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Frog Attack II

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Seriously, how about we use that $2.7-$3B endowment (or whatever it is these days) to rent the best possible team that $ can rent for 3 years? That way, no one leaves and you develop some young guys into at least Juniors... Putting some math to it, rent each player for $500K per year... You'll need prolly 20-255 players that are top notch. So that's a total of $37.5M to buy a good team for that amount of time. By then, maybe the other show has dropped in realignment and we're allowed to stay with the blue bloods. Heck, why couldn't we rent guys that left early and have some eligibility left and never made an NFL team?

Let's get dirty!
 
Dutch

Dutch

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I was MVP of my 6th grade team.

It’s a good thing the Frogs are not playing Colorado, K State, Iowa State, West Virginia, Az State or BYU. We will never get an easier conference schedule. Is Sonny OK? Getting himself thrown out at SMU and then that humiliating press conference after Houston loss is worrisome. Now he has gone underground. I think Avalos is having to teach his D how to play football. Remember last year they couldn’t tackle.
 
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Goo

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Our D has worst tackling I’ve seen in 30 years of Frog football. That’s got to be coaching.
The lack of run block on O line and pressure from D line might be more of talent issue.

3 year Lariat starter
 
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PineyWoodsFrog

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Both, but I think we have more of a talent problem than most will admit. I'm not happy with Dykes's leadership, but I can't blame coordinators for players not being able to tackle, not being able to block, dropping passes, fumbling, getting off blocks, covering with PI, etc. These are all things that these players have been doing since they were 5. Some of these are ongoing problems that have been present for a while as we've changed coaching staffs. So many thought Gillespie was the problem on defense, wanted him gone, and had such high expectations for the new guy just because it was a different guy making the calls. Well, we have the same issues as we've been having. I feel changes need to be made at the top, but it doesn't matter who we get if we don't have players that can execute. It's so easy to blame coaches for everything that goes wrong, but just watch the games and look at the details beyond "well he shouldn't have called this play on 4th and 2." What actually happened on that play? We're getting whooped across the board. Dykes was the same coach he was 2 years ago, last year Gillespie was the same coach he was in the prior year. What was the difference? The players, mainly our offensive players. Scheme and play-calling does not matter if you don't execute. I can't think of any great coaches who won without great players. Just about every great coach we know across any sport had great players. Just look at the Spurs and Patriots over the last few years. Each had what most consider the best coach in that respective sport. Those teams have been HORRIBLE since their star players either left or retired, even though the coach remained. College football is no different. I am a firm believer that great players make great coaches, not the other way around. Can they be developed into greatness through coaching? Absolutely, but most of the ones that are developed into greatness are already partly there before they get developed.
 
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Mean Purple

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It seems like we struggle with some key fundamentals. You can't ever really let up or assume that a kid is good in that area just because they are an upper classman, etc. Those little things are where the work is done.
Don't just mean, tackling, how ya turn at the hips in coverage, etc. Also play wise. How are they at boundary and leverage. Are they really setting in to contain, etc.

Just from getting to be around a very solid defensive coach, that's seems to really make the staff's blood boil. If it does not, probably gonna see the overall lack of discipline.

Can't be lazy on defense, especially on the back end. Linebackers too. There are ways that D backs will cheat underneath that may work on some teams, but you go up against a well coached rcvr corps (even like the one we have) and you can get owned real quick.
 

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