Wooldridge Injured

[Cajunsmike]

How about keeping the trust of your players if you're the coach? Where does that factor in? Some of you people are so hell bent on sucking up with the coach never makes a mistake mentality you can't even see why your own program is going right back to the days before excellence was an expected goal of your most important cash cow program. All of a sudden the goal has become to achieve mediocrity again. Am I lying, or making anything up? If so,then why the oh boy, if we can only win 6 & make a bowl again, I'll be really excited for the future?

I have a thought, not that mediocre fan should care. How about when Mike knew his QB was out him calling the media in town to the practice facility & saying, hey, it looks like we lost Ben for this game & he's being evaluated, but we are going to rally around Chandler & go into this game with our minds on winning. We have faith in Chandler as our QB going forward & this team is going to work their butts off to win the upcoming game.

What difference did it make to FSU who played QB anyway? You have two QBs who play the exact same style of QB in the same exact system, so how much different do you people think the game planning for FSU was going to be? It's not like defending against Ben Wooldridge Vs. defending against Levi Lewis? Or defending against Brian Mitchell for that matter. So why not try something new, something novel? Why not try the truth? Does a coach think he has to lie, or completely withhold the truth from everyone all the time to have an "advantage"? What advantage did the Cajuns have before FSU scored their 7th TD of the day?

The whole art of being an effective head coach is being honest enough so that when you do have to lie, or withhold information it IS to your advantage. Where was the advantage? If you lie, or purposely miscommunicate all the time, you aren't being a fox. You are being a fool. And don't worry Charlie & company. This is the last time any of you will ever have to worry about this narcissistic casual bandwagon jumper ever typing anything on this site about anything. Not because I have no faith in the team, but because I have total faith in too many people who defend this stupidity as though the madness is some sort of a strategy for achievement, when the end result is mediocrity at best & only goes down the rabbit hole from there.

No one ever said the coach is perfect. If he feels that keeping the injury situation confidential improves his chance of success by a minimal percentage he is going to do it. I don't get how this approach is indicative of accepting mediocrity. Everything you said about Mike getting his players the message about rallying around Chandler did occur. It occurred within the concept of the team. Telling the media would have no benefit. Now had the media asked him directly about Ben's situation, he would have had a choice to make. That did not happen. Why no one asked him, I don't know.

[R1Letterman]

why do some have their procedures almost immediately but we have to wait so long?

[CrazyCajun]

why do some have their procedures almost immediately but we have to wait so long?

Swelling and surgeons schedule would be the 2 obvious reasons.

[Turbine]

Letting FSU know early on that your starter was out and FSU might not have come out the gates with their ears pinned as far back as they were.

FSU had a lot to prepare for in Wooldridge, and everthing they prepared for in Wooldridge, prepared them for Fields.

[Bandwagon King]

No one ever said the coach is perfect. If he feels that keeping the injury situation confidential improves his chance of success by a minimal percentage he is going to do it. I don't get how this approach is indicative of accepting mediocrity. Everything you said about Mike getting his players the message about rallying around Chandler did occur. It occurred within the concept of the team. Telling the media would have no benefit. Now had the media asked him directly about Ben's situation, he would have had a choice to make. That did not happen. Why no one asked him, I don't know.

You're sucking me right back in Mike. How do you know Mike rallied the team around Chandler? If he did, he did a ____ poor job of it. Using the media is a part of rallying the team. it's a part of rallying the community. In this case their is no difference between the team, the media & the community. Unless the coach disrespects his own fan base so much he is constantly trying to use his sad ass lack of a fan base as a motivator for his team. And that is going to end in one result. And that result isn't good. No matter how anyone spins it, the needle will still go back to failure unless a coach realizes the fans & the media aren't the problem. But enjoy. You're in it up to your neck for the long haul.

[John Cocktolstoy]

You're sucking me right back in Mike. How do you know Mike rallied the team around Chandler? If he did, he did a ____ poor job of it. Using the media is a part of rallying the team. it's a part of rallying the community. In this case their is no difference between the team, the media & the community. Unless the coach disrespects his own fan base so much he is constantly trying to use his sad ass lack of a fan base as a motivator for his team. And that is going to end in one result. And that result isn't good. No matter how anyone spins it, the needle will still go back to failure unless a coach realizes the fans & the media aren't the problem. But enjoy. You're in it up to your neck for the long haul.

Bottom line is Fl St was just more talented than the Cajuns all over the field. Wasn’t about the x’s and the o’s it was about the Jimmy’s and the Joe’s. Peyton Manning in his prime wouldn’t have done much better behind center on Saturday.

[zephyr]

He appeared to be walking around with a brace yesterday in Doak Walker. One would think if he needed surgery it would have taken place already. Maybe not as bad as we think. Might just be a strained ACL and not torn.

No, they won't do the surgery the day after the injury generally speaking. They want swelling to go down. He can still walk if the ACL is torn.

[ragincajun97]

Multiple people had first hand knowledge. It kinda proves my point but doesn’t answer my question. When was the presser where Diaz was all but saying Ben was running around great in practice?

You would think your beat writer would notice someone not be at practice for three days if he’s supposed to be covering the team

[CajunEXPRESS]

But he ain’t he’s covering the LSU WBB

[CajunVic]

Only you are allowed to do that, correct?

[moorecajun]

Bottom line is Fl St was just more talented than the Cajuns all over the field. Wasn’t about the x’s and the o’s it was about the Jimmy’s and the Joe’s. Peyton Manning in his prime wouldn’t have done much better behind center on Saturday.

IMO, undisputable, but that never stopped anyone from saying otherwise. FSU looked very, very impressive. That is a team that improved quite a bit from the start of the season.

[Cajunsmike]

You're sucking me right back in Mike. How do you know Mike rallied the team around Chandler? If he did, he did a ____ poor job of it. Using the media is a part of rallying the team. it's a part of rallying the community. In this case their is no difference between the team, the media & the community. Unless the coach disrespects his own fan base so much he is constantly trying to use his sad ass lack of a fan base as a motivator for his team. And that is going to end in one result. And that result isn't good. No matter how anyone spins it, the needle will still go back to failure unless a coach realizes the fans & the media aren't the problem. But enjoy. You're in it up to your neck for the long haul.

Players have said they had meetings in which they agreed to rally around Chandler. I still don’t see how keeping an injury situation in house is indicative of accepting mediocrity. I guess I am not smart enough to figure that out. You are right I am in it for the long haul. I have been with the program for 50 years, 9 head coaches, disappointing days, and joyful days. I have a degree from here as do all of my three kids. In fact my son has two and his wife (my daughter in law) has four and will soon acquire her PHD. She is also a professor on campus. With that background, no way are we not in this as long as I breathe.