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HappyPenguin:

--- Quote from: ysufan0505 on August 08, 2014, 11:44:56 AM ---I've always liked and supported him but my patience is sure running thin with him.... Especially this yr.

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Agreed. Last year was our best shot at making some noise. Can't fold the last 3 games of the year and then whine that our conference gets jobbed by the selection committee. That's not news. We have a weak commissioner so that wont change.

penguinpower:
Since this is a message board for fans and much of the fodder is opinion...............Here is my point of view.

I had never heard of Eric Wolford before he was hired.  I heard people on this board talk about how great of a recruiter he was.  My simple mind assumed that since he was a great recruiter we would have athletes that looked like this.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuQOiO0EGU8

Wolford was brought in and talked about how you can't win the indianapolis 500 driving a tractor etc.etc...

Huge turnover on the team follows......I'm thinking we are going to be stacked..........but...

While we have improved some of the skill positions, especially on offiense, the OL and DL have not been overly impressive to me.  Our DE's have been a non-factor, LB's are lost.  I am embarrassed at the way the defense looks.  I hate, I mean HATE watching our defense give up big plays, but what really sickens me is when the team gets down under Wolford they do the opposite of what happened under Tressel.......Wolford's teams fold like a cheap suit.  Tressel's teams rose to the occasion.  That has to be the single biggest problem for me.  I just don't understand it.  The performance against South Dakota State last year was a disgrace.  I don't ever want to see anything like that again.  I had to back away from my emotional involvment in these football games over that performance, especially when the playoffs were on the line.  What does that tell you about the mentality?  If I would have been snubbed the year before and knew that  we had everyone returing like they did last year the team motto should have been "Punish everyone" to leave no doubt.  That is the menatality that is needed. Instead it was snowing and they raised the white flag.  Pissed me off and still does.

I don't care if Wolford is here or not.  I just want to see a real defense again.  I want to see a team with a defense that breaks the will of other teams.  I want to see a team that breaks the will of others.  I could give a crap less about a flashy K-State Big 12 style offense.  It may put uneducated Big12 fans butts in seats but in NE Ohio Defense is the name of the game.  Put your best athletes on Defense if your strength as a coach is on offense.  Do more with less in the area of your strength.  Put some of those highly recruited OL on the DL.  I am sick of watching us get run over on Defense.  Makes me want to vomit.

Wick250:
Great post penguinpower.  Those paragraphs contain an accurate summary of the deficiencies that have sickened so many of us for the past four years.

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