I'm sure that more than a few Husker fan's would trade you Billy for the Hawk, K-state fans would trade you Prince in exchange, you can probably ad A&M, Tech, Baylor................that's just the no brainers in the big 12. Last year Mizzou would have traded up as well and if you catch them on the right day at Okie state they would at least give it consideration.
You are correct. Calling a coach to the mat for what he is responsible for is not a bashing or get rid of him post. It's fair, it's correct and it is necessary. All coaches or at least all winning coaches are accountable. The good ones are accountable when they lose as well.
Hmmm... I can see the logic there.
This isn't directed at you, or any of the other level-headed posters that I've seen on this site, but my 2 cents are that a lot of people need to calm down. I know that Hawk effed up, you know it, and I think that he knows it; but to say that you hate Hawk based mostly upon one loss (granted, a mismanaged loss to a 2-8 team that denied us bowl eligibility for another two weeks:wink2
is as close to an irrational knee-jerk reaction as I think that you can get.
But it sounds like most are in agreement, and I would think that a lot of people are more interested (myself included) in talking about what went wrong, and why, and how much Hawk was responsible.
A lot of people point to the failed 4th down conversion from the 43 while up by 21. I agree (in hindsight) that it's the wrong call there, and I think that if I'm the coach and I'm going to go for it, I probably let my big guys up front get it for me with either a sneak or a dive rather than the misdirection. With that said, does that decision to go for it there help foster what I percieve to be the Hawk mentality? A "no prisoners, killer instinct, go big or go home philosophy?"
I think that that attitude was part of what won us the Oklahoma game for several reasons, which I can detail if you'd like. Long story short, I think that there was no way that Barnett lost a game like this, but there is no way he would have won a game like the Oklahoma game.
I'd be interested in hearing what other people think.