Podcast GSS: Jay Walker (10-18-22)

[Big Poppa]

Irrelevant comparison.

Correct it has nothing to do with if we have Ohio st level QBs. It has to do with the fact that several schools have 2 very capable QBs but the coach has the balls to decide on one and isn’t worried about hurting feelings. This musical QB game is all about not hurting feelings.

[CajunVic]

You miss the point. Barrett / Burrow had equal talent at their level but urban picked Barrett and went with him and didn’t play musical QBs. Like 99.9999% of coaches out there that ours obviously knows better than. It’s whats best for a team and a locker room. I know you don’t believe me so go ask someone other than me who has been in a college football locker room. James Butler said as much on Scott’s show last week.

I don’t need to go ask anyone. When your choices are both that level of talent, you make a choice and run with it. That is not what you have at Louisiana . . . this year.

By the way, you have way too many 9’s . . . nothing is that certain . . .

Finally, where did the “feelings” thing come from . . .

[KajunKrazy]

I don’t need to go ask anyone. When your choices are both that level of talent, you make a choice and run with it. That is not what you have at Louisiana . . . this year.

By the way, you have way too many 9’s . . . nothing is that certain . . .

Finally, where did the “feelings” thing come from . . .

Don't want to butt into y'alls conversation but the feelings thing has been known from the beginning.

[CajunVic]

Don't want to butt into y'alls conversation but the feelings thing has been known from the beginning.

Help me with that. Known by whom and declared by whom?

[Turbine]

That is where you get lost . . . I will give you a hint . . . Think about relative risks . . .

Think relative talent.

[CajunVic]

Think relative talent.

We talking about feelings right now

[KajunKrazy]

Ben has been there before.

https://collegian.csufresno.edu/2020...training-camp/

[CajunVic]

I don’t see anything about feelings in there article . . .

[Turbine]

We talking about feelings right now

Ben has the hot hand right now, hot hands feel the game and where it's going.

[CajunVic]

Ben has the hot hand right now, hot hands feel the game and where it's going.

Feelings, not feel. Them are two different things.

[CajunVic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr_yaZQmRzA

[Bandwagon King]

CN, I think you are taking what I said out of context, I was in no way saying that CMD's decision was the best one, I was just saying that was his line of reasoning and why he was doing what he did, in my opinion. That being said, I would have hoped we would have run with one guy and whomever that one was would have been the guy and if he wasn't then we could have tried the other one. But I will agree with what someone else on this board said, had BW not gotten the playing time he has this season already, he would not have played as well as he did on Wednesday. So while we can criticize CMD for the 2 QB system, it payed off vs Marshall. Had BW not played a snap all season and then came in off the bench for his first playing time, I think he would not been nearly as sharp as he was.

That is why you, me, BWK and everyone else on this board is not the HC of a FBS football team. These are hard decisions to make and we don't have to make them, thank goodness. But it is easy to criticize after the fact, because as they say Hindsight is always 20/20.

Correction Ragin Jay, the criticism was coming before the fact. And the criticism was warranted because the team wasn't progressing. It was regressing. ULM was the low point of the season. That was 4 games in. And the really low point of the season was the early second half before Ben finally had a chance to catch fire & get the team a couple of quick scores before Des F'd up his clock management because he just wanted a score now because he was scared his offense wasn't gonna score & didn't take the clock into consideration like he would have if he wasn't so worried about just scoring.

I like Mike & I want him to succeed. But I'm not gonna pretend every single move he makes is boy genius. He's a young coach learning as he goes. That doesn't grant him blanket immunity from criticism when he screws the pooch. And it damn sure doesn't grant him immunity when it comes to losing to one of the bottom ten teams in the whole freaking country which we had no excuse to lose to with one of the best defenses in the country. If we continue to ball out defensively the way we have so far this season, we can easily win every game on our schedule save the FSU game which is gonna be a hill to climb. If that happens we are all going to regret the 2 QB experiment that far into the season. Because that will be the game that will have cost us an opportunity to repeat as SBC champions.