Post by azztecdave on Jan 17, 2011 20:03:07 GMT -8
I need my football fix and something to hold me off until the AF BB game …..
- I believe the key to next year’s FB season will be the senior leadership and not the yet to be determined coordinators/staff. I have trust in Rocky Long to do the right thing, but I think the 2011 season hinges on Lindley, Umolo, Draheim, Gunther, Long, Spencer, Autele, Buriss, Ketchum, Hemmings, Horn, Stanovich …. to name a few. We have a pretty large senior class (21 players by my count) and these guys have been thru the highs and lows and hopefully can lead the others by example on what it will take from Jan-Dec to be winners.
- Recruiting. We always seem to lose 3-5 players from grades/etc. each year from grades or other reasons (2010 = Quinnoes, Camrada, Pinkins (I thought he was just ineligible but someone else reported he was kicked off the team), Fantroy) so I don’t take it as a sign that the verbal commitments from this week are offsetting potential players who have de-committed.
- There is so much speculation on the new coaching staff, but at the end of the day I personally would rather have Long concentrate on overseeing the team/program vs. be the DC. I can understand Long’s view on getting coaches on the defensive side that know the 3-3-5 so they will likely have links to his prior teams at New Mexico but I hope on the offensive side they are a new mix of coaches …. i.e. I don’t want to see an entire staff made up of ex-New Mexico coaches.
Much discussion on Norm Chow, but I just don’t see it happening (he wants to be HC and I am sure he wants to coach against da Weasel). I don’t know where the blame lies is UCLA’s “pop-gun” offense (Weasel vs. Chow) but from the one UCLA game I watched in 2010 that was one ugly offense. I also thought I heard that Chow doesn’t recruit. I would hope that we could land an ambitious/up-and-coming OC. Someone mentioned Karl Dorrell’s name … not supporting it, but with his San Diego ties you wonder if he would be a candidate?
- We are all looking forward to 9/24/11, but we still have three (winnable) games that need to be played before that game. If we lose any of those three games – especially to Cow Poly – the Michigan game means ZIP. Who cares about Hoke and the others that have left? I thank them for what they did here, but we need to move on as they have moved on. I will stick by my first point above – with the right senior leadership, our 2011 season should be fine ….and will leave the interest season to 2012 where we will have a new QB, ST and predominately Hoke’s recruits on the field.
- I believe the key to next year’s FB season will be the senior leadership and not the yet to be determined coordinators/staff. I have trust in Rocky Long to do the right thing, but I think the 2011 season hinges on Lindley, Umolo, Draheim, Gunther, Long, Spencer, Autele, Buriss, Ketchum, Hemmings, Horn, Stanovich …. to name a few. We have a pretty large senior class (21 players by my count) and these guys have been thru the highs and lows and hopefully can lead the others by example on what it will take from Jan-Dec to be winners.
- Recruiting. We always seem to lose 3-5 players from grades/etc. each year from grades or other reasons (2010 = Quinnoes, Camrada, Pinkins (I thought he was just ineligible but someone else reported he was kicked off the team), Fantroy) so I don’t take it as a sign that the verbal commitments from this week are offsetting potential players who have de-committed.
- There is so much speculation on the new coaching staff, but at the end of the day I personally would rather have Long concentrate on overseeing the team/program vs. be the DC. I can understand Long’s view on getting coaches on the defensive side that know the 3-3-5 so they will likely have links to his prior teams at New Mexico but I hope on the offensive side they are a new mix of coaches …. i.e. I don’t want to see an entire staff made up of ex-New Mexico coaches.
Much discussion on Norm Chow, but I just don’t see it happening (he wants to be HC and I am sure he wants to coach against da Weasel). I don’t know where the blame lies is UCLA’s “pop-gun” offense (Weasel vs. Chow) but from the one UCLA game I watched in 2010 that was one ugly offense. I also thought I heard that Chow doesn’t recruit. I would hope that we could land an ambitious/up-and-coming OC. Someone mentioned Karl Dorrell’s name … not supporting it, but with his San Diego ties you wonder if he would be a candidate?
- We are all looking forward to 9/24/11, but we still have three (winnable) games that need to be played before that game. If we lose any of those three games – especially to Cow Poly – the Michigan game means ZIP. Who cares about Hoke and the others that have left? I thank them for what they did here, but we need to move on as they have moved on. I will stick by my first point above – with the right senior leadership, our 2011 season should be fine ….and will leave the interest season to 2012 where we will have a new QB, ST and predominately Hoke’s recruits on the field.
