Limey Frog
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I think GP could still fix the defense himself, and he needs to. But he and everyone else is clearly clueless on offense. Anderson needed to be fired at the end of 2013. It's beyond ridiculous at this point.
Let’s see. Your head coach names an OC, but he answers to head coaches’ best friend who was given a job because he has health issues and needs a job. OC cannot call plays because a coach who quit three years ago was rehired to be a secret co-OC and he calls the plays because head coach thinks he’s better at it, but still is under the watchful eye of head coaches’ best friend who was deemed an offensive guru but’s not. Meanwhile, head coach could give a ratsass about the offense because the guru is overseeing that.
This is the precise definition of a Cluster F.
Edit... Just saw another thread that’s more appropriate for my rant but oh well.
We don’t “owe” him latitude, but even if we did, that latitude has been used up in full over the last three seasons.Let's see what happens at the end of the season. Even though it hasn't happened in his 20 years as HC, Gary may take some action in December by getting rid of Cumbie and/or any/all of his offensive staff.
We owe Gary a tremendous amount of latitude. I say that if he doesn't take any action at the end of the season, then give him a year to achieve noticeable improvement. It is his job to keep us out of these funks that we're in on offense and we're three years into less than mediocre performance.
Our defenses have had some slumps over the years but have been very good overall with Gary calling them. This is how he coaches.
Who knows, he may retire in December for all we know.
Just dropping this here.
Talk to Coach P after the season. If he wants to continue at TCU, determine why adding Kill and Meach to the mix with Cumbie plus Anderson at o-line was not the answer. Urge him to fix all that immediately. If Coach P digs in and goes with status quo, it must be made clear that if we don’t at least finish in the upper half of the conference next year, and are on a path to soon challenge for a conference championship, it’ll be time to part ways.
I’m not sure Donati or anyone can force Coach P to do anything. It’s Gary’s choice how this goes. Leash is getting short.
Talk to Coach P after the season. If he wants to continue at TCU, determine why adding Kill and Meach to the mix with Cumbie plus Anderson at o-line was not the answer. Urge him to fix all that immediately. If Coach P digs in and goes with status quo, it must be made clear that if we don’t at least finish in the upper half of the conference next year, and are on a path to soon challenge for a conference championship, it’ll be time to part ways.
I’m not sure Donati or anyone can force Coach P to do anything. It’s Gary’s choice how this goes. Leash is getting short.
This. Would recommend he make changes but wouldn’t force him too. Just let him know we expect to be in the top half of the conference next year and if not we need to part ways.
I would show him his record against Riley, Campbell, Brown and Klieman.
We could easily run the same disaster of an offense out there next year and find a way to go 7-5 and finish 4th/5th. That isn't gonna be even remotely good enough for me.
It’s possible, but without any changes I wouldn’t bet on it.
So then why would we give him one more year of the status quo when we're just expecting to suck again? This HAS to get fixed NOW.
We could easily run the same disaster of an offense out there next year and find a way to go 7-5 and finish 4th/5th. That isn't gonna be even remotely good enough for me.