This is literally the circle of life at every program sooner or later. It’s not just us.
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Let's swap olines and two RB's and see what happens.
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Sometimes when I see these types of threads, along with @Ducksker (aka Kitty) 's I wonder what certain people do for a living.
Nobody knows for sure whether Rhule and his staff will work in the longer term. But to have a linear thought process that 5 games in we hired the wrong guy in charge is naive and a linear thought process - usually reserved for those that don't completely understand the bigger picture.
We're all pissed and frustrated, but there are times in life where at least a little patience is wise. The sooner we run off coaches, the harder it'll be to attract others. Perhaps what Rhule might be learning is the runway isn't quite as long as he thought - and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Ultimately, we may need to replace a few pieces like you mention. It's a bit too early to make that declaration, but it seemed you were voicing your frustrations more than anything.
I only say this because there have been MANY head coaches over the years that didn't get it right until they were deeper into their tenure. A coach that can bring a couple of his son's with him doesn't happen all that often.
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I agree they are better, but we had them beat last year and fucked it up. The talent gap isn’t as crazy as you think.
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Overall maybe. In those position groups it's significant.
If we can stop the run against them we will be in the game.
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We have to find a way to manufacture points or it won’t matter. WiscyDicks is getting better on offense every week. Even if our defense plays well I’m guessing WiscyDicks will score 24-30 points.
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WiscyDicks has looked about the same to me game to game. When they run the ball they're pretty good. If they don't run the ball they're not very good.
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They looked much better against Purdoodoo offensively. I’ll be shocked if WiscyDicks doesn’t take care of us fairly easy in Madison with our shitty offense. We need to win three of the next four and steal one of the last three. Cockeye looks like the most likely game we steal.
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To give Longo credit I think what he did in those couple games they were close in the first half when they shouldn't have been. I think he was running what he wanted to run in the 1st half (air raid). 2nd half he ran what they're capable of running (power running).
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And the one loss was to a team which could probably win the west in Washington State. They are no joke.
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Saying a team could win the west isn't saying much. They're decent. They'd be the 4th or 5th best team in the East. They're probably a 2 or 3 loss team.
They should beat everyone but Oregon and Washington. They don't have USC or Utah. They're middle of the pack if they were in the SEC?
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I’m trying to say that wasn’t a bad loss for WiscyDicks considering they are breaking in a new offense. I’ll be surprised if they don’t boat race us in Madison. We need to do well in the next four games where every game is winnable.
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That's fair. We slowed their running game down last year. Don't know why we couldn't this year. We only scored like 12 points last year.
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I think they have a better offense this year with the mobile qb. He is better than Mertz was, and they still play good defense. I can’t see us scoring many points on them. 7-14. 20 max.
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Agree Mordecai is better. Think their defense is a step back though. We score 20 and we've got a good chance at winning imo.
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I’m also under the assumption our offense will give them some turnovers. Hopefully we start seeing weekly improvement from the offense, but I have my doubts.
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I'll give you my opinion after this next week. We were so outmatched in every phase this week. Michigan is a legit playoff team. Illinois is a typical west team. Bottom half of the west. If we don't score against them we're not scoring against anyone.
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I’m partial to the old WiscyDicks style. I want smash mouth/kick your ass football.
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You can throw Michigan out. The biggest letdown for me was how our defense got raped. I actually thought they would play better. Our offense didn’t look very good against LA Tech and Northern Illinois either. The running game wasn’t bad, but I don’t think we are good enough to run the ball when we need to against better defenses because we have no real passing game as a compliment. BIG defenses will just force us to pass. Having said that we have enough talent to win the next four games. Will we? I doubt it. 3-1 would be good. 2-2 or worse, and you can forget about bowling for another year.
