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FWST: Outgoing TCU athletic director addresses football team’s bowl destination, controversy

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Wexahu

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FloridaFrog76129 said:
8-4 with a MWC caliber schedule is embarrassing. The losses to Houston and UCF were flat out terrible…

The reason a real bowl game for this program matters is to understand where we truly are this year…a matchup against LSU would’ve been telling
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Nobody is going to understand anything from a bowl game. There is no such thing as a real bowl game anymore because of all the players opting out and/or transferring. And if we'd have played LSU and beat them, you wouldn't give the coach or team any credit anyway.

You're one of those I'm talking about. Why are you even here?
 
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82 Frog Fever

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Wexahu said:
Nobody is going to understand anything from a bowl game. There is no such thing as a real bowl game anymore because of all the players opting out and/or transferring. And if we'd have played LSU and beat them, you wouldn't give the coach or team any credit anyway.

You're one of those I'm talking about. Why are you even here?
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I have that idiot on ignore. Works great
 
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Mean Purple

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Wexahu said:
I do know a couple boosters that are just as vocal about Dykes as you are. They fit the profile I talked about. Not sure they would be considered "BMDs" but they are boosters.

You're proving my point. It's personal with Dykes for many, because he was hired by the guy who fired GP, and he frankly embarrassed GP in 2022. I can tell from your tone that you just can't stand any kind of success out of Dykes. Meanwhile, Donati moved on to an SEC job, Dykes won 8 games this year and by all accounts is recruiting very well. How about giving Dykes a chance, or I guess you're too bitter and motivated to discredit anything he does.

And BTW, I think it would have been pretty pathetic if Donati relied on some boosters to do his dirty work for him. He did his job.
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Some of it is just the pure lack of focus they players have in game situations. And the bad offensive schemes that have popped up. And the problems in the red zone. Those are not player issues. Those are coach issues.

Also,
You can't claim the 2022 season and then claim GP left no talent in the locker room. Just aint true.
Also, GP was gone mid season basically. That recruiting class aint his issue. (while were talking about that fact, GP always had the way of finding the hidden talent that others missed on. Hence 2022.

You want to point to folks as just having SDSD. But the GPSD is ringing through ...
 
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Mean Purple

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FloridaFrog76129 said:
8-4 with a MWC caliber schedule is embarrassing. The losses to Houston and UCF were flat out terrible…

The reason a real bowl game for this program matters is to understand where we truly are this year…a matchup against LSU would’ve been telling
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Not sure where you get that this was an MWC caliber schedule. That's scheissing laughable.
 
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Wexahu

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Mean Purple said:
Some of it is just the pure lack of focus they players have in game situations. And the bad offensive schemes that have popped up. And the problems in the red zone. Those are not player issues. Those are coach issues.

Also,
You can't claim the 2022 season and then claim GP left no talent in the locker room. Just aint true.
Also, GP was gone mid season basically. That recruiting class aint his issue. (while were talking about that fact, GP always had the way of finding the hidden talent that others missed on. Hence 2022.

You want to point to folks as just having SDSD. But the GPSD is ringing through ...
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Virtually every team lacks focus at times. And calls some bad plays. And struggles in the red zone. So I guess they all have coaching issues. Not sure what you're getting at. Dykes sure as heck ain't perfect, I can tell you that.

Dykes inherited a good senior class and not much behind them, especially on the O-line and D-line, but really everywhere. So those last couple recruiting classes did have an impact on the last couple years. In any event, we went 5-7 in 2021 with many of the same players GP coached (and GP was 3-5 until he was let go).

Oh, I think some TCU people just can't stand SD because of what I've explained. The criticism goes beyond normal criticism and there is hardly any complimentary talk at all. Just read that one sycophant's posts on here and he apparently claims there a bunch more people out there like him. That's someone with an axe to grind who isn't interested in being objective at all.
 
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Mean Purple

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Wexahu said:
Virtually every team lacks focus at times. And calls some bad plays. And struggles in the red zone. So I guess they all have coaching issues. Not sure what you're getting at. Dykes sure as heck ain't perfect, I can tell you that.

Dykes inherited a good senior class and not much behind them, especially on the O-line and D-line, but really everywhere. So those last couple recruiting classes did have an impact on the last couple years. In any event, we went 5-7 in 2021 with many of the same players GP coached (and GP was 3-5 until he was let go).

Oh, I think some TCU people just can't stand SD because of what I've explained. The criticism goes beyond normal criticism and there is hardly any complimentary talk at all. Just read that one sycophant's posts on here and he apparently claims there a bunch more people out there like him. That's someone with an axe to grind who isn't interested in being objective at all.
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The 2020 recruiting class says hello.
 
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Wexahu

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Mean Purple said:
The 2020 recruiting class says hello.
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So does the 2021 class.

Getting practically zero from an entire recruiting class is a pretty big hurdle to overcome. Those guys would have been RS sophomores/juniors in 2023 and none of them were around save for Trent Battle. And what Dykes put together in 2022 was great but a lot of those were upperclassman transfer kids that were plugging holes.

That's why I said, what Dykes inherited on the front end was good (they were still "coached up" to 5-7 though the prior year), what he inherited on the back end was not good at all.
 
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Mean Purple

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Wexahu said:
So does the 2021 class.

Getting practically zero from an entire recruiting class is a pretty big hurdle to overcome. Those guys would have been RS sophomores/juniors in 2023 and none of them were around save for Trent Battle. And what Dykes put together in 2022 was great but a lot of those were upperclassman transfer kids that were plugging holes.

That's why I said, what Dykes inherited on the front end was good (they were still "coached up" to 5-7 though the prior year), what he inherited on the back end was not good at all
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Kendre Miller, QJ, Max, Marcel, Taye, Emari, Tre-Vius, ...
Then followed by Savion.

but, "bare cupboard"

What Dykes inherited was Dykes responsibility to continue to develop.
 
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FroggleRock

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Mean Purple said:
Kendre Miller, QJ, Max, Marcel, Taye, Emari, Tre-Vius, ...
Then followed by Savion.

but, "bare cupboard"

What Dykes inherited was Dykes responsibility to continue to develop.
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It is absolutely undeniable that the OL cupboard was bare. There was, what, 2-3 guys to “develop” after the 2022 season.
 
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Wexahu

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Mean Purple said:
Kendre Miller, QJ, Max, Marcel, Taye, Emari, Tre-Vius, ...
Then followed by Savion.

but, "bare cupboard"

What Dykes inherited was Dykes responsibility to continue to develop.
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You're not paying attention. I said he inherited a good group of seniors and/or upperclassmen (unless you didn't understand what I was saying) and very little behind them. All those guys you listed played for SD for one year save for Savion and Marcel, who I think got hurt again yesterday. That one year SD coached them we went 13-2. The year prior when GP and Jerry Kill coached them, we went 5-7.

Let's go through the lineman (both offense and defense) that were carryovers past that initial year. I guess it's all Sonny's fault for not completing restocking the lines in a year or two, but you're proving my point....again.
 

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