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McDowell Says

oldngrizzly said:
6-5, No playoffs
10-4, Quarterfinals
10-3, Quarterfinals
8-5 Second Round (the down year)
13-2, 2nd best team in the nation (lucky that's all )

Not an impressive record to me.Better quarterbacks would may a difference.Tell me SDSU quaterback made no difference.
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You don't see an improving trend there from where we were before?

And you didn't respond to the relevant points, including the example of Idaho wasting two years of great wrestling to develop Mccoy, and then he leaves. Now they start over.
oldngrizzly said:
Can we not agree that the quarterback is the most important position on the team ? I me even you non football players hopefully could understand that.
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Yea, for sure. Thank God we have been going with the best guy and bringing in good people.

Where you played, how did they do it better? I know they weren't scheduling naia teams to put the freshman in....
 
AZGrizFan said:
Yes, shitty years are bad coaching, getting to the NC was just "lucky".

You motherfuckers never cease to amaze me.

The only UNlucky part was Johnson getting hurt for a good part of 2022, and then McDowell getting hurt early in the NC game. How do you think SDSU would have fared had Gronowski gone down?
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They would still have won cause they had better backups that were developed for the position
 
ElrodGrizzly said:
You don't see an improving trend there from where we were before?

And you didn't respond to the relevant points, including the example of Idaho wasting two years of great wrestling to develop Mccoy, and then he leaves. Now they start over.

Yea, for sure. Thank God we have been going with the best guy and bringing in good people.

Where you played, how did they do it better? I know they weren't scheduling naia teams to put the freshman in....
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Improving ? I think we are certainly on track to do that. Much better coaching now and we are working on quarterbacks.Most of my comments deal with the past not the future. I think we are on the best track we can be for the players we have or can recruit.
Mccoy is like McDowell in a lot of respects except he is better.Gronowski did not leave SDSU because he is commited to the team that gave him a chance to develop.
 
oldngrizzly said:
Improving ? I think we are certainly on track to do that. Much better coaching now and we are working on quarterbacks.Most of my comments deal with the past not the future. I think we are on the best track we can be for the players we have or can recruit.
Mccoy is like McDowell in a lot of respects except he is better.Gronowski did not leave SDSU because he is commited to the team that gave him a chance to develop.
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The point is that McCoy was the freshman they developed, and he left. How is that like McDowell, who was a transfer that started as a senior and led us to the national title? You keep saying we should be developing a freshman instead of starting the upper classmen, and my point is that if we do that, they could just leave and put us back at square one. Start the best guy every year.

We have already improved. We went to the national championship. The only way to improve is winning it, and starting Ah Yat last year would not have helped us do that last year. We would have taken a step back, and then you would be mad we had a season with like 6 wins.

If you are saying we are on the right track, then why would we change what has gotten us to this point?
 
oldngrizzly said:
They would still have won cause they had better backups that were developed for the position
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Do you do an OUNCE of research before you spew this bullshit?

Do you know how many pass attempts Gronowski's backup had during the entirety of last season? TWENTY SIX. For the ENTIRE SEASON. And half of those were in their first two games of the season against powerhouses Drake and Mercer. That means in the final 13 games he had 13 pass attempts. The third string guy had FIVE attempts all year. You know how many passes guys NOT named Gronowski threw in 2022? THIRTEEN. Total. That is some special kind of development.

Conversely, Vidlak had 89 pass attempts and Ah Yat had 38 attempts in 2023. Now tell me how much better "developed" the SDSU backup was...
 
uofmman1122 said:
They literally lost a national championship game to an inferior team in 2021 because Gronowski got hurt, you are so wrong it's painful to watch.
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I thought he was really logically committed to his concept. After these last posts, dude just is another guy who is inventing reasons out of thin air to try to trash the coaches. I have never seen a fanbase have such a weird dislike of the winnningest coach in their program's history. There just HAS to be a reason to criticize.

I feel bad for people that are so dedicated to criticizing Hauck that they couldn't enjoy the incredible season we had last year. It honestly felt magical, and there were moments that I will never forget for the rest of my life. My 9 year old just two nights ago asked if we could watch the NDSU and MSU griz highlight tapes again, because it was such a special year for both of us to share. But after all of that, we didn't schedule enough NAIA games for the freshman to beat up on lesser competition. If I face palmed any harder this afternoon, I would have broken my own nose.
 
ElrodGrizzly said:
I thought he was really logically committed to his concept. After these last posts, dude just is another guy who is inventing reasons out of thin air to try to trash the coaches. I have never seen a fanbase have such a weird dislike of the winnningest coach in their program's history. There just HAS to be a reason to criticize.

I feel bad for people that are so dedicated to criticizing Hauck that they couldn't enjoy the incredible season we had last year. It honestly felt magical, and there were moments that I will never forget for the rest of my life. My 9 year old just two nights ago asked if we could watch the NDSU and MSU griz highlight tapes again, because it was such a special year for both of us to share. But after all of that, we didn't schedule enough NAIA games for the freshman to beat up on lesser competition. If I face palmed any harder this afternoon, I would have broken my own nose.
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He's trolling. If we went undefeated, won the NC, and never gave up a point all season, there would be new posters cropping up talking about how the staff sucks because we should've taken the points or went for it on 4th down in a September non-conference game.
 
CDAGRIZ said:
He's trolling. If we went undefeated, won the NC, and never gave up a point all season, there would be new posters cropping up talking about how the staff sucks because we should've taken the points or went for it on 4th down in a September non-conference game.
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You're right. I need to delineate better between serious ideas and trolling. I really thought he wanted to talk ideas.
 
CDAGRIZ said:
Hey, but wait. Hear me out. We start the worst QB to develop him, he gets really good, and then the next season, we bench him and start the new worst QB to develop him, he gets really good, and then the next season, we bench him and start the new worst QB. This continues in perpetuity. Always starting the worst QB is the mark of a great program.
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Just ask a bub fan, the players on the bench are always better than the starters.
 
oldngrizzly said:
Gronowski did not leave SDSU because he is commited to the team that gave him a chance to develop.
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Um, no. He stayed in order to have a chance at the NFL because he was told that he needed to have a lot of playing time rather than transferring up and sitting on the bench. That, and winning another natty were the main reasons he stayed (he posted as much on his Twitter). Being the starting quarterback on the national championship team matters. Loyalty had little to do with his decision.

"In an interview with the Nate Brown Show, Gronowski said one of the main factors that influenced his decision was, determining the best place for him to raise his NFL stock. After talking to scouts, agents, mentors and his family, he decided the best place to do that is still South Dakota State."
 
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