Mayo's Musings from yesterday's cluster.....

[Mayoman]

Maybe the HC should offer up some of his money to bridge the gap to pay more for key assistant positions ???
I know, just thinking outside the box. That likelihood is as about as possible as gettting into the SEC.

I hate to think it, much less say it...'the Bye' beat us this game. Focus and MO not sustained.

The ACC needs to rethink the scheduling issue. No more 2 bye seasons especially one early in the season at week 3. Lets play FB and focus on keeping the FOCUS on momentum...winning a big game then having a bye week sucks too...and it bit us in the butt this week.

Also, I really despise Clemson and Dabo winning like they did. Now Pitt is going to come into next weeks game with claws out and take pride in making it two in a row against the hapless Cards to salvage their season.

I hope I am wrong ,but two chokers facing each other is a sad, bad look for the ACC and one of them will take it on the chin again. This could have been a national highlight game had both teams played better and won their games.

Cards having five losses going into the UK game would be disgusting to me. At least the Cards don't have to play Texas this next game....just a pissed off Panther team...which is worse?

Oh well, 8 wins is still possible no matter how unlikely that is at this point in time. Cardinals got to find a way to get back up and end this season on a positive note. Just win the damn games like SMU has been doing. How good is coach Rhett Lashley?

The ACC really needs Miami (sic) to step up in a big way the rest of the season...in short to prove that it is not just Clemson and nobody else in the league...and to spoil the SEC/BIG media lovefest.

If the SEC gets 4-5-6 teams in and /or BIG gets 4 or more, CFB will suck forever more....and what has been my favorite college sport to watch will no longer be 'my favorite" anymore...and that just sux to me.

 

[glassmanJ]

bye week doesn't mean anything, all teams have to deal with it. it's the coaching, plain and simple.

 

[Thecycle27]

The staff took Stanford offense lightly and didn’t scheme up any blitz packages plus had soft coverages letting a shitty QB and freshman WR torch them. Until you get a defensive staff that can scheme and coach you are going to get results like this. They decided at the beginning of the year they had the bodies to play Big Ten football in a pass happy league.

 

[Knucklehank1]

One thing about the defense that I have no idea about is - what is their identity and frankly what kind of defense does Brohm want them to run? For instance when we had Lamar, we also had Todd Grantham as DC. Love him or hate him he ran a defense that complimented the offense. Petrino wanted the ball as much as possible so the very aggressive defense Grantham ran fit with what Petrino wanted. Yes we would get burned by his blitzes sometimes but it also created a defense that was a turnover making machine - Gerod Holliman led the nation in INTs. I have no idea what we are currently trying to achieve on defense. There is no identity. They have trouble getting the signals in. They don’t force turnovers. Three penalties overturned two turnovers and a stop on a two point conversion - any of which likely seals the game.