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Stitt back to Mines

mthoopsfan said:
My recollection is that Mike Ferriter, who recruited JLM's brother when Mike was at Idaho St., deserves much of the credit for getting JLM to UM. Can't recall exactly what the situation was.
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I'm pretty sure that's the case with lots of recruits.
 
AZGrizFan said:
And then they stayed and signed with Stitt after the coaching change.

Edit: And there were a number of big O-linemen that THIS place was very excited about signing...many of whom flamed out or ended up injured. But it wasn't like he was just recruiting stiffs. He ended up having to USE stiffs because option A usually wasn't available, but it wasn't like he ignored the position (which is stated so frequently on here).
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No way, man. He didn't care about the OL one bit. Just 7-wide and hope they adhere to the 5-Mississippi honor system. I read it here. Hell, I run about 160-ish, and there was talk of me subbing in at LT.
 
CDAGRIZ said:
No way, man. He didn't care about the OL one bit. Just 7-wide and hope they adhere to the 5-Mississippi honor system. I read it here. Hell, I run about 160-ish, and there was talk of me subbing in at LT.
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To be fair, I was the one that started that talk. I just wanted to see how it would go for you.
 
ElrodGrizzly said:
To be fair, I was the one that started that talk. I just wanted to see how it would go for you.
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His biggest lack of caring came as it related to defense and special teams. He took no ownership of either. I once asked him why we were having so many fair catches on receiving punts, even when there appeared to be good running room. His classic response was that he was not interested in punt returns, he wanted his offense to get the ball as soon as possible. I'm not kidding, there were many witnesses.
 
kemajic said:
His biggest lack of caring came as it related to defense and special teams. He took no ownership of either. I once asked him why we were having so many fair catches on receiving punts, even when there appeared to be good running room. His classic response was that he was not interested in punt returns, he wanted his offense to get the ball as soon as possible. I'm not kidding, there were many witnesses.
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That was known before he even came here. Didn’t like to punt, didn’t like punt returns.
 
kemajic said:
His biggest lack of caring came as it related to defense and special teams. He took no ownership of either. I once asked him why we were having so many fair catches on receiving punts, even when there appeared to be good running room. His classic response was that he was not interested in punt returns, he wanted his offense to get the ball as soon as possible. I'm not kidding, there were many witnesses.

And I remember Coach Stitt saying if the other team scores, that's okay because we can will then get the ball back and go back on offense. I agree--his focus was on his offense to the detriment of his team's defense and ST. I think he cared about D and ST, but he
farmed them out to his other coordinator and coaches but then as the head coach failed to monitor and supervise those coaches because he was too busy being his own offensive.coordinator--remember the green GRIZ cap ?

The fatal flaw in his gimmick no-huddle offense is if we scored, we scored usually very quickly. And If we didn't score, we usually very quickly went 3 and out. Either way our D ended up spending way too much time on the field, getting gassed !!!
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I screwed up--the first paragraph is kemajic's, and the second two are mine. Not quite sure how I did that so I will blame egriz--just kidding !!!
 
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