STILL No Brohm?

[cardfan]

Petrino never really let Brohm let er rip and in fact any QB in his offense did very well in the short passing game. In the first two games i think we saw Krag letting Brohm throw it deep. Time to celebrate the passing game perhaps? But we saw a defense that let bottom of the barrel teams march down the field. We saw a running game that choked a lot. We saw how much Douglas meant to Brohm. We saw Krag (and his OC) get more clueless as the season went on.

What's it all mean? I have no clue I do know Brohm stayed and matured his senior year. He's the son of a coach and was bred to be a QB and has the QB iq. In the end, that's hard to ignore. He's sharp throwing the ball, throws it hard. Got it swatted more than i'd like to see, but that's basically my opinion.

Some of you continue to be just peachy with Krag. Yet Brohm is just another casualty of Krag's. You have to keep in mind how hyped Brohm was and what a prospect he was. Krag turned UL into dogsh(*T and we all know it. Let's hope it was the assistants and not the head guy because he's got another year to prove otherwise.

[bling49]

Originally Posted by cardfan

Yet Brohm is just another casualty of Krag's.
Krag turned UL into dogsh(*T and we all know it.

Let's hope it was the assistants and not the head guy because he's got another year to prove otherwise.

Kind of a contridiction isnt that?

"Krag turned UL into dog shit"

then....

"Let's hope it was the assistants"

Kragthorpe was not the reason UL defense sucked.

Krag wasnt the reason Allen played hurt most of the year.

Krag wasnt the reason Spillman and Strippling (Mary Jane) were suspended from the team.

Many other factors played into why the running game and the defense played bad but I am not of the opinion we can put all of that on Kragthorpe.

Can't use the excuse of it being the assistants this year so we shall see.

[cardfan]

Krag should've been canned midseason. That dude set the program and everyone in it back..way back. Was it the assistants? I don't know. I don't care. He hired em.. Yet, more blunders. So now its another season with new assistants where we hope they can get it done.

Whose fault was it that the defense sucked? or that the running game sputtered? or he couldn't manage timeouts? or he couldn't let Brohm call audibles? The pathetic special teams? (the list goes on..) Whose fault was it? The tooth fairy? No, i think its the guy cashing the big paychecks.

[bling49]

Really?

A bad coach can turn a good team into shit in one year?

I doubt a talented group of players suddenly forget how to play football in 3 months. Krag didnt change the offense and kept the terminology the same.

Even Ron Cooper took more than a couple seasons to turn Schnellenberger's UL squad into losers.

I am just not of the opinion that Petrino left Kragthorpe the keys to a shiny sports car.

Where was Mario Urrutia?

Mario looked nothing like the player he was in 2006, where were Spillman & Strippling, oh suspended.

Where were our LB's......Myles was the only one who played worth a shit and he was making tackles 5-yards past the line of scrimmage.

Utah's 3rd string RB rushed for a career high 180-something yards on Louisville.....maybe Kragthorpe should have put on a helmet and shoulder pads and made 20 tackles that game for the UL defense.

Maybe a coaching change changed the chemistry of the coaching staff but suddenly our DB's couldnt figure out where on the field they were supposed to line up or who to cover. the defensive coord didnt change so I cant blame chemistry of the coaches on that.

Syracuse was one of the worst offenses in the NATION and they were continually open deep and passes for 300-yards on the Cards.

Kragthorpe cant line up for the players, they have to make plays and last year they didnt,

[Junkman]

I agree. A team doesn't go from as good as they were to as bad as they were without some of the problems already being in place. Chemistry has a lot more to do with it than you think. How can a loaded Laker team go from "can't get to the championship game" to "winning three in 4 years"? In that case, it was a coach who knew how to control the egos. He was the only one who could figure out how to control Rodman, whether or not it was him or Jordan with the harness around Rodman's neck, he was still kept in control.

I don't put all the blame on Krag. He can't coach the entire team during a game, that's why there are other coaches. There were some things going on that we will probably never be privy to so discussing it is probably fruitless. Whatever it was, I hope it is gone. We saw how Caracter disrupted the basketball team, imagine 20 Caracters on the football team.

[Empire Lindy]

Originally Posted by Junkman

We saw how Caracter disrupted the basketball team, imagine 20 Caracters on the football team.

Sorry, Junk, but how can you make that comparison/claim when the end result of the basketball season was an Elite Eight berth. Does that mean that Pitino was able to overcome head cases that Krag couldn't? It seems to be the only conclusion to draw when one coach makes it nearly to the acme of his sport's tourney while another doesn't even make the postseason.

[cardfan]

It's not even that really. 6-6 record? I can live with that. Not great. Not bad either. It's watching the games though. We had teams, very very bad teams, downright pitiful teams....just running down the field on us...run, pass..it didn't matter. We had special teams looking very bad in punting situations.

Then the offense soured up and got downright unpredicatable as if the coaches weren't sure of what they were doing. Stopped using a powerback, went to Stripling and then to someone else. Too many passes. Too many 3 and outs.

Yes, there were a couple of suspensions but that's normal on any team. Like players have said before, Petrino had them in line because he got in their face. New coach? They probably tested him and rumors were he was more friendly.

This was a team that boasted perhaps the best QB we've ever had, some good receivers, tightends, decent RB's, and that offense sputtered. Completely inexcusable. Krag even had a kicker that was pretty much automatic. All he really needed was a half ass defense that could stop an average offense. But nope. We had teams like Syracuse, MTSU, MSU, running down the field on us. At home even.

Now i know this is all in the past and we should forget it, but it's hard to although i squarely place the blame on Krag. This coming season has a lot of questions. We can celebrate the new assistants and try to gain hope from them, but Krag has much to prove.

[Red Alert]

I still cant believe we lost to Syracuse........at home.

[nmcardsfan]

yup...I agree RA...and for them to be THE team to snap our 20+ game home streak?

[Junkman]

Originally Posted by Empire Lindy

Sorry, Junk, but how can you make that comparison/claim when the end result of the basketball season was an Elite Eight berth. Does that mean that Pitino was able to overcome head cases that Krag couldn't? It seems to be the only conclusion to draw when one coach makes it nearly to the acme of his sport's tourney while another doesn't even make the postseason.

You could be right. But then if Caracter was such a pain in Pitino's side that he doesn't even want him back (and you know he wanted him bad to put up with the crap that he put up with), then maybe dealing with 20 Caracters is just too much for any coach to deal with. Yep, that would be quite a feat!