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So firing Montgomery is now clearly a mistake right?

Or at least his replacement has been a mistake.

Last season the receiving corp was infinitely worse. Cannot be overstated.
OL was just as bad, I honestly think worse in fact. They've sort of marginally improved imo.
Thorne is still Thorne, as was last season.

Yet last season in big games, Auburn scored more points. Montgomery found ways. I really didn't think the hate against him was deserved. Pretty hard to call plays with that receiving corp. They were just horrendously bad. I would've liked to see what he could've done with this corp.

Hidden Stats…

Decided to check up on some stats that often affect wins and losses after yet another loss where we held the yardage edge. Here are the results (through last week statswise, although I think the only category we might improve in after today would be turnover margin).


Field Goal Percentage: 106th
KO Return Defense: 43rd
Net Punting: 11th
Punt Return Defense: 1st
Penalties Per Game: 58th
Penalty Yards Per Game: 69th
Turnover Margin: 125th
Time of Possession: 112th
3rd Down Conversion: 49th
4th Down Conversion: 117th
Sacks Allowed: 99th
3rd Down Conversion defense: 61st
4th Down Conversion defense: 71st
Punt Returns: 91st
Kickoff Returns: 28th

The above stats to me, are representative of a team with a lack of attention to detail and poor coaching in general. I’ve tried to stay quiet about Hugh out of respect for what we’re doing recruiting wise, but this is ugly. The only element that is performing well here being the punting unit. It really begs to question what exactly are we doing in practice to be this poor across the board with the talent we have.

Worst loss of the year and it’s not really close

We’ve had a frustrating season and have handed a few games away but today is on a different level.
There’s plenty of blame to go around but it begins and ends with the head coach and offensive coaching staff. They should be embarrassed (actually embarrassed isn’t strong enough) by the product they put on the field today.
The formula was demonstrated last week for this team to win. Today, Hunter gains 15 yards on the first play of the game and the 35 on only 11 more touches.
Our staff has to know that our OLine can’t pass pro so how do we plan for that, slow developing long passes of course. We should have run that little swing to Simmons 20 times today or at least until it didn’t gain 8 yards.
When we do get the right play called, we throw a pass 7ft over a wide open receivers head.

Football rarely frustrates me any more and I’ll move on this afternoon and enjoy the rest of my weekend but today’s coaching effort and decision making was a joke. All the way to the end. Why on God’s green earth do you call a TO with 2:01 on the clock when the clock will stop in 0:01 seconds anyway?

Hugh Freeze is our coach. I absolutely want him to be successful. Paying more people millions of dollars not to coach here is a horrible plan. He will not be fired this year but this is on him and he better figure it out before we kick it off next year.

Ok, rant over. Let’s go out and enjoy the rest of the day.
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