Fist of all, a team over-performing ...by description is players & NOT coaches.
Secondly ... You forget the crap DC's that Wolf had his first 4 years. Everyone loved the choice of Kravitz as he recruited all of the NFL players & he was the worst DC we had in my 20-some odd years of watching Penguin ball. Everyone loved local product Joe Tressey, he was not up to the task, but his ability to run-stop really helped us improve. The promotion of Jamie Bryant was okay, in fact I wish we had him right now instead of Stoops as special teams coordinator, but he really was not a DC. During most all of this time with junk defenses we had all the record numbers that Coach M's offenses were producing, but no consistency in defense. Coach M's numbers remained unnoticed because we could not stop anyone.
For 4 years the man (coach Shane) is the only producer we had ...none of you even cared. Then he has one single (really 1.5 to be fair) mediocre year and suddenly you dislike him. I am too old to be a "what have you done for me lately" thinker; but even if you are are one of those ...the answer is that Montgomery just helped take our team to the national championship game. Then he has to put up with Pelini talking about all the changes that HE made to our offense this year, when it was Pelini's poor offensive concepts that were killing us in the first place & led to our QB's being beat-up.
When we let Montgomery go back to doing what he is good at, we drive to the final winning 7 of 8 games. It is no freak accident that 3 QB's (well two different) went down this year. All the while Montgomery was constantly reinventing our offense to try and please coach P. People like you refuse to give him an ounce of credit. Even when he brings in a true first year QB and wins 1.5 tough games with him. All I heard was ....gee 'Montgomery needs to come down out of his ivory tower and be on the sidelines all the time'. Not even an ounce of respect for changing his coaching style and methods for what he feels is best for Mays and the team. There is simply a hatred (in a few of you) for the man and it is completely unjustified ...in my opinion of course. He is one hell of a recruiter and you claim it is a weakness. He scouts central and Southern Ohio like we have never had before. The fact that you say he does not adjust just shows your lack of knowledge of the game; as he adjusted several times today ...nothing worked. None of you seemed to see the perfect calls down field that were dropped (3 to be exact) that were really our only chances to turn this game around; but Montgomery saw it and made great calls against it to give us an opportunity to turn the tide. They were all dropped balls ...one a TO.
As I have said many times, I am a smash-mouth guy myself; but we do not have strong enough defenses to play that style of ball ...this is the 2010's ...not the 1990's. My gosh, you can count the number of times Tressel's offenses scored more than 21-points on one hand. That is not going to work today ...Tressel's offenses at OSU did not even resemble those at YSU.
Do we need a more mobile QB, yes ...but not at the expense of any arm. We made the right calls this year with enough time to save our season. Yes, coach Shane has had several "bigger" offers, but he knows YSU pays him very well and he is producing for us. He is very-well paid and has earned every penny. So maybe he knows that tenure here is not worth 1 or 2 years at another school with higher salary. I hope he does stay as you know that he and Bo are highly-prized catches for any team.
