Napier: 'Sometimes it takes a crisis' to get attention

[ultracajun]

We went 1-4 in huds first year, and the same reason that season is recorded as 1-4 is why we are in the position we are in. Sense of urgency? We are 3 games into the season in the guys first year..what do you want him to do? Fire his coaches? Bench everyone? FFS man..how about give them a chance to build a program. How about 1 full recruiting class at least.,

I understand but he plays Alabama next week

[ZoomZoom]

I understand but he plays Alabama next week

Bama is on a mission like no one has ever seen before. They have a starting QB that is a legit Hesiman contender, so he’ll get crazy stats. Then they will put in a guy who they want to get quality reps so he’ll be drafted by the NFL. So he’s not coming in to hand off the ball and run clock.

This will be a mental coaching challenge for Napier. Have not seen the spread but 50 won’t surprise me.

[Clutch0364]

It’s not attention, it’s called being realistic. We fired the last coach because he was “destroying” the program, we hired this guy to build a program and 3 games in everybody is whining like little f’n girls. I said these things when everybody else was talking about beating coastal by multiple scores. Getting my beat by an SEC team is not a crisis..and neither is losing to coastal. Hud has unprecedented success 4 years in a row and still didn’t build a program. You either think Napier is the guy to do it or you don’t but regardless nobody’s knows if he is or not after 3 f’n Games.

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I have read so many stupid comments on the board the last week. It amazes me that people expected this team to be good this year. We do not have a QB on the roster who could start in the Southland, our defense is pieced together with freshmen and duct tape and our OL can blow over in a strong wind. Anyone who looked at the roster and knows football could see we were in trouble this season. Everyone needs to be patient bc this is not happening overnight.

[CajunJeaux]

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I have read so many stupid comments on the board the last week. It amazes me that people expected this team to be good this year. We do not have a QB on the roster who could start in the Southland, our defense is pieced together with freshmen and duct tape and our OL can blow over in a strong wind. Anyone who looked at the roster and knows football could see we were in trouble this season. Everyone needs to be patient bc this is not happening overnight.

Good post in here by Crazy and Clutch...

[CajunNation]

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I have read so many stupid comments on the board the last week. It amazes me that people expected this team to be good this year. We do not have a QB on the roster who could start in the Southland, our defense is pieced together with freshmen and duct tape and our OL can blow over in a strong wind. Anyone who looked at the roster and knows football could see we were in trouble this season. Everyone needs to be patient bc this is not happening overnight.

Yep to all that.

I'll just say I was extremely disappointed in the OL last night.

[CajunRebel]

It’s not attention, it’s called being realistic. We fired the last coach because he was “destroying” the program, we hired this guy to build a program and 3 games in everybody is whining like little f’n girls. I said these things when everybody else was talking about beating coastal by multiple scores. Getting my beat by an SEC team is not a crisis..and neither is losing to coastal. Hud has unprecedented success 4 years in a row and still didn’t build a program. You either think Napier is the guy to do it or you don’t but regardless nobody’s knows if he is or not after 3 f’n Games.

This. This. This.

[Cajunsmike]

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I have read so many stupid comments on the board the last week. It amazes me that people expected this team to be good this year. We do not have a QB on the roster who could start in the Southland, our defense is pieced together with freshmen and duct tape and our OL can blow over in a strong wind. Anyone who looked at the roster and knows football could see we were in trouble this season. Everyone needs to be patient bc this is not happening overnight.

I was disappointed in OL in first half. In The second half they scored TD’s on three of four possessions with the backs having big holes. One possession they did not was when a QB change occurred for that series. Problem was the defense could not get off field. 39 minutes is way too much to allow a team to maintain possession. Teams like Coastal are very frustrating to play against because their offense allows them four downs once they cross midfield. Simply put, there are not enough athletes on defense to play winning football.

[DieHard1280]

I was disappointed in OL in first half. In The second half they scored TD’s on three of four possessions with the backs having big holes. One possession they did not was when a QB change occurred for that series. Problem was the defense could not get off field. 39 minutes is way too much to allow a team to maintain possession. Teams like Coastal are very frustrating to play against because their offense allows them four downs once they cross midfield. Simply put, there are not enough athletes on defense to play winning football.

Every offense this year allows them to go for it once they cross midfield. And so far, they usually make it.

[CajunProud]

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I have read so many stupid comments on the board the last week. It amazes me that people expected this team to be good this year. We do not have a QB on the roster who could start in the Southland, our defense is pieced together with freshmen and duct tape and our OL can blow over in a strong wind. Anyone who looked at the roster and knows football could see we were in trouble this season. Everyone needs to be patient bc this is not happening overnight.

Agreed on all accounts.

[zephyr]

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I have read so many stupid comments on the board the last week. It amazes me that people expected this team to be good this year. We do not have a QB on the roster who could start in the Southland, our defense is pieced together with freshmen and duct tape and our OL can blow over in a strong wind. Anyone who looked at the roster and knows football could see we were in trouble this season. Everyone needs to be patient bc this is not happening overnight.

Perspective is important and I agree Napier needs time to make things right. As many "stupid" comments as I've seen with people saying we'd beat CC by multiple touchdowns, I've also seen as many comments suggesting how great Napier will be without having coached one game in his career. The only thing we have to go by is what we've seen thus far and in comparison to last year since the core of last year's team is still here. What I've seen are similarities on both offense and defense that I was hoping would be eliminated. You noted the OL. That was supposed to be one of the strengths of our team, now its a major weakness? I predicted 5 wins. I think we'll be there or maybe slightly under. However, I was hoping to see a lot of the crap we saw on both sides of the ball cleaned up. A good coaching staff can do that with the same players as before. I understand we are not very talented.

That doesn't mean that we have to continue throwing jump balls up on offense. What happened to our improved passing attack with more defined routes? What happened to working the middle of the field with our TE's and slot receivers? We did it at times the last couple of games but we can't do it against CCU?

We suck on defense. Where is the blitz? We are not good enough to continuously run base defense, even against CCU. I was just hoping to see improvements in the things we do with the players we have had from both staffs and I haven't seen a whole lot of a difference. Those are things we should be able to see now.

[Clutch0364]

Perspective is important and I agree Napier needs time to make things right. As many "stupid" comments as I've seen with people saying we'd beat CC by multiple touchdowns, I've also seen as many comments suggesting how great Napier will be without having coached one game in his career. The only thing we have to go by is what we've seen thus far and in comparison to last year since the core of last year's team is still here. What I've seen are similarities on both offense and defense that I was hoping would be eliminated. You noted the OL. That was supposed to be one of the strengths of our team, now its a major weakness? I predicted 5 wins. I think we'll be there or maybe slightly under. However, I was hoping to see a lot of the crap we saw on both sides of the ball cleaned up. A good coaching staff can do that with the same players as before. I understand we are not very talented.

That doesn't mean that we have to continue throwing jump balls up on offense. What happened to our improved passing attack with more defined routes? What happened to working the middle of the field with our TE's and slot receivers? We did it at times the last couple of games but we can't do it against CCU?

We suck on defense. Where is the blitz? We are not good enough to continuously run base defense, even against CCU. I was just hoping to see improvements in the things we do with the players we have had from both staffs and I haven't seen a whole lot of a difference. Those are things we should be able to see now.

I agree that there are a few things that bothered me with the way the game flowed. I went into the season expecting 4ish wins because I looked at our team and seen 10 guys who I felt can make a difference at the FBS level. A lot of freshmen are also playing which leads to bad things happening during the learning process.

Watching the first drive, I figured our game plan would be to pound their DL early with the run game and when it didn't happen, I feel it screwed up the game plan. Adjustments needed to be made and that's why I think the 2nd half offense looked a lot better.

I'm not anointing Napier the savoir of our program but the guy will need 2-3 years to fix our talent problems. That would have been for any coach coming into this situation. Typically the first year of a rebuild does not go very well so unless our fan base has patience they will just keep feeling like ____ every week.

[Cajunsmike]

Every offense this year allows them to go for it once they cross midfield. And so far, they usually make it.

True. In Coastal’s case that is especially so since it turned out to be less than fourth and a yard in every case last night.