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

[Bandwagon King]

And people need to quit this crap about equal talent. Chandler is a nice little QB That would have been a great recruit coming out of the Baldwin era when you had a hard time signing players. Ben is potentially a BIG time P-5 talent with a big arm & strong as a bull. The guy reminds me of another Ben that played for Miami of Ohio about 20 years ago. There is no comparing the upside on the one versus the upside on the other. And Mike well knows this. He just needed to see it in game action. If he can get that sorry excuse of a running game untracked with Ben as the QB & this defense, this team might not get to be ranked top 20. But it will be able to take on just about any team in this country & go toe to toe with them. And they will be the best team in this conference by far when this season is finished.

[Big Poppa]

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.

Chandlers first 2 drives against ulm is the most efficient this offense has looked this whole year. Pulling him completely changed the momentum of that game. Leave him in and he might have scored 4 times in a row rather than just 2 as he did. You never know.

[Big Poppa]

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 . . .

When chandler was first announced as the starter at the end camp there was no plan for this 2 QB rotation. It is a direct result of Bens reaction to the news. The meeting was had just before the fan day celebration. Ben sat in his seat arms folded and did not engage with the fans or sign autographs for the kids. He just sat and pouted. It was after that reaction this 2 QB system came into place. I was there personally to see how he was acting. And a very good source with in the program who told me that is exactly what went down.

[Turbine]

Chandlers first 2 drives against ulm is the most efficient this offense has looked this whole year. Pulling him completely changed the momentum of that game. Leave him in and he might have scored 4 times in a row rather than just 2 as he did. You never know.

Evidently Desormeaux was following his coaching tree script.

Pulling Nunez after he led the offense to back to back TDs to start the second half gave momentum back to CC and likely cost the Cajuns the game.

Way to Geaux Billy.

Anyway .... two local case studies on what not to do.

"Feel The Game"

[CharlieK]

And people need to quit this crap about equal talent. Chandler is a nice little QB That would have been a great recruit coming out of the Baldwin era when you had a hard time signing players. Ben is potentially a BIG time P-5 talent with a big arm & strong as a bull. The guy reminds me of another Ben that played for Miami of Ohio about 20 years ago. There is no comparing the upside on the one versus the upside on the other. And Mike well knows this. He just needed to see it in game action. If he can get that sorry excuse of a running game untracked with Ben as the QB & this defense, this team might not get to be ranked top 20. But it will be able to take on just about any team in this country & go toe to toe with them. And they will be the best team in this conference by far when this season is finished.

Ben is not a P5 QB and Chandler is not Baldwin level. Ben looks to be a better fit for us now with our OL troubles, but it’s silly to elevate one so high and degrade the other just to ram home a point you have made over and over. One I might add most probably agree with. Ben should start for the foreseeable future.

[Turbine]

Ben is not a P5 QB and Chandler is not Baldwin level. Ben looks to be a better fit for us now with our OL troubles, but it’s silly to elevate one so high and degrade the other just to ram home a point you have made over and over. One I might add most probably agree with. Ben should start for the foreseeable future.

Fair and balanced.

[KajunKrazy]

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

Do you always add 2+2 and get 6? I don't think I ever suggested the article said anything about feelings. I simply said Ben is no stranger to a tight competition in camp that came down to the wire in which he ran a close 2nd.

[CajunVic]

Do you always add 2+2 and get 6? I don't think I ever suggested the article said anything about feelings. I simply said Ben is no stranger to a tight competition in camp that came down to the wire in which he ran a close 2nd.

You also mentioned feelings. What was that about?

[CajunVic]

When chandler was first announced as the starter at the end camp there was no plan for this 2 QB rotation. It is a direct result of Bens reaction to the news. The meeting was had just before the fan day celebration. Ben sat in his seat arms folded and did not engage with the fans or sign autographs for the kids. He just sat and pouted. It was after that reaction this 2 QB system came into place. I was there personally to see how he was acting. And a very good source with in the program who told me that is exactly what went down.

Looks like you just made that up. It’s like most of the things here on this subject . . . Especially that CMD was ever running a two QB system . . .

[Big Poppa]

Ben has been there before.

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

Looking at stats in this year 2020 Ben has 16 attempts as the back up in the 2 games that he got into and the starter had 232 attempts in 6 games. It appeared to be a Covid shorten season. Their coach took the approach of the rest of the 99.99999% of college coaches after the close battle that went down to the very end of camp. Ours would have done an every 3rd series in this situation as we have seen. Why? Feelings nothing more than feelings.

[KajunKrazy]

You also mentioned feelings. What was that about?

BP hit the nail on the head. I would never reveal my sources on this board.

[Bandwagon King]

Chandlers first 2 drives against ulm is the most efficient this offense has looked this whole year. Pulling him completely changed the momentum of that game. Leave him in and he might have scored 4 times in a row rather than just 2 as he did. You never know.

And Mike will go back if he already hasn't & realize that was the biggest mistake of his college coaching career so far. Because the only reason he had this "system" in place to begin with was because he wanted a safety net in case he was wrong about Ben & Chandler. Instead he hesitated after the Rice game & Chandler went out & played just well enough with the scripted plays to make himself look as good as he was going to look all season against the worst team in the conference. Mike screwed up, but once again the Almighty bailed him out just like he's done with the weather twice now. I like Mike because God likes Mike. But I ain't gonna build a monument to him & worship him.

I understand what your point is. And you might be absolutely right. But we had no chance against USA with Chandler QBing. And we have much less of a chance with Chandler QBing than we have with Ben against a lot of teams. I'm telling you right now that Mike knows this, or he would have never done what he did to start. This would have been Chandler's team no ifs, ands, or buts. I can guarantee you if Levy were here we all would have known who was the starter day one.