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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 22, 2011 22:57:30 GMT -6
Right now USD has a mixed bag when it comes to the head coaches in place at the University.
Ed Meierkort and the football program is going completely in the wrong direction. The talent seems to be in place on offense but on the D side of the ball it seems a bit more of a question mark. Morrell did a fair to good job with the defense but now that he is gone I expect a significant degration of the unit as a whole.
Without getting into it a ton the majority seem to be in the camp of thinking that things will get better with time as the transition is still ongoing. The minority sees it as an inevitable situation. I am in that group regardless of how small or large it is.
Hopefully the realization that USD football will not be great as things currently stand and the time to move on comes ASAP.
Now that Morrell is gone USD will now officially have many question marks on both sides of the ball. USD needs to go with a different quarterback and runningback next season. The wide receivers are just too good to be seeing them not being delivered the ball properly very often compared to what should be expected. USD needs a heady pocket quarterback that can take advantage of the skill that the Yotes have at the receiver position. If we had a throw first heady QB the offense would be much more effective. Having a new stud carry the rock would certainly help as well. If we could only have Logan, White or Stamer back again things would be much more bright in the backfield.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 22, 2011 23:05:53 GMT -6
On the mens basketball side of things I believe USD is the best off of the big 3 sports as far as the guy in charge. Dave Boots has his ups and downs but he has a resume that is much more impressive than what Meierkort or Ryun Williams bring to the table. Boots won NCC titles with a full 10 team league and had the Yotes at or above .500 every year in his tenure (I believe) or at least since his first couple of years in the 80's. It's not even necessarily that aspect that I like about Boots but instead his new attitude and urgency to get this team to a high level. He is not into excuses, won't say USD had no business winning a paritcular game like a certain head coach that coaches a game with helmets and pads.
Boots consistantly won whereas Ed relied on weak overall schedules and a very poor and undisciplined road team. Boots went about a decade or more straight without ever getting swept on the road in a 2 game NCC weekend pair of games.
With that said no coach with any resume is ever guaranteed anything. Boots will need to continue to have a relentless attitude to coach and an undivided will to get better as a head coach and recruiter. I hope Boots continues to get better and hopefully the Yotes will be respectable. It would be cool if Dave could coach at least one year in a new arena. I think he wants to but I think he knows that he has to continue to demand alot from his team and continue to generally coach his ass off.
Last year was an unbelievable year for USD and one that should never be forgotten. It will be hard to repeat it this year but hopefully a good run can be had to try to repeat in the Great West.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 22, 2011 23:12:45 GMT -6
Ryun Williams is really an enigma right now. He is in his third year so how much more can we really expect to see this program improve. He can still have an impact but I believe that his hourglass is beginning to run out as far as truely being the future of USD Women's basketball. This USD team absolutely needs to have a good Great West Season for him to stop the sand from spilling down into the lower compartment of that time capsule. Games like the one at SIU-Edwardsville and the evaporation in Grand Forks makes the question marks come back again. UND is frankly not very good and USD should have won that game. I expect the Yotes to finish no worse than 8-4 in the Great West. Anything less would be a major disappointment. This team should be about to go about 10-2. The Great West Conference for Women is a very weak conference with many programs that don't really care about the women's sport much.
I think for whatever reason that people think Ryun should never go onto the hot seat for at least a good half decade or more. I think with a poor great west season the iron should start to warm up a bit. With a good finish it's fair to lay off.
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Jan 23, 2011 0:54:21 GMT -6
Coyote Fan, I don't think you understand women's basketball. Look at UND's schedule last year and this year. I think the schedule got tougher...that attributes to the team's won-loss record. Honestly, the team just kicked the living crap out of UVU and you are questioning Williams and not Boots, whose team just dropped 3 horrible games? You are the enigma.
BTW, in terms of the QB, who the heck is going to replace Dante? Is there a QB on the roster that can? I don't really think so. It's like having Joe Webb replace Tavaris Jackson.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 23, 2011 2:11:20 GMT -6
Big difference in what Williams has done in his career vs Boots. Williams is yet to take a USD team and make them real good yet. Also consider that in this part of the country Women's basketball is a bit of a hotbead compared to the mens game. In other words it's easier for success in the women's game here vs in the mens game.
It just seems like at USD that Ryun Williams is immune to taking heat compared to his counterparts in the other mens sports.
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Jan 23, 2011 2:23:37 GMT -6
Huh, maybe that's because Lavin left the well COMPLETELY dry honestly. Williams has done wonders with Annie Roche, who a lot of people wondered why she was on the team at first. I think you completely underestimate Williams.
BTW, what USD team was the last one to win in the Betty, let alone in the last 10 years....oh it only took a team to go to the national title to do it.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 23, 2011 2:45:56 GMT -6
How Lavin left the so called "well" is really not much of a factor in what is happening right now. Lavin left the women's basketball program with more momentum than ever and he won with a full NCC stocked with talent. An NCC that is almost certainly a better conference than the current Great West Conference. Lavin had a few ups and downs but he absolutely had the Yotes playing better overall basketball than what Williams has this team playing.
I just find it amazing that people have very little standards of accountability. Almost all truley good coaches will have made their mark by the end of their third year. We are not comparing USD to Iowa or Nebraska but to Houston Fricken Baptist. Big difference there.
I am just saying it doesn't take 10 years to get things going or even 5 years. Good coaches make an impact in their first year and by the end of the second year should have molded the team and should give a pretty good indication of the kind of coach they will be. Did I say I wanted Williams out, no I didn't. Lets see what happens with this Great West Season but the Summit comes calling next year and things certainly won't get any easier. If the Yotes are going to stuggle with the Great West it's going to mean trouble in the Summit. What Williams has done so far does not hold a candle to what Aaron Johnston did at this point when the Jacks were transitioning to D1. Like it or not USD is going to be compared to the SDSU women. It might be tough to live up to but we damn well better try.
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Jan 23, 2011 2:51:53 GMT -6
Huh, interesting....how is AJ doing this year in the Summit......even though he is a great coach, they sure are struggling. Surprised you aren't calling for his head too.....My question is besides Boots, do you like any of the other coaches?
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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 23, 2011 3:08:07 GMT -6
Huh, interesting....how is AJ doing this year in the Summit......even though he is a great coach, they sure are struggling. Surprised you aren't calling for his head too.....My question is besides Boots, do you like any of the other coaches? There are really 3 sports that I care much about significantly and 90% of the people don't care about more than those 3. Proof in attendance numbers. At least to Ryun Williams benefit he is still a bit unproven. That is to his advantage eventhough I believe more accountability needs to happen. With Ed he is proven, proven that when the Yotes aren't beating up on patsies half the time and actually have to play a tough schedule where they have to get up for nearly every game the team fails in mental toughness and preparedness. There are no signs of that changing anytime soon. USD had good seasons in the past under Ed when they were playing a schedule with half the games or more where the Yotes had a significant talent advantage on the field. Anytime the Yotes have met their match and faced teams with generally equal talent for the balance of the schedule the Yotes have proven that the coaching doesn't come through. I have seen enough of Ed with the last straw being the end of the season last fall that he is not the right coach moving forward into the MVFC. He completely lost the team. Kept the third best runningback as the starter and didn't seriously give Wilhelm a chance to get more reps even with a seriously struggling offense. USD needs a guy that is going to be a pass first QB to take advantage of the wide receivers on this team. If you haven't seen enough to be convinced of that I don't really understand exactly what you are waiting for or hoping to see. |
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Jan 23, 2011 3:11:28 GMT -6
You do realize that Wilhelm was awful in the time that he was out there right? He was the number 3 guy for a reason before Gorsuch left, so yeah. He has a LONG ways to go. How did this get turned to Ed?  ? I asked coaches besides Boots do you like, and you found another opportunity to through Williams and Ed under the bus but mention no one else at all. It just shows you have a weird vendetta for some reason. |
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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 23, 2011 3:14:17 GMT -6
yeah I do have a wierd vendetta I guess and that is to see a team that I feel like isn't being held back by their head coach and a team that doesn't always fold under pressure. Pretty wierd vendetta alright.
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Jan 23, 2011 3:17:54 GMT -6
Actually, it's weird that you leave for two months and come back and had basically three different posts asking for Ed to be fired. All you needed was one, we get it. It was a great two months without hearing Fire Ed for two months. I am not an Ed fan either, but you are the guy at the airport stalking Auburn officials about Gene Chizik right now. I know some of the higher ups read this. So if they fire Ed right now? Who do they bring in? There are NO candidates right now.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 23, 2011 3:22:00 GMT -6
I think I made it apparent that I really don't focus on the other sports a whole lot and can't make a reasonable judgement on those sports and the coaches for those sports based on personal observation.
I think Meierkort absolutely need to go
I think Ryun Williams needs to pick it up and get the Yotes playing better overall
I think Boots has the right attitude, has high expectations but could maybe improve some of the aspects of his coaching but he does provide many positives
I have no vendettas, no biases just saying it like I see it.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Jan 23, 2011 3:26:51 GMT -6
I don't have time to really stalk people and since it is kind of morally wrong and illegal I tend to stay away from those types of things. I just keep opinions and stuff like that to message boards.
As far as the board it was kinda nice not hearing that stuff. Kind of nice not hearing much of anything in that time as well. You know what is nice about message boards. If you don't like the topic or what is being written simply stay away. I took that advise myself for awhile.
No candidates. I am sure no one at the D2 level or a D1 assistant would like the opportunity to coach in the MVFC at all. Nah I think I will pass and stay at Southeast Irrelevant State College for awhile.
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Jan 23, 2011 3:27:12 GMT -6
So you are semi-Coyote Fan since you don't focus on any other sports. I get it. Or is it Pick-and-Choose....
This is called all about USD coaches, which you named, but yet you only name a fraction of the head coaches....
Also, in terms of Boots, this team doesn't have the depth to play a run and gun offense, especially with Thomas dealing with injuries and the lack of depth inside means Gruis would be worn out. Other teams can easily attack inside already, let alone if Gruis played less. Also, Cutler already has a concussion going at the pace he does and Krogman had knee problems last year. Tecker has had some hip issues pop up now and again this year. So really Westbrook is the only one that could pull it off. Good job coach.
You don't have time to stalk the message board but you have time to post all the time when you are back about Meierkort...huh, contra...dicting....
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? I asked coaches besides Boots do you like, and you found another opportunity to through Williams and Ed under the bus but mention no one else at all. It just shows you have a weird vendetta for some reason.