the most rational, can agree on this:
Losing that game in the manner in which it was lost is unacceptable in Narduzzi’s 4th year as head coach. Unacceptable-period. Honestly it would be unacceptable in any coach’s first year against any opponent. But to come out and embarrass yourselves in year 4, on your home field, against your hated rival, on one of your very few prime time nationally televised games, in a game that should have at least been competitive by just about any pre-game measure or analysis, is simply not acceptable. It was a direct and catastrophic failure of coaching and program leadership.
The better team certainly won and I assume most of us were mentally prepared for that outcome. But for the team to just come out and embarrass itself and the university, to completely $hit the bed from the coin toss to the final snap, to be a national laughingstock, is not going to cut it. And it cannot be ignored or left unaddressed by the athletic director and university administration.
I’m not saying Narduzzi should be fired for this one debacle, but I am saying that the honeymoon MUST officially be over at this point with his bosses-the man should be coaching every game as though it’s for his job from this point forward. This has to take a chunk out of his credibility with the people that matter as the man who’s expected to lead this program forward.
The weather didn’t cause this total meltdown, the refs didn’t cause it, the talent differential did not cause it, the quality of the opponent did not cause it. Lack of leadership, coaching, preparation, and organization caused it. We can beat Clemson or another top 10 team once in a while, but nobody nationally or locally will ever respect this program or take it seriously until it gets past the point where a debacle like this is even possible.
Losing that game in the manner in which it was lost is unacceptable in Narduzzi’s 4th year as head coach. Unacceptable-period. Honestly it would be unacceptable in any coach’s first year against any opponent. But to come out and embarrass yourselves in year 4, on your home field, against your hated rival, on one of your very few prime time nationally televised games, in a game that should have at least been competitive by just about any pre-game measure or analysis, is simply not acceptable. It was a direct and catastrophic failure of coaching and program leadership.
The better team certainly won and I assume most of us were mentally prepared for that outcome. But for the team to just come out and embarrass itself and the university, to completely $hit the bed from the coin toss to the final snap, to be a national laughingstock, is not going to cut it. And it cannot be ignored or left unaddressed by the athletic director and university administration.
I’m not saying Narduzzi should be fired for this one debacle, but I am saying that the honeymoon MUST officially be over at this point with his bosses-the man should be coaching every game as though it’s for his job from this point forward. This has to take a chunk out of his credibility with the people that matter as the man who’s expected to lead this program forward.
The weather didn’t cause this total meltdown, the refs didn’t cause it, the talent differential did not cause it, the quality of the opponent did not cause it. Lack of leadership, coaching, preparation, and organization caused it. We can beat Clemson or another top 10 team once in a while, but nobody nationally or locally will ever respect this program or take it seriously until it gets past the point where a debacle like this is even possible.
