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Post by The Aztec Panther on Nov 19, 2024 20:53:40 GMT -8
Dutcher is a great coach. The original post was sarcastic.
Lewis? So far, not so great...
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Post by Gundo on Nov 21, 2024 20:51:38 GMT -8
Lewis maybe, Dutch, well that's just you creating a little click bait. |
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Post by sdsustoner on Nov 21, 2024 20:56:48 GMT -8
I don't think the old rule of giving a coach2-3 years to develop the squad holds amymore, at least for the non power schools. this is because if the coach gets in some good players and develop them for a year or ywo, a major team will swoop in and grab them. College football is in a real bad way. The only solution I see is for the NCAA to reinstate the rule that a player must sit out a year if he transfers. Most big schools will not want to pay out big money for someine to sit on the bench for a year. But, people like the OP are still mired in their ancient thinking while New Mexico is succeeding despite having the same exact excuses for Lewis for failing. |
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Post by zurac315 on Nov 21, 2024 21:33:43 GMT -8
I don't think the old rule of giving a coach2-3 years to develop the squad holds amymore, at least for the non power schools. this is because if the coach gets in some good players and develop them for a year or ywo, a major team will swoop in and grab them. College football is in a real bad way. The only solution I see is for the NCAA to reinstate the rule that a player must sit out a year if he transfers. Most big schools will not want to pay out big money for someine to sit on the bench for a year. But, people like the OP are still mired in their ancient thinking while New Mexico is succeeding despite having the same exact excuses for Lewis for failing. What if a school that takes a player from another school had to compensate that other school for the player? |
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Post by sdsustoner on Nov 22, 2024 4:24:49 GMT -8
But, people like the OP are still mired in their ancient thinking while New Mexico is succeeding despite having the same exact excuses for Lewis for failing. What if a school that takes a player from another school had to compensate that other school for the player? Why not? Since everyone is getting paid right? Funny thing is unions may have done this but everyone who hates the Wild West of NIL killed the idea of college player unions years prior. |
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Post by aztecterrier on Nov 22, 2024 6:30:23 GMT -8
Fans will celebrate if the football program ever gets back to where it was just 3 years ago. Think about that for a minute.
When Coach Fisher was hired, he had the most goodwill and longest leash you could imagine, at least in my eyes as a tuned-in college basketball fan. So there was ZERO worry or panic, by me, when he only won 5 games that first season. He had earned patience and the chance to build a program his way (as it turns out, the right way), and the University had nothing to lose by giving him that time.
The situation with the football team today couldn't be more different. The coach we hired has a middling track record in a lower tier conference and was fired in his first and only season as OC in a major conference. The job coach Lewis took WAS NOT a total rebuild. There was a PROGRAM here long before coach Lewis, a proven and successful one, and he is on the verge of regressing from that regime's worst season ever. He chose the path of a total rebuild, as did AD and DLT when they hired him.
The landscape is changing fast, and even if AD and DLT are inclined to be patient, they have already risked everything by switching conference alignment to the PAC7.5 (which has been a shrug and not the bang we hoped for after passing on a chance to join the Big12). Why would they follow that up by hiring an unproven coach and give him a long leash, at such a critical moment in the evolution (devolution?) of college football? Failing to change course now will be a tragedy Aztec fans will drown their sorrows in for decades.
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Post by azson on Nov 22, 2024 14:55:16 GMT -8
Lewis maybe, Dutch, well that's just you creating a little click bait pointing out the ridiculousness of those calling for Lew's head mid-season 1. FIFY |
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