makes bad coaching hires despite having the means to make lots of revenue now. As I've written before, it's up to De la Torre to get it in gear so we can lead the nPAC.
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Post by zurac315 on Nov 10, 2024 14:41:55 GMT -8
We will learn what we need to know at the end of the season. If many of the best players bolt to other teams that will tell us something. If only a few do that will tell us something else.
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Post by Den60 on Nov 10, 2024 14:44:59 GMT -8
And he was forced to play 15 unwinnable games against P2 schools over his 5 year stint there, just so the program could get a "payday." I must correct myself, only 14 of the 15 games (all played on the road) were against teams currently in the B1G or SEC. ASU is "just" a P4 school. So we got a head coach who could help us compete vs MAC schools in the future. Fantastic! If you are trying to come across as intelligent, posts like this surely aren't helping. I'm pretty sure Rocky Long would have gone with zero to one wins (maybe a win at ASU) in those games despite having a team in a better conference with a bigger budget than the MAC. |
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Post by TPAztec on Nov 10, 2024 16:28:46 GMT -8
Look. At the end of the day, it's going to be about recruiting local talent and keeping them home. Can Lewis do it? We shall see.
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Post by sdsustoner on Nov 10, 2024 18:35:21 GMT -8
So we got a head coach who could help us compete vs MAC schools in the future. Fantastic! If you are trying to come across as intelligent, posts like this surely aren't helping. I'm pretty sure Rocky Long would have gone with zero to one wins (maybe a win at ASU) in those games despite having a team in a better conference with a bigger budget than the MAC. 😂 You mean the same head coach who took New Mexico to bowl games? Your unfounded myopia is exactly why you can't discern the difference between a coach who got the best out of his players and a coach who misuses his top guys. |
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Post by docmm on Nov 10, 2024 18:46:55 GMT -8
Look. At the end of the day, it's going to be about recruiting local talent and keeping them home. Can Lewis do it? We shall see. Good luck with that if Lucky Sutton leaves. |
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Post by aztecdan8 on Nov 10, 2024 18:50:28 GMT -8
You guys need to look at the big picture. Going back as far as 2000 we've never had a competent AD. IMO good ADs wouldn't come here since our presidents couldn't give them the money work with. So despite how well we did in football we couldn't generate profit without our own stadium. The coup de grace was they didn't know what a good affordable coach was anyway. The best hire was Brady Hoke's initial time here. I can't figure out who hired him between Jeff Schemmel getting fired and Jim Sterk's hiring. Regardless we're now stuck with a guy who got us Snap Dragon which we're thankful for, but like our previous ADs, still makes bad coaching hires despite having the means to make lots of revenue now. As I've written before, it's up to De la Torre to get it in gear so we can lead the nPAC. If it's up to DLT, we're doomed. |
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Post by jp92grad on Nov 11, 2024 5:38:57 GMT -8
Is it only Coach Lewis?
When you really look at this program there is very little true D1 experience on his staff. The Bio's are full of low level D1 programs (Kent State...) and very few of bigger D1 programs. There does seem to be a lot of good FCS experience but there is a big difference in D1 and FCS in the day to day, planning and operations .
The thing lacking is just having more real experience from staff members who have been in and worked around bigger more successful programs. When you really look at this staff there are only a few that have worked around or been truly involved in the day to day planning and building successful programs. This is starting to show in the lack of leadership from the top down in very poor fundamentals that are continually showing up.
This could also be related to the excessive amount of injuries in that poor fundamentals and lack of conditioning that has led to players just not ready to play because the coaching staff was just not experienced enough.
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This staff could really use an Experienced (Gray-Beard) Hard-Ass AHC/OC to shake things up and allow Coach Lewis to concentrate and focus on building this entire program, not just talking really fast about needing to do a better job in all his press conferences.
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Changes are needed!
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Post by waxxon on Nov 11, 2024 6:28:10 GMT -8
You guys need to look at the big picture. Going back as far as 2000 we've never had a competent AD. IMO good ADs wouldn't come here since our presidents couldn't give them the money work with. So despite how well we did in football we couldn't generate profit without our own stadium. The coup de grace was they didn't know what a good affordable coach was anyway. The best hire was Brady Hoke's initial time here. I can't figure out who hired him between Jeff Schemmel getting fired and Jim Sterk's hiring. Regardless we're now stuck with a guy who got us Snap Dragon which we're thankful for, but like our previous ADs, still makes bad coaching hires despite having the means to make lots of revenue now. As I've written before, it's up to De la Torre to get it in gear so we can lead the nPAC. If it's up to DLT, we're doomed. Agreed. The astute DLT has proven her priorities, she fired Carlos |
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Post by sdsuballer on Nov 11, 2024 7:43:07 GMT -8
And he was forced to play 15 unwinnable games against P2 schools over his 5 year stint there, just so the program could get a "payday." I must correct myself, only 14 of the 15 games (all played on the road) were against teams currently in the B1G or SEC. ASU is "just" a P4 school. So we got a head coach who could help us compete vs MAC schools in the future. Fantastic! But we loss to a MAC team with a former mtn west coach! |
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Post by TPAztec on Nov 11, 2024 8:25:25 GMT -8
Look. At the end of the day, it's going to be about recruiting local talent and keeping them home. Can Lewis do it? We shall see. Good luck with that if Lucky Sutton leaves. Trey White disagrees. Look. What the staff needs to do is lock down the area. After that, you move to Texas and the LA area. |
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