Gameday Thread: Iron Skillet Edition

[TCUWIN]

I refused to listen because I am tired of GP's bit in those interviews. This falls on him.

Only thing is he is having Cumbie talk supposedly. Kind of throwing him under the bus. But about time.

 

[Froggish]

and we bring in jucos most of the time.

Not much...Maybe 3 a year

 

[Prince of Purpoole]

Deleted my post because I was posting on pure emotion.

Been there

 

[puckster59]

Total Yards:
SMU 406 TCU 424
1st Downs
SMU 16 TCU 23
TOP:
SMU 29:55 TCU 30:05
Turnovers:
SMU 1 TCU 3

Ball security and horrible work on play calls. Things that have been going on for 3 years.

And throw in a momentum-killing fourth and 1 idiotic play call on a potential game-tying possession.

 

[Moose Stuff]

No doubt....Plenty of blame to go around. But if I’m not taking the points I sure as hell not taking the ball out of the QBs hands...Believe it or not the 3rd down call with Delton was even worse.

On both calls everybody in the entire stadium new what was happening.

I don’t disagree with that .

 

[TCUWIN]

He also said there are no silver linings because when you look for those, you become average. Hmmmm. I would argue we are average.

 

[Prince of Purpoole]

I don’t know...Dykes brought in almost 20 kids out of the transfer portal..most all of them were P5 kids or 5th year kids

Correct. Precisely why I thought this game might be a problem

 

[Mean Purple]

Pissed off even more now. I hope Patterson or one of his guys check the board today. Post game quotes: I have to do a better job of changing my signs. The players said they heard SMU calling out our defensive plays. How many times do we have to hear this excuse??? When a coach leaves, and you play the team with the coach, change the signs. Don’t wait until the team is beat to acknowledge that happened! Goes back to my comment—-we were out coached.

So tired of his shtick. Just change the signs. Not hard to do. He did hint at it yesterday on Sirius XM ESPNU radio. But he also threw out his usual "we're young" bit.

 

[TCUWIN]

Been there

Not me. I’m letting it flow. Sorry to the board!!!

 

[Pharm Frog]

He also said there are no silver linings because when you look for those, you become average. Hmmmm. I would argue we are average.

Aspiring to be average

 

[TCUWIN]

So tired of his shtick. Just change the signs. Not hard to do. He did hint at it yesterday on Sirius XM ESPNU radio. But he also threw out his usual "we're young" bit.

Blame the players.

 

[steelfrog]

Don't forget we fumbled at our 3 and then also fumbled at our 25 twice. Tough field position.

SMU did us favors too.

Gary's and his D were awful today. Allowed double digit 3rd/4th down conversions, lots of chunk plays -- and, 41 points!

 

[Mean Purple]

Pissed off even more now. I hope Patterson or one of his guys check the board today. Post game quotes: I have to do a better job of changing my signs. The players said they heard SMU calling out our defensive plays. How many times do we have to hear this excuse??? When a coach leaves, and you play the team with the coach, change the signs. Don’t wait until the team is beat to acknowledge that happened! Goes back to my comment—-we were out coached.

His "signs" would not have mattered that much had the frogs gone for 3 earlier in the game. Would have at least made over time.
He and Les Miles are getting so much alike.

 

[Rabidfrog]

Hey, guys, sometimes you just get your ass beat. I don't expect to see Purdue players and coaches and fans throw in the towel or start firing people. Let's grow up and be men about it.

 

[Pharm Frog]

So tired of his shtick. Just change the signs. Not hard to do. He did hint at it yesterday on Sirius XM ESPNU radio. But he also threw out his usual "we're young" bit.

Did he really blame the signs thing again? That would be enough for me to join Steel’s argument

 

[Atomic Frawg]

Had Delton had that performance and those numbers through three quarters half the half the board would have been calling for heads to roll had no change been made. They made their decision on who the QB is, and they stuck with it regardless of the performance. Face it, the true freshman is the quarterback. I'm just wondering how bad the rest of the QBs have to be in order for the only attempt by a QB other than the freshmen was a dive in a goal situation. Respectfully, the kid has hit too deep passes to my recollection all year. The Fades are bad and the Deep passes are typically overthrown. We should play to his skill set if that means Dink and dunk it all the way down the field. But I agree with most on this board about the play calling. I can't understand half of the place that we called. I honestly believe we called some of the plays just because we have them in the book. We didn't need to do them at all. It's hard to explain the amount of disgust that I have right now. But I am a faithful fan, will take what I have coming to me at work on Monday, and cross my fingers and pray for next Saturday morning.

 

[Mean Purple]

Don't forget we fumbled at our 3 and then also fumbled at our 25 twice. Tough field position.

I just can't see how the ball security issue does not get fixed after several years. You can see it with how they carry the ball running. And then when you add fielding issues, it just compounds.

 

[TCUWIN]

Anderson said the Frogs were better coached. Hmmm. I have to agree with the young man.

 

[Mean Purple]

Had Delton had that performance and those numbers through three quarters half the half the board would have been calling for heads to roll had no change been made. They made their decision on who the QB is, and they stuck with it regardless of the performance. Face it, the true freshman is the quarterback. I'm just wondering how bad the rest of the QBs have to be in order for the only attempt by a QB other than the freshmen was a dive in a goal situation. Respectfully, the kid has hit too deep passes to my recollection all year. The Fades are bad and the Deep passes are typically overthrown. We should play to his skill set if that means Dink and dunk it all the way down the field. But I agree with most on this board about the play calling. I can't understand half of the place that we called. I honestly believe we called some of the plays just because we have them in the book. We didn't need to do them at all. It's hard to explain the amount of disgust that I have right now. But I am a faithful fan, will take what I have coming to me at work on Monday, and cross my fingers and pray for next Saturday morning.

I often wonder if SC just scripts a whole game and the plays we hit on are just the "stopped clock being right twice a day" type thing. Because it does not seem to be situational football out there.

These kids deserve better.

 

[Moose Stuff]

His "signs" would not have mattered that much had the frogs gone for 3 earlier in the game. Would have at least made over time.
He and Les Miles are getting so much alike.

Stop saying this. It just doesn’t work that way. The second you kick that FG the entire course of the rest of the game changes. We don’t just automatically score the next two TDs. Who knows what the hell happens????