Can’t judge any new coach until year two at least,
Suppose we had judged Sampson after his 12-19/4-14 first season.
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I will say I thought the team played hard. Which was very different than Dana. Even when we were down 27-0 the kids were still running to give the refs the ball. Defense was still trying to hit hard. But I agree offense looked absolutely horrible on all fronts. It’s a lot to process with so many new guys and a new OC, against a team that has all their guys back and coaching staff. They could just pick up right where they left off. Smith missing spring sure didn’t help either. I think rice will really give us an idea where this team is headed for the rest of the year. That would be the 3rd game against a team that just lost by 20 to SHSU.
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The majority here did not expect a bowl game … we knew we’d be bad
No expected 27-0 versus unlv (with their starters in)… UNLV!!!
Unlv can’t recruit in football, our scrambled roster on paper is likely still better than there’s … honestly losing wouldn’t have been that bad in a respectful game
To me what sucks is a lot of that loss wasn’t in us if the roster turnover but the QB play was horrendous. Something you can’t blame on the roster turnover… Fritz chose to put his eggs in the smith basket… that was a coaching decision… not a symptom of the turnover
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Especially when a coach hasn’t established his guys. They spent so much of the off season trying to fix the culture. Fritz’s talking about the guys “learning how to practice”. You can just tell this team needed a pre season game. I think the chemistry won out on this game. Scoring 27 points and 20 on offense isn’t all that impressive in this day and age. Our offense just looked like a pickup team lmao
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When we figured out Chriss didn’t beat out Smith, I knew the offense was going to be in trouble. No idea it would be like that last night.
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Facts. Fritz can probably recognize this…now let’s see how QUICKLY he can fix it. History says not this year or the next.
I agree the smith experiment might completely backfire. I was off on smith last year. Got convinced by media that he was going to be better. But I just don’t see the IQ. In his 4th year as well.
But this isn’t unlv of the old. They will likely be in their conference championship and Odom will likely be coaching P4 next year. Losing to a team that’s projected to be in their conference championship is not any worse than losing to south Alabama at home. I’m hoping we get Parker going like OSU realized with Ollie and end this season better than we are starting it. I see a lot of potential in special teams and defense. Idk what the heck to do with the offense
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Name a QB that plays well with that OL. I’m not even a big Smith guy but he didn’t have time to do anything. We gave up on the run early because the blocking was terrible. Until we improve at the line of scrimmage, the skill position players don’t matter.
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When our WRs got the ball they looked good. Made guys miss. Just couldn’t get them the ball past 10 yards. Didn’t have the time. OL and QB play has always been the determining factors of this years success
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Sampson’s first year wasnt bad with the context… instant transfer wasn’t a thing… and everyone was commited by the time Sampson took over that’s why rhoades tried to force alll the players to stay …which failed
We had gutted roster, with no one available… we had a couple good players sitting out on the transfer rule…
Sampson noted, we were picked dead last in the league… the goal was “not to be last” from day 1… they ended on streak to not be last… the team celebrated like crazy not being last… Sampson’s called that his favorite year… because he knew most of our roster shouldn’t have been d1 and exceed expectations…
Sampson had on multiple occasions said if transfer rules were different his 1st year, we’d have been good year 1 too
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The play that summed up the night was a sweep to the visitors side. @bigmccoog broke down how one of the OL gave up getting to a defender, another OL pulled and didn’t block anyone and the WR blocked poorly. It was bad all around night blocking and execution.
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Let’s also mention Texas tech was a 2 point conversion away from losing at home to an FCS school 
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We made a NY6 on a not great o-line… so Greg Ward
We’ve never been the good o-line team ever…
we have always masked it with system (briles system and the air raid) which worked to take advantage of pace and ware …or had a super scrambling qb
We e never been a good Oline team… tune probably had the best Oline of our QBs
Hard for me to use that as justification for Fritz when you look at our history
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Also remember when Oklahoma st lost to South Alabama last year by 26 in week 3. I’m not expecting a conf title but we should hopefully see improvement over the season. Also I believe Fritz is going to weed out the guys who don’t buy in and play hard.
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That exact play was when me and in friend yelled what the heck is that Olineman doing block someone lol. That’s why I’m hesitant on the play calling issue. The OL looked so bad I couldn’t tell half the time if it was the play calling or what
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It may be week 3 by the time our starting offense scores a touchdown lol.
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Lol Fritz had Tulane quality players, playing in our offensive backfield when he was there. I really hope people aren’t using OL as an excuse.
Exactly this season is not over by any stretch. A lot of big12 teams did not look so great this week. Teams that even have a lot of returners. I trust Fritz’s and still staff. He knows how to win and I trust he will make adjustments. I think we end the season on a positive note
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I love how everyone on CoogFans assumes everything remains static. Did we look worse than expected last night? ABSOLUTELY.
So did Rice, Tech, and TCU, for starters. There will be some wins. The question is how many.
I like the poster who drew the comparison to year one of CKS. Not last should be considered a success, and anything above 4 wins is likely a quantum leap.
We’ll win 6 games