If he can keep this defense engaged for the remainder of the season and make the necessary coaching changes on offense, i still think he can right the ship. But the hard decisions need to be made.

Littrell and Finley must go. Bedenbaugh has to retain Fausi and Foje. Demarco i really don't know. Emmitt is good.

Remember 3 years ago when Texas offered online recruits 250k per and OU was sleeping? They were early on that and it shows now.

ESPN website suggests Venables has considered redshirting Arnold with only four games played so far this year.
If Casey Thompson is up and running that may be possible…..and if Arnold is in agreement.

Give me more of him. Give me those full effort guys

Cant be any worse than these other TEs. I would be heated if I was him

I promised I'd get to every question, but I couldn't fit them all in one mailbag. Here's part 1.

First, if your initial inclination is to blame the defense for this abysmal performance, you either do not understand football or are willfully ignorant to the real problems on this team. The defense is pretty legit, sorry if you don't like that. I still believe in Brent, but if his next offensive move isn't the right one, the fanbase will force our administration to boot him.


I don't even know where to start . . . I guess it'll be with the play-callers. I don't give a d*mn about the offensive personnel, or lack thereof. Seth Littrell and JJF don't deserve to be here. They don't deserve to be here as a couple, nor do either deserve to be here as an individual coach. These were probably the laziest hires in the country. Let's begin with Seth Littrell. Seth Littrell was the head coach at North Texas for 7 seasons. Seth Littrell's overall record at North Texas? 44-44. The best single season that Seth Littrell had at North Texas was one that resulted in a 9-5 record . . . which was about 7 years ago. Objectively, what in the hell ever made Seth Littrell qualified to call plays here? And by the way, Seth Littrell never won a bowl game at North Texas. Now, JJF. Someone, anyone, please explain to me what JJF does here? That's really all I have on JJF. There is useless, and then there is JJF.

The personnel. In all transparency, I really only have issues with the offensive line and the wide receiving core. Why? Because any running back room and any quarterback room would fail in the present system. This offensive line group is so bad. I hear about the benefits of continuity going into this upcoming season. That argument, I am assuming, is used to highlight the benefit of not booting any of these players in the off-season. To that, I pose this: "continuity of what? continuity of bad?" This unit is historically awful. Now, I am personally still not on the "fire BB" train. But what I will say is that the leash is getting shorter. The receivers. I am sorry, we have the softest unit in the country. If nobody is going to tell the public what the seriousness of the injuries are (notice how I didn't say to give the public information about what the exact injury is), then I don't mind criticizing the toughness of the unit. Plus, these guys get paid, they are professionals in my eyes. In August of this year, 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall was shot in the chest. Ricky Pearsall is set to play tomorrow versus the Chiefs. So again, we have the softest unit in the country.


I don't even know. Can we find a kicker with some balls during the off-season?






Overall, I don't know if I am being too harsh or not harsh enough? But, I don't have any personal connection with players or the staff, so I don't care about posting something like this.

Nm

Defense my a$$
Bv is done.
Wish it could have worked out but it's done.

The next head coach? Brent Venables has buried the program

I think it's time for him. At this point both Hawk and Arnold are losing any confidence they have left. What a horrible job of coaching the offensive staff has done. Not one offensive player has improved this season. Not one.

We could be Florida State... Yikes

I knew they were bad but gawd dam

I don't give a crap about being right. What I wanna know is how bad do you think it's gonna get? That was a team that was pushed around by unlv, navy ran it at will against temple. Good old BB gonna pull a rabbit out of his hat or will we ruin a couple of good qbs confidence? In my opinion one lazy coach will get BV fired.

How do we feel about giving Heupel an absolute bag, and trying to retain Zach Alley? (My brain is scrambled by this unbelievable ineptitude) But it’s a fun thought..

This team’s failure is a BV problem not an OC problem.

Venables has had three years to prepare for the SEC. That is enough time to see what kind of head coach he is. It’s time to cut our losses and clean house. The sooner, the better.

My home run canidate would be Kyle Whittingham.
I don’t know if he would leave Utah but OU could be a job you just can’t turn down .
Physical on both side of the ball , well coached and alway disciplined ( top 15 in penalties a game)
Can win with offense and defense .Obviously Scalley would stay so he would have to hire a great DC to replace him .
He a no nonsense coach and reminds me a lot of Bob .
Think he would be a great fit here .

The other coach would be Dan Lanning . Young ,Can recruit and seems to understand you have to surround yourself with a great staff
Knight won’t be around forever , usually once they die so does a lot of the funding .
Whittingham is obviously the more proven but Lanning might have more upside , but bigger gamble .

Other candidates
Chris Klieman
Matt Rhule

How in the H did we go down 21 in the first quarter?
I worked 1 hour and we're that far behind..

Guess after today's game he will go work on his soul mission some more. Instead of building a football team. Him and his culture building should of started by building his team. Not his losing culter

at QB? That pass on the fake punt had some nice zip on it.

Spend the $ on coaches first. Develop what you have. Go get the best out there.