Mike Sewak

[ATXCajun]

If you win... they will come.

Yep. I doubt anyone drops their support because we are 8-4 but don't pass enough. I remember Babb and Fenroy shredding ULM in 2005 with the zone read. Barely threw any passes. It might as well have been the triple option. Ripping off 60 yards from scrimmage is just as exciting as a long bomb.


igeaux.mobi

[CajunNation]

Yep. I doubt anyone drops their support because we are 8-4 but don't pass enough. I remember Babb and Fenroy shredding ULM in 2005 with the zone read. Barely threw any passes. It might as well have been the triple option. Ripping off 60 yards from scrimmage is just as exciting as a long bomb.


igeaux.mobi

[Boomer]

_ If you win... they will come. _

If we run the single wing or the Notre Dame box---YOU ARE CORRECT---They will come if we win!!!!

[zephyr]

_ First of all, I believe that approx. 400K is the highest we'll pay. That doesn't mean the next coach will make that.

The casual fan didn't know Bob Marlin. That one is going to work out fine.

I don't consider Sewak's career to be "on the way down."

North Texas just hired Dan McCarney, who got fired as a head coach and had a losing record as a head coach. He was a position coach at Florida.

He's 57 years old.

They're pretty excited in Denton right now. _

Jay, I think you misinterpret the thoughts of some of us here including myself. I'd take the North Texas hire right about now without a question. You say he had a losing record as a coach but he also coached at one of the worst BCS schools in the country with little history or support similar to that of the Cajuns. However, he also turned that around and went to 5 bowl games with the lowely Iowa State Cyclones. In that day and age in the Big 12, that may have been the best conference in the land hands down and to win 5 games in conference and go to bowl games including a 9 win season is impressive. He also has coordinator experience at one of the best programs in the country.

My comments are based about the Triple option. First, many people confuse that with what we ran in the Babb/Desormeaux/Fenroy era. We ran the option and triple option out of the spread. We still gave the threat of the pass with multiple receiver sets and the offense had a lot of balance with Jerry Babb's ability to throw. The option offense that Sewak or Monken would bring in would be more out of the flexbone sets with possibly only 1 receiver on the field or 2 tops. This is a completely different offense and I believe that running an option game out of the spread is more beneficial to a team on our level versus lining up and running out of the flexbone against the bigger schools. Troy has made a living out of spreading people out and using matchups to dominate and even compete against bigger competition. I'm all for running the ball 200 yards per game and I loved watching the cajun offense run the ball in 2008. However, they still had the threat of balance in the offense that I think we would lose by running a different version of the triple option.

Also, my comments were based on what Slappy mentioned earlier. If we are going to make our next head coach one of the highest paid coaches in the league, thus doubling what we were paying Bustle then I would want a coach with more experience or a better track record than what this particular candidate would bring. If not, then we need to structure the pay accordingly. And yes, a part of me does want that sizzle factor to play a part of the hire. I would love that hire that would send a message to our other conference mates that we will be a player in the conference for years to come and someone who can recruit regionally and possibly even nationally.

[BirdofParadise]

_ Jay, I think you misinterpret the thoughts of some of us here including myself. I'd take the North Texas hire right about now without a question. You say he had a losing record as a coach but he also coached at one of the worst BCS schools in the country with little history or support similar to that of the Cajuns. However, he also turned that around and went to 5 bowl games with the lowely Iowa State Cyclones. In that day and age in the Big 12, that may have been the best conference in the land hands down and to win 5 games in conference and go to bowl games including a 9 win season is impressive. He also has coordinator experience at one of the best programs in the country.

My comments are based about the Triple option. First, many people confuse that with what we ran in the Babb/Desormeaux/Fenroy era. We ran the option and triple option out of the spread. We still gave the threat of the pass with multiple receiver sets and the offense had a lot of balance with Jerry Babb's ability to throw. The option offense that Sewak or Monken would bring in would be more out of the flexbone sets with possibly only 1 receiver on the field or 2 tops. This is a completely different offense and I believe that running an option game out of the spread is more beneficial to a team on our level versus lining up and running out of the flexbone against the bigger schools. Troy has made a living out of spreading people out and using matchups to dominate and even compete against bigger competition. I'm all for running the ball 200 yards per game and I loved watching the cajun offense run the ball in 2008. However, they still had the threat of balance in the offense that I think we would lose by running a different version of the triple option.

Also, my comments were based on what Slappy mentioned earlier. If we are going to make our next head coach one of the highest paid coaches in the league, thus doubling what we were paying Bustle then I would want a coach with more experience or a better track record than what this particular candidate would bring. If not, then we need to structure the pay accordingly. And yes, a part of me does want that sizzle factor to play a part of the hire. I would love that hire that would send a message to our other conference mates that we will be a player in the conference for years to come and someone who can recruit regionally and possibly even nationally. _

Let's also remember that McCarney will make about 200K more than we will pay our next coach.

[DrumRoll]

_ Jay, I think you misinterpret the thoughts of some of us here including myself. I'd take My comments are based about the Triple option. First, many people confuse that with what we ran in the Babb/Desormeaux/Fenroy era. We ran the option and triple option out of the spread.

I am pretty sure Paul Johnson runs the spread option at GA Tech. That is what Monken uses now at GA Southern. Why would anyone assume Sewak would not run it? Or did I misunderstand your post?

[TuffGuy84]

I like the Option to give us a great chance of winning and competing and winning against equally talented, or slightly more talented teams. I also think that this style of offense will hurt us in the ability to ever really pull a big upset because any team with a decent talent advantage will shut us down (something that's not necessarily true if we're a pass heavy offense). That said, I'm not as against the Triple Option as some of you, but I'm not sold on Sewak. My problem with him is that he is the CO-Offensive Line Coach. The fact that they don't trust him enough to straight away give him the O-Line coach job sends up a red flag for me. If he's hired, he could prove me wrong and be amazing, but I have him way down my list of candidates.

[CajunNation]

From wikipedia...about legendary, former head coach of GSU, Erk Russell....

During the Mike Sewak Era, Russell unfortunately cut ties with GSU after his son Rusty was fired from the coaching staff. In 2006, with the hire of new Head Coach Brian VanGorder, he was reunited with the program. He addressed the team the night before his shocking and sudden death on September 8, 2006

It was politics.

Sewak was screwed.

The man's resume should be wiped clean of this issue.

Hire him.

[wcd35]

_ From wikipedia...about legendary, former head coach of GSU, Erk Russell....

It was politics.

Sewak was screwed.

The man's resume should be wiped clean of this issue.

Hire him. _

Yeah, I was reading old message board talk about the situation. I dont thing most GSU fans were too happy

[SlappyCajun]

_ From wikipedia...about legendary, former head coach of GSU, Erk Russell....

It was politics.

Sewak was screwed.

The man's resume should be wiped clean of this issue.

Hire him. _

Also had two epic craters in back to back playoff games. Not saying that is terrible. But at a school used to hanging banners they didn't accept it.

[Cajunsmike]

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True supporters won't drop their support because of the offense we run the ball too much. Winning will keep all those people and bring more. However, people who go strictly for entertainment and are not as passionate as we may stop coming. I just asked the guy I am referring to about this situation one more time. He confirmed my suspicion. If we go to the option, he won't go regardless if we win and win big. Keep in mind he does not lose any sleep over the outcome of our games. He now goes for entertainment and simply does not enjoy watching football that is that unbalanced. Therefore he will find entertainment elsewhere. Again, he probably is an anamoly in regards to his perspective on this.

[CajunRed]

If we win, I would bet the number of people in the category of your friend might be about 3.

igeaux.mobi