??? I’m responding to a post saying how close we were to scoring a TD “if only...”
For one, Maryland curb-stomping Temple in the Friedgen days has absolutely nothing to do with now. Matter of fact, Temple curb-stomped Maryland last year, and beat them again just a few weeks ago. Second, nobody was patting themselves on the back or celebrating moral victories for almost scoring. I was stating the fact that the reasons we didn't score weren't coaching mistakes. We were in place to score and had opportunities but didn't execute. Sure that ultimately falls on coaching but 4 games into a massively new system with new staff you can't expect our roster to be executing at the level the coaches desire yet.
The timeout didn't cost us the game. Their players let up on the whistles, he wouldn't have scored and time expired.
Maybe. Regardless the lack of understanding of rules cost us at least 2 additional opportunities to win the game.
Again back to the point that CGC said his staff was told on the sideline that the clock would start on the snap. We'll never know the whole story to that but regardless of what the rules are, I'm going by what the ref tells me at the time 100% of the time, even if what he says is wrong.
This has been my point exactly. I'm not defending our staff to the point of saying they are doing all the right things, or are the superior staff. But I do know that it's entirely too soon to pass judgement on them, especially in the extreme way some have been. Hell, even a full season is probably not enough of a canvas to judge them on. Record may not show it because of the brutal schedule, but I believe we will look better as a team in year 2, and we'll start to see the results year 3. By then our guys should be capable of doing the things the coaches are asking of them at the level they expect. If it's not happening by then or if we're still losing winnable games deep into year 2 because of what seems to be bad coaching decisions, then is when it's time to look at those things.