I am more worried about what I saw in the Toledo - Western Michigan game a couple of weeks ago. Woof.
Coaches: Rasheed for sure, Heacock unsure
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My view is that I don't know sh--, er, have a clue about the quality of the Toledo coaching staff. We either trust CMC, or we don't trust him. I trusted CPR for years until I no longer could trust him (happened this season). I'll trust CMC until the moment comes that I can't trust him further. I trust that time won't arrive, until it does.
And the ISU-Toledo game. I'd even include their win against Arkansas as a game that struck me as Toledo not being very well coached- it was a very Rhoads-like upset.
One concern I DO have from the Western Michigan game is the dirty play by one of Toledo's players: got tossed for targeting vs. a defenseless player behind the play. Can't speak for anything else, but that was a lack of discipline.
This is not the same a Chizik, but I have always hated how the OC under GC is always thrown under the bus. The offensive number under GC were actually pretty decent compared to some of the season that followed.
They are getting their pay doubled for an opportunity that may have otherwise taken years. Their other option is to stay behind, start again in the MAC making 80-90,000. It's an obvious decision from the guys following CMC here.
And that matters because? Campbell believes Manning has an incredibly bright offensive mind and is confident he is ready. He might be the next Gus Malzhan for all we know...everyone that is success was given their first opportunity by someone. There is no evidence that he will be good and an equal amount of no evidence that he won't be. My choice is to trust the guy in charge and see how it plays out.
Then be concerned while most of us enjoy watching the recruiting process. I'm sorry that Indiana wasn't a big enough school to have DC experience in your opinion. As far as the promotion to OC its the HCs decision to make not ours. If he believes the man is ready then let's see what he's got.
Worry all you want...won't change a thing
Maybe Heacock wants to become a HC again soon? And his current title at Toledo would be DC/AHC. Not to mention that Toledo was willing to pay CMC nearly $800,000 to stay and I'm pretty sure Candle isn't getting near that so maybe Toledo has offered Heacock about as much as he would make at Isu to stay at Toeldo?
No it doesn't look good to me that he was at Indiana for a couple years then left/fired and took a lesser job. Isn't everybody else tired of guys that either proved they can't make it or guys that have a lack of experience. I'm excited for what coach campbell has shown us so far. But I would like to see better results and if we keep repeating ourselves how do we actually ever get our football team to the level where we would like to finally have it at. I just don't want to be four years down the road and we are disappointed again that we had high hopes for a good head coach and yet we are still not improving on where we are at today.
A lot of coaches get fired at some point or another for different reasons. A lot of those people are also good coaches.
We've had the big name coordinators and those haven't worked either.
I love over this approach. Familiarity and continuity breeds success.
I love over this approach. Familiarity and continuity breeds success.
Why the **** would Campbell hire someone else? Iowa State is running Matt Campbell's offense, it kind of makes sense to hire someone who knows/runs it as well instead of someone else and forcing them to learn a new offense. That's what happens anytime you hire a former OC as a HC. Know a thing or two about football before you talk about it.
I'll have to completely disagree with you on this one. Arkansas has top tier SEC talent AND was coming off a complete game while Toledo only had a half game warmup against an FCS school.
If you were to only look at the box score, then yes...we were completely outcoached. But considering the talent and game conditions, I'd have no trouble saying MC COMPLETELY outcoached Bert & Co.
