Ragin Review Postgame: Texas State Bobcats

[CajunEXPRESS]

I mentioned Troy on the post game pod.

Troy is the closest thing we have to a Mark Hudspeth. I don’t know how he’d feel about doing a lot more local selling of the program.

[Cajun Monkee]

Troy is the closest thing we have to a Mark Hudspeth. I don’t know how he’d feel about doing a lot more local selling of the program.

I don't think Troy would have a problem at all.

I've long said that funding for Troy's position needs to come from some place other than the Athletic Program...it should come from Martin Hall.

If dude is comfortable doing what he is doing, Martin Hall should make sure he always has a home. If a new coach doesn't like him in his current position (which I think he excels at and there is something to be said for the continuity of institutional knowledge) then I'd make him a paid ambassador for the University.

Dude bleeds Vermilion.

[Big Poppa]

Allow me to play devils advocate here if you will.

I heard a caller talking about CMD and the fact that he got better throughout the season It was also mentioned that the assistant coaches around him got better also and I agree with both of those statements 100%. Not arguing that at all. I do also think they will all be better in year 2 than they were in year one, the entire staff that is.

Josh said what he likes to see is improvement in a young coach from the beginning of the season to the end. Then he talked about the penalties early on and how they got cleaned up later in the year. All the many undisciplined drops of the football seemed to get cleaned later in the year as well. Lots of mistakes being made early on were mental. As we all know mental mistakes are made due to a lack of focus and discipline. Focus and discipline are 2 things that are developed in your team in the off season beginning in January with your identity phase of the process.

It was discussed at nauseam before the season that all the changes CMD made in the off season were changes that made things easier on players and took discipline and structure out of the process that CBN had in place. Now that we’ve seen the product through the complete schedule it is very safe to say that those changes making the off season program and camp easier on the players cost us at least a few games this year. Let’s hope CMD in the process of evaluating himself this year puts top priority in making his off season program the rigorous, disciplined, and structurally sound process it once was. That is where the success of next years team will begin.

[CajunVic]

It’s not that we had 45 players leave.

It’s not that our coaching staff was raided.

It’s not that we suffered more than expected injuries to the O line.

It’s that they didn’t sleep in the dorms during camp that cost us games.

That was one of the most hilarious posts with the largest stretch in conclusions ever made here.

[Turbine]

It’s not that we had 45 players leave.

It’s not that our coaching staff was raided.

It’s not that we suffered more than expected injuries to the O line.

It’s that they didn’t sleep in the dorms during camp that cost us games.

That was one of the most hilarious posts with the largest stretch in conclusions ever made here.

It was always that the coaching staff was raided.

The spread out team was a pre-season worry not a post game conclusion.

No one knew about the unrerecruited 45 so it could not have been about that.

Not sure why your using your 20/20 HS (hind sight) to find humor in being BlindSided.

[Big Poppa]

It’s not that we had 45 players leave.

It’s not that our coaching staff was raided.

It’s not that we suffered more than expected injuries to the O line.

It’s that they didn’t sleep in the dorms during camp that cost us games.

That was one of the most hilarious posts with the largest stretch in conclusions ever made here.

Most people that watched every Cajun game this year including some highly respected ex players and coaches that I have had conversations with all agree we had as much or more talent than every team we lost to that isn’t called Florida st.

[CajunVic]

Sorry, just not buying it . . .

[cajun4life]

Most people that watched every Cajun game this year including some highly respected ex players and coaches that I have had conversations with all agree we had as much or more talent than every team we lost to that isn’t called Florida st.

Except on the OL. You can’t showcase the talent we do have when we struggle to win the trenches on offense. Not to mention ____ poor execution from out FG unit. That cost us three games.

[KajunKrazy]

Except on the OL. You can’t showcase the talent we do have when we struggle to win the trenches on offense. Not to mention ____ poor execution from out FG unit. That cost us three games.

As some one who watched every game we played twice and every team we played during the week leading up to the game you are correct when speaking of 1 player on OL. He was just under sized and didn't have the God given ability. But he had a big heart. Other than that our line had as much God given talent as any, but often didn't play as one and together as a unit like our opponents did. That is not a talent issue.

_____ Poor execution at any position is a mental toughness issue. Like the above post said that comes from discipline. Discipline is instilled during the process of the off season. Nick Saban when talking about his success always talks about the process. The process is not what happens on game day or week. It starts on the first day of your offseason workout.

[CajunVic]

Right, wrong or indifferent you always shoot from the top. Sorry, but I’m just not buying that we lost 2 or 3 additional games because athletes slept at their college home instead of at a dorm during summer camp.

While I am not saying that this is something CMD should not reconsider going into this next season, with all of visible tangible issues available to lay blame, I can’t reach to that totally intangible issue . . .

[roarman]

I think the whole point Big Poppa was trying to make was summed up 9n the last two sentences. That is, CMD needs to stop being a player's coach and become more of a hard _____.

[Big Poppa]

Right, wrong or indifferent you always shoot from the top. Sorry, but I’m just not buying that we lost 2 or 3 additional games because athletes slept at their college home instead of at a dorm during summer camp.

While I am not saying that this is something CMD should not reconsider going into this next season, with all of visible tangible issues available to lay blame, I can’t reach to that totally intangible issue . . .

The fact that you think the camp situation is just about where you sleep proves to me you know nothing about a football camp. No need for me to go with someone who just don’t understand because you’ll probably never get it.