I'm not sure how you give him anything other than an A, they beat a quality opponent without their best offensive player and with true freshmen playing key roles at QB, RB and WR.
As I said before, it's often tough to grade a head coach on a single game from outside the bubble.
I give the coaching staff an A. The defense knew exactly what was coming at them through the first half and into the second. The offense did what it could with the personnel available.
Remember what Yogi Berra said when asked what makes a good manger? "Good players." We're getting a nice crop of good players on the field, and that makes all the coaches look smart. Annexstad's coolness, Johnson's sheer athleticism, Carpenter's leg, Winfield's total package, (and I could go on). There's getting to be an appreciable amount of talent on the field, and those attributes are often more inherited than developed. You gotta give Fleck credit for the crop of freshman, their solid debuts and apparent high upside.
Great to get this win, especially with several memorable plays. If we take care of business next week (and start to get healthy), the Maryland and Iowa games are gonna be fun!
JTG
I agree that it's hard to know what specifically is coming from the head coach vs assistant coaches.
Decisions that tend to get put on the head coach are:
1. Use of timeouts
2. Decisions on 4th downs. FG's / Punts / Go for it.
3. Play calling at key moments
4. Whether a team appears dead - disinterested. Playing flat.
Any of those seemed to go right.
We did use up our timeouts unusually faster last night due to defensive setups.
I would love to hear the reasoning behind the 3 people that voted D or F. Lose one of the best players in the conference early in the game against a quality opponent and still pull out the victory. Have to assume those are the people that are going to hate Fleck no matter what he does because that is the only way you could rate that game anything other than an A or B in my opinion at least.
I would love to hear the reasoning behind the 3 people that voted D or F. Lose one of the best players in the conference early in the game against a quality opponent and still pull out the victory. Have to assume those are the people that are going to hate Fleck no matter what he does because that is the only way you could rate that game anything other than an A or B in my opinion at least.
I would love to hear the reasoning behind the 3 people that voted D or F. Lose one of the best players in the conference early in the game against a quality opponent and still pull out the victory. Have to assume those are the people that are going to hate Fleck no matter what he does because that is the only way you could rate that game anything other than an A or B in my opinion at least.
It wasn't me this week.....I swear.
I know that it was not you. When I went in to vote, it showed who everyone had voted for. Bolstad was the F. I'm waiting like the rest of you for him to respond why.
I'm not waiting...
Most people who care are. Pretty stupid to vote F.
Lighten up, Francis.