We def have some Lala land posters BUT...Indiana had about as bad of a football program as one can have for decades and put no money into their program and is now going toe to toe with Ohio state for three quarters...why are they showing to be so much better than us at this point? They don't recruit all that well...they have coaches that can put their existing talent into decent situations...im not sure our coaches have that ability
Umm Kentucky is 4-1, and nearly beat Florida (lost 28-27) and beat South Carolina. EMU led Kentucky, and Kentucky won 24-20. EMU outgained UK, and had more first downs. Problem for them was 3 turnovers. Close game like ours.
All that proves is even great programs have down games and down years. That doesn't say that much about Rutgers
Because they finally starting investing in football. They paid Kevin Wilson very good, just redid the stadium and now gave their new coach a big payroll for assistants. That's why they've improved, they leverage future revenue's from the B1G's increased payouts to improve their football program. We can't do that until 2021.
No, different players: He switched the QB (Bolin) and the RB (Edwards).
I'm not rationalizing anything. EMU is a better team with better coaching. They have an experienced QB and well coached players. We don't have that right now.
Well genius it's a 5 to 7 year major rebuild so it's in the early stages of year two so stop shitting your pants. We are where we are supposed to be as painful as it is.
Lose to Illinois, a program starting 14 freshmen and in complete disarray. Then get beat badly at home by Purdue in an empty stadium. Both Hobbs and Ash will be fighting a war on three fronts. 1) Merciless attacks by the media & B10 channel 2) A shrinking fan base 3) loss of revenue. I will not include a growing contingency of parents questioning student fees which equate to 26.29% of tuition cost (aka subsidy). I hope we beat both teams so we can start climbing out of this mess.
And the football program would turn into even more of a dumpster fire than it already was. What coach would go to Rutgers after Ash got 1.5 seasons? Especially considering Ash's buyout. Rutgers isn't exactly swimming in funds to hire someone "better".
And why did this happen in the first place? Why did the institution put out one fire (Flood) just to create another one (Ash). One needs to understand the dynamics of what got us here in the first place in order to break the cycle of losing. I believe that Ash gets 3 years because next year I project 3 wins at the very most, and that is with a watered down schedule.
It was 4-6 years, then we recruited a year to Mehringer's "offense", only to revert to Jerry Kill's ground & pound style this year, so tack on another year to the rebuild.
I think they hired a good athletic director in Hobbs. Ash has made positive changes in virtually everything except the product on the field (which I acknowledge is the most important thing). The 3rd year will be very telling about his future as the head coach. Unless the team somehow gets worse next year, I think he gets 4 years. Getting rid of him early is a bad look for the program when he's doing everything else right. Unless donors want to put up big money for a proven HC, I think Ash will get to ride his full contract out.
I will agree with the offense being anemeic. It really has just been the perfect storm of a bad O-line, bad QB, and bad receivers with questionable playcalling these past couple years. The offense isn't fun to watch at all.
