You are absolutely entitled to your opinion, but as a fan base, no one knows if CWF is/was the right hire.
No one absolutely, definitively knows.
Based on last night, it is challenging to say that CWF is/was the right hire, could he be? Sure.
Do most of us want him to be? I would hope so.
I know Houston was high on the list, but I don’t think they have the most.
QB should have been one of those positions to be evaluated.
True, based on the fluff pieces, the team had bought in on the “new” culture. Allegedly, some highlights of the “new” culture were: Hyping each other up, minimal penalties and effort. I can’t say I saw a tremendous amount of any of the aforementioned qualities.
UNLV is a decent to solid team, they are not “GREAT.”
I look forward to how the staff and players react to last nights execution.
I believe Fritz was the right hire. I don’t think there should be any argument that this is a better coached team. In the end, with a very short timeline, he had to cobble together a team last Fall when he was hired. Remember… we had 8 - I can’t believe that a-hole left things that way to this day - incoming recruits committed to this program, and IIRC, 3 transfers.
We were warned the o-line was not good in a roundabout way by the staff in preseason, and they were not good. We have a bunch of young mid-level talent with very little real-game experience. Obviously, that will make the QB situation look worse. It takes reps for an o-line to develop into a cohesive unit. This will be the big question for the year, imo. How much improvement the o-line makes will be the primary criteria as to how I feel this staff did over the season.
Setting the o-line issue aside, my Lord did this staff misevaluate how far away Smith was. Ui Ale should be given a serious look if Chriss is out. D. Smith didn’t even give our WRs and TEs a chance last night. There was absolutely zero deep-threat until Ale came in.
As far as the defense is concerned, run-D needs to improve. However, they were solid against a very veteran offensive team that runs the hurry-up. Only allowing 21 points to UNLV was a win in my book, but UNLV shut it down in the 4th. They saw our offense wasn’t doing jack-!
I was very vocally anti-Fritz long before we even considered hiring him I fully admit that. So already he is working from behind in my mind. And it’s hard to not want to instinctively jump on the fire him overreaction bandwagon.
With that said though realistically he is showing signs he can recruit which is big. He does at least have a history of success at every level. And ultimately whether I like it or not he is going to get 3 years.
So I would rather try to find the positives and be happy than just live in misery.
I was excited about the Fritz hire and really pulling for him to get us on track. However, the game 1 offense is worrisome.
UNLV’s last 4 recruiting classes were ranked 95, 111, 128 and 72. They had huge roster turnover this past season and lost their starting QB to the portal. They didn’t have a roster/talent advantage on us.
Yeah, the team that took the field last night was not a “better coached team.” That is an objective truth based on the penalties, lack of execution in every phase of the game, and almost total failure to be ready to compete.
It doesn’t mean he won’t get there, and his history says he will, but that’s kind of a “look at the back of his baseball card” argument. You are what your results say you are, and that’s not good right now.
Yes, we have to give it a chance to play out. And you can’t say he was definitively the wrong hire, but you also can’t say he was definitively the right hire. Last night’s game did not offer much of anything encouraging that will bring fans back, and that’s on him.
Gotta hope this is just a big kidney stone for Willie. My big concern is he brought 3 of his coaches from Tulane-supposedly they were all on the same page. They musta all had different books last night.
All these people yapping “we’re P4”. We play in a P4 conference but we have a roster full of G5 or FCS talent, they’re young and inexperienced. Dana was a hack and was doing nothing to make us P4 ready. Fritz walked into a mess, and whatever was or wasn’t going on behind the scenes with Pez probably didn’t help our situation. Fritz didn’t just walk in here from the corn field, he’ll get it right. You can make wine with raisins.
It’s 1 game. Way too premature to be calling for Willie’s job.
I will say this, though. I saw a lot of the same crap last night that I saw with Dana. The most inexplicable thing I saw was only handing the ball off to Parker Jenkins twice. Our best offensive player got a handoff TWICE! And when he did get the rock, he averaged 8.5 yards per carry. Fritz did not put the offense in any position to succeed last night. Penalties were huge issue. Missed tackles on defense. No life from the team. If you squinted, you might have thought Dana was on the sideline.
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Embarrassingly so.
The switch to zone blocking just isn’t working. The guys’ heads are spinning and Arian Foster isn’t back there but i think Jenkins is patient enough to pick his angles. The problem is 100% on this Eman Naghavi’s inability to break it down to the guys in Barney terms.
He needs to go. Don’t care about his Katy connections.
No reasonable person would want him fired, it was game one
But you can still acknowledge that the performance was terrible even beyond expectations…
There are obvious things to critic
He gave a qb from a horrible team the keys with no competition or even spring … play calling was terrible etc…
Here is another truth that isn’t Willie’s fault… Willie wasn’t an exciting hire, that’s just a fact. He looks decent on paper but arguably our least exciting hire in ages… and now throwing what seems like a ground zero rebuild on top of that will absolutely gut fan interest for a long while … it’s sad to see
I didn’t realize how many coog fans would jump ship after a below average year. We were all projecting us to be bad this year. I was probably the most optimistic and even I said 5-7. Again if you are looking at this season as anything other than a transitional culture year than you are going to be very disappointed all season. Remember we have 63 new players. It is going to take time to get the chemistry right. I don’t know how many times we have seen teams lose absolutely horrible games early on and then look a lot better toward the end of the year. Iowa state, tech, and osu did it last year. OSU lost to SOUTH ALABAMA at home last year. Just relax and give Fritz’s some time
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