Topic: What we know after Uconn

[goherd24]

1. Uconn is the worst 6-6 college team on the planet. We initially looked like the defense was enough on it's own to dominate them, in spite of our offensive coaches, but we nearly blew this one.

2. Took a lot of heat, on here, A LOT, for saying Fancher sucks and can't be our QB next year if we are going to win a title. I believe finally some eyes are open. We are and have been, winning in spite of him. I hope he stays on as a WR or DB but he needs to be done at QB. 

3. We have to fire Trickett. He is absolutely in over his head. You have the best RB duo in the nation and we are calling pass plays with Fancher at QB, far too often. Our defense basically scored 14 of the 28 today. We have to be better. Period.

4. Huff - hopefully he is hired away. 9-4 might convince some desperate p5, maybe. And we know Huff will take a job at vanderbilt if they offer it. If we don't make offensive changes with trickett etc, then the incompetence is worse than we thought.

5. I still like to see us win a bowl game, Uconn or not. We weren't getting a p5, so better than toledo or ohio, i guess. Not the way I expected this season to go when I was standing in the stadium in south bend for 30 minutes after the game was over. This year will always be remembered, by me for the notre dame win, yes, but unfortunately, it will also be remembered as the season that could have been really special, and wasn't.

Best of luck to Laborn, Gilmore, and Ali, and all our seniors.

Go Herd!

[MicDrass1]

W/ out Ali we take an L

[BigJimslade]

How in the world can u criticize Huff 🤔

[goherd24]

W/ out Ali we take an L

Agreed. He and Laborn should have had many more carries

[coalherd]

Do we know for sure Ali is NOT coming back in 2023??  He isn't a senior, IIRC.  Without BOTH Laborn and Ali next season, we're going to have to have a significant, meaning BIG, jump in the caliber of our Quarterback play.  And as of right now, mid-December 2022, can't see that kind of play coming from Fancher!!  Going to be a very interesting, and important, offseason for the HERD Coaching staff, no matter who is at the helm, IMO!!

[gochneaur645]

Mostly agree. Conflicting emotions. Happy for the win and how absolutely dominant the D was.

But Fancher is nowhere close to the answer. We need to upgrade bad at QB one way or another. Same for OL and quite possibly OC

[herd1990]

Overreact much?

[muherd34]

Good win!  Glad to get a bowl win!  We have alot to fix and replace.  Personally still feel like it was a great job by staff to get us out of slump and get to 9 wins.   Do not want to beat on Fancher, but all the progress made by him seemed lost today.  Special teams is still atrocious and that coach needs replaced ASAP. All in all it was a B+ season.

[MCA23]

Mostly agree. Conflicting emotions. Happy for the win and how absolutely dominant the D was.

But Fancher is nowhere close to the answer. We need to upgrade bad at QB one way or another. Same for OL and quite possibly OC

Good luck.  Have you heard of a single HS QB we're recruiting right now?  Portal QBs for us are going to be more Colombi types.  If Pennington or Harrison can't take the job from Fancher then we don't have a single decent QB on our roster.  What a sad state.

[herdorbust2]

Huff has a heck of a job ahead of him. He needs to have a superb recruiting class. No way Fancher can be the QB next year. If he is then Marshall can't have a special year. Either Cole is a well kept secret and the guy or he has got to find a portal guy that can really throw the ball. Plus there are a lot of D to replace and possibly both RBs.

[coalherd]

Good comments from Coach Huff after the game.  Told the team they needed to play the game in a way that they would want to have something good to remember, especially the seniors.  Said he was proud that they could remember this year as MU's first year in SBC play; a memory of having won at Notre Dame; a memory of going 4-0 in games in November, and finally, ending the year with a Bowl Victory!!  Lots of positives for the 2022 HERD to remember and cherish, IMO!!

[The E-Man]

Good comments from Coach Huff after the game.  Told the team they needed to play the game in a way that they would want to have something good to remember, especially the seniors.  Said he was proud that they could remember this year as MU's first year in SBC play; a memory of having won at Notre Dame; a memory of going 4-0 in games in November, and finally, ending the year with a Bowl Victory!!  Lots of positives for the 2022 HERD to remember and cherish, IMO!!

You would have thought we lost this bowl game with some on here attacking coach Huff.  We were up 28 and had a let down, but found a way to win in the end. We need a lot of improvement beginning with a accurate QB and a good punter. I think coach Huff has us headed in the right direction. After all we are 33 points from being undefeated!

[Big City]

This team overcame a lot of adversity to be in the position they finished in.

I'm proud of the program, the accomplishments this season and refuse to diminish their achievements.

From the historic win against Notre Dame to todays bowl victory. You can't take that away from any of us.

[goherd24]

You would have thought we lost this bowl game with some on here attacking coach Huff.  We were up 28 and had a let down, but found a way to win in the end. We need a lot of improvement beginning with a accurate QB and a good punter. I think coach Huff has us headed in the right direction. After all we are 33 points from being undefeated!
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But we weren't undefeated. No SB title or even division title, with the talent to beat ND.

Next season could be a huge step back. Will we fire trickett? We are gonna lose laborn, and a lock down defender in Gilmore for sure. We are gonna most likely lose Guidry, who turned out to be a fantastic DC. If we don't end up with Cole or another stand out QB, we are 6-6 to 8-4 and in the myrtle beach bowl before Christmas again with no title.

When are we going to expect championships again from football? The fanbase is literally dying, and we are doing nothing to make teenagers watch and gain passion for teams that do special things and win titles like i watched in the 90's. It made me a life long fan. 8-4 and myrtle beach isn't making new fans. How many 30 somethings are in the big green? Are season ticket holders? How many 20 somethings are coming to games?

Our performance as a program for the past 20 years is unacceptable. I've watched and seen people i tailgated with for 20 years slowly slip into apathy and not attending. I used to tailgate with 30 people, and now we have 5-8, and that's on a good week.

Maybe it is time to hang it up on football. Seems like nobody else cares anymore, why should I. The only sport apparently we expect a title at every year now is basketball lol, and want to fire the only coach to deliver one in 40 years lol

[Scottyo614]

E I get we are 33 points from being undefeated and that makes this outcome tough to swallow. If we have a QB we smash the losses and are at an access bowl.

I hate it because I posted all off-season Colombi was a similar version to Wells and his tape was terrible. Then I saw 2-0, bought in and now it feels a missed opportunity. Seasons been a grind for fans and probably the team.

Today should have been a day we planted our flag. Instead we grinded out a 28-14 win against a bad team. But we won. Another year in the books. Another year older. Pdunn and I with too much beer in a bar with a lot of orange happened. Fun year with lots of memory created. Let's build some momentum through recruiting Wednesday and here's to 23

[goherd24]

This team overcame a lot of adversity to be in the position they finished in.

I'm proud of the program, the accomplishments this season and refuse to diminish their achievements.

From the historic win against Notre Dame to todays bowl victory. You can't take that away from any of us.

Oh yes, they scratched and clawed and went 4-0 against teams with a combined 14-28 record to finish the season, and won vs Uconn in a bowl game. What an achievement. The talent to beat Notre Dame and we don't win what turned out to be a fairly weak east division in the sunbelt where an FCS team won but was ineligible to play.

That might be enough for you, i just want and expect more. I'd rather lost that ND game and won our conference. I just don't see the excuses and being ok with mediocrity. Thats why we fired Doc. We can beat ND but not coastal, or Louisiana, or bowling green? On what planet is that anything but coaching? And I gave Huff all the credit for ND. We beat the tar out of them in south bend, and just followed it up with a dud when we could have had a ranked season, we did exactly what we did last season starting with the ECU meltdown. I'm sorry, but I just can't see this season as anything but a disappointment and what could have been.

[goherd24]

Overreact much?

Lol you were one of the Fancher is great people, so yeah.

[goherd24]

E I get we are 33 points from being undefeated and that makes this outcome tough to swallow. If we have a QB we smash the losses and are at an access bowl.

I hate it because I posted all off-season Colombi was a similar version to Wells and his tape was terrible. Then I saw 2-0, bought in and now it feels a missed opportunity. Seasons been a grind for fans and probably the team.

Today should have been a day we planted our flag. Instead we grinded out a 28-14 win against a bad team. But we won. Another year in the books. Another year older. Pdunn and I with too much beer in a bar with a lot of orange happened. Fun year with lots of memory created. Let's build some momentum through recruiting Wednesday and here's to 23

I feel you Scotty. I just wish we aspired to more than the myrtle beach bowl.

[Big City]

Lol you were one of the Fancher is great people, so yeah.

Similar to you being "firmly in Huff's camp" lol.  ::)

[goherd24]

Similar to you being "firmly in Huff's camp" lol.  ::)

Some of us, can process new information, like losing 3 games in a row, and then realize he is the same bad coach he was the previous season after the ecu meltdown. Some of us like ole big city, can't! Lol and that's ok.

[pdunn]

 Pdunn and I with too much beer. 

There's no such thing as too much beer. As long as you have a sober driver.

[herd2win]

No down side to winning a bowl game.

[Scottyo614]

I feel you Scotty. I just wish we aspired to more than the myrtle beach bowl.

Man I aspire for a lot and I think we are in similar camps for what that looks like. But I think it's the experience that each poster gets. We fell short of my expectation, but the trips were amazing, there was a lot of fun. I think we can be disappointed with the final outcome but then also smile at the time that came with it.

On the other side I can see another crowd who says it could have been a lot worse. Happy we won and good season for what could have been. Admittedly I only had Snyder and Doc 16 as bad. They have seen worse.

[goherd24]

Man I aspire for a lot and I think we are in similar camps for what that looks like. But I think it's the experience that each poster gets. We fell short of my expectation, but the trips were amazing, there was a lot of fun. I think we can be disappointed with the final outcome but then also smile at the time that came with it.

On the other side I can see another crowd who says it could have been a lot worse. Happy we won and good season for what could have been. Admittedly I only had Snyder and Doc 16 as bad. They have seen worse.

Oh yeah, we had s fantastic time at notre dame. I'll never forget that. We took the RV and camped in a field about a mile away from the stadium. We had a good time that evening after and left the next morning. Was our first road game trip after my dad passed, I cried in the stadium thinking about how much i wished he could have been there. It hit me hard.

[The E-Man]

Oh yeah, we had s fantastic time at notre dame. I'll never forget that. We took the RV and camped in a field about a mile away from the stadium. We had a good time that evening after and left the next morning. Was our first road game trip after my dad passed, I cried in the stadium thinking about how much i wished he could have been there. It hit me hard.

So sorry about your dad. There are things in life way more important than football.