Hudspeth gets more specific on offensive changes

[Ragin' Caleb]

I have no problem with Haack getting start at Troy. "But Davis had an outstanding drive", yeah? well so did Nixon at Kentucky and we all know how that played out. I think Davis is a viable option in the future and before the season started I stated Davis was a better qb than nixon and I thought he would challenge Haack for the job. If Haack was a senior, I wouldn't have any problem with Davis taking the start but Haack is a legitimate option for qb next year. Imagine starting Davis and he doesn't do so well. "Alright Haack, get back in there". Destroying any confidence he has left and moving forward.

[Bigbuf]

My guess is that he's saying that Jordan Davis fits his idea of the original system he likes. He tweaked the system he likes over this past year... supposedly... to fit two QBs that had patiently waited their turn. Neither Haack or Nixon fit the dual threat that Hud likes. Nixon isn't strong enough of a passing threat... and Haack isn't strong enough of a running threat to meet the definition... and/or neither have the QB presence in the game to command an offense to victory. I think he played the middle too much as a coach... and that screwed us more than the QBs did.

I believe Hud is paving the way for Jordan Davis (or Dion Ray) to clearly win out the QB competition going into next year.

I saw a lot of people calling for hud to change the scheme to suit the QB. I don't think that works out well when you have teach something one way then try to implement something different.

[Big Poppa]

Sorry that my wife was having an unplanned surgery and that I felt that was more important to be at than the game. So no, I did not go to that game. I have missed a total of 6 home games since 1975. Do you need a reason for those games also?

Wife surgery is no reason to miss a game, get your priorities straight.

[Turbine]

I really do not care who the QB is next year, but they better pick a QB by the end of the spring. This bull____ of not knowing or saying who your starter is before the first game is exactly that bull____. If you have use trickery to try and keep a team off guard in your fist game, then it says a lot about your team. We should have learned a lot over the summer with not picking a QB.

That cloak and dagger advantage might be good for the first half of the first game but hurts you all season long.

[Turbine]

I have never understood how the idea of a redshirt is so difficult for some to figure out.

Schools with blue, purple, green and other colored uniforms don't have as big of a problem understanding "Red" shirts.

I saw a UL game this year where everybody Red Shirted.

[cajunhawk]

Red shirts...nothing good ever comes of them.

[Just1More]

I saw a lot of people calling for hud to change the scheme to suit the QB. I don't think that works out well when you have teach something one way then try to implement something different.

I went along with what Hud said in the preseason. He said that if Haack won out, we had the playbook to use him... or if Nixon won out... we had the playbook to use him. Hud screwed up by playing the middle this year. It's that plain and simple when it comes to our offense. And in reality, we weren't realistically all that much worse than the last 4 seaons. We could very easily be 7-4 right now. I wouldn't be any more or less impressed. But our coaching staff alone could have made this year another 7-4 at this point.

[CrappDaddy]

I went along with what Hud said in the preseason. He said that if Haack won out, we had the playbook to use him... or if Nixon won out... we had the playbook to use him. Hud screwed up by playing the middle this year. It's that plain and simple when it comes to our offense. And in reality, we weren't realistically all that much worse than the last 4 seaons. We could very easily be 7-4 right now. I wouldn't be any more or less impressed. But our coaching staff alone could have made this year another 7-4 at this point.

In reality, we were much worse than the last 4 seasons at a multitude of positions. That's the reality I saw.

[ManAboutTown]

In reality, we were much worse than the last 4 seasons at a multitude of positions. That's the reality I saw.

Including the adults on the sidelines.

[moorecajun]

A game in which he should have played the entire 4th quarter..

I may be an old fart, but I agree with you!

[Just1More]

Including the adults on the sidelines.

The fact that we had personnel issues this year has completely blinded many fans from the reality that our coaching staff ineffectively utilized the talent they had. We also have too many folks that fail to realize that we never beat a good team in our prior seasons, took some beat downs by many, and we required late heroics to edge out some pretty weak SBC teams. Oh well...

[ULGrad@HOU]

The fact that we had personnel issues this year has completely blinded many fans from the reality that our coaching staff ineffectively utilized the talent they had. We also have too many folks that fail to realize that we never beat a good team in our prior seasons, took some beat downs by many, and we required late heroics to edge out some pretty weak SBC teams. Oh well...

Agree totally. Each year after the first, the expectation was to win the conference and be able to compete at a higher level. 4 years later, going on Hud's 6th year, we have not won the conference outright, and fall flat of the goals he set. It's worth being able to note these things now, bring them out and talked about, before the program is back down on it's knees. Like Hud mentioned at one of his press conferences earlier in the season, that they just didn't forget how to coach. Well, you know, perception becomes reality if it's shown over and over, for all to see.