Curious... I couldn't watch the game cause of damn direct tv but i did keep up in score mobile. How many bad calls did the coaches call this game? So far Im hearing that this coaching staff can't coach and they can't recruit yet it seemed like on both sides of the ball the freshman class made an impact. FB and WR positions were topped by freshman.
What i see is the same team that was there last year is still there, minus a few and that the expectation is for a complete makeover just because you want it as a fan. Life has never worked that way. It kicks you in the ass on a regular and the only way you learn from it is the bruises. A whole team of talent did not change overnight. There is progress but it gonna be ugly. For those that have been saying since December that 2013 was gonna be the year and not 2012, that was realistic.
Funniest thing i heard after last game... A few Texas kids were at the game and their biggest observation was that CSU fans didn't sit down the whole game. Interesting...
I'm listening Moett.
The team looks soft, so we're trying to understand why it looks soft. The coaching staff is the e
asy explanation, but not necessarily the proper one.
The young talent is there. To say that the starting freshman didn't create both positive and negative impacts would be shortsighted. G. Thomas, Tupou, Powell, Crawley and Wright were all playmakers, and also liabilities in a sense. The talent is all there, but the leadership remains undeveloped. That will come in time.
When I look at the roster--with Polk and Rippy out--I'm not sure where our seasoned leadership comes from (Pericek and Major?). The stuff that gives a team character is missing, for sure. Kasa is a senior, but he's not credible in that role as a leader yet, because he's learning his position. Webb is new. We have multi-year starters, yes, but not the number that you would expect on most teams.
So I go back and forth, with my feelings. On one hand, I try to eliminate the fundamental attribution error, by examining the broader environment in which this staff is operating. I'm not sure how many seniors Sac. State had on the field, but likely far more of that character-giving leadership than we had. As Coach Barnett said (paraphrased) "they'll take themselves a lot further than the staff can take them". We don't have enough leadership to take us that far.
For six years, we've been waiting for that young talent to emerge, get seasoned and lead. But for some reason, it never happens, and we're the youngest team in the nation yet again. If we're quick to jump on Coach Embree, it's because we've been burned by the previous staff, and we're afraid it's going to look like this again.
There are a myriad of factors that our beyond my comprehension (didn't play college ball, it turns out), but despite the maturity issues, it appeared we had the talent to win this thing easily, but we didn't. So naturally we turned to the staff, for not mentally preparing our team. It's quite possible that the real point of failure is lack of leadership on the field. I don't know.
How many bad plays did the coaching staff call? It didn't appear that we were making good adjustments to their slant pattern (the quick one) and there was always a soft spot in the middle of the field for a receiver to sit, uncovered. On offense, it felt as though there was a lack of urgency (and imagination) in play-calling when the stakes were high. Especially in the last 8 minutes. Our last drive was so horrible I can't even write about the third down. I cried a little.
I know you want (and need) to have faith in this coaching staff. We're just a bunch of emotional, and uninformed idots around here, and our opinions aren't exactly based on any insight whatsover. We love this team, and losses hurt and we need a place to vent. That's what you're witnessing. Nobody here really knows (one way or the other) if the lack of character that appears on the field is circumstantial and temporary, or systemic to the coaching staff. We.just.don't.know. But like you, we want to win, and our worlds feel more ordered when whe can point to a single point of failure.
Sorry you have to witness this, but it's a necessary part of our grieving. I hope all is well with you.
