Hudspeth happy with Cajuns' defensive scheme, coaching

[zeppelincajun]

Ok bruh... I'm all for discussion on what went wrong and how to fix it...stomping your feet and screaming HUD has to pay gets old, he so dumb, his shirts too small. That's what I mean by what do you want..make suggestions.Hud actually has surprised me just how much he has accepted this failure. I think it was one giant ___ storm that collided between losing talent and leadership,more injuries in one year than previous 4 combined, an entirely new staff, an inept offense, depleted online and unnecessary QB controversy that was handled poorly that split the lockeroom. It sucked, we sucked. This same coach came in and fixed a 3-9 football team in year 1, I have no reason to not see if he can do it again. Some of the cluster was in his control some wasn't.

Did you not read my post? Where did I stamp my feet and demand he pay?

I quoted what HE said which appears to me to be a continuation of his tired mission of trying to force the ever so important turnover.

My suggestion I thought was implied. A back to basics focus on fundamentals. Stop telling guys, "you've got to get me the ball on this next down."

Don't have a poor game plan and no definitive answer on your QB situation 6 weeks in to the season and then turn to your best players and implore them to play like "superstars."

Hud has certainly earned himself a cushion for one bad year. Hey he expects guys in ____ poor systems with no set leader to be superstars. I expect coaches making a million , even on a down year, to be able to handle Akron and New Mexico State at home.

[soxcajunfan]

My final comment on this is how I felt about things when I was a high school coach years ago (and no, I don't compare that to being a college coach. I never even coached football.) If we were bad at something, I always took it personally. It was me. What did I fail to do to prepare my kids for success?. We failed? I failed them. It was my driving force.

It is the driving force for all coaches that want their kids to play for them. Kids, high school guys, college men, want to know YOU are accountable, too.

I love to read about how coaches take wins and losses. Our own softball and baseball coaches place blame and accept success with more grace than most.

And if anyone thinks our football coach has REALLY taken responsibility for our flaws, you don't know truth from bs,

[Turbine]

Just a note pretty sure the 85 scholarship limit came late in stokley's career. So teams could sign as if there were more.

Good point. One I hadn't considered.

This was probably the era when I first started thinking about "talent graveyards"

[CrazyCajun]

My final comment on this is how I felt about things when I was a high school coach years ago (and no, I don't compare that to being a college coach. I never even coached football.) If we were bad at something, I always took it personally. It was me. What did I fail to do to prepare my kids for success?. We failed? I failed them. It was my driving force.

It is the driving force for all coaches that want their kids to play for them. Kids, high school guys, college men, want to know YOU are accountable, too.

I love to read about how coaches take wins and losses. Our own softball and baseball coaches place blame and accept success with more grace than most.

And if anyone thinks our football coach has REALLY taken responsibility for our flaws, you don't know truth from bs,

So at this point in the offseason what would you have done differently so far to REALLY take responsibility? What can he do before offseason conditioning and spring? He has publicly stated its on him, he publicly stated they are going get some juco help and he already dismissed 2 players with more to come. He has about a week left to recruit before dead period...so what do you want to see right now? I'm not being a smartaz...seriously?

[soxcajunfan]

So at this point in the offseason what would you have done differently so far to REALLY take responsibility? What can he do before offseason conditioning and spring? He has publicly stated its on him, he publicly stated they are going get some juco help and he already dismissed 2 players with more to come. He has about a week left to recruit before dead period...so what do you want to see right now? I'm not being a smartaz...seriously?

And that's where we will never see eye to eye. You listen to what he says now, after the fact. I wanted to hear something after the Akron game... something that didn't have anything to do with excuses about distractions with a building. Or was the season (team) lost by that time (in our coach's mind)?

[CrazyCajun]

And that's where we will never see eye to eye. You listen to what he says now, after the fact. I wanted to hear something after the Akron game... something that didn't have anything to do with excuses about distractions with a building. Or was the season (team) lost by that time (in our coach's mind)?

And all those things is why I'm surprised I'm hearing what I am now, I expected more of the same. So in your eyes he will never do right again because he should have said it after Akron. He can never fix it according to you, I hope you never screw up at work and they hold it against you for the rest of your career. He can't take back what he said, he can only fix the problems in front of him. The last show he did with jay, that was the most humbled he has sounded since stepping foot on campus and that can be a good thing.

[soxcajunfan]

And all those things is why I'm surprised I'm hearing what I am now, I expected more of the same. So in your eyes he will never do right again because he should have said it after Akron. He can never fix it according to you, I hope you never screw up at work and they hold it against you for the rest of your career. He can't take back what he said, he can only fix the problems in front of him. The last show he did with jay, that was the most humbled he has sounded since stepping foot on campus and that can be a good thing.

I'm retired, "bro."

However, while working, all who worked with me knew they didn't have to wait three months for me to admit I screwed up.

Don't assume I feel Hud will never do right again. I never said that. I'm done with you, bud. I don't like discussing anything with a wall.

[CrazyCajun]

I'm retired, "bro."

However, while working, all who worked with me knew they didn't have to wait three months for me to admit I screwed up.

Don't assume I feel Hud will never do right again. I never said that. I'm done with you, bud. I don't like discussing anything with a wall.

Yeah, you come off as very open minded.

[zeppelincajun]

Crazy...you keep asking people "what do you want him to say?" What else do you want?"

Please do me a favor. I'm being dead serious go read that article again.

Hudspeth is only NEGATIVE about one aspect of this defense: an inability to create turnovers. He mentions it 5 times:


"The only downfall to this year's defense was the lack of turnovers we got."

"That would be the only true thing I was most disappointed in."


"As far as the coaching, as far as the scheme, getting our players to play hard, I was pleased. But we've got to cause more turnovers.

"We've got to find a way to create turnovers."

"I've never been a part of a defense that creates so few, so we've got to create turnovers like everyone else does and give our offense the short field sometimes." Just a side note: this last one drives me crazy. Remember the Georgia State game when our defense didn't get a TO but got a great stop and gave our O the ball at the 50 up 10-0. Remember what we did? Switched QB's and threw a pic. Then we had to hear the next week in the press conference not that that was a bad decision and on Hud, but that he wished we had given Jalen a better chance to succeed and another series.

So what do I want to hear?

1. Hud acknowledge that this defense was poor fundamentally and part of the reason for this was his constant preaching of needing to cause turnovers. We are not getting this. He is still stuck on this concept that everything will be fine if we can just get healthy and force a turnover or two. We will likely never see a repeat of the Tuesday night WKU game from a few year's back, so Hud needs to quit counting on that as his formula for success and wake up in the real world.

2. Name Davis your QB early. He will never tweak the offense to be what Haack would need to be successful. Enough of this surprise, secret who's it gonna be nonsense. It's great for competition nonsense. Commit and give the kid some confidence.

Those are the 2 main things I'd like to see before next season.
#1 clearly won't happen. The second one I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Was stokley in the sunbelt? You realize the end of Stokleys career is the beginning of our very bad stretch of perception we are overcoming? By the way..what did stokley do when he didn't have jake or Brian? 2 NFL players? Did stokley take Alabama to the wire with brooks haack or jalen Nixon? Did HUD take Florida and Arizona to the wire when he had a good QB? Did HUD launch us into the largest facility upgrade in our schools history or did stokley? Would it make you feel better if HUD convinced the state to hire authement back? This season is on the coaches, those same coaches who gave you expectations in the first place. I haven't heard anything from HUD that says this isn't on him. Again, what do you want? Would like me to get you a meeting with the staff so you can point out their deficiencies and make sure they are on it?

You do realize Stokley never played against a schedule as easy as this. That same Florida team Hud lost to lost to GaSouthetn.

Look we can play tit for tat, but Hud's completely responsible for what is currently a very bad team. You think he can fix it. I think we'll be closer to 4/8 again than 8/4.

We can discuss next December. I'm not seeing 8/4,7/5. Maybe 6/6,or 5/7.

[CajunEXPRESS]

I'm not complaining that people are complaining. This article tells you nobody is being let go. The only thing now is to see who else gets the boot (players) and who they go get to help for next year from juco and recruiting. While the defense wasn't great, I expected problems with the defense even if we stayed healthy. The offense was a much bigger dissapointment and our head coaches strength. The head coach acknowledged we sucked, I acknowledge we sucked. He said he would fix it, we will see. It's just amazing that HUD has a bad year and everything under the sun is on his shoulders...stokley stunk the joint up at the end of his career and none of it was his fault. You can't have it both ways, is e erg thing under the sun on the head coach or not? Sure looks like the guy taking snaps is more important than any other aspect of the program...at least here anyway.

Our head coache's strength is solely motivation. Even that has to be questioned after his total screwup of the Nixon/Haack
issues.

[CrazyCajun]

You do realize Stokley never played against a schedule as easy as this. That same Florida team Hud lost to lost to GaSouthetn.

Look we can play tit for tat, but Hud's completely responsible for what is currently a very bad team. You think he can fix it. I think we'll be closer to 4/8 again than 8/4.

We can discuss next December. I'm not seeing 8/4,7/5. Maybe 6/6,or 5/7.

Wrong, that Florida team was 11-1 and played in the sugar bowl...they lost to Georgia southern the next year.
HUD is totally responsible for this bad team, just like stokley was totally responsible for all his bad teams. Can't have it both ways.