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A coaching ass whooping.

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If anyone blames anything other than that they are reaching. 11 sacks, no adjustments and yeah our offensive line sucked something awful. The shitty O-line play was one for the ages and please don't blame Lamar's indecision. He never was able to get two feet set for a second.

Lazy effort all around and not rising to the challenge. Receivers not getting open, missed blocks and turnovers. Defense played with no urgency either.

Better get some mirrors handy to have any chance of moving forward.

Houston deserves all the credit you can give them.
 
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I would agree that it was entirely coaching tonight. The play calling was horrible. With all the blitzing that Houston did tonight, we should have been running screens and misdirection plays. We simply cannot run 20 yard go routes when the defense blitzes as much as Houston did tonight.
 
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I think most of our fans will WAY undersell Houston after this game, and respond with all varieties of somewhat offbase to incredibly offbase explanations. The fumbles, yeah, that's more of the same from the first ten games. The penalties and false starts...ditto. But we've always been good enough to overcome that.

Houston has great talent and speed whether their recruiting results show that or not. How many times did Lamar get chased down from behind from one of the front seven? And our often maligned O-linemen were supposed to block that speed. Right.

How many times did Lamar break into the clear only to have 2-3 black shirts converge on him from offscreen? How many times did he throw to a wide-open receiver who in games prior would run ten yards before encountering a defender? And there were those 2-3 black shirts converging again and again.

IMO, the real coaching explanation after this game should be coming from Tom Herman for a completely different reason...
 
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Blame Lamar, he was running for his life the entire game. Our OL should be embarrassed! That was some of the most pathetic playing I've seen at UL since SK was here. The D didn't play much better.
 
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What is left? Kicking A suddenly optimistic UK team's ass would be nice and in doing so maybe preserving Lamar's Heisman. That and learning some really valuable lessons for next year.

I'll take a win vs UK and Lamar winning the Heisman Trophy. We all knew hiw much can be lost just that quick. Hopefully not all.
 
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we stunk the joint up. #56 and #74 had 13 penalties between the two of them and they played Ole when they were not committing penalties.

as incompetent as UK is, they have to feel excited to play us on the 26th.

Our offensive line 11 games into the year looked every bit a pre season and unprepared line. That is on the shoulders of the line coach and he should be fired tonight.

I know we have this smithers majority here and this awe shucks majority, but that was crap hitting the fan. literally.

High school lines operate on a silent count and the #5 team in america is left with its head coach rubbing his chin looking lost in the headlights as Houston sent 9 in the box with reckless abandon and our offensive guru did nothing to stop it.

Our offensive line is pee wee league level and it was exposed tonight Zipp.

That line coach needs fired and it should happen tonight.


The DC needs to move on. he has a boner for the blitz andjust like in the Wake game, Houston took advantage of the over aggressive blitz.

if you think that UK will not look at wake film and houston film you are crazy.

The coaches lost this game not having the team prepared with a silent count.


I say they also lost it with avoiding a power run game, or even a short pass game.

Bobby had the same deer in the headlights look at Rutgers years ago.


he crapped the bed tonight.

We need competent linemen, and a coach who can have them line up correctly with the proper gaps. What we witnessed tonight should never occur on a college team.
 
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The line can't see who's blitzing on every play,therefore there is confusion about schemes.There were plenty of one-on-one's lost,but nobody's calling out the blitz packages.Makes it kind of difficult if you're one of those 5 guys trying to block 7.
 
Louisvillian said:
If anyone blames anything other than that they are reaching. 11 sacks, no adjustments and yeah our offensive line sucked something awful. The shitty O-line play was one for the ages and please don't blame Lamar's indecision. He never was able to get two feet set for a second.

Lazy effort all around and not rising to the challenge. Receivers not getting open, missed blocks and turnovers. Defense played with no urgency either.

Better get some mirrors handy to have any chance of moving forward.

Houston deserves all the credit you can give them.
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Much of what happened last night had as much to do with attitude as it did with coaching. I saw a bunch of kids who had been reading their own headlines and not mentally prepared to play. Now the coach IS responsible to have them mentally ready to go, and that's where Petrino failed to do his job.

Enough belly aching from me though. I give MAD PROPS to coach Herman and his team because they flat out dominated the game. Houston rose up to the challenge and kicked our teeth in. Congrats to the Houston Cougars.
 
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I think most of our fans will WAY undersell Houston after this game, and respond with all varieties of somewhat offbase to incredibly offbase explanations. The fumbles, yeah, that's more of the same from the first ten games. The penalties and false starts...ditto. But we've always been good enough to overcome that.

Houston has great talent and speed whether their recruiting results show that or not. How many times did Lamar get chased down from behind from one of the front seven? And our often maligned O-linemen were supposed to block that speed. Right.

How many times did Lamar break into the clear only to have 2-3 black shirts converge on him from offscreen? How many times did he throw to a wide-open receiver who in games prior would run ten yards before encountering a defender? And there were those 2-3 black shirts converging again and again.

IMO, the real coaching explanation after this game should be coming from Tom Herman for a completely different reason...
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No problem for SMU or Navy.
 
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FWIW, #74 was a 4 star recruit IIRC.

Never mind. Rivals says 3 star but when we got him I know I saw somewhere he was a 4.

Whatever he was, he had a $#!t load of penalties.
 
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Much of what happened last night had as much to do with attitude as it did with coaching. I saw a bunch of kids who had been reading their own headlines and not mentally prepared to play. Now the coach IS responsible to have them mentally ready to go, and that's where Petrino failed to do his job.

Enough belly aching from me though. I give MAD PROPS to coach Herman and his team because they flat out dominated the game. Houston rose up to the challenge and kicked our teeth in. Congrats to the Houston Cougars.
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I am a Houston grad and actually thought we would lose by two TDs but this guy coaching the Cougars is a different cat for sure. I am still in shock over 11 sacks.
 
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The line can't see who's blitzing on every play,therefore there is confusion about schemes.There were plenty of one-on-one's lost,but nobody's calling out the blitz packages.Makes it kind of difficult if you're one of those 5 guys trying to block 7.
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if I was the head coach we would have went to a 4 wide spread and ran a short route package. mixed in a lot of screens and backed that defense up, then came in with a 3 tight end set and ran the ball, with mixed in TE screens and power football.

The zone read is our running game when it should be at the most 60-40 power run to zone read.

but hey, our guru will handle it.
 
My two cents--anyone who doesn't think a major part of this loss was poor preparation must believe Houston would be a three TD favorite over Clemson.
 
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