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Post Game: Not good enough

Ut-Grizfan said:
I think it's less hate and just an accumulation of overall mediocrity of coming up short over the course of his tenure. We are one of the top schools in the Big Sky in every category (especially resources) and despite all these advantages we have come up short in terms of Championships and Athletic success.
5 Championships over 13 years between the top 2 Revenue Sports is inexcusable and now add the fact we are behind MSU in almost every facet on and off the field is the icing on the cake. I dont hate the man because it hasnt been all doom and gloom but Data doesnt lie, he tried and has failed.
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Like I said, I’m not opposed to making an AD change cause 13 years is a long time to hold any post. That said I do think Haslam for the most part has been good.
 
PDXGrizzly said:
It’s because Haslam belongs to Bobby. Without any stones, the AD is powerless to exert change on a program. If he’s powerless or unwilling to try and improve anything, then he has to go.
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Who do you think got Bobby to make all the changes to his staff after the 22 season? You’re making assumptions and have zero proof the backup your claims.
 
football is a competition. If a player isn't good enough he gets cut. If a coach can't beat a quality opponent he gets fired. Talking about how hard they work and time away from family just isn't reality for a big time program.
every Griz coach needs to be told "beat the cats or hit the road" this pussy athletic department needs a dose of reality.
 
billingsgriz said:
I think we were forced into it given the scarcity of FCS teams west of the Mississippi to play 12 games.
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We had a bye week. It was week 1. A HC can't choose when the bye week is. He doesn't put the schedule together and deal with the other schedules in the BSC.
 
billingsgriz said:
Three good MVFC teams (ND, SDSU, USD), how's that ?

Indiana State, 3-9, was not a good team.
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You "listened to the game from the youth services center"?

Should have volunteered some of the other 48 hours you put in babbling on egriz the past 2 weeks and freed those 3 up to catch it on TV.

Nice postgame recap though!?
 
billingsgriz said:
I was listening to the game on the radio while working at the youth service's center in Billings, and I wanted to destroy our radio or something else when MSU scored a TD on 3rd and 20. !!!

Now, after reading Brint's thoughtful analysis, I realize when Coach Hauck warned us our team was beat up going into this game he wasn't being crafty or cute like I thought he was: not having that regular-season bye and playing two really physical teams back-to-back in SDSU and USD took it's toll. If I understood Brint's analysis correctly, Ramos, Tolbert, Loud were out for that play and Micah had already been ejected ( I don't think he should have been as Dowler was falling after the catch, thus the high hit.) When Bobby told the press earlier in the week our team was pretty beat up and we would have to practice without pads, he wasn't kidding or being crafty !!!

I do think we need to abandon the 3-3-5 or use it only sparingly against run-heavy teams like MSU. As an armchair QB that hasn't played tackle football for 40 + years, I have to defer to my two friends here in Billings, both former college WR's, one for Eastern in Cheney, the other for NAIA Dickinson State in ND as well as a former WR coach at the NAIA level.

Both told me the 3-3-5 was developed to counter a pass-heavy O like the late-great Mike Leach's Air Raid offense ( Mike was from nearby Cody, Wyo., and a few folks that knew Coach Leach in Cody told me he was a character in a good way, including at his 40th high-school reunion in Cody and please note, Mike like Bobby never played college football. ) or the similar Air-Bear offense of legendary GRIZ skipper Don Read. According to my WR friends, the 5 DB's would be used in either man--to-man, zone or both during a game to shut down the opponent's passing game when combined with blitzes coming from the DB's , LB's or both to support the outmanned front 3 and generate pressure on the other team's QB.

They also told me what the 3-3-5 was not intended for--stopping a run-first, run-heavy offense. They told me to stop a run-heavy team, the defense should be in a 4-3-4 defense or a 4-2-5 and that it was even possible to switch defensive configurations provided the D was that flexible and knew their different assignments between a 4-3-4 or a 4-2-5 and a 3-3-5 during the game , for example, on first and second down and switch to a 3-3-5 on 3rd and long.

I do hope that when we play an MSU or another run-heavy MVFC team, we are in either a 4-2-5 or a 4-3-4 next year where, for example, instead of Ramos or Bailey playing DT, they are both playing DT side-by-side, and I realize whether through developing high-school players or recruiting through the portal, more likely both, we need 3 or 4 more 280-300 lb DT's like former GRIZ All Big Sky DT and now jeweler extraordinaire Brian Toone, originally from Butte, and Ramos and Bailey.

I think if we will adopt the 4-3-4 or 4-2-5 for run-heavy teams with the DT's and DE's to support it, we will be even more successful next year. !!! Firing a legendary head coach for going 13-2 and defeating 3 MVFC teams and doing all of this with no regular-season bye, in the screaming words in a NY accent of tennis great John McEnroe yelling at a tennis umpire after a blown call duribg a match, " Are you serious? ...You can't be serious ? "

Go GRIZ. !!!
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Bobby's 3-3-5 definitely doesn't stop passing games. How many qbs threw for 300-400 yards against this defense?
 
kemajic said:
Read the thread. Indiana St. beat SDSU in Brookings.
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Yes, when SDSU was so beat up with Mason out and several other starters out due to injury.

Indiana State was not a good 2025 football team ( 3-9 ) and whipped SDSU when the Jack Rabbits were battered by injury and Mason was out, one game of SDSU's consecutive four-game losing streak.. Indiana State played a very different SDSU than MSU did in early Sept.--that's just a fact, like it or not.
 
billingsgriz said:
Yes, when SDSU was so beat up with Mason out and several other starters out due to injury.

Indiana State was not a good 2025 football team ( 3-9 ) and whipped SDSU when the Jack Rabbits were battered by injury and Mason was out, one game of SDSU's consecutive four-game losing streak.. Indiana State played a very different SDSU than MSU did in early Sept.--that's just a fact, like it or not.
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The fact remains that Montana was 4-0 against the MVFC this year no matter how you try to spin it. Three of them were playoff teams.
 
kemajic said:
We had a bye week. It was week 1. A HC can't choose when the bye week is. He doesn't put the schedule together and deal with the other schedules in the BSC.
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I do remember reading something where the bye was originally scheduled another week but then an opportunity came up for a game that week for another home game and Bobby was asked if he minded and he said let's do it.
 
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