Poor Coaches

[Clutch0364]

It's apples & oranges. None of those programs lost key players in 3 different ways: graduation, the portal, and the previous coach using the portal to take away national caliber players. And yet, we still may make it to a bowl.

In addition, I will remind everybody that many people here thought Blakeney was a football genius, one whom our 'incompetent' administration failed to hire when we had the chance. His advantage was just better talent from a recruiting edge. When the recruiting advantage was removed, he collapsed like Oogey Boogey.

You just can't judge a coach from his first few years. A lot of the greatest coaches in college football just didn't start off well.

apples to oranges…kind of like your example. Got it.

UL hired a guy who would literally be hired by no one else. If his degree said Arkansas instead of Louisiana, he would not have been hired here.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Not apples to oranges…kind of like your example. Got it.

UL hired a guy who would literally be hired by no one else. If his degree said Arkansas instead of Louisiana, he would not have been hired here.

Sometimes hiring a local has more benefits than an outsider. You’re probably right CMD would not have been hired by other FBS schools at this point in his career.

[CajunVic]

He also said Marlin wins 75% of his games, so maybe we shouldn’t listen to closely to what he says.

People with an agenda never seem to get it right. I don’t believe it was Doc who said that.

[JMV JustMyView]

It's apples & oranges. None of those programs lost key players in 3 different ways: graduation, the portal, and the previous coach using the portal to take away national caliber players. And yet, we still may make it to a bowl.

In addition, I will remind everybody that many people here thought Blakeney was a football genius, one whom our 'incompetent' administration failed to hire when we had the chance. His advantage was just better talent from a recruiting edge. When the recruiting advantage was removed, he collapsed like Oogey Boogey.

You just can't judge a coach from his first few years. A lot of the greatest coaches in college football just didn't start off well.

Mike is in year 7 of the program, under 2 different coaches. He has been exposed to the good, bad and ugly. He has/had a head start over any new guy. He can be judged.

[John Cocktolstoy]

Basically what every other team who is successful deals with. Fighting to be bowl eligible with what we have on this roster is awful. You can’t say anything that will polish that turd.

The talent experienced or not is still better than Rice, ULM, and USA. Hell it’s better than any team in the Sunbelt West.

Agree 100% on the talent. Mike is a “freshman” as a head coach lets hope he learns from this year and makes improvements.

[John Cocktolstoy]

The truth is obviously not enough experienced quality on the offensive line. That’s not only a CDM miss, it’s also CBN miss. CBN left us whatever you see at quarterback, and O line.

It’s plain stupid to suggest it’s on CMD only. Any coach we might have hired would have similar issues, and perhaps more because he’d have to start recruiting over and he’d be missing all the same people CBN took to ul@Gainesville.

If you look at the current roster it is loaded with freshman and sophomore OL. Hopefully that means a bright future at those positions.

[John Cocktolstoy]

Not to the level we would have had if Johnson, Torrence, and Garner would still be on the team. With those players still on the team, we would probably have met Clutch's expectations. Coaching experience is also a problem this year but not as big a problem as or talent level this year.
My opinion is that we are in a big rebuilding year from both a talent and coaching standpoint.

Don’t forget McCaskill, Bailey and Waits also.

[anhil8tor]

I hear a lot of criticism of Des, even (rarely!) read it here.

So see if you can name these head coaches from their records, and where they coached:

Any of these their first college head coaching job?

[Turbine]

Billy inherited a team with the talent to become a top 25 program. Look at the 2017 roster - Elijah Mitchell, Trey Ragas, Raymond Calais, JaMarcus Bradley, Robert Hunt, Kevin Dotson, and Levi Lewis to name a few with a number of them still playing on the team that won 13 games. Plus no portal and NIL to compete with during Billy's tenure. Here is the 2017 roster - https://ragincajuns.com/sports/football/roster/2017 if you are interested

Quite a lineup.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Quite a lineup.

Let’s not forget CBN released every recruit from their commitment and then evaluated and re-recruited almost every one of them. That was a very good but small class. Additionally CBN had several years that he was below the 85 limit as part of the Hud punishment.

Essentially he inherited a lot of talent, and an NCAA burden.