The season's basically over in terms of any meaningful team accomplishments.  Whiile I'm excited about Vick's dual threat potential, Tyler has earned the right to finish his career under center.  I'm sure the seniors are more disappointed than any of us will ever be about the way things look like they are ending.  I think it would be respectful to unchain the play calling a little and let him finish his career the same way it started.

Well, I guess Vick can hand the ball off for a dive up the middle as good as Tettleton can....

I really think the better quarterback should start, no matter age or experience. If that's Vick, Tettleton should not start just because he is the senior with experience. It's easy to trash Tettleton after last night, but he had played pretty remarkably the previous three games. I just hope that the coach would make the decision based on current ability and skills rather than in what has previously been done.

Putting Vick in when were down by 20-30 like at Louisville or at Buffalo accomplishes nothing. Spurier has no problem pulling Conner Shaw down here at Sputh Carolina when he is not getting the job done. The old ball coach knows a little Bit about QB's and Conner Shaw is a hell of a lot better than TT. You keep doing things the same way you can't expect different results. In our last 15 games OU is 8-7 with wins over AP, EMU twice, Fiami, Akron so it's not really happening is it. We have been smoked by Buffalo, Kent, Ball St and Bowling Green but hey keep doing it the same way and I'm sure it's going to change the results.

Starting Vick is okay by me.  I'd sure have a quick hook with TT if the nonoffense keeps happening.

Also, I'd run start the game running the hurry up and keep running it as long as possible.

We need a spark, some excitement.

Let me start by saying this is not ment to be disrespectful to you or challenge your comments.  I normally agree with most everything you say.   I'm simply using your quote so please understand I come in peace.  haha....

I'll also apologize up front for the pending rant....   It's frustrating because I don't think we are getting the most out of this team.   

Im not sure I follow your logic regarding Smith.    Why would we want smith to get several targets per game when (foster, cochran, waters) are only getting 3 to 4 per game and seem to only be limited by the amount of pass plays called by Albin.   All 3 have had great success when targeted and seem to all have very good hands and can come up with the hard catch.  Foster can get open better than anyone I've ever seen.   Waters has come up with big play after big play and Cochran generally can pull cover 2 and can help open up Foster and Waters.     If we target Smith several times then we limit the starters reps which would seem to be counter productive.  Frankly, this insane rotation we have with receivers makes no sense to me or anyone I've ever spoke to who are way smarter than me when it comes to football.  Its no wonder TT has some struggles because he has no idea from play to play who his receivers are.      

Maybe targeting these 3 more is the better choice given the position we are in.   What do we have to lose.   More important:  We need to keep these 3 in the game at the same time.   Stop rotating Dovell in and out.  I've heard some say he can block better than all the others.  However, how many times does a WR's block on the outside effect our running game up the middle.   If we were an option team then maybe that would be more critical.      Any good D coordinator can tell that when Dovel is in that we are either going to run or target Foster and Waters.   We then bring in Cochran in on 3rd and long and guess what  (he draws cover 2 or 3 even if we don't throw the ball.  

Cochran was 5th (earlier this week) in all of FBS in avg yards per reception.   Maybe one of the fastest players in the MAC but we generally target him only on deep balls.  Maybe a few crossing routes (like his first catch vs Buff). Which we only tried once.   It was 25 yards but easily could have been 6 points had he not had to slow down to wait on the ball.   Perfect example is Baylor.   I noticed in last nights game that  this is the route of choice for their faster receivers.   The deep ball is easy to defend no matter how fast you are.     Get him the ball in open space and let him run.  Ironically, 2 of the 4 ahead of Cochran are from (your guessed it) Baylor.   I

Sorry for venting but I think we still have yet to scratch the surface with the potential that Foster, Cochran and Waters bring to the table.   And for heavens sake.  Stop bringing in so many WR;s per game.   Could be part of the problem TT is having.    Honestly, I'm not sure why Dovell is playing.  It's unfortunate that he got hurt last year and missed all of last season, all of spring and all of fall practice.  Cochran stepped in and earned that starting roll.   Dovel comes back week 4 after being off so long and steps right into the starting position.   I'm sorry but that is wrong.    I'm not saying he should not play but Cochran has earned that right and has proven to be the better player that brings more to the team. This goes back all the way to the bowl game.     When Dovel comes in the game then the D simply doubles Donte.   When Cochran comes in they now play cover 2 or 3 on him.     It's no secret now.. Dovel starts the game plays 2 downs, Cochran comes in and we go deep.   Our game plan is simply too easy to figure out and I'm not that smart...


Oh and by the way... When we have found success in our passing game then I feel our running game seems to benefit as well.   


Our offense is like a box of Chocolates.... 

"and that's all I have to say about that"

Thanks for listening/reading.  

I still love our Bobcats.     

 I suspect this may be Solich's last year anyway.   I cant help to think he's seriously contemplating retirement.     This may be the reason we are not seeing any push to find another OC.   Why bother if your going to retire.... This is just my opinion and I have no evidence to support my thinking.  Just a gut feeling....

Y'know who I want as our qb?  The guy or gal who's confident, a leader, knowing, refuses to lose, actions over words, executes, is accountable, determined, unflappable.

I don't care what his name is.  I don't care if he's been on the team five years or five minutes.  I want the guy who's most capable.

If we were where Kent, Akron, EMU, WMU, UMass and Fiami are, I'd consider limiting T2 to a quarter or two and getting Vick & Sprague more reps.  But we're still in the hunt for a bowl bid.  Right now we're probably 6th on the pecking order, but we could easily move up to 4th -- 3rd if a tsunami from Lake Erie were to wipe out Buffalo.  So I'm for sticking with T2.  But we need better play calling and better blocking to get the run game going. 

So you just need to get ULM, Marshall and North Texas to move to the MAC and we can say we finally beat a MAC team with a winning record. If our goal is to occasionally beat teams ranked 70-100 that are non conference then you should be real happy. Finishing 6 or 7 in a below average conference is a great accomplishment. How about beating a MAC team with a winning record, actually winning a MAC title or beating a top 25 team. We got totally dismantled by Louisville and honestly Louisville would be 6 or 7 in the SEC at best.  

My take was that Waters was the replacement for Riley Dunlop, and they thought Foster, or perhaps Sebastian Smilth would replace Brazill.