1. Start forever has to end. The tight ends have done nothing for years. The db's tackle and cover whenever they feel like it.
2. The coordinators need to innovate. Same ish different year.
3. We need to recruit 2 or three great skill position players every year. No more fill-ins or projects. We got two wide receivers in our class that cannot help us.
4. The bowl eligible post should come with an automatic dismissal.

Everybody needs to compete for their position. No more recruiting projects to fill in the roster, just because a guy started the previous year. If a player is not in the top five (MAC) at his position, they need to be challenged.

A.J. won the position after 11 fumbles by our imcumbent backs. Maxwell won the the job because of start forever and Rourke ended up outshining him. Hagan was third string last year because of start forever, injuries and strong performances led to him starting last year and earning freshman all-America, he has since went into self-preservation mode and regressed in my opinion. The tight ends have not produced, they have dropped so many passes and we have done nothing to upgrade the position. We need to create a highly competitive culture. I get that every team lays an egg every now and then. We do not get exposed that often because our competition is awful. The coaches have to recruit better and expect more from our players.

I was an assistant coach before, we had water boy come in during the spring and he drop the bucket along the sideline and a player broke his leg. I was responsible because the head coach was on a recruiting trip. I should have been a head coach by now, the sad thing is that the water boy tells war stories about how he played for our team and he even seems to follow me around at times. You live and you learn, but I love the Cats.

Well obviously your vast knowledge and experience was under appreciated, you should really make the move back into coaching, OHIO needs you!

congratulations. At that level, everyone plays an equal amount of time and every week a different teammate brings juice boxes.

You asked so I am going to tell it like it is. Mangen’s Position should have been recruited hard three years ago. Ellis has been up and down, but his position should have been recruited hard as well. Ellis has been a pleasant surprise overall this year in my opinion. He got picked on at the end of the year, last year. He is a risk taker and he wins a lot of battles. When loses, we lose. Where is Cam Odom?
Next year, if Hagan continues to try to avoid injuries, he should be benched. We make a lot of mistakes that can be corrected with competition. We need to recruit better. We have three guys coming in next year that we’re not even all-conference in high school. I call them the loyalty projects. Move one of the motley’s over to safety if our safeties can’t cover a 4.9 40 running tight ends.
Anticipatory problems or situations.
Rourke is a great qb, probably 1 or 2 with Cleve Bryant all-time. He is still only 20 years old and needs to be coached. He can grow or be like Roback at EMU. Roback has NFL talent, but he has made a lot of poor decisions because he is very head strong. The coaches need to be able to coach Rourke, I don't know what happened with TT, but Rourke needs to grow. He will need to watch a lot of film and avoid taking big licks. When he gets the headset on the sideline, he needs to listen.
The MAC is a passing league and has been for the last decade. You have to recruit good wide-outs, defensive backs and tight ends or you will be on the outside looking in. You need 5 wide outs that can play every week and 5 corner backs. We went from having TJ Wright and Dion Byrum, to this. We went from Jordan Thompson and Rudy Sylvan to this. We went from Taylor Price and lavon Brazill to this. We need to win in the living room, period.
In regards to Hagan, the coaches need to be real with him. There has only been one player that could dominate the MAC playing at 80% and that player is Randy Moss. Hagan at 80% is a second string MAC player. We need 100% or we need another option. I hate that the kid has to wait to go into the draft, but rules are rules. This could have been his year. He needs to stop believing the hype and play hungry. The MAC is a passing league, you will get exposed if you are not giving 100%.

What I am saying is that we need to recruit guys that can play right away at certain position. There needs to be an open competition. As stated before, Hagan was third team to start the year last year and Rourke was second string this year. We have two projects coming in at wide receiver next year as if we are stacked, come on.

If it were that easy to go recruit someone that you know will be a true freshman starter we would be national champions. Maybe you could do a better job scouting and recruiting players than our coaches. In that case why are you not on the staff already putting together the team of the century?
I’m not trying to be a jerk but you make it sound so easy lol. It obviously isn’t.

To repeat, this staff seems to relish getting under the radar lower ranked players and coaching them up. With players like that it is hard to get enough of them coached up to win championships. With that kind of player we are what we are...8-4, 2nd place,and low bowl. We should be used to it by now.

I can’t argue with this, you are right.

JUCO.

Go to a good recruit and tell him that we have an open position. Show him a progression plan, I am sure that we can find somebody. We probably need to go the JUCO route. JUCO's have two years, let the young man know that he needs to play if he wants to go to the next level. Come to Ohio and compete.